Marell's trip to the Five and Dime

This challenge sounds fun and so full of possibilities. I'll start my challenge with 5x5:

Children's Classics - Books I've always wanted to read but never did: COMPLETED!
1. POLLYANNA by Eleanor H. Porter
2. LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. STUART LITTLE by E.B. White
4. ANNE OF GREEN GABLES by L.M. Montgomery
5. WAR HORSE by Michael Morpurgo

Classics by American Authors: COMPLETED!
1. THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER by Mark Twain
2. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN by Mark Twain
3. TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST by R.H. Dana, Jr.
4. THE COUNTRY OF POINTED FIRS by Sarah Orne Jewett
5. THE OX-BOW INCIDENT by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

Classics by British Authors: COMPLETED!
1. DAVID COPPERFIELD by Charles Dickens
2. THE CANTERVILLE GHOST by Oscar Wilde {Short Story}
3. OLIVER TWIST by Charles Dickens
4. KIM by Rudyard Kipling
5. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves

California Here I Go - Books set in California, my soon-to-be former home: COMPLETED!
1. THE WAYWARD BUS by John Steinbeck
2. THE RED PONY by John Steinbeck
3. CLARK AND DIVISION by Naomi Hirahara
4. HAPPY DAYS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (1898) by Frederick Hastings Rindge
5. THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean

Illinois Here I Come - Books set in Illinois, my soon-to-be new home, and not all set in Chicago, I hope: COMPLETED!
1. THE DEVIL IN THE WHITE CITY by Erik Larson
2. BUTTERED SIDE DOWN by Edna Ferber {Short Stories}
3. CLARK AND DIVISION by Naomi Hirahara
4. HOME FRONT GIRL: A Diary of Love, Literature and Growing Up in Wartime America by Joan Wehlen Morrison
5. SO BIG by Edna Ferber