After doing my top 10 book list and my top 10 fiction book list, I decided to do my top 10 classic book list. The only problem is, I couldn't think of 10. There are those I've liked well enough (Anne of Green Gables), and those I had to read for school (The Crucible), and those that would be fine except for the fact that they're 200 pages too long (Jane Eyre), but I couldn't think of ten I would read again. But there are so many books out there for me to read still! I just haven't found those last two yet. So this is my start.
*Little Women, Louisa May Alcott*Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
*Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
*Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
*Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
*Ben-Hur, Lew Wallace (not necessarily one I would read again, seeing as he's extremely intelligent, which makes it hard at times, but it was very good)
*The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
*Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
8 comments:
Isn't "Earnest" a play?
And I love "Little Women". I always cry a certain point, convinced it's another certain point, and then I realize that's not the part I'm supposed to cry at and that in another 100 pages or so, I'll be crying again.
Doesn't LOTR count as classic?
And I loved "Anne of Green Gables" too, once I finally got through it. I love Matthew so much!
yes, earnest is a play, but it's a classic. you could count romeo&juliet as a classic, i think.
i'm not sure where the cutoff for classics is. note gwtw is not on the list either.
i love the movie, but the book i just didn't love as much.
Ok then, plays count.
I think I'd say 50 years.
I should have read "Anne" to Scout when she was four. She probably would have been the only under-25-year-old to truly understand and love it.
Who just has the middle name 'Makepeace'? It makes me think of Austin Powers saying that 'Danger' is his middle name. :)
I haven't read these. Still want to be friends with me? ;)
Oh, but I am now the owner of both 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame' and 'Pride and Prejudice' so it's just a matter of time...
we can still be friends. provided you get reading. ;)
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