Hi all! I’m on maternity leave and my son is pretty mellow so I find myself with lots of time to read! I read A Little Life in January of last this year and I loved it so much it almost ruined reading for me. Every book I read after just didn’t seem to measure up in terms of quality (I know not everyone loves that book but I really really did).
Anyway I decided to turn to the classics and I have found it’s been exactly what I’ve been looking for! I haven’t revisited many of these since high school and obviously there are so many I can read for the first time, so it’s been fun.
I was hoping to tell you what I’ve read and loved to get direction on which classics I may enjoy next.
So far I’ve read and loved Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein. War and Peace I find I like okay (I’m not done) and I’m not loving Catcher in the Rye but I’m going to finish it to give it a fair chance.
Next up I have Moby Dick ready to go but would love some suggestions to add to my list as I work my way through!
by Same-Jeweler-1197
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East of Eden and Les Miserables are my absolute favorites and changed the way I look at the world. Congrats on the kid!
First, continue on with the Brontes:. Jane Eyre, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey, etc. Then keep going with the victorians and regency-era novelists because that seems like your cup of tea! Definitely read some Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Wilkie Collins while you’re at it!
Rebecca, Pride & Prejudice, 1984, David Copperfield, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Old Man and the Sea
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and congratulations!
One should read a bit of Dostoevsky either Crime and Punishment and/or Brothers Karamazov. Dickens and Nikolai Gogol might also add nicely to your list. Count of Monte Cristo reads surprisingly well even in modern times.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. About a woman driven by family poverty to claim kinship with a wealthy family.
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. About a woman destroyed by class expectations and emotional repression in gilded age New York.