Can we talk about classics for a sec? I always return to them, sometimes rereading old favorites. What are everyone’s favorite classics?
Can we talk about classics for a sec? I always return to them, sometimes rereading old favorites. What are everyone’s favorite classics?
Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth
I haven’t read this. I’ll add it to my TBR list!
Loved that one!
Sense and Sensibility…I stayed up all night reading it, and suffered at work the next day.
But also LOVE Count of Monte Cristo and Three Musketeers
@Suzy The Count of Monte Cristo is my most favorite book ever!
The Count of Monte Cristo is an all time favorite of mine. (The movie was TERRIBLE!)
Agreed
Frankenstein and The Awakening are two faves. Also, although I hated it when we were reading it in school, I also like Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess ?
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Little Women is my go to for classic reading.
Gatsby
Gone with the Wind and Jane Austen’s Persuasion are two of my most favorites
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I’m reading this now for the first time
I love her description of reading at the beginning. ??
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Pride and Prejudice
Little Women
Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre.
The Stand
Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Rebecca, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Gone With the Wind are my top 5. I fell in love with each of these in high school and never looked back. Loved teaching TKAM in 9th grade English
East of Eden
Wuthering Heights! Hearing the song when I was 13 got me curious about the story and fell in love! On my 3rd copy of the book, read it so much growing up I broke the binding in the first two copies.
I wonder how many people read the book because of that song?
The Outsiders
Yes!
Pride and Prejudice… Just love it and discover something new every time I read it
Do you ever read any of the p&p sequals or variations?
It is my favorite of all her books as well.
@Amanda I’ve read most of them, but none compare to the original. A series that was cute light reading we’re the Jane Austen mysteries if you like that kind of thing. Totally different but interesting
My absolute favorite is the Trilogy by Pamela Aiden from Darcy’s pov. The middle is junk, but the first and last are awesome.
Brave New World
To Kill A Mockingbird and Rebecca.
To Kill A Mockingbird
Jane Eyre
Gone with the wind and Forever Amber
I love Forever Amber.
I love Jane Austen. My favorite book of all time is Persuasion.
Mine too. I loved the movie as well.
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I have not seen the movie!!!!!
@Michelle it was produced by the BBC in the 90s and it’s wonderful.
I will hunt it down! Did you ever read Persuading Annie by Melissa Nathan?
You mean the book I just put on hold at my local library? ??? Tell me I’ll
it.
@Rachael you will! By the Book by Julia Sonneborn is similar if you haven’t read that. But Persuading Annie is my favorite.
Gone with the Wind
Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Three Musketeers, anything Jules Verne
I just got the ARC for Marilla of Green Gables!
The Sun Also Rises and JRR Tolkien
Pride & Prejudice
Anne of Green Gables series.
All the classics! That’s my genre! But if I had to pick just one, Pride & Prejudice
Anne of Green Gables (well, any of L.M. Montgomery’s books). Pride & Prejudice.
Hemingway — The Sun Also Rises — A Moveable Feast — For Whom The Bell Tolls —
To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm and Gift from the Sea.
Age of Innocence
Jane Eyre
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and TKAM
Pride and Prejudice
Cather in the Rye
Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen is my favorite author, but Jane Eyre is my favorite book.
A Separate Peace, Catcher in the Rye, On The Road
Gatsby, Gatsby, Gatsby.
I have slowly been reading Anna Karenina this year
How do you like it? I had it assigned in high school and used Cliff notes. This was before I learned to love books.
Night by Elie Wiesel, Sense and Sensibility, Little Women, Shakespeare’s Sonnets.
I do Greek mythology or Shakespeare.
Grapes of Wrath
Wuthering Heights
Little Women, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird and Pride and Prejudice. Sounds like we all agree on at least one!
The Jungle, Animal Farm
Tess, The Awakening, Dracula
Jane Eyre. ? I named my daughter Jane!!!
Frankenstein
Jane eyre, the scarlett pimpernel, anything by Jules Verne, to kill a mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird and Grapes of Wrath.
This is harder than I expected.
19th century and earlier: Anna Karenina (hands down), The Scarlet Letter, Tess of the d’Urbervilles (read it blind and was completely different than I expected), Frankenstein, all Mark Twain
20th century: F. Scott Fitzgerald (I’m partial to Tender is the Night), Gone with the Wind, The Old Man and the Sea (it shouldn’t work but does), Animal Farm, Anne of Green Gables, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, A Little Princess, all Daphne du Maurier (heck ALL du Mauriers— Trilby is excellent too).
Non-fiction: Anything by Maria Montessori
I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say Animal Farm was a favorite book. I might have to give it another go
Alcott’s March family series (Little Women, Little Men, Jo’s Boys), Gone With the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird, Anne of Green Gables, Tom Sawyer, and, while I’m not sure other people consider them classics, Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster books.
Vanity Fair
Thank you. Bacon retired from P.D. After 38 years – now He’s with all the other retired guys as a court bailiff.
@Cathy my husband is a sergeant and SWAT sniper. He’s counting down until retirement— enjoy retirement!!!
Prayers for his continued safety. Bacon retired from a department to small to have a SWAT team, but he was usually the guy taking the door.
To Kill A Mockingbird.
Have you ever seen the drama at Monroeville?
Faulkner: Satoris and any of the novels about Yoknapatawpha County. I live about 2 hours from Oxford, MS. When there’s a nice fall day, and it’s an away game, I add m going to go tour his home.