I’m looking to expand on my classics. Maybe read one a month. What are your favorites?
I’m looking to expand on my classics. Maybe read one a month. What are your favorites?
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I’m looking to expand on my classics. Maybe read one a month. What are your favorites?
Pride and prejudice, Jane eyre, wuthering heights, little women
The Secret Garden and The Outsiders
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Pearl by John Steinbeck, and The Odyssey by Homer
Some of those I’ve read, but I’m adding those I haven’t to my list. What about Brave New World? Thoughts?
That’s a good one too
Wrinkle in Time?
Also good
K added!
Both so good!
Anne of Green Gables and Peter Pan
All the Anne books
Alice in Wonderland is my favorite, along with Pan. <3
Alice is my favorite!
Anything by Jane Austen, Anna Karenina, The Jungle Book, Alas Babylon, Picture of Dorian Gray, Utopia, Chaucer’s Cantabury Tales.
anything fantasy…<
I want to get reading the classics, but the ones I read in high school were either depressing or really weird. Especially Lord of the Flies.
Ugh Lord of the flies… Horrid
I do like the book The Pearl by John Steinbeck. It had a really good moral to it.
North & south by Elizabeth Gaskell, Far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy (I want to read Tess of the D’Urbervilles & The Mayor of Casterbridge) Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell hall by Anne Bronte (not overly keen on any other Bronte novels) everything by Jane Austen except Northanger Abbey & Mansfield Park. Anything Dickens. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray if you want a naughty main character who does outrageous selfish thing & you don’t mind an unhappy ending.
The importance of being Ernest by Oscar Wilde soooo witty. I really want to read his An ideal husband too, saw the movie years ago.
I just talked to my mom and we’ll be doing a 2018 Classics Reading Challenge! I can dm you my list if you want!
Oh, that sounds fun!
The handmaids tale by margaret atwood
Atwood is awesome & The Handmaid’s tale is such a though provoking book. The idea that it is a classic already scares me as it was published when I was in primary school. Can I call myself a classic too?
I’ve read it years ago. Are her other books good?
My fav Atwood is The Blind assassin. I enjoyed the MaddAddam trilogy.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas ???
I’m reading Jane Eyre right now and loving it!
I have two shelves of recommendations on my Goodreads; one for modern classics and one for the older ones ?
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2335873-beth?shelf=modern-classics-recommendations
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/2335873-beth?shelf=classics-recommendations
I also love Les Miserables but it is 2000+ pages & some bits are boring like the 30 page description of the battle of Waterloo when all you need to know is the one page info that two characters end up in the same ditch
The Secret Garden
I like A Little Princess better but Secret Garden is magical ❤️
Not sure if this is a classic but I’m like 10 mins away from finishing the audio book of My Cousin Rachel and actually really enjoyed it.
Have you read Rebecca by the sane author?
I have not. Was debating about getting it next. Is it good?
It is my favourite of hers. Big manor house, creepy staff, lots of secrets…
O I’m totally getting it next for audio book then!