CLASSICS I WANT TO READ IN 2017

[@sarahhall4107]

Emma is my favourite of Jane Austen book so far. Mr Knightley is my Austen hero! Enjoy!!

[@jorgelopez-pr6dr]

Although I am Spanish speaking, I somewhat familiarized with British literature, especially those who deal with the terrorific and the ghostly. I don't know if you have read it , but if don't, I recommend you Bram Stoker's The Laird of the White Worm and Le Fanu's In a Glass Darkly, a collection of short stories ( ' Squire Toby's Will' and 'Mr.Justice Harbottle' are harrowing, read them in the candlelight).

[@ThoseCoffeeSpoons]

I have read quite a lot of classics (The bigger ones) so it's nice to come to your channel and get a different variety! Think I'll try and get to some of the books you read and reviewed last year! Great video!

[@CarolynsReadingRamblings]

Late commenting but I've only just discovered this video/your channel. This was a great selection of classics! Sense and Sensibility and North and South are tied for my favorite book of all time and Far From the Madding Crowd and A Room With a View are close seconds! I am so jealous that you managed to get Shirley before it was out of print! I need to read that one. So far this year I have re-read Pride and Prejudice for my Austen re-read project, I've read a few Anthony Trollope novels, Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and right now I am reading both Decline and Fall as well as another Gaskell called the Moorland Cottage. I plan to read more Gaskell, Austen, Dickens, and Hardy through the year as well as Evelina once I finish re-reading Austen😀. Great video!

[@svmitche]

Enjoy North and South, it's one of my favourites!

[@lucythereader]

Thank you, Stacey!

[@GisellesBookGarden]

I LOVE A Room with a View and North and South! I also love the movie versions of them.

[@GisellesBookGarden]

Also, they both have such strong messages! They're so deep and layered.

[@thebookbelle]

Lucy you smashed the classics challenge last year!! I'm so disappointed I only read like 2 classics in 2016, but my goal is to read a lot more this year. North and South is up there with my favourite classics, so I really hope you love it. It's GREAT. x

[@violinmusic5731]

I love Gaskell's writing!

[@ashquinn6348]

Emma and Mansfield Park are my favorite Jane Austen books.

[@lucythereader]

I really enjoyed Mansfield Park when I read it! Hoping to read Emma this year. :)

[@booksandquills]

I'm so excited for you to read Wide Sargasso Sea!

[@hyacinthh6900]

Do you recommend reading WSS before or after Jane Eyre?

[@katiejlumsden]

Oh so many great classics here! I especially love Villette, Far from the Madding Crowd, North and South and Mansfield Park - enjoy them all! I really must read Evelina - I hear so many good things.

[@alistairrichard]

Books and Things Evelina is an amazing read. It is so readable and really transported me to the period. I want to re-read it.

[@perfectioninbooks7624]

I wasn't into classics until I started watching your videos and started to know about them, I'm from Uruguay so we talk a bit about UK literature in our classes but we have other focus in Spanish literature. After watching a few of your classics videos (which I loove) I joined the Asutentatious Book Club hosted by Zoe from ReadByZoe here on KZbin. In August we started reading Pride and Prejudice (which I loved) and I'm so happy I started reading classics, since then we have been reading one classic per month and now we are reading Sense and Sensibility. I thought I would enjoy Mansfield Park more, but I didn't I think it's my least favourite book from Jane Austen, however I really really hope you enjoy it! With Emma I kind of had a fun story, when I read it I liked it, didn't have me obsessed but I liked it, then I watched all the adaptations and I'm so in love with the story. I know I will re-read all Jane Asuten books in the future (not near but anyway) but I'm really excited to re-read Emma because of that. I definitely want to read these year some of the Bronte's books, Dickens and I'm not sure what else. Can you give me a bit of recommendation/orientation? This is a long comment I didn't expect but what I wanted to comment is that I love your classics videos!

[@lucythereader]

So glad you've got into reading classics and are loving Jane Austen! She's the BEST! I haven't read any Dickens myself yet, but I can certainly help with the Brontës. They're my favourite writers! I'd recommend starting with either The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey or Wuthering Heights. Then try Jane Eyre! Don't worry - I LOVE long comments, and this reply is very long too. Thank you for all your support!

[@perfectioninbooks7624]

Thank you! I'll try those!

[@JohnM...]

Great books that I read ( classics mostly) are the Aneid, the Odyssey, the illiad, and anything by Honore de Balzac ( or Dante).

[@CatrionaReads]

I really love Far From the Madding Crowd, I'm hoping to read more Hardy soon! A Passage to India is a favourite of mine, E. M. Forster always chose such interesting topics for his novels. Great picks in this video!

[@marnieholleron-silk5410]

Once you've read a room with a view you should watch the film adaptation with Helena bonham carter. It's absolutely hilarious and a fantastic adaptation of the novel. I think you will love it! There is also a brilliant BBC tv adaptation of north and south that has some fantastic acting in it that's currently on Netflix xxx

[@lindaharrison3240]

LOVE Wide Sargasso Sea. It can changes one's view of Jane Eyre forever.

[@hyacinthh6900]

Do you recommend reading WSS before or after Jane Eyre?

[@mrshembryreads]

Yes! I really want to read more classics this year, too! Wuthering Heights is first on my list :)

[@lucythereader]

+Mrs Hembry Reads I hope you enjoy Wuthering Heights! No pressure, but it's my favourite book ;)

[@jessbookendsandendings7086]

I really want to read more classics this year - I love modern classics, so probably some Virginia Woolf (I'm thinking Orlando and To the Lighthouse), and maybe some Orwell too? I've read Wide Sargasso Sea, it's such an interesting book!

[@BaileeWalsh]

I haven't read any of Jane Austen's work, so this year one of my goals is to read all 6 of her novels in chronological order of when they were published. Other classics I want to read this year, for sure, are We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Madame Bovary, and Wuthering Heights.

[@lucythereader]

Ooh that's a good goal! Good luck with it! Be sure to let me know how you're getting on - I'd love to know your thoughts on her works. Wuthering Heights is one of my all time favourite books - enjoy!!

[@BaileeWalsh]

lucythereader I sure will! I'll have to let you know what I think of Wuthering Heights, too. It's interesting because there are two books I've heard a lot of people say is their favorite or least favorite book and those are The Catcher In The Rye and Wuthering Heights. I'm curious to see what side I end up on. Honestly, it's a love or hate situation with those books as far as I've seen and read.

[@mollee5211]

please can you do a video on your fave classics or must have classics. I really want to start reading classics this year

[@lucythereader]

+mol lee Yes, of course! I'll add it to my list of videos to make!

[@AlexmaryGR]

Villette is totally different to Jane Eyre, I enjoyed it way more. I think you would love it.

[@lindaharrison3240]

LOVE Wide Sargasso Sea! Such a great book. You will never see Jane Eyre the same way again.

[@hyacinthh6900]

Do you recommend reading WSS before Jane Eyre or after?

[@lameshahale2990]

Great Vid!!!!! I am currently reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. This year I would love to read Wuthering Heights, Wide Sargasso Sea, Rebecca, Anna Karenina, The Brother's Karamazov and Bleak House.

[@lucythereader]

I LOVE The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. I hope you enjoy Wuthering Heights too! It's one of my all time favourite books.

[@tachyondecay]

Far from the Madding Crowd is really good. Bathsheba is a very interesting, somewhat problematic character. I watched the recent adaptation over the holidays, and I think it does a great job of bringing the novel to life. I read A Room with a View over the holidays too and didn't much like it, though I have a hard time explaining why! It was mostly the writing style and the way Forster depicts the characters than what he’s actually trying to accomplish. I was at the used bookstore recently and picked up a copy of Tenant of Wildfell Hall, partly based on you gushing about it in a previous video! Going to make time for that soon, I think. I'm looking forward to how Elizabeth Gaskell goes for you. She isn't someone I've thought about picking up, but that could change!

[@Jennikreads]

Mansfield Park really put me off Jane Austen when I tried to read it the first time. So I haven't gone back to it yet. I hope you enjoy reading all your classics! A lot in there that I want to read as well. I think I'll probably tackle Emma this year as well as another Dumas book, don't know which one yet.

[@lucythereader]

I think Mansfield Park is usually considered the "boring" one out of all of Jane Austen's works. Have you read Lady Susan by her? It's one of my favourites!

[@jessicawraight2077]

I'm reading Brideshead Revisited now. It's really great, you should definitely make time for it!

[@madamebovary2124]

I discovered your channel recently.And I ❤️ it!Your personal opinions about the classics are just so objective.Btw Your penguin 🐧 collections are adorable! 🌟🏆

[@lucythereader]

Thank you! That's very lovely of you! I really, really love my Penguin collection. Possibly my favourite books that I own!

[@frankstudent]

You and Regan from peruse project are two of my favorites!

[@elisej92]

great video! i just love the penguin english library editions. i started out thinking i wanted to collect the vintage classics of jane austen, but i had to switch to the PEL editions instead - just love the look of them :) this year i really want to read my second jane austen novel, wuthering heights, the waves, dubliners by james joyce, rebecca by daphne du maurier and i capture the castle :) i own more classics that that, but those are the ones i plan to definitely get to this year!

[@nmeyers92]

Handmaid's Tale is fantastic and very important for what is going on right now!

[@Fortheloveofclassics]

You have a great collection! I wanna read Evelina as well, I love the edition you have.

[@MusicalMe369]

Read Jude the Obscure! It's one of my favourites! x

[@katri3415]

I haven't read classics barely at all, but I really want to start! I have Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Wurthering Heights and The Great Gatsby in my shelf and if I read two of them this year, I'm very happy :D

[@lucythereader]

All *very* good choices! Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights are two of my favourite novels, and I'm currently studying The Great Gatsby for my English Literature class. I hope you enjoy them all!

[@autumnrosedearborn8923]

Katri Bookishteaparty I've read all of those and loved them. Wuthering Heights is probably my favorite classic. Enjoy!

[@AFrolicThroughFiction]

I read most of Jane Austen's books in 2016, I'm currently reading Sense and Sensibility which is the last novel of hers I need to read, though I also have a bind up of her short stories too. I don't have many others planned yet, though I'm hoping to get to The Handmaid's Tale and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall :)

[@MarketYourMarketing]

Love Jane Austen! I have Persuasion and Pride & Prejudice left to read! Mansfield park is a tad dull as nothing happens - the BBC drama with Billie Piper is worth a watch. Emma is incredible! My favourite Jane Austen!

[@wanderingreader6941]

Great selection for this year! I'm only just getting into classics so I'm choosing carefully and taking my time with them. But I've definitely enjoyed the ones I've read so far. Lindsi xx

[@lucythereader]

Good luck with your reading this year! It's always best to go easy and take your time with books. That way you can absorb them so much more! (I should probably take my own advice with this though!)

[@Beccasawrus]

I hated Villette D: But I really liked Shirley :) I can't wait to hear your thoughts on Evelina, I've had it on my wishlist for a while :)

[@fghijoy6148]

This video is so inspiring. Now I want to make my own. I have so many classics I want to read. In 2016, I found myself drawn by hype to read YA over classics. While there is nothing wrong with YA, I put them above a lot of books that I have really wanted to read more. Some that I want to read include North and South, Jane Austen's short stories, Frankenstein, Dracula, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, East of Eden, Shakespeare, Gone With the Wind, Jane Eyre, Villette, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. (I was especially influenced by you to read the Bronte books.) So excited to see your thoughts on Mansfield Park, I think it is completely underrated.

[@someonerandom8552]

I adore YA. I usually read one or two in between some classics that I read as a bit of a breather (not to say that YA is dumbed down at all. Just that it's a brisker pace with it's usage of language and action.)

[@nmeyers92]

Read Far from the Madding Crowd and of course Jane Eyre. Unbelievable classics.

[@lucythereader]

+nmeyers92 Yes!! I'm reading Far From the Madding Crowd at the moment and love it.

[@sarahyazeid8854]

I look forward to know what you think about Villette. I finished it two days ago and cannot stop thinking about it. The ending was really hard for me to read. I kept rereading every page just not wanting it to end!

[@FangirlSince-pd5mh]

TO THE LIGHTHOUSE! Sorry I did love that one. =) I started to read classics when I was about 12 because my late uncle had so many of them in Portuguese. When I reached my 20s I kind of read all of his books and the ones from University so then I got more into YA after that. (Should've been the other way around ahah) I love Elizabeth Gaskell books, especially Gothic Tales. After watching your video I kind of want to get all of those classics just because the covers are so pretty and mine are all back in Portugal. =(

[@Starrysong]

You have a lot of really neat sounding books on your list. I have a copy of the Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, which I've never heard much about. I have a bunch of classics on my list including some of those on your list.

[@lizwidner1208]

Great list! You're definitely inspiring me to read some classics! Thanks! :)

[@JulianneBenford]

I didn't know about the Decline and Fall adaptation - now I really want to read that too!

[@sarahcobb]

Have you made your favourite classics video yet? I'm looking forward to that one! Please can you tell me what shade/brand your lipstick is please- it's gorgeous!

[@lucythereader]

Not yet... But keep an eye out in the next few weeks because it's top of my list to film. My lipstick is the Loreal Color Riche Matte in 640 Erotique. It's one of my favourites!

[@martafrancesca3]

I highly recommend you "The well beloved" by Hardy... amazing book! :)

[@bigd3996]

Lucy if you enjoy Virginia Woolf's stream of consciousness style of writhing, may I recommend William Faulkner? Unfortunately he writes in a completely different genre, but he often wrote in stream of consciousness.

[@exlibris-fromthebooks]

Ahh so many of my favourites :D Enjoy!

[@lucythereader]

Thank you!! So glad to hear that you love them so much!

[@violinmusic5731]

Thomas Hardy is AMAZING

[@TheBookCastle]

Love your videos on classics, best of luck with all your reading! :D

[@lucythereader]

+The Book Castle (Alice Lippart) Thanks Alice!

[@v.5832]

I really love your videos💟 And I can't wait to see what you think about these books!

[@lucythereader]

Thank you!! I'll be sure to post lots throughout the year as I read them.

[@TomesAndTravel]

Villette is quite different to Jane Eyre, some similar themes but it felt distinct. I loved Jane Eyre and Villette wasn't as good for me, but I hope you enjoy it :) Wide Sargasso Sea is amazing! I loved it. It added a whole new dimension to Jane Eyre and made me appreciate certain aspects of it more, particularly with Bertha. Plus last term at university I studied a module which included a text similar to Wide Sargasso Sea (a Hispanic Caribbean retelling of Jane Eyre about slavery and sugar plantations), so I was able to go back to a few passages from it. It's fascinating.

[@hyacinthh6900]

Do you recommend reading WSS before or after Jane Eyre?

[@SunriseFireberry]

If you care to try a long, involved epistolary novel, go for Clarissa/Richardson. It's also an example of an early psychological novel.

[@lucythereader]

Thanks! It's definitely on my list, but I'm very intimidated by its size!

[@SunriseFireberry]

One section at a time. There's something like 12 'books' that make up the loong War & Peace. I just read it 1 book at a time. Same with Lord of the Rings: it has 3 vols., & 6 books, but I just read 'em 1 at a time.

[@BernasBookishAdventures]

North and South is much better book than Cranfield in my opinion. It is a social themed love story and it is delightful to read.

[@bighardbooks770]

Lots of great stuff here ... I like Virginia Woolf very much.

[@anxiousadventures2288]

I'm reading "The Picture of Dorian Gray" soon which sounds interesting so if you haven't read that maybe check it out. Here are a few suggestions: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell, Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf. I love this video by the way! Just subscribed.

[@catydominguez1877]

I am currently halfway through "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and I absolutely love it! I love the writing most of all.

[@JohnM...]

Anxious Adventures did you know there are supposed to be clues in that book about who Jack the Ripper was? If you really want to know who the ripper was, read Wilde's "The Canterville Ghost" You WILL be gobsmacked.

[@tallonrk1]

VILLETTE IS AMAZING

[@gracetaylor7351]

Love the classics !! ❤️love theses!!

[@lucythereader]

+Grace Taylor ❤❤❤

[@n.b.6022]

Actually, I love thrillers... Do you have any classic recommendations in the thriller genre?

[@sarahaubrey320]

N. B. There are classics in every genre I feel like we assume classics is one genre when really ita a time period I'm sure if you search you'll find some thriller classics

[@Linda-be3ki]

You're my favourite booktuber

[@chihabreda6681]

i recomend you sidahrta by hermann hesse and perfume by patrick suskind

[@lindacollings8554]

Yay for classics !

[@dhuratacela9764]

Hello! I was wondering if you enjoyed Virginia Woolf's "The Waves", since I've been recently very interested in reading it. The motifs have totally intrigued me. Please, let me know what you think about it. Thank you!

[@NurMohammad-zj2xk]

Fabulous, Lucy.

[@hansouth2355]

i might read tess

[@racheldemain1940]

Look the Professor!

[@amina4993]

Salut Lucy. J'apprécie bien tes vidéos ❤

[@lucythereader]

Merci!! x

[@kenhall8092]

You know the definition of a Classic? It's a book you wish you'd read but you don't want to!

[@fernandolr217]

I want to be your friend :)

[@loudfunstrawberry4127]

Hold up !! What is that accent you have?!!? Watching your video first time.

[@DrinkingByMyShelf]

Oooh Decline and Fall is hilarious - the sequel Vile Bodies is my favourite book of all time ever ever ever (it's sort of a sequel in that it has some overlapping background characters but they're not connected - I read Vile Bodies years before I ever read Decline and Fall and it didn't matter!)

[@DrinkingByMyShelf]

ALSO I always thought Mansfield Park was the boring one but I reread it a few months ago and LOVED it! Fanny Price isn't as interesting a heroine as the other Austen women, but the whole story of Mansfield Park is quite soap opera-esque - it's anything but boring! I don't know what I was thinking last time round...