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Okay! Cool! I have started to collate your classic literature recommendations into a list. This is good! Print it out and take it shopping, I say. There are a couple of notso classics in here. But I like that. I like the rule breakers! I do.
I added a few extra faves too. Why don't you add your notso classics in the comments, and your classics too?! We are well on the way to compiling a sterling reading list! (Thank you to those of you that have contributed already. You are neat. And rad. And stuff. Yep.)
Someone else really lovely has a Summer Reading List over here, too. So you might want to click over to that and print it out, too. Thank you to the kind person who alerted me to that! What a great list it is, too!
Here is the Mike's Reader's Book List : as compiled by YOU!
- Great Expectations : Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities : Charles Dickens
- Oliver Twist : Charles Dickens
- David Copperfield : Charles Dickens
- My Family and Other Animals : Gerald Durrell
- The Way We Live Now : Anthony Trollope
- Doctor Wartle's School : Anthony Trollope
- He Knew He Was Right : Anthony Trollope
- Cousin Henry : Anthony Trollope
- Emma : Jane Austen
- Persuasion : Jane Austen
- Mansfield Park : Jane Austen
- Pride and Predjudice : Jane Austen
- Sense and Sensibility : Jane Austen
- Cranford : Elizabeth Gaskell
- North and South : Elizabeth Gaskell
- Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves : PG Wodehouse
- Little Women : Louisa May Alcott
- Little Men : Louisa May Alcott
- An Old Fashioned Girl : Louisa May Alcott
- Wuthering Heights : Emily Bronte
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall : Anne Bronte
- Agnes Grey : Anne Bronte
- Jane Eyre : Charlotte Bronte
- Villette : Charlotte Bronte
- Alice In Wonderland : Lewis Carol
- Winesburg Ohio : Sherwood Anderson
- The Great Gatsby : F Scott Fitzgerald
- Washington Square : Henry James
- The Age of Innocence : Edith Wharton
- The Custom of The Country : Edith Wharton
- The House of Mirth : Edith Wharton
- Madame Bovary : Gustave Flaubert
- Wide Sargasso Sea : Jean Rhys
- Middlemarch : George Eliot
- East of Eden : John Steinbeck
- Dracula : Bram Stoker
- Frankenstein : Mary Shelley
- On The Side of The Angels : Betty Miller
- Farewell Leicester Square : Betty Miller
- Monochromes : Ella D'Arcy
- Modern Instances : Ella D'Arcy
- Crossrigs : Jane and Mary Findlater
- Adam Bede : George Elliot
- Love In A Fallen City : Eileen Chang
- Lust, Caution : Eileen Chang
- Anna Karenina : Leo Tolstoy
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory : Roald Dahl
- A Tree Grows In Brooklyn : Betty Smith
- The Count of Monte Cristo : Alexandre Dumas
- The End of The Affair : Graham Greene
- The Diary of A Young Girl : Anne Frank
- Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day : Winifred Watson
- Tess of The D'Urbervilles : Thomas Hardy
- To Kill A Mockingbird : Harper Lee
- The Eagle of The Ninth : Rosemary Sutcliff
- The Master and Margarita : Mikhail Bulgakov
- The Woman In White : Wilkie Collins
- Wind In The Willows : Kenneth Grahame
- The Picture Of Dorian Gray : Oscar Wilde
- Love In A Cold Climate : Nancy Mitford
- The Pursuit Of Love : Nancy Mitford
- Rebecca : Daphne Du Maurier
- My Brilliant Career : Miles Franklin
- Anne of Green Gables : L M Montgomery
- The Blue Castle : L M Montgomery
- Lord of the Flies : William Golding
- The Sound and The Fury : William Faulkner
- Bel Ami : Guy De Maupassant
- Of Human Bondage : W Somerset Maugham
- Love In The Time of Cholera : Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Ender's Game : Orson Scott Card
- Gulliver's Travels : Jonathan Swift
- Moby Dick : Herman Melville
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn : Mark Twain
- Don Quixote : Miguel de Cervantes
Thank you so much! Contribute away, and be sure to tell us a bit about your favourites too!
xx Pip
