
***I apologize for my long absence! There is no excuse… actually there is a very good one… My dear husband got sick, then kindly gave it to me. Right before we travelled to Melbourne for my brothers wedding. (Which was beautiful). So, the month long absence is over and you can expect to see me blogging a whole heap more, yay! ***
We’ve all got ’em. Those books that people talk about and you sit there in silence hoping that no one asks you if you’ve read it, because let’s be honest you’d probably lie and say you have. I’m trying to rectify that, by going through all the literary books that have formed so many people and have made a mark on our culture, but also happen to be some of the longest books ever written.
I love reading, and I love the ‘classics’: Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, The Book Thief. However, there is something so delicious about snuggling on the sofa and reading Harry Potter for the umpteenth time. But, there is a list of books that I would hate to never read. I figured I wasn’t completely alone in this, so I thought I would share my list with you and begin the daunting task of ticking them off.
- The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- All The Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
- Lady Chatterly’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
- The Secret History – Donna Tartt
- Atonement – Ian McEwan
- The Bell Jar – Silvia Plath
- The Canterbury Tales – Chaucer
- The Code Of The Woosters – P.G. Wodehouse
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Doostoevsky
- One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
- Suite Francaise – Irene Nemirovsky
- Elenor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman
- The Time Travelers Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare
- Tess of the d’Ubervilles – Thomas Hardy
- The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- Father Brown – G.K. Chesterton
- The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
Started at the top, so my first book to tick off is The Goldfinch ❤ I’ll let you know how I go!
Allie xxx
Alas. The only book I’ve read on your list is ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.’ I 100% relate to you on ‘Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine’- I’ve been meaning to read that book FOREVER and I even own a copy but I just haven’t gotten to it yet! 😛 Great idea for a list.
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Thank you 🙂 I’m the same, got half of these books but never read them!
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