My Top 10 Favourite Classics!

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~Books Mentioned~
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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[@LaurenWade]

Let me know your favourite classic reads! An honourable mention goes to Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackery, which I CAN'T BELIEVE I forgot to include! 💔 Give me all your recommendations because I really want to get into the swing of reading more classics xx

[@johnsaxongitno4life588]

War and peace is my all time favourite

[@meghnadas6067]

1984 by George Orwell.

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald.

[@johnsaxongitno4life588]

Jackie's Literary Corner just started animal farm

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

@@johnsaxongitno4life588 I personally prefer that over 1984.

[@meghnadas6067]

Yes I would ofcourse love to see you talking about your favourite modern classics.😍

[@jwsjourney]

I am 62 years old and I retired at 59 1/2. I have never been a reader, but I wanted to start reading classics. My daughter said I will read them with you. We have read 16 books so far and my favorite is The Count of Monte Cristo. We have read Anna Karenina also, it was good, but we couldn't understand why so many people think it is the greatest classic of all time. My daughter said let's not read to very long classics together again.

[@denisediamond9313]

I think War and Peace is one of the most intimidating books out there. I’d love for you to do some sort of War and Peace read along where over a longer period of time (2 months) we all read it together and do 3 live check in shows.

[@RosieCockshutt]

Something like that would be so cool! Massive books like that are so much less intimidating when other people are reading it with you and it's broken into chunks.

[@kaleidoscope977]

I would absolutely love this too!

[@PagesAndStages]

My pre-1900 favourites are The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Woman in White, The Yellow Wallpaper, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Frankenstein, The Awakening, Jane Eyre, The Master and Margarita, Wuthering Heights and Dracula. Modern classic faves are Animal Farm, The Colour Purple, Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry, The Handmaid's Tale, My Cousin Rachel and Revolutionary Road. Would love to hear your favourites modern classics!

[@Emiliemooles]

War and Peace is stunning. I was so nervous about reading it but it is one of my favourites. I tend to read classics slowly as I don’t like the pacing of most of them. However War and Peace is so gossipy that it makes it easy to read, as well as having an incredible variety of flawed characters!

[@sunandmoodreads2333]

Jane Eyre is my favourite book of all time! I like how you said the book has grown up in your soul. I feel the same. Now it's an inescapable part of my soul! 😍😍 I love your channel and I adored this video. Thanks for your top 10, I have added a couple to my classic TBR that I haven't considered before. Oh and don't EVER apologise for loving Austen! ❤️🤣

[@lisalantrip7509]

I read Jane Eyre for the first time this year as a 42 year old and I absolutely adored it!

[@lisakimmence4443]

For another book by Thomas Hardy, I highly recommend Tess of the d'Urbervilles. It's one of my favorite books of all time. Definitely in my top ten. Some other favorites I have are Dracula, Little Women and every book by Jane Austen.

[@mathequation8544]

Loved your list. My 5 favorites are Wuthering Heights, Jane eyre, the brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina and crime and punishment. My favorite modern classic is East of Eden. Would love to see your fave modern classics ! I need to read Anthony Trollope!

[@laurareadspages6633]

What a great video. War and Peace is one of my favourite and now you’ve got me itching to read “Anna Karenina”l. I also enjoyed Les Misérable :)

[@Crabatithenniel]

Definitely in my top 5 (can't think of 10 right now) are Sense and Sensibility, Rebecca, Frankenstein, The Once and Future King, Lord of the Rings, and The Haunting of Hill House. I know some of these are more modern classics, but I'm still counting them!

[@lucyrutherford]

I went through a bit of Dickens phase in my teens and I totally agree A Tale of Cities is very different in style and characters from his other books, and I love it for that as much as I love his classics like Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. From his lesser known works I love Our Mutual Friend, his last completed novel where I felt like he finally worked out how to write well rounded female characters!

[@freshparchment]

Far From the Madding Crowd is my favorite Hardy novel, too, so it’s difficult to recommend another one that’s as good, but I also really liked Tess of the d’Urbervilles. I also liked Under the Greenwood Tree’s side characters more than the main characters. For Dickens, I would recommend Little Dorrit and Bleak House, perhaps watching the adaptations first to sort out characters.

[@valdeane6435]

One of mine is Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles - the first and one of very few books that have ever made me cry! Another is George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss. Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God is also a favourite. I don't even think I could do a top 10 list - there are too many favourites!!

[@bethieandbooks]

Villette is my favourite classic of the year so far! So many brilliantly done themes I did not see coming and a wonderful unreliable narrator. Very much agree with characters in Anna Karenina feeling too real. I remember crying 6 pages in because Oblonsky and Dolly felt so real so quickly to me 😂

[@mariajesustovardedios4064]

I’m just reading Anna Karénina and you’ve express what I exactly feel about this book!!! I don’t even know why Anna Karénina in the title, there are so many interesting characters and they seem so real!

[@govikings26]

This inspired me to join a read along for Anna Karenina next month, now to see if I make it through! Most of my favorite classics are a mix of older and more modern classics such as my all time favorite, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque or Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, but I also love Crime and Punishment, The Prince, and Candide. Looking forward to hearing about your favorite modern classics!

[@peterowen4456]

Completely agree about Anna Karenina and, like you, I found some of the lesser characters to be the most interesting. It has "universality" in that it reflects humanity which doesn't change that much. I also like Middlemarch by George Eliot which has some distant similarities with Anna Karenina in that both involve women married to rather dry patrician figures. The book which has had the most powerful impact on me is Wuthering Heights, the emotional power it generates is quite unlike anything else I have read. War and Peace worth the effort although some of the military aspects can be difficult. Great channel btw.

[@christellegirard3469]

Modern classics yes please !!!

[@katiejlumsden]

Highly recommend The Return of the Native and The Woodlanders by Hardy too! Also, I feel like you might like Hard Times by Charles Dickens.

[@ileanaaaaa]

You will LOVE War & Peace... I read Anna Karenina in high school and instantly became a favourite. For so many years after that, I read his other works but I didn't pick up War & Peace because I was intimidated by the size of it. Finally I read it this year during quarantine (now I am in my early 30s) and damn... I don't know which one I like better now. I will have to reread Anna Karenina to know! Although Levin will always be my favourite character in a novel ever 🖤 My top 10 are: Pride and Prejudice & Emma by Jane Austen / Anna Karenina and War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy (this ones have to be together because depending on my mood sometimes I rather prefer Austen and other times Tolstoy 🤣 and after that, in no particular order: Dracula by Bram Stoker The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

[@ChaoticBibliophile]

Great list! I read Anna Karenina earlier this year and I absolutely adored it. So much so that it prompted an obsession with Russian literature in general. I'd say my absolute favorite classics are The Great Gatsby, Emma and The Picture of Dorian Gray... but I don't know if I could craft a top 10 list, haha.

[@nishapan1376]

I think my favourite classic is North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. To me, it is kind of like Pride and Prejudice, but better. I've also seen the adaptation for Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell, and I am fairly certain I will love the book of that too. I also really love Anna Karenina and I am wanting to read War and Peace sooner rather than later. I personally did not get on with Jane Eyre (although perhaps I would feel differently now that I'm older), but I read The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (by Anne Bronte) and loved it. It is a very interesting critique on Victorian marriage. I also read Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens and loved it, because the two main characters are two of the most integrity-driven people I have ever read in books.

[@RoisinsReading]

I did a video on this too! Although I did mine up to the early 20th century. I realised most of mine are from the 19th century though so I need to read more early stuff aside form Shakespeare and the Greeks. In terms of Hardy I've only read Tess but I loved it, and I studied his poetry for my A-Levels and was surprised by how much I liked it

[@lisavitale8410]

I like your list of classic novels. Interesting that 9 out of 10 of them were written by English authors. I was a Russian language major in college, yet surprisingly I haven't read Anna Karenina. I think it's the length of the novel that has put me off for so long!! I have the Audible edition ready to listen to in the future. A couple of my favorite classics written/published prior to 1900 are 'A Hero of Our Time' by Mikhail Lermontov and '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' by Jules Verne.

[@Nataliecj]

Some of yours are on my list too: Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, A Tale of Two Cities and Jane Eyre. Jane Eyre is in my top 5 books of all time, I love it so much. I would also add Persuasion by Jane Austen, Great Expectations by Dickens, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery. I would love to see a video on your favourite modern classics, some of my favourite modern classics are The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Marie Remarque, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Dubliners by James Joyce (I *am* a Dubliner so I feel like I have to say that one lol), Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn. Would love to see a video on classics you'd like to get to soon, I want to read War and Peace as well but I know it's going to be such an undertaking.

[@dohaaymoon4096]

You have the exact taste as mine

[@itchystitchy]

Great Expectations for Miss Havisham alone, Pride & Prejudice /Persuasion and Jane Eyre are some of my top faves. Fanny Price is insipid by circumstance, poor dear. Yes, please post a video on your favorite modern classics!

[@Morfeusm]

I am not sure if you will see this but My top 10 classics are: 10. The Sorrows of Young Werther 9. Fathers and Sons 8. Picture of Dorian Grey 7. Jane Eyre 6. Christmas Carol 5. Wuthering Heights 4. Dracula 3. Crime & Punishment 2. The Raven 1. Anna Karenina

[@Fortheloveofclassics]

I love Thomas Hardy. Try The Return of the Native! It’s such a great book too. I didn’t like Jane Eyre when I read it when I was young but now I wanna reread it: if it will make me appreciate it more.

[@MaryAmongStories]

I adore A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Cities ^^ Jane Austen is incredible 💕 YES Anna Karenina 😍 great list!

[@ArteoftheMist]

I got one of my best friends to watch 2005 Pride and Prejudice with me for the first time. It was also my first foray into my Pride and Prejudice years ago and I've now read the book at the very least 3 or 4 times.

[@RosieCockshutt]

It's so exciting to hear that you like Jane Austen, and specifically Emma, so much because it's really high on my TBR. I want to give classics another go after totally failing to enjoy them as a teenager and being put off them for 10 years.

[@cheshtachoudhury8735]

I loved A Tale of Two Cities (do try Little Dorrit), P&P and S&S are love! But I didn't enjoy Emma as much. Mansfield Park is also a great book🥰. Tess of the D'Urbervilles is my fav Hardy, but The Trumpet Major is good too, very diff. from Tess.😊

[@fmarginalia]

My top 5, probably can’t run to 10, it would just be all the other Bronte books but I’m hazy on the details so doesn’t seem right! Or Northanger Abbey, Dracula, Mysteries of Udolpho (defo had a gothic classics phase) Jane Eyre Tess of the D’Urbervilles Madame Bovary Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Wuthering Heights

[@lisabean141]

My favorite classic is The Count of Monte Cristo! I read an abridged version as a teenager and really liked it; read the unabridged Penguin classics edition more recently and LOVED it! It’s quite the page turner despite the length, and the way Dumas weaves all the characters and subplots together is just perfect.

[@janelouise5003]

For Thomas Hardy recommendations, I love The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and The Return of the Native :)

[@Ellen_Mercy]

I second the first two (haven't read the third), Something happens in the first 10 pages of Casterbridge that hooks you completely!

[@sashahawkins]

Yes to Return of the Native

[@queenlucysroyalmaid1]

I completely agree about Pride and Prejudice. Had to read it for A Level exams, or at least a section of it, and I just loved it. No apologies! I also loved Mansfield Park, but if you found Northanger Abbey sort of okay you might not love it as much? Idk, I do recommend it. Have you read Alexander McCall Smith's modern retelling of Emma? I've got it but not read it, I'd be interested to hear what you thought. I read Frankenstein recently, at aged 29, so I feel like that was a bad age/century to read it in, I just found the treatment of women frustrating, felt no sympathy at all for Dr F, and really struggled to see that CLASSICS love of it. I'm gonna guess Wuthering Heights for your fave... mostly because you said you were a cynic but you get swept up in the romances mentioned... Wow, didn't see Anna Karenina coming. xD

[@GuiltyFeat]

Most of Hardy's novels are wonderful although Jude the Obscure is particularly heartbreaking. Have you read any George Eliot? Daniel Deronda was a revelation to me. I started reading Trollope in the last couple of years. The Warden is an excellent gateway read into his Barchester Chronicles.

[@Ihearbooks]

Modern Classics. Just finished East of Eden and loved it. Or modern books that might become classics--this is a great guessing game but I would put All The light We can not see in that maybe catagory.

[@DeeDeeCatMom]

I haven't read many classics as I don't really focus on them, but I LOVE Jane Eyre (even though it's problematic I know). I'd be interested to read War and Peace...I almost ordered it last week! I like books that have French passages too, and I loved the miniseries. I've never read a Russian classic so it's a bit intimidating, but I've read big books before, so that shouldn't be an issue hehe. What I did order last week was Little Women! And I have yet to read much Gaskell, but I think I'd like her stuff...Have you read Wuthering Heights? I'm debating picking it up. From the Brontes', I loved Jane Eyre, hated Villette, and thought that Agnes Grey was interesting, though I need an outside critique to get the most out of the context of these old classics. I'll read Frankenstein this fall :)

[@anaswift5224]

Love reading classics. I feel like I have to be in the mood for them though. Some of my favourites are definitely Jane eyre and Frankenstein too. Would love to see another more modern classics video. 😊❤️

[@bookhunterrr3973]

Really need to get into Frankenstein soon, I’m so looking forward to it. Great titles mentioned! Enjoyed this video immensely 💛✨

[@KaatReadsALot]

Emma, Pride & Prejudice and Far from the Madding Crowd are all on my favorite classics list too!!

[@lilsvintageworld]

Wonderful video. I love classics. I hope you do a modern classic version too!!

[@Liba_Elena]

My favourite is also Anna Karenina! Kitty and Levin are my favourite fictional couple.💖 On my list is also The Forsyte Saga, Vanity Fair, Mansfield Park and Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann. I think you'd really like The Forsyte Saga based on your other favourites.✨

[@LaurenWade]

Thank you! I will add it to the list ☺️

[@ttjnaaa]

Your skin is glowing! You look amazing, may I say.

[@CrankyOldErin]

I read Anna Karenina earlier this year and enjoyed it more than I expected. You are right that it is the character work that makes it “fun” to read. In something I thought would feel dreary and sad, you have Levin without a shirt for his wedding. Not dreary at all. Austen tops my list of favorites with Pride and Prejudice and with Persuasion. I’ve planned on a first-time read of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol this coming December, so your comments have me looking forward to it.

[@ShannonLeighMusic]

I loved hearing your thoughts on these books! I am just about to finish Jane Eyre for the first time and I have absolutely loved it. I also thoroughly enjoyed a few others on this list, including Frankenstein, Pride and Prejudice, and A Christmas Carol. I will definitely add some of the others you mentioned to my TBR list!

[@annelisengan638]

I prefered War and Peace to Anna Karenina. I loved The Count of Monte-Cristo from Alexandre Dumas, Pride and Prejudice and i recently finished The Picture of Dorian Gray which quite surprised me in the good way.

[@freddylowe4900]

I loved your Page-to-Screen videos! I rewatch them again and again even now; they’re probably some of my favourite videos on your whole channel. I completely agree with these picks. Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina, Jane Eyre, Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and A Christmas Carol I would all call favourites too (and I completely agree that they are the three best Jane Austen novels!). War and Peace I actually prefer to Anna Karenina, so I hope you really enjoy it next year. :) A recent discovery of mine which swiftly became another favourite was Les Mis. Not only did I absolutely love reading it, but because I loved your Page to Screens so much, you then inspired me to go out and watch 8 film versions and compare them all. It was such a fun and thought-provoking exercise! So thanks for that 😊😂. Thank you for the fantastic video! So so nice to watch.

[@LaurenWade]

Haha oh my gosh, I heartily you congratulate you on watching all the les mis adaptations! It’s one I’ve never tried to read as I’ve heard horror stories of its dryness but you have inspired me to give it a go ☺️

[@freddylowe4900]

Haha, those stories are not entirely without foundation. 😂 As long as one gently skims over the inexcusable passages on French sewers and the Battle of Waterloo, the book’s core themes and overarching plot and characters stay with you for a long time. Some parts of it I couldn’t put down! 😊

[@anastasia1391q]

Great video! I adore this topic! :) And of cause, it is so lovely to know that someone loves 'Anna Karenina' as much as I love it:) The fact that you are not from Russia is even more pleasing:) I mean you were not forced to read and analyze these books in school. I am sure I will read Anna Karenina again and again and will find more aspects that will be applicable to my life as I grow older and my perspectives and life experience change. My favorite characters are Kitty and Levin as well :) I also can recommend reading War and Peace. It might be boring to read some chapters because of long and detailed descriptions of battlefields and everything related to warfare but it is worth struggling a bit just to follow the development of characters. There are many wonderful philosophical aspects of life in it! I might also recommend Master and Margarite by M. Bulgakov. No one can stay indifferent to it: you either love or hate it. Most people find that it is a masterpiece. Also, the novels by Dostoevsky are wonderful and so philosophically profound. However, they are quite pessimistic.

[@GriffReads]

Pride and Prejudice was one of my favourite books as a teenager, I read it over an over again! I really want to read some of Jane Austen's other books (especially Emma)

[@southerncanuck1605]

Great video! I’d love to see one on modern classics! Also one on contemporary fiction and/or literary fiction! Thanks!

[@theministryofutmosthappiness]

Yes to modern classics 🔥

[@lisa60932]

I’m just starting on more modern classics so please make a video on that! I won’t go to ten, but I can absolutely never make up my mind whether my favourite classic (favourite book to be honest) is North and South or Persuasion - North and South is longer so more to enjoy but I just love Persuasion so much (though Emma, P&P and Sense and Sensibility are great also obviously!) 😊

[@johnsaxongitno4life588]

I love 8 of your ten books and i really love classic books please stay safe love you and your beautiful channel love John from Australia xx

[@junpi8562]

I own all of these except for A Christmas Carol, and I have read... three😂 The Austens. Contemporary fiction is more attention grabbing and urgent, whereas the status of classics doesn't really change. They're all on my TBR though!

[@HowItFeelsToFlyx]

Jane Eyre is hands down my favourite, I also enjoyed Dracula, but I struggle with classics often.

[@misskit123]

I guessed right! I've only read 3 of your top 10, and they are two of them (the other is A Christmas Carol) Yes please to a modern classic discussion too. How do you define a modern classic? My favourite, and my favourite book full stop, is 1984.

[@lisac1619]

I've read three Thomas Hardy novels: The Return of the Native, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and The Trumpet Major. Can recommend them all 😊

[@izabelbrekilien9658]

Jane Eyre is my favourite book of all time, I've read it 9 times, it's the novel that introduced me to Victorian literature and I can't get enough of it ! My favourite adaptation is with Ruth Wilson and Toby Stephens (though I can't find him ugly for the life of me !) :)

[@LaurenWade]

Hahaha I mean, also the Michael Fassbender one, are we really meant to find him ugly? 🤣 I love that adaptation too and Will & I have plans to watch it now that he’s read the book ❤️

[@LiterallyJasmine]

Jane Eyre will always ALWAYS be top of the list for me 🌻

[@cnohero]

I agree with the other comments please do a favorite modern classics list.

[@bookishshenanigans4769]

A lot of these are my faves too, although I still haven't read Anna Karenina and I think Frankenstein is overrated. If you liked Cranford I would really recommend reading Wives and Daughters or Sylvia's Lovers next and for Hardy either The Woodlanders or The Mayor of Casterbridge. Please do a Modern Classics video :)

[@fmarginalia]

Mind you most of my favourite classics are modern classics, so would love to see your list!

[@gracetaylor7351]

Read the woodlanders and under the greenwood tree Tess of the d urbervilles

[@jackiesliterarycorner]

I have only read one Hardy as well and I want to read more. The one I did read I shouldn't have started with though, because the climax was a bit too much for me. I have read JE three times as of this year. I'll have to watch your page to screen video of JE. I haven't read Cranford, but my aunt had it on DVD and she let me borrow it. With Dickens I'm still making my way through, so I don't know which is my favorite. My Favorites Jane Eyre The Great Gatsby North and South Frankenstein The Wizard of Oz Crime and Punishment Age of Innocence Gone with the Wind Animal Farm Barchester Towers Rebecca Hamlet

[@IAmWilltoo]

Yaas!

[@jennbr0wny]

Hardy recommendation: Jude the Obscure. It's fantastic.

[@SadeRob]

Which edition of Frankenstein would you recommend reading -- The 1818 or 1831?

[@tjpieraccini]

Wot no Middlemarch? If you haven't read it, then that's definitely a recommendation! Haven't read Cranford but I did absolutely love Gaskell's Wives and Daughters - I think Molly Gibson may have usurped Dorothea Brooke (from Middlemarch) as my favourite literary heroine. One of my most shattering reading experiences was The Cloister and the Hearth (Charles Reade) - incredibly long-winded, but also incredibly affecting. I don't think I've ever felt so deeply for any characters in a book. I'm actually afraid to reread it in case it doesn't live up to my memory of it...

[@LaurenWade]

I reeeeeeaaallly hated Middlemarch! 🙊 I must give George Elliot another go though, and definitely want to read more Gaskell

[@tjpieraccini]

@@LaurenWade Fair enough! Silas Marner is a nice short one, and I found that very moving at the end.

[@amisha25211]

I was expecting some Virginia Woolf but your list is so relatable...I love Jane Austen and just like u I very ambitiously began Jane Eyre because as a teenage girl living in a conservative indian home you do feel this sense of longing for more and being restricted and the yearning for individuality, independece/ownership and freedom that comes with it but sadly I found it really boring even though I was able to see what Charlotte Bronte was doing as a great writer...I would like to know your views on Mrs.Dalloway, To The Lighthouse if you've read them😍😍Also I was expecting u wud mention The Catcher in The Rye or To Kill A Mockingbird. Btw what do you think of Shirley by Charlotte Bronte and F Scott Fitzgerald. Sorry I know these are way too many questions😂😅😁I'm currently reading Emma and will read The Bluest Eye and Rebecca next💜

[@LaurenWade]

These may appear on the modern classics list 😉 although I can tell you know that The Catcher in the Rye won’t as I hated it 🤣 I haven’t read Shirley yet, but I definitely want to read that and the rest of Charlotte Bronte’s work!

[@amisha25211]

@@LaurenWade Yeah I'd be looking forward to your favourite Modern Classics and some Virginia Woolf in it😀 I had just started reading 'To The Lighthouse' and I remember being so smitten by the dreamlike almost mystical stream of conciousness writing style even though I was finding it relatively hard to follow the plot😂 but felt so awestruck at the same time at what Virginia was doing with her genius mind ...it all felt so visceral, poignant and something to be felt more than understood😍:) Also I'd love to know about your favourite movies ever🤩🤩Movies from all over the globe not just necessarily english ones ..if you watch diversely😅😁coz I recently watched this beautiful film called "Chungking Express" and I can't stop thinking how incredibly soul stirring yet peaceful and quite it was💛💜✨and it wasn't even in english 😁😃it was in a language I don't understand (cantonese or mandarin😅) but a beautiful little film neverthless✨💜

[@rockyscarlet]

I would watch you talk about marmite. Just keep em coming.

[@theStranger666]

"What Dreams May Come" by Richard Matheson. It has changed some people's lives. 🕉

[@allisonzhang8918]

I have to put Anne of Green Gables down, and Jane Eyre of course

[@stephanied.4290]

I think my top 3 would be : 1- Ulysses by James Joyce 2- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 3- Les Misérables by Victor Hugo I never understood the interest people have in Jane Austen's writing. I read Pride and Prejudice for a class and it bore me to death. I have been thinking about trying another book by her but I'm not sure which one I should pick... Any suggestion?

[@susanm2128]

This year I've been trying to read more classics, especially 19th century ones. Anna Karenina is definitely on my list. I read it in college, but want to reread it. I read Northanger Abbey and Pride and Prejudice this year, but didn't like either of them. Pride and Prejudice was very boring, but I plowed through it. A couple weeks ago read Jane Eyre. I was really nervous about reading it because I was afraid it would be like Jane Austen. I loved it.

[@Shreya._2755]

Commenting so that algorithm blesses you

[@drewkavi6327]

I studied Frankenstein at school and read it after, both times I thought the plot was interesting but the prose was so boring

[@TheJane1775]

Those are great books but wow, 9 out of 10, how anglocentric of you. What about much needed diversity? 😊

[@LaurenWade]

I know! What’s historically part of the ‘canon’ I spose. Do you have any diverse classics that you’d recommend?

[@LaurenWade]

I know! What’s historically part of the ‘canon’ I spose. Do you have any diverse classics that you’d recommend?

[@TheJane1775]

@@LaurenWade I highly recommend basically any book by Machado de Assis or G. G. Marquez for example. More specifically maybe The Doll by Boleslaw Prus or Takekurabe by Higuchi Ichiyo. The Artisan Geek actually made a video in that topic quite recently so maybe you'll find something interesting there too :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGTLfYmGpcdphKM