Ah, just finished Rebecca and I think it’s definitely one of my all time favorite books. What’s your favorite book written before 1950?
Ah, just finished Rebecca and I think it’s definitely one of my all time favorite books.
What’s your favorite book written before 1950?
My Antonia by Willa Cather.
Gone With The Wind.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
@Linda this is my next read!
Du Maurier is a great author; I really enjoyed her Rule Britannia too 🙂
A tree grows in Brooklyn
Les miserable. Try my cousin Rachel by du Maurier too.
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
Pride and prejudice!
Labyrinth by Kate mosse … loved it
published 55 years after ‘before 1950’
@Sharyn published in 2005!
The OP is favourite book written before 1950. I agree labyrinth is good, but not that old (unlike me)
@Sharyn sorry didn’t read heading properly!!!?
Jane Eyre
the War of the Worlds!
Wuthering Heights
A Little Princess and Little Women
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Hemingway
Love Rebecca. Remember watching the movie as a kid.
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford; Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo ❤️
Too many to mention…
But ‘Germinal’ by Zola had me in tears.
Far From The Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte.
Sick Heart River by John Buchan
The Great Gatsby
Lady Audley’s Secret is one I often find myself going back to 🙂
Far from the madding crowd…Thomas Hardy
@Jackie just read this again last week! I did my high school thesis on Hardy. Haven’t read him (except for Tess) in 20 years.
Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
@Evelyn oh my! I read that in high school. My Mom had it in a hardcover and it was considered pretty risqué at the time. I always felt sad for Amber. I was going to post that book when I saw your post.
@Barb I love it I have in hard cover from 1944 and only paid $2.50 at a thrift store
@Evelyn what a find.
I unfortunately loaned my Moms copy to a friend who never returned it. I remember my Mom was pretty upset as she had very few special books. I will have to start looking at thrift shops and library sales.
@Barb I buys at thrift store all the time.
A tree Grows in Brooklyn. Try Jamaica Inn by DuMarier too
.so good. Lets Mis and MIn Street.
And of course,all the Little House books.
I read it in high school for a book report and read it again a few years ago Such a good book.
The Robe
Jane Eyre
@Eleanor all the books by the Bronte Sisters loved Wutheting Heights
Enchanted April
Dracula
The Wind in the Willows, Frankenstein, Anne of Green Gables, the Woman in White, Jane Eyre
Jessica, Rebecca has always been on my top ten. I first read it as a teen and kept it on my shelves and reread it a few times since then.
@Deborah I don’t know why it took me this long to read but am so glad I did!
Jessica, A lot of really great books in this list Check it out. https://twentytwowords.com/have-you-read-the-most-popular-book-from-the-year-you-were-born/
@Deborah thank you!! Excited to add a bunch to my list!
@Deborah Thanks for posting this!
Ulysses
@Dominic, really? You LIKED it? Wow! You are the first I have ever heard say that ?
@Martine It’s my favourite book. It’s wonderful in every way.
@Dominic, I was bored to tears by it, but I am glad you love it ❤️
This explains my journey to Ulysses: https://dominicjericho.wordpress.com/2017/08/16/ulysses/
@Dominic, that’s awesome ❤️
Grapes of Wrath
Girl of the limber lost
Gone With The Wind
@Anne I read it every year in high school. I remember that the writing was in two columns on the page, unique for me.
Of Mice and Men
I also agree on Rebecca
Rebecca. I love it ?
East of @Eden
Tess of the D’Ubervilles & Mansfield Park & Jamaica Inn (also De Maurier)
Gone with the Wind ❤️
@Martine I read it every year in high school. I remember that the writing was in two columns on the page, unique for me.
Loved Rebecca, but I also enjoyed My Cousin Rachel❤️
Gone With The Wind, Persuasion, Jane Eyre, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn…there are so many…??
The Jalna series by Mazo De la Jackie Roche https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/mazo-de-la-roche/
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute. Also enjoyed Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym although that was a little after 1950. Also love Graham Greene, James Michener Irwin Shaw.
Oh how I love Rebecca- it is my favorite Books written before 1950 my favorite besides Rebecca is Jane Eyre.
Most of my earliest favorite novels were written before 1950. Bronte sisters, Austen, Willa Cather, Henry James, Edith Wharton, Thomas Hardy, DH Lawrence, du Maurier, Dumas, Poe, Oscar Wilde, HG Wells, Jules Vernes, Steinbeck, etc.
Anna Karenina