I’m reading Jane eyre right now , it’s been really good will finish tomorrow morning. Agree about the phantom of the opera too, it was Way better than I expected.
Wuthering Heights- The gothic anti hero, the narrator, the setting, its gorgeous and has some wonderful characters. 1984, Brave New World, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Wuthering Heights is my favorite, too! The blurring of love and hate and the contrast of civility and “wildness” between Heathcliff and Catherine is done so well!
@Jayce, you’ve made my day! I haven’t met too many people who like this book, but I love that it doesn’t cringe away from any topic and has characters that you can’t help but love or love to hate.
Probably A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens I read every Xmas because the story looked so recreated of the true meaning of the biggest holiday of all to change the way of of a greedy miser so he would understand what it means to be very giving.
Middlemarch–I’ve identified with characters of different ages at different times in my life. As a college kid, I identified with Fred Vincy; in middle age, I was Lydgate; nowadays I’m Casaubon.
Romola by George Eliot. Beautifully visualized the renaissance in Florence told through the experience of a young woman and through the lens of the art of the time.
A Little Princess by Frances Hodges Burnett. The main character isn’t an actual princess, but a little girl whose circumstances are reduced suddenly and terribly but who maintains her dignity and extends kindness to all.
Tess of the d’Urbevilles, North and South Wives and Daughters All Victorian novels evoking intense emotions and exploring relationships and social/moral codes of the time. All still tremendously relevant today.
Robert Falconer, Sir Gibbie, Donal Grant and others by George MacDonald, Kidnapped and Catriona by RL Stevenson, Waverley by Walter Scott…because I’m a Scottish literature buff, and these are all stories that have it all: adventure, romance, and the backdrop of various parts of the land I call home.
A literary classic for me would be Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington. I loved the ending. It was powerful and liberating, but it was so good only because the story itself made it that good. I also enjoyed the writing style and the accents. I think it was a banned book, but I can’t imagine it being banned since the time period was important and educational.
Bram Stokers Dracula
I love horror and this is the granddaddy
I’m reading this on audible right now, I’m really enjoying it.
Les miserable, great story with several amazing characters ?
Dracula, One Hundred Years of Solitude, East of Eden, Beloved
@Nikki YES TO ALL OF THESE!! ?
Jane Eyre, love her story of triumph and Phantom of the Opera, well because, it is just so tragic and beautiful at the same time! ?
I’m reading Jane eyre right now , it’s been really good will finish tomorrow morning. Agree about the phantom of the opera too, it was
Way better than I expected.
Wuthering Heights- The gothic anti hero, the narrator, the setting, its gorgeous and has some wonderful characters. 1984, Brave New World, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Wuthering Heights is my favorite, too! The blurring of love and hate and the contrast of civility and “wildness” between Heathcliff and Catherine is done so well!
@Alice Right? and classism, and rasicm, it covers so much, I absolutely love the gritty characters
@Jayce, you’ve made my day! I haven’t met too many people who like this book, but I love that it doesn’t cringe away from any topic and has characters that you can’t help but love or love to hate.
Wuthering Heights is one of my favorites as well!!
Does Brave New World count? And I’m in love with that book because I find it comforting and I love dystopian universes.
Yes it counts, the classic dystopians are very good ?
Brave new world is one of my favorite dystopians!! Also, Fahrenheit 451.
Probably A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens I read every Xmas because the story looked so recreated of the true meaning of the biggest holiday of all to change the way of of a greedy miser so he would understand what it means to be very giving.
Middlemarch–I’ve identified with characters of different ages at different times in my life. As a college kid, I identified with Fred Vincy; in middle age, I was Lydgate; nowadays I’m Casaubon.
For whom the Bell tolls. Because of the language. I still say I am for this or I’m not for that.
Romola by George Eliot. Beautifully visualized the renaissance in Florence told through the experience of a young woman and through the lens of the art of the time.
Frankenstein because it was so much deeper than I ever thought it would be
The old man and the sea. Because of the loss and having to start fresh tomorrow
Frankenstein because of its depth and also because when Mary Shelly writes it is like a symphony of words on the page.
The Hobbit, because it takes back to my younger days.
Jane Eyre. I was able to connect with Jane Eyre character and I fell madly in love with Mr Rochester.
A Little Princess by Frances Hodges Burnett. The main character isn’t an actual princess, but a little girl whose circumstances are reduced suddenly and terribly but who maintains her dignity and extends kindness to all.
Julius Caesar, The Hobbit, Lord of the Flies
Tess of the d’Urbevilles, North and South
Wives and Daughters
All Victorian novels evoking intense emotions and exploring relationships and social/moral codes of the time.
All still tremendously relevant today.
To kill a mockingbird
Animal Farm
Pride and Prejudice
To kill a mockingbird
Audio reading Jane Eyre right now and LOVE IT
But I really love children classics like The Secret Garden, Black Beauty, and Charlotte’s Web.
The adventures of huckleberry finn.
I should not need to explain myself. Twain was magical
Robert Falconer, Sir Gibbie, Donal Grant and others by George MacDonald, Kidnapped and Catriona by RL Stevenson, Waverley by Walter Scott…because I’m a Scottish literature buff, and these are all stories that have it all: adventure, romance, and the backdrop of various parts of the land I call home.
Brave New World and Animal farm. The first one has turned out to be hauntingly true, the second one a saddening reality
The Secret Garden. My absolute favorite book.
Of Human Bondage by S. Maugham. It’s a coming of age story, just good story about a young man’s ups and downs in life. British.
Princess Bride – covers every genre
A literary classic for me would be Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington. I loved the ending. It was powerful and liberating, but it was so good only because the story itself made it that good. I also enjoyed the writing style and the accents. I think it was a banned book, but I can’t imagine it being banned since the time period was important and educational.
Lolita… because the writing is so beautiful. Nabokov was a master of the English language, and it wasn’t even his first language!
The chronicles of Narnia. Midsummer nights dream. There’s always been magic in me so it lets my inner fae play