CLASSICS I WANT TO READ IN 2023

Happy New Year, everyone! Here are the classics I would like to read in 2023. Let me know in the comments if you've read any of these, and also what classics you're hoping to read this year!
📚 BOOKS MENTIONED
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
The Buccaneers by Edith Wharton
The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
Childhood, Youth, Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen
The Faces by Tove Ditlevsen
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie
Clouds of Witness by Dorothy L Sayers
Unnatural Death by Dorothy L Sayers
The Crime at Black Dudley by Margery Allingham
A Man Lay Dead, Enter a Murderer & The Nursing Home Murder by Ngaio Marsh
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[@damas2388]

Brazil has many amazing classics. They vary between life in the city, country, indigenous stories, richness and poverty etc. I recommend Aluízio de Azevedo “The slum”.

[@katiejlumsden]

Your Jane Austen writing project sounds wonderful 😊

[@R3BECCAK]

I rarely read classics but I read The Turn of the Screw at Christmas and fell in love with it so I’m determined to read more classics. My first book of 2023 is now Great Expectations, my first Dickens! I’m very excited to see how I get on

[@subtlefire7256]

I love Great Expectations, I hope you'll have a good time with it!

[@ladypeonia]

It's funny because I read The Turn of the Screw a month ago, and I'm reading Great Expectations witch is my first Dickens !

[@R3BECCAK]

@@ladypeonia what a coincidence!! This is really exciting, I hope you enjoyed the turn of the screw, I loved it! Good luck with great expectations

[@ladypeonia]

@@R3BECCAK Thanks a lot ! You too enjoy your reading ☺️

[@Maddiexz]

I’m reading Agnes grey at the moment and I’m really liking it!!

[@LG81237]

I love Jane Austen. Everything she wrote. For the moment, Emma is my favourite one. A very subtile and pleasant novel.

[@bellathereader1328]

So glad you are continuing to upload videos!! You helped me get into the classics when I first came upon your channel, 6 or 7 years ago! Currently I have been binging on Agatha Christie and since I drive long distances, I take advantage of our library's free audio books and have listened to around ten of her stories. Hercule Poirot is my favorite with Hugh Frazier as the excellent narrator

[@LG81237]

And about the classics I would like to read I will read Shirley. Eager to discover.

[@donaldkelly3983]

Have good time with the Austen rereads! Wharton's ghost stories are first rate. The sense of the uncanny in them is the best part. Interested in your reaction to the Jackson novel!

[@zachreads]

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was my favorite classic of last year! I am rereading Agnes Gray very soon. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton was also great last year. My favorite Shirley Jackson book is We Have Always Lived in the Castle, it is very very strange but I absolutely love it. For something outside of your comfort zone (not a classic, but it does take place in the 18th century) I highly recommend The Mercies by K.M. Hargrave,i t was my favorite book of 2020! I also recommend The Yellow Wallpaper and Address Unknown

[@subtlefire7256]

Happy new year Lucy! My first classic of 2023 is going to be A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway.

[@kimtherrien8643]

I just finished Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell. Loved it. For my next classics, I have my eye on Daniel Deronda by George Eliot and The Stranger by Camus.

[@LizziebelleXOX]

Happy new year Lucy! I look forward to sharing more bookish journeys with you. I’m a huge Austen fan so I’m here for that and I want to explore more of the brontes. You’re in for a treat with Agatha and miss Marple enjoy 📖💕

[@imaginativebibliophile549]

Lucy, Happy New Year. I have now been watching your videos for three and a half years. Your presence in the stories you write and in the reflections over the books you read fill me with all the colors of rapture. 2022 has indeed been a tumultuous journey as for my own mental health. I suppose the struggles that come with the teenage experience, the intensity of the school environment truly affected me this year. Even then, writing stories allowed me to portal to other worlds and within the minds of my characters and their relationships with one another. Your modern day young adult romance series you have been writing simply lures me in and I hope to have the opportunity to read your future novels. In 2023, wish to reunite with classics again, particularly the ones I have not yet explored. There are many classics other than Victorian and Edwardian literature that I could draw myself into. After having read Pride and Prejudice, Northanger Abbey, and Emma, I endeavor to read Persuasion this year and devote part of my year to reading Jane Austen’s literary works. I have not read Jane Austen in a while and the Bronte sisters are always a delight to throw myself in. I recently read Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare for my English course and will also be reading Macbeth and Othello in the coming weeks. Edith Wharton is a master of words and language and the ways she uses her literary devices to spin together story and atmosphere. I submitted my writing to the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards once again and I am ardently waiting for the results. I am exceedingly excited to finally begin a new novel, an ode to my dearest book friends. After reading Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, I may as well dive into the world of Agatha Christie and her contemporaries of crime fiction. I love you

[@lorimiller854]

Congratulations on your new writing project! Persuasion and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall are on my TBR. Miss Marple is my favorite so I hope you have a positive experience.

[@simplycara]

I relate with you loving the Brontë’s novels. I tried reading their poems-I prefer Emily’s writing (in poems, particularly), I gotta say. I also read four of their works last year, and I plan to continue with Shirley and Agnes Grey which are my unread ones.

[@elizabethaliteraryprincess]

Thank you so much for mentioning Ngaio Marsh! I read A May Lay Dead back in undergrad and was trying to think of the title and author recently. Couldn't remember either for the life of me! But I recognized her name as soon as you said it. 😆

[@LG81237]

I currently read Villette (in french for the moment). It's really a great surprise. Even if I prefer Emily, Charlotte is also very fascinating.

[@ahmadtajy7178]

Happy new year! I've just started The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and I'm loving it. I plan on reading more Brontës and certainly more Hardy this year. I'm looking forward to reading something more out of the ordinary, dark, criminal, scandalous etc this year. It's like I ate too much sugar (Heidi) and now need some spice (The Awakening maybe?).

[@lucypeake759]

I've recently come into Golden Age crime fiction as well! I have to say, I do prefer the Poirot novels instead of the Miss Marple books. Cards on the Table remains my favourite Agatha Christie novel so I would definitely recommend it if you get on with Christie :))

[@randys1967]

I'm curretly reading murder on orient express.greetings from Indonesia

[@AbiofPellinor]

I'll hopefully be reading Les Mis this year! As well as To The Lighthouse. A very small and very big classic!

[@deblawrence8341]

I so enjoyed watching your line-up video for this year's books! I'm rereading Austen's books too and am thinking of revisiting "Emma" or "Sense & Sensibility" this year. Last year I reread "Northanger Abbey" and enjoyed it even more than the first time. I'm very excited to learn more about your Austen spinoff too. 😍 Jane's in good hands with you Lucy! I also wanted to share with you that I reread "Villette" this past year and LOVED it more than ever! Upon turning that last page I wanted to go back and start it all over again ... but that just wasn't practical. Maybe in another 5 years?!! I did give the book to my niece for her birthday in November, and out of 150 books that she read this year, "Villette" made her top 5! (I was so impressed because she's more a sci-fi / horror reader, but all the books in her top 5 were classics ... is auntie rubbing off on her?) I also gave it to a girlfriend as a Christmas gift and she was THRILLED! ~said she's been looking for it in bookstores and couldn't find a copy. It's so wonderful knowing that Charlotte continues to make people that happy 100+ years after her passing. ❤ Don't fret over Shirley Jackson. She has poured so much of herself and her intellect into her works - there are so many layers to her writing. Knowing her as a person will only make her stories more meaningful and profound. Fun tidbit: I live in Rochester, NY, and work at the University of Rochester. Jackson lived for a time in Rochester and attended the U of R, also for a short time. Knowing that seems special. She later married and moved to North Bennington, Vermont, which isn't far from where we live. Enjoy exploring the world of Agatha Christie! I'd like to read her play this year, "The Mousetrap". I don't know anything about it and I prefer going into it that way. Such fun adventures await all of us readers in 2023!!! Lucy, happy New Year and wishing you all the best in the coming year! 💕

[@LG81237]

Lucy, I don't know if you ever read George Eliot's novel. Her books were not so popular in France and many of them were translated in French. Thanks to "Me too" french editors started to take interest in her work. Middlemarch IS really a Victorian masterpiece. Felix Holt, Daniel Deronda, Adam Bede are also important Books.

[@shonnarobertson6462]

I’ve always loved Northanger Abbey, so it is lovely to hear your enthusiasm for it. P&P and Persuasion are probably my favourite Austen books but Northanger Abbey is not far behind them. I’ve previously read a fair few of the books on your tbr, but expect I will reread them over the coming year. As for other things I plan to read this year, Agnes Grey is sitting patiently on my bookshelf, so I hope to get to that this year, as well as some Wilkie Collins.

[@aliajaffer3427]

Lucy, Happy new year .What are you doing with your Uni

[@julielynn86]

Persuasion is my favorite Jane Austen! Happy New Year!

[@GenWivern2]

A very Happy New Year to you, Lucy. 🙂 I grew up in a household with a whole shelf of green Penguin Marjory Allingham whodunnits - never really took to her, but if you do there's plenty to get your teeth into. Next up for me will be Moll Flanders as a reward for re-reading Tess, then maybe The Way We Live Now. My 2022 Austen was Sense and Sensibility (because you said you were going to read it ...), and this year's will probably be Persuasion although it doesn't really matter because they're all old friends. I do wish you joy of Northanger Abbey though, because you get the author at her perkiest.

[@kaymak-bo1ud]

Happy New Year! I was so happy to see you have started to make videos again so welcome back! My goal for 2023 is to start to tackle the Brontes. I plan to begin with Jane Eyre but I have them all so we'll see how far I get!

[@isabellemenez5704]

I've been a very slow, difficult reader in 2022, but it seems I've got my mojo back, mostly ! I just ordered the Margery Allingham - I read several books of hers years ago but I'd love to try again from the start. I'm also on an Agatha Christie readthrough, Japanese literature is on my shelf (Aki Shimazaki, whom I highly recommend), and many others. I hope I am over being tired and hopeless and finding joy and comfort in books again - love your channel by the way, thank you and have a beautiful, fruitful year ! I'm looking forward to your new look on Jane Austen ^^ Hope you love Emma, Pride and Prejudice was my favourite but Emma, I think, has taken the first place !

[@zachreads]

I had a 2.5 year reading slump beginning in January 2020, I'm pretty sure I'm finally out of it now! May I ask what your Japanese literature recs are? I've really only read most of Ryunosuke Akutagawa and more contemporary things such as Penance by Kanae Minato and Earthlings by Sayaka Murata and Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

The classics I want to read this year are The Woman in White, Dombey and Son, Anna Karenina (currently reading), Brothers Karamazov, Secret Garden, one of Jules Verne's novels, Framley Parsonage, Vanity Fair, Lady Audley's Secret, Mysteries of Udolpho, , Shirley, War and Peace, Ulysses, Paradise Lost, The Divine Comedy

[@theangrybish]

Love the list please help me find your edition of Agatha Christie murder at the vicarage It’s beautiful

[@tracysmith9393]

Happy new year Lucy. I love your picks for this year. In my 23 books for 23 jane austen, Agatha, Christie and bronte are authors I've added to the list. Possession is my second favourite austen too then sense and sensability. I'm also completing les miserables and started war and peace as my big reads this year. Along with Anna kerenenena, Don quixote and Dr zhivago to name a few as I complete a bookclub called AZ of classics. Imbalso wanting to start a few fantasy series and throw in a goid helping of crime and romance in-between. Enjoy

[@analuizamp]

I love the covers of your books.

[@bookcaseofdoom]

I'm gonna read Pamela and a bunch of Jane Austen this year! Oh, Shirley Jackson is so good. it's so scary, but in a way that I love - I'm a huge chicken and I hate horror films, but her writing is godlike. Faces sounds interesting, adding it to my tbr. I'm so glad to see a video from you

[@lucythereader]

Oh, this makes me very happy to hear! I also hate horror films, but if you approve of her books, I'm sure I'll love them too. Always glad to see a comment from you!

[@bookcaseofdoom]

@@lucythereader yay ❤️

[@johnsaxongitno4life588]

Happy New Year 🥳 to you to and wishing you the best of luck with your amazing books 📚 please stay safe and enjoy your reading 📖 love your family friend John ❤❤❤

[@mariyalevchenko100]

I am so excited for you to get into golden age crime novels!! I love this sub-genre and am a huge fan of agatha christie and have read whose body as well and definitely looking to read more dorothy sayers :)

[@lucythereader]

I'm excited, too! I never really thought they would be my thing, but I'm looking forward to all the reading ahead of me. You'll have to let me know if you read anything particular good. Happy New Year to you!

[@mariyalevchenko100]

@@lucythereader of course! I am not sure how much Sherlock Holmes you've read and I know these stories don't fully fall under golden age detective fiction as the author started writing them before the years classified as the golden age but I loooove Sherlock stories and if you haven't read them yet I would really recommend the short stories like in "the adventures of Sherlock Holmes" collection :) Happy New Year to you too!

[@MaerchenRinchen]

Hi Lucy, I wish you a happy new year! I loved hearing about your reading plans. Northanger Abbey is one of my favourite books. In my Masters's Degree, I wrote about Val McDermids Retelling of it - and it is basically what you described what you think a modern version would be. I compared it to the original (with a focus on the humor - which lacked a little bit in the retelling) but I think you would enjoy reading it nonetheless.

[@jordanelizabethborchert]

I just read Persuasion for the first time in 2022 and loved it (review video on my channel too), I’ve only read Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma and so I’d love to read more Jane Austen

[@andreaowens9267]

I just found your channel and really enjoy it. I am just getting started on classics and appreciate your suggestions.

[@lucythereader]

Thank you! Best of luck with your classics reading.

[@staffanlindstrom576]

Happy New Year, Lucy!

[@mysunnyreadingcorner6777]

Happy new year! My first classic is going to be Much Ado About Nothing (actually started it today). I love Agatha Christie's whodunits but am not a fan of Miss Marple, unfortunately. My favourites so far are Five Little Pigs and The Murder of Roger Ackroyd.

[@johndempsey474]

Happy New year Lucy ...delighted to have you back girl lov ur videos 📹

[@lucythereader]

Thank you! Happy New Year to you, too!

[@Comfycozyup]

Interesting list🤔 I haven't made my list, but I'm sure I'm continuing the Dickens journey.

[@rosiekeays9143]

I loved Edith Wharton's ghost stories.

[@LG81237]

If you enjoyed The Turn of the Screw you should read another Henry James' novel which is both very different and really much better : Portrait of a lady. A real masterpiece and one of the greatest psychological novel ever written. Almost as good as Marcel Proust. Even if Proust IS for me the number one.

[@juliequick5526]

Ha Pay New Year! I’m intending to read an Anthony Trollope series, just not sure which yet. Also, I’m planning on reading the Miss Marple series so interested to hear your thoughts. Also excited to hear about your current project!

[@martinelanglois3158]

Happy New Year Lucy! 🎉 Wishing you health, happiness and success in your exciting projects! I'll try to read Pride and Prejudice this year and a book by one of the Bronte sisters as I have never read one (shame on me, I know). You'll have fun with Agatha Christie I'm sure. Happy reading!🧡

[@inanimatecarbongod]

I vaguely intended to do a classic crime reading thing a while ago, though I was going to go more in the hard-boiled direction (Hammett, Chandler, Cain [Paul *and* James], Spillane, Thompson, etc). May do something of the sort this year.

[@chymbra8582]

Since you seem to find intrigue with spooky but not horrifying stories, Wilkie Collins might be of interest for you.

[@lucythereader]

I've read The Woman in White but have a few others on my TBR. Good shout! What would you recommend I read next?

[@chymbra8582]

@@lucythereader I apologize for my slow response time. How about The Moonstone by Willie Collins?

[@jonswift6173]

You have such a lovely voice. I think Agatha Christie is almost but not quite saucy. It could easily be English erotica, rather than murder mystery. English Middle class Sexual frustration and passion are always involved

[@williamthomas2830]

Hi Lucy, just found your channel. Wish I’d found a few years ago.

[@myrarucker7953]

Good vlog!!!!

[@lucythereader]

Thank you!