CLASSICS I WANT TO READ IN 2024

[@kompas29]

The recent biography of Agatha Christie by Lucy Worsley is absolutely amazing. There is a reason why women write best biographies of female writers! Lucy Worsley tackles many episodes of her life with great tact and understanding, without prejudice and patronising. In her telling Agatha Christie becomes quite 4d :) enjoy your Christie reading, I got the same bug last year, most enjoyable:)

[@deblawrence8341]

Good to know ... thanks!

[@MarilynMayaMendoza]

Thanks for the suggestion. I recently watched a special of Lucy Worsley talking about Agatha Christie, but I didn’t know she wrote a book about her. Aloha.

[@cassiopeiathew7406]

Some of the classics I really want to read in 2024 are -Pedro Paramo (Juan Rulfo) -The Passion of GH (Clarice Lispector) -Gabriela Clove and Cinnamon (Jorge Amado) -Civilization and Barbarism (Sarmiento) -To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf) -Absalom, Absalom (William Faulkner) -Pale Horse, Pale Rider (Katherine Anne Porter) -Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs) -Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë) -Chekov (probably plays) -Plato’s Republic I try to make it a policy to read 1 Virginia Woolf book every summer, I’ve done Mrs. Dalloway and Orlando already.

[@auroramacula]

fellow brazilian!

[@cassiopeiathew7406]

god, I didn’t do any of this…

[@lizziebennet2700]

Agatha Christie is one of my favourites. I have read all of her works - novels, short stories, autobiography, plays - and love them. My personal favourites, other than the most obvious, are 'Three Act Tragedy', 'Cards on the Table' and 'Crooked House'. Highly recommend.

[@a.g.2790]

Awesome!! I started with Agatha about 2 years ago. You have to read Hallowe'en!! So far that's my favorite. I am reading the short stories of Miss Marple. Have a great reading year!!! ❤❤❤

[@inanimatecarbongod]

Isherwood's Berlin books are both great, though I think I prefer Mr Norris. I think if he'd focused on Sally Bowles in the second book it would've been more effective. I read both of Animal Farm and 1984 back in high school. I think this year I may finally read one of his other books that no one ever seems to talk about (mostly cos you can't use them in the same way to make cheap political points).

[@nicolaknight6953]

A Passage to India is one of my all time favourites !

[@teagalore]

I also started listening to Murder on the Orient Express as an audiobook two days ago and then finished it within a day and swiftly moved on to Death on the Nile! Have never fully watched the films through. I feel with classics (this is just my opinion) I find audiobooks help to keep me engaged and bring the characters to life. I would really recommend the audiobooks narrated by David Suchet or Hugh Fraser as they played Poriot and Hastings in the TV dramas which I grew up on. I can see myself going back to her stories after a particularly heavy book/audiobook or in-between books.

[@binglamb2176]

I read A Passage to India a few years ago and found it engaging and thoroughly enjoyable. I am biased as a fan of E.M. Forster's books so I hope you enjoy this and others as well.

[@jgatsby22]

I am reading my first Agatha Christie book ever. I’m reading what I think is her first one, the mysterious affair at styles, and I am absolutely loving it. I can’t believe I’ve never read an Agatha Christie book in my life. I’ve watched adaptations, but I’ve never read a book. I’m reading along with the Agatha Christie official ltd: One Agatha Christie book a month this year by the decades that she wrote them in. I’m so excited.

[@thewritingsilhouette6983]

So excited to hear you're looking to read Miss Marple Agatha Christie! Can't wait for you to read 'A Murder Is Announced' with Miss Marple, it was my first book I read by agatha christie and remains my favorite (over murder on the orient express and others)! I listened to the audiobook by Rosemary Leach in the fall and it was so so cozy.

[@kaylastarr3822]

I hope to read Howard's end this year, as well as the importance of being Ernest and a Shakespeare play maybe Love's Labour Lost or A winter's tale.

[@imaginativebibliophile549]

Lucy, It fills me with incredible joy to see another video of yours. Thank you for sharing your reading plans for 2024. Happy New Year. I am sure this will be the year I revisit certain authors, reading other books of theirs. In terms of classics, there are some lovely books I have been hoping to read for years. I know I am reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson as it is one of the texts for my course this semester. As for Agatha Christie, I have only read And Then There Were None and The Murder on the Orient Express. I have been meaning to read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd for nearly four years now. Death on the Nile also seems interesting based on its description. Virginia Woolf’s literary criticism entirely lures me in because I read an essay once containing her journal entries regarding her positions and analyses on the classics she was reading including contemporaries of her time like Ulysses. As a writer myself, I am always drawn into literary nonfiction commenting on the craft of fiction. A Passage to India by EM Forster could be one of the books I read this year, revealing a British colonial perspective on my home country, India. I am applying to university for History and the cultural traditions that rise from specific eras enrapture me. This year, I endeavor to return to the worlds of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the Bronte sisters, and Jane Austen, while exploring Eva Ibbotson. May the winter’s moonlight light your creative spirits. I love you

[@beverleyroberts1025]

Lucy, have you read Birdsong and Charlotte Grey, both by Sebastian Faulks. He's a fantastic writer. In both books I learned so much about World War I and World War II. Sebastian Faulks has such a gift of transporting you to the trenches of World War I and Southern France in World War II during the Nazi occupation. Both books opened my eyes to what it would have felt like to be living there at those times. So nice to see you back on KZbin 🌻🌺📚📖

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Some great books there. Best wishes with your reading choices in 2024. I hope you get some great reads.

[@freyabookishgamer]

I'm starting the year by reading L. M Montgomery's "The Blythes are Quoted". It's the 9th book in the Anne of Green Gables series and was it only published, unabridged, in 2008. She submitted it to her publisher just before she died. For a BookTube big book club I plan on reading "East of Eden" by Steinbeck. I've only read "Of Mice and Men" by him back in high school. I look forward to reading this one. Classics from my physical TBR include "David Copperfield" by Charles Dickens, the Brontë juvenilia and their letters.

[@GenWivern2]

Looks like you have an interesting and varied year ahead, bookwise - some old favourites of mine in there. At the moment I'm reading Cold Comfort Farm, which is particularly amusing as one of my friend's emails have a strikingly similar tone. After that (and it won't take long) The Apes Of God by Wyndham Lewis has reached the top of the pile, in which Virginia Wolff famously appears, flimsily disguised. They did not get on! It's a nice early edition with some of Lewis' drawings, so a bit of a bibliophile's treat.

[@a.g.2790]

What a great video!! I am reading Unlce Siles by Sheridan Le Fanu & FINALLY started David Copperfied by Charles Dickens. Also want to read Wives & Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell. 🥰

[@AbiofPellinor]

I've loved so much Christie and I hope you will too!

[@donaldkelly3983]

Virginia Woolf is on my TBR, The Waves , Between the Acts, and the short fiction. Investigate Orwell's nonfiction, his essays and Homage to Catalonia. The later is his account of fighting Franco's army in the Spanish Civil War.

[@KierTheScrivener]

I love Agatha Christie! I really, really love Miss Marple's books. Roger Ackroyd is great. One of the standalones that I liked is Crooked House.

[@lucythereader]

Adding Crooked House to my list - thank you for the recommendation!

[@ArtBookshelfOdyssey]

I haven’t read that Dickens yet but it sounds great! I’ll have to track it down. I just started reading A Room of Ones Own, and am enjoying it. I really feel for the character’s frustration how everytime she gets a thought or wants to study something happens that disrupts it.

[@janetsmith8566]

Wonderful 👍🏻

[@bugsby4663]

The first AC book I read is still my favourite, and that is the Seven Dials Mystery. This was following a brilliant adaptation in the eighties. I was utterly thrilled to have lived a year a stone's throw from Seven Dials in Covent Garden.

[@MarilynMayaMendoza]

Hi Lucy, sparkling cyanide was called remembered death in America. I liked it very much. I’m new to your channel and I’m enjoying it. Aloha

[@deblawrence8341]

I wish you got a profit margin for the books your followers purchase. For example, off this video alone, I'm interested in obtaining 5 books you've recommended (many I already own). Just think, you'd be rich! Lovely video dear and a great line-up for the year. Btw, the mystery is very different between Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile. As you always say, happy reading! 🥰

[@cunningba]

I've had my Agatha Christie phases. My wife has had and is having more. I've read most of her books, most more than once. Murder on the Orient Express is the one Poirot I haven't read because someone spoiled it for me when the movie first came out. I might get to it at some point, but knowing the gimmick is a bit a a demotivator in this case. That being said, I think it is kind of an atypical Poirot. Pretty much enjoyed them all. I also liked Tommy and Tuppence. If you want another classic British mystery writer from about the same era that I found engaging, I'd recommend John Dickson Carr. Woolf has been another favorite of mine since high school in the mid '60s. I think it started with Edward Albee. While staying at my uncle's in Berkeley, I found he had a copy of The Zoo Story, so I read it as one will do. So, when I got back home, I read Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, as one will do. This was before the film with Liz and Rich. I recalled one of my English teachers had mentioned Virginia Woolf's Flush. So I read that. Another dog book from the dog-and-pony books of my youth. Kind of. It's told by Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog, but it's not really about the dog. Then I stumbled on Orlando. I loved it. It was fantastic and suitably transgressive for a 17 year old in the '60s. Little did I know that one of classmates, John, that I went bowling, played poker, and attended the Rose Parade with, whom I haven't seen since 1966, would eventually become Joanna. Somewhere along the way, still in the 20th century, I managed to read To the Lighthouse after a couple of false starts. When I started getting into eBooks, one of the earliest ones I bought was Virginia Woolf: Complete Works (OBG Classics). (A bad habit of mine, buying massive eBooks of many thousands of pages of an author's complete works for a couple of dollars. Messes up my book count in Goodreads.) I reread a few favorites. Then, starting at the beginning, I read The Voyage Out. Then, finding out that Woolf's original draft of that was available as Melymbrosia, I had to get a physical copy of that off eBay and read that too. Recently, because I'd been meaning to for a while, I read A Room of One's Own. She is really a very fine essayist too. I've been getting into essays lately, or maybe just noticing that I've been into them all along. One of the example essays analyzed in a book on essay writing I was reading was The Death of the Moth. So I had to read the posthumously published collection The Death of the Moth, and other essays. Looking around for more essays in her complete works, I noticed several collections of essays that had been published in book form. I also noticed a section of the book labeled No. 34 The Essays [1987] with essays arranged by year('04-'40) (pp. 12,778-13,984). I've been working on that for a while. Most of the earlier essays are short book reviews she wrote of deservedly forgotten books. But, even these are interesting. After she pans (or roasts) a book, pointing out its glaring stupidities, she manages to end the review on a positive note with some clever turn of phrase praising the author for something they did well, hardly ever seeming catty in the process. The juxtaposition of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India with two of George Orwell's most popular novels recalled to me another of Orwell's novels inspired by his experiences in Burma, Burmese Days. A warning though, you may find it rough going in places. Indictments of colonialism frequently include more than a few triggers. Good reading in 2024.

[@suzannegagne8692]

How can you not adore Poirot!

[@thomasbradley2225]

A man could drown in your eyes dear. Read Howard K Smith's Last Train From Berlin beautiful. Also, Patricia Highsmith's The Price of Salt. CAROL with Cate Blanchett is its film adaptation. Also, speaking of film, catch THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway before its tepid overly corrective redo with Brosnan and Russo. 💋

[@kitcar668]

What an inspiring list 😊 thank you!

[@jaroslavaart]

I am reading some T. Hardy this year, as well as Little Women and Persuasion. 😊

[@lucythereader]

I'd like to sneak some Thomas Hardy in too! I feel like it's been ages since I've read any of his writing. Hope you love Persuasion and Little Women! They're such brilliant reads. :)

[@SheanaJo]

❤

[@aliajaffer3427]

good luck

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Yaki dah.

[@brunm]

i find it easier to read poirot books if they are not narrated by hastings

[@sasapejcin3568]

Why only american and british classics?