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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?

Michele #recommend #classics

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Megan

Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth

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MicheleQuestion author

I haven’t read this. I’ll add it to my TBR list!

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Michelle

Loved that one!

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Suzy

Sense and Sensibility…I stayed up all night reading it, and suffered at work the next day.

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Suzy

But also LOVE Count of Monte Cristo and Three Musketeers

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MicheleQuestion author

@Suzy The Count of Monte Cristo is my most favorite book ever!

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Becca

The Count of Monte Cristo is an all time favorite of mine. (The movie was TERRIBLE!)

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MicheleQuestion author

Agreed

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Krista

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

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Dana

Tess ?

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Madalene

To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Stephani

Little Women is my go to for classic reading.

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Racheal

Gatsby

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Rachael

Gone with the Wind and Jane Austen’s Persuasion are two of my most favorites ❤️❤️❤️

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Laurie

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Eryn

I’m reading this now for the first time ❤️

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Laurie

I love her description of reading at the beginning. ??

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Jeanette

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Amanda

Pride and Prejudice

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Becky

Little Women

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Melissa

Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre.

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Deeann

The Stand

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Katie

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 ❤️

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Erin

East of Eden

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Shaista

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.

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Leslie

I wonder how many people read the book because of that song? 🙂

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Kellie

The Outsiders

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Dani

Yes!

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Colleen

Pride and Prejudice… Just love it and discover something new every time I read it

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Amanda

Do you ever read any of the p&p sequals or variations?

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MicheleQuestion author

It is my favorite of all her books as well.

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Colleen

@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

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Amanda

My absolute favorite is the Trilogy by Pamela Aiden from Darcy’s pov. The middle is junk, but the first and last are awesome.

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Amy

Brave New World

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Dani

To Kill A Mockingbird and Rebecca.

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Jenny

To Kill A Mockingbird

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Melissa

Jane Eyre

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Breeze

Gone with the wind and Forever Amber

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Cathy

I love Forever Amber.

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Michelle

I love Jane Austen. My favorite book of all time is Persuasion.

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Rachael

Mine too. I loved the movie as well. ❤️?❤️?❤️?

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Michelle

I have not seen the movie!!!!!

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Rachael

@Michelle it was produced by the BBC in the 90s and it’s wonderful.

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Michelle

I will hunt it down! Did you ever read Persuading Annie by Melissa Nathan?

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Rachael

You mean the book I just put on hold at my local library? ??? Tell me I’ll ❤️ it.

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Michelle

@Rachael you will! By the Book by Julia Sonneborn is similar if you haven’t read that. But Persuading Annie is my favorite.

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Lauren

Gone with the Wind

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Andrea

Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Three Musketeers, anything Jules Verne

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Cathy

I just got the ARC for Marilla of Green Gables!

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Heather

The Sun Also Rises and JRR Tolkien

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Jeanne

Pride & Prejudice

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Melisa

Anne of Green Gables series.

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Kristen

All the classics! That’s my genre! But if I had to pick just one, Pride & Prejudice

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Stacy

Anne of Green Gables (well, any of L.M. Montgomery’s books). Pride & Prejudice.

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Luba

Hemingway — The Sun Also Rises — A Moveable Feast — For Whom The Bell Tolls —

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Shelly

To Kill a Mockingbird, Animal Farm and Gift from the Sea.

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Laura

Age of Innocence

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Mary

Jane Eyre

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Sandy

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and TKAM

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Renee

Pride and Prejudice

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Kristen

Cather in the Rye

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Lara

Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice

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Carol

Jane Austen is my favorite author, but Jane Eyre is my favorite book.

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Lauren

A Separate Peace, Catcher in the Rye, On The Road

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Jen

Gatsby, Gatsby, Gatsby.

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Tamara

I have slowly been reading Anna Karenina this year

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Mary

How do you like it? I had it assigned in high school and used Cliff notes. This was before I learned to love books.

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Leslie

Night by Elie Wiesel, Sense and Sensibility, Little Women, Shakespeare’s Sonnets.

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Kim

I do Greek mythology or Shakespeare.

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Jamie

Grapes of Wrath

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Kristin

Wuthering Heights

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Lori

Little Women, Gone with the Wind, To Kill a Mockingbird and Pride and Prejudice. Sounds like we all agree on at least one!

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Michelle

The Jungle, Animal Farm

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Dana

Tess, The Awakening, Dracula

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Mandy

Jane Eyre. ? I named my daughter Jane!!!

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ES

Frankenstein

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Sarah

Jane eyre, the scarlett pimpernel, anything by Jules Verne, to kill a mockingbird

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Linda

To Kill a Mockingbird and Grapes of Wrath.

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Tamara

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

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Shaista

I don’t think I’ve ever heard anyone say Animal Farm was a favorite book. I might have to give it another go

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Pat

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.

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Cathy

Vanity Fair

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Cathy

Thank you. Bacon retired from P.D. After 38 years – now He’s with all the other retired guys as a court bailiff.

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Sue

@Cathy my husband is a sergeant and SWAT sniper. He’s counting down until retirement— enjoy retirement!!!

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Cathy

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.

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Sue

To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Suzy

Have you ever seen the drama at Monroeville?

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Suzy

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.

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