The Classics I Am Desperate to Read 📗 Classics TBR 2021

[@DarlingDesi]

Ahhh Gav! Anne of Green Gables is sooooo much less problematic than others like The Secret Garden 🙈 it’s so good 😭

[@sarahsperusals]

colin firth is actually in the 1995 pride and prejudice! imagine if he was in the 2005 one though… best of both worlds omg

[@GavinReadsItAll]

Omg why am I silly haha oops

[@roseofoulesfame]

Imagine Colin Firth in all the P&P adaptations, including Bride and Prejudice, though.

[@bethmetcalf3447]

That’s the only Pride And Prejudice to watch 🥰

[@ChattieTheMadChatter]

Love 1995 version still a fave. Also Lost in Austen is a really funny spin on the pride and prejudice story which I also recommend to all 😍

[@bookschocaholic]

@@roseofoulesfame and pride prejudice and zombies! 😂

[@Musicalgi]

Anne of Green Gables will NOT disappoint. I remember when my mom made me get it for school and I didn’t know what to think about it. But it has been my favorite classic years later.

[@M_aryAnne]

Dracula is all told in letters, but the audiobook has all different narrators one of the being Tim Curry that’s how I would suggest reading it. Makes it really good

[@GavinReadsItAll]

Oooo I may try the audiobook then when I get to reading it

[@jbrose40]

I have that one and it’s great! It’s an Audible exclusive.

[@louvienne531]

My masters degree forced me to take a break from reading for pleasure this year and watching book tube.... but I’m so glad to be back and able to read for pleasure again!! I’ve missed your videos! This was such a fun video to come back to 💖💖

[@GavinReadsItAll]

Ahh congrats on doing the masters degree, you deserve to put your feet up and get back to reading for pleasure 👏🏼

[@jessicagolden1631]

I low key would love a Jane Austen vlog and where you watch the movie!

[@KendraReadsTomes]

Please please so the Nancy video my year would be made honestly haha xx awesome video I’ve missed your face xx

[@OliviasCatastrophe]

Yay for classics! Kiera Knightly in pride and prejudice is just the best adaption

[@ninabellmuse]

There's a stage production of Notre Dame de Paris that I watched in French class in high school. It's become one of my all time fav musicals, and you can watch all the songs on KZbin from the 1999 Paris production. It's kinda laughably 90s but omg it's still so good. If you like Phantom and are down for a couple hours of subtitles its so worth it!

[@ChattieTheMadChatter]

I saw that too! I was a young teenager when I saw it.

[@BooksandTea97]

Fun-ish fact - did you know that the first time term vampire (or "vampir" originally) was used was in the early 18th century, for a man called Petar Blagojević, in a small town Kisiljevo that belongs to today's Serbia - the term is also the only Serbian word to be used internationally and it's only because the Austrians started using the word and rest of the Western Europe picked it up from them. Petar died and then suddenly nine other people were found dead, his widow said that he was haunting her, so naturally everyone decided that the deceased man was responsible for the deaths. It's a cool story when told in its entirety, sadly it was never novelised.

[@meganellis5220]

Oliver Twist is surprisingly funny. Dickens could be quite sarcastic and had really dark humour!

[@SNinaRose]

The Castle of Otranto confused me to no end!!! Sense and Sensibility is one of my all time favourite books, you'll love it :)

[@Mariak82]

I didn't roll my eyes at Pride and Prejudice. 🙂 I enjoyed the book and I love the 2005 movie. 😍 I dnf'ed Dracula. 🙊 Classics on my tbr are The Count of Monte Cristo, War and Peace, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden and more Jane Austen.

[@spreadbookjoy]

I hope you enjoy these classics - you’ve got some amazing editions. I’ve found that audiobooks of classics are often read by such amazing actors who really bring them to life, which is particularly good for any which seem quite dry on a first reading.

[@ChattieTheMadChatter]

Apart from lacking ice, I can COMPLETLY see a sisters similarity Elinor & Elsa = the sense, the eldest, the decision making head, who contain all their secrets and feelings. Marianne and Anna = the sensibility, the youngest, the impulsive hearts, who are open, honest upfront and fearless. Wonderful- I hope you review it as such...when you read it 😂 And Emma Thompson film is a MUST for this!

[@ChattieTheMadChatter]

Yes to sense and sensibility! Love the Dashwoid sisters. I hope you enjoy the characters in this as much as the ones in Emma, again really funny, love to hate some. Just so good. I also think I want to live at Barton cottage, reading, painting and going for walks!

[@ChattieTheMadChatter]

I would never roll my eyes at anyone wanting to read Pride and Prejudice! 😍 the support characters and social commentary is so funny.

[@danamelton1738]

So glad you did this video. I'm strictly a horror Reader. Adult - middle grade it doesnt matter but I've been really wanting to re-read 'A little princess' and watch the movie it was my favorite as a little kid and I'm hoping it holds up. So I'm hoping to get that and a few other classics in this summer. I was going to read a secret garden but I refuse now after watching your recent video on it. Xoxox

[@carrieicanhasbooks]

Anne 🧡🧡 my all time fav literary character, Anne of Green Gables is the first in a series. I've read The Vampyre, I liked it. I loved The Castle of Otranto.

[@spreadbookjoy]

I hope you enjoy these classics - you’ve got some amazing editions. I’ve found that audiobooks of classics are often read by such amazing actors who really bring them to life, which is particularly good for any which seem quite dry on a first reading. Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park are my tbr for Jane Austen July - the last two of her books I’ve not read.

[@Spoopyhol]

The only one from this list I’ve read is Dracula but I enjoyed it !!

[@tammieharvey4814]

Oh Gavin, Anne of Green Gables is genuinely such a beautiful book. I read it earlier this year and gave it 5 stars and then also gave the second book 5 stars. Anne can be a really annoying character at times but I just find her so charming 💙

[@ida1650]

I'm currently reading Oliver Twist! I found an older addition but in modern Swedish (I'm reading it in my native language), so I actually enjoy reading it.

[@ABookFiendNamedMel]

I'm so excited for you to read Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, two of my favourite books of all time. OMG, Colin Firth is Darcy! He definitely should be in all adaptations! Also, please watch the BBC miniseries from 1995, so good! So many classics I haven't read, you've inspired me!

[@ChattieTheMadChatter]

Yes to BBC mini series!

[@annetteanderson7482]

I loved "Dracula." It is told through diary entries, letters, news clippings, etc., but I thought it worked very well for the story. Once you get used to it, it actually adds to the suspense and tension. Well worth the read. Other favorites are any of Jane Austen's novels and the books by Jules Verne, although his stories do not hold up as well in modern times.

[@Kate-ni2ds]

Loved this video. I've read 7 of those. Dracula is diary entries which I think worked well. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is on my TBR too.

[@MagusMarquillin]

Dracula is: diaries and letters from multiple people, newspapers clippings, official reports, all sorts of things cobbled into a narrative. It's kind of a literary predecessor to the found footage films.

[@tammieharvey4814]

I adore the seasons editions that have been coming out, I so far have all of them aside from A Tale of Two Cities and Little Women! I was especially excited for The Hunchback of Notre Dame because I do find that the seasons editions are incredibly accessible and I have always struggled with Hunchback in the past 💙

[@clarajetter9929]

I took a course at university about vampires in literature and you're right, The Vampyr by Polidori is the very first vampire story. We read it and it was so much fun. Hope you enjoy it :)

[@chloemansfield4119]

I only know this from watching the movie Mary Shelley. It makes me sad when no one talks about Polidori :(

[@lazyhomebody1356]

He based the vampire on Lord Byron which is SO COOL. It's a great story along with "Varny the Vampire"

[@clarajetter9929]

@@lazyhomebody1356 I know :) he was also at lake geneva with byron, mary shelley, her step sister and percey shelley where they exchanged stories. There mary shelley „wrote“ more like talked Frankenstein

[@lazyhomebody1356]

@@clarajetter9929 Usually things as cool as , "Let us all write a ghost story" turn out not to be true, but this happened! I love reading about Byron and Shelley. Shelley was a wonderful man

[@Pagegirly]

I read Jane Austen for the first time last year (also the first time I watched them) and I’m 24, so I feel you. TIP: Also, if you like audiobooks and have kindle unlimited. Amazon has a line called Amazon classics that have the classics with the audiobooks and that’s the way I have been getting through all my classics (Jane Austen, Dracula, Treasure Island, Oliver Twist, Wizard of OZ, Alice in Wonderland, etc.). It helps with the older language you are not used to .

[@Nicole-Leigh]

Anne of Green Gables is so wonderful!! You need a copy of the book!! You will really love The Phantom of the Opera, it is so atmospheric and gothic!! ❤

[@Books_BrewsandBeyond]

Carmilla sounds really good- I've never read it but it sounds fascinating. I absolutely loved Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen's classics just flow and are wonderfully written. I've read the entire Anne of green gables series and it is such a beautiful story and it's definetely not cringeworthy. Jules Verne's classics are such great adventurous reads. I hope you enjoy all the classics when you get up to them Gav. I'm planning on reading Les Miserables next month.

[@toniweller6008]

Black Beauty is really good. One of my favorite books I read as a child. 🤩

[@megwithbooks]

Omg pls I can’t remember the last time I read a classic DONT look at me🙈🙈🙈 but I’m feeling like I might read some Jane Austen soon!!

[@luvBB4lyf]

Those are such pretty covers! 😍 And I love Jane Austen, pride and Prejudice is one of my faves of all times, I hope you like it too! And I've only watch TV adaptations of Anne of Green Gables but love that story too

[@alliehill6168]

I have Carmilla on my Kindle. I can't wait to give it a read. I love gothic literature and I loved Dracula so I feel like it is a match made in heaven. You're the first person I've seen on booktube actually talk about Carmilla..

[@reginad91]

Pride and prejudice is my all time favourite classic 💕

[@derekdavis5310]

The last time I read Dracula, I was a Freshman in high school (if I remember right). I remember being absolutely confused and weirded out by certain parts. Now that I'm in my 30's, I plan on re-reading it to see if I'm still confused (and still weirded out).

[@ABookFiendNamedMel]

OMG, wrote the below mid video. Just got up to Anne of Green Gables, another all time favourite of mine! I really hope you love it!

[@CharlieBrookReads]

Last year I read a classic every month as I found them so comforting but this year I have only picked up one and that was poetry. I definitely think I personally have to be purposeful when it comes to classics as otherwise I put them on the back burner as I know they are timeless unlike all the new releases. But then I miss out on them !! I hope you enjoy all the ones you get to Gav XXX

[@lazyhomebody1356]

You need to read the classics now, because when you reread them they will be different. I read a lot of ckassics when I was 10/11 and so have been able to re-experience them. They stick in your psyche!

[@WhatVictoriaRead]

This is such a great list and I 100% agree re gothic classics!

[@LeanneRose]

Sense & Sensibility is one of my favourites! I hope you enjoy :)

[@leeh4343]

I’m in the middle of Anne of GG and it’s very cosy - Prince Edward Island sounds like a beautiful place 😊 - haven’t come across anything particularly problematic yet so 🤞

[@clairescreativecorner]

An Oliver themed vlog would be fun, I am a bit scared to try classic’s but I really won’t to so this video have given me some great recommendations I want to try little women 🥰 and I have never tried a Jane Austen book. You should do a reading vlog for hunchback where you compare with the Disney movie

[@GavinReadsItAll]

I did like Little Women when I read it last year, and oooo good idea!

[@lazyhomebody1356]

Classics. No need for the apostrophe. At all.

[@camilleareads355]

Aah I love Penguin covers! It's been a while since I read Pride and Prejudice. I did get myself the complete novels of Jane Austen recently. I so want to read Carmilla!!!

[@MiniBookChats]

I love Anne of Green Gables so much! (Spoiler: She hates her red hair) If you have audible Rachel McAdams has a recording of it that’s included in your membership and it’s so good!

[@rachelreads22]

I'm excited for you to read Sense and Sensibility. They're is definitely a romance but wish it was more with Elinor than Marianne. It's my favorite Austen work!

[@katie5773]

Hi Gav. Been watching for a while, but first time commenting. I love Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. I never thought of that as like Frozen before, but...kinda? The sisters are very different, and one is definitely more impulsive, so it fits. If you want another classic to add (if you haven't read it yet) The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas is SOOOO good. Revenge, mystery, friendship, love, adventure...it has it all!

[@mandys1379]

I don’t read classics (not that I don’t want to, just can’t get in to them..). However, I love Anne if Green Gables! I hope you enjoy it when you read it. And also I don’t think (from what I remember) it’s problematic like some of the other children’s classics you’ve read.

[@sorenkrane]

You're amazing! Who cares if it's not original... I watch for you 💜

[@GavinReadsItAll]

Aw shucks 🥰

[@Kimberly5453]

I feel the exact same about font size in books. If its small, I usually put the book back, hahaha. I can't wait for your thoughts on The Hunchback, I read it and it surprised me. :)

[@Mungoteazer11581]

Every now and then I like to read a classic, too. I need to catch up but there are so many other new books one has to read! In May I read Othello. From your list I have read The Hunchback and the Phantom ( I love Ramin Karimloo as the Phantom from the movie musical version you mentioned.) You have some beautifiul editions of these books!

[@karenjobim5794]

Pride & Prejudice I don't know how many times I read this book (and watched the movie), S&S is great too (book and movie), I love Dracula and now I want to read Carmilla. I love the musical Phantom of the Opera never read the book tho. Anne is fabulous! Jules Verne's stories made me love science and they helped my nerdy side. Your video made me think of reading classics again.

[@shaunaXX]

I adored Anne of green gables when I read it when I was 13

[@fenellaevangela]

I just read Carmilla this weekend (for Whateverathon 💗) and enjoyed it a lot! I'd wanted to read it for a while and hadn't realized how short it was. That bumped it to the top of my tbr lol.

[@avsambart]

Dracula is good! I really liked it. I wanna read Phantom of the Opera too. Others I wanna get to is Scarlet Letter and Wuthering Heights.

[@tammieharvey4814]

I don’t think I can hype up Pride and Prejudice any more than I already have done, absolutely my favourite book of all time! If you are up for it, I would be so willing to do some kind of buddy read for Sense and Sensibility, I read it straight after I read Pride and Prejudice the first time and I think that made me enjoy it less than I would have done 💙

[@Lorie336]

Phantom of the Opera by Gaston LeRoux is one of my favorite classics and if you enjoyed the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber than you should like the book. There are of course differences, but I loved it. Yes, I can say I read Dracula and that was only last year. The closest adaptation that is somewhat true to the book is the movie that stars Gary Oldman, Keneau Reeves, Winona Ryder, Cary Elwes, and I believe Anthony Hopkins or Dennis Hopper as Van Helsing. I will say read it slow and sorry to say it's mostly written through journal entries, letters, and phonograph recordings, still a good book. I haven't read Vampyr and only part of Camilla. I have yet to read Frankenstein, House on Haunted Hill, more Edgar Allen Poe (read most of his poetry and at least four of his tales), Heidi, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Leaves of Grass, and many more. The minute you said Brendan Fraser and The Mummy, I smiled like an idiot, love him and the first two movies of the Mummy.

[@lindsayarmstrong7130]

There is a trio of vampire novels by Kate Pearce they are Kiss of the Rose The Tudor Vampire Chronicles, Blood of the Rose and Mark of the Rose. Also a YA series call the Drake Chronicles by Alyxandra Harvey which consists of 7 books which is also about vampires. Read both series and loved them.

[@forestofpages]

I loved around the world in 80 days, but really didn't enjoy 20,000 leagues under the sea. Dracula was an interesting read and definitely not what I was expecting, but still good.

[@priscillavrooij]

I adore Black Beauty

[@eendju]

There are quite a few on my TBR too. Let's see who gets to them first. 😉

[@Ashleigh_Absurd]

Black Beauty is good from what I remember I do want to re-read it soon though Dracula is one book I really struggled with but just due to the writing style it's all like diary entries I love Brendan Fraser as well you ain't alone Gavin. He was my childhood crush 😍🙈

[@AbiofPellinor]

I'm literally reading Pride and Prejudice right now! I was so worried about picking it up but it's actually really fun and the writing is so much more accessible than I thought it was going to be! I've got Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion on my tbr too so I'm really excited to pick those up as well after how well P&P is going!

[@ririschannelx]

omg i thought it was just me. why do classics have the tiniest font and the delicate pages? 😩 i would love to see your parody of nancy lmao

[@SuperStrangSshadow]

Such a beautiful cover of Black Beauty. The movie was wonderful. It really made me sad as a kid.

[@R3BECCAK]

I just bought The Italian, and The Castle of Otranto!! Ooh I’m excited to read The Italian now! Carmilla is excellent! Short, eerie (definitely queer) and just a good time! Hope you enjoy!

[@GavinReadsItAll]

Ahhh you got me more hyped for Carmilla! Also hope you enjoy The Italian 😄

[@RebeccaBooks]

I really want to read Oliver Twist too! I love Dickens and can’t believe I’ve still not read one of the most famous ones😂 I have the same edition as you!

[@regitzexenia]

Sense and Sensibility is my favourite Austen, so far the only one I haven’t read is Emma and that’s on my July tbr 🤓😃

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

All of your copies are so pretty o.O

[@natcommon]

I love musical movie of Oliver, too! My mom and I love singing the first two songs from the movie, especially when I ask for more. :)

[@encyclopediaofelizabeth]

I'm reading Anna Karenina now and it's just okay. If I keep reading classics they way I have been it's going to end up being my second most read genre.

[@julieclaudette]

Hi Gavin =) With your love for goth classics, I really recommend you try Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, if you haven't read it yet. It's one of my favourites and the heroine is obsessed by Gothic Classics. We have a Musical for The hunchback of Notre Dame in France, called Notre Dame de Paris. I love it so much ! Some of the songs are beautiful ♥

[@BizzlMix]

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries on youtube is a great adaptation of P&P

[@bookschocaholic]

I actually really like the film of the phantom of the opera but Sierra Bogess is THE BEST CHRISTINE!

[@cathysreadingjourney]

Anne of Green Gables is amazing. I love it.

[@GavinReadsItAll]

I’ve heard good things 🥰

[@NothernBunny]

Currently reading Pride and Prejudice and it's like every sentence is either snarky or sarcastic 😂 I can definitely see the satire take Jane Austen was going for. I've also read a few on your list. None as disappointing as Around the World in Eighty Days though. Not saying it's bad, just found it underwhelming (probably because I loved the film a lot).

[@roseofoulesfame]

I'm with you on Northanger Abbey being Fave Austen (TM) - a parody of Gothic novels? What is not to love?

[@nw3381]

I have The Jungle Book on my TBR right now! I think you'll get a kick out of The Castle of Otranto. Its really melodramatic 😂

[@GavinReadsItAll]

Haha I do love me some melodrama 😂

[@ChattieTheMadChatter]

Oh Gavin, I want your review of the reading experience of Hunchvack of Notre Damn, I need a vlog ave a Disney comparison for this. That is all I will say. 🙏

[@gracie9658]

Omg you haven't read P&P ? I somehow thought you had haha, it was my first classic and I adore it. Classics have such a vibe to them, I've only read a few, and I'm excited to discover more.

[@JessicaLynn10]

I really want to read some virgina wolf, and some classics in peter pan, alice in wonderland and notre dame to compare to the disney films, and I usually doin't like dark books so idk if i would like dracula or phantom of the opera.

[@labibliothequedemilija]

The only thing i need to say: i love every Mr Darcy 😂❤️

[@k.c.chrissy5595]

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Black Beauty, Coraline, Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Wizard of Oz, Little Woman... Too many... I bet Phantom Of The Opera is really good. Because it looks really good (judging the cover), & I'm also basing my opinion on the movie (possibly also unreliable). I have entirely logical reasons for it to be going on my ever-growing TBR.

[@lazyhomebody1356]

I tried to read Phantom of the Opera a few weeks back and deleted it. I've read every book in the video and every book but one in the comment section. So, ooof, I have to go read Phantom now!!!

[@lindsayarmstrong7130]

Talking about Pride and Prejudice makes me want to watch Austenland!

[@GavinReadsItAll]

Ooo now you mention it, same!

[@lorielovesbooks7315]

Oliver Twist was the assigned book for the end of my senior year of high school I DNFed it. I am reading Madame Bovary next.

[@DoctorsDaughter1]

Have you read Zofloya? The author was heavily inspired by The Monk (which I need to reread soon). I currently have Villette by Charlotte Bronte on my TBR and Varney The Vampire. Dracula and Carmilla are both amazing, and Carmilla is a quick read!

[@lazyhomebody1356]

The Monk is SO gory, oh my gosh, but verrrrry memorable

[@robingilbank5960]

I have a lot of classics on my shelves that I still need to read. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Dracula, Frankenstein, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Mysterious Island, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, just to name a few.

[@lazyhomebody1356]

None of those were among my favorites,lol. Alice maybe...

[@Dhor16]

Anne is super NOT proud of her red hair, she hates it 😥 and she is adopted by two siblings, not a couple. But I think it is a wonderful book!

[@GavinReadsItAll]

Oh she doesn’t like her red hair? Thanks for letting me know, can’t believe how much I butchered the synopsis of Anne of Green Gables omg 😅

[@Dhor16]

@@GavinReadsItAll no worries, why would you know if you haven't read it yet? 😊

[@avrilgloworm518]

I really enjoyed dracula, especially the beginning, but it IS all told in letters and diary entries and whatnot, so u know... I really loved journey to the center of the earth though! it's very different from the movie though, but Brandon Frasier........

[@lazyhomebody1356]

It's Brenden isn't it? No, okay

[@avrilgloworm518]

@@lazyhomebody1356 Oop, apparently its Brendan Fraser, the dyslexia in here...

[@lazyhomebody1356]

@@avrilgloworm518 Poor Brendan! Nobody knows his name

[@avrilgloworm518]

@@lazyhomebody1356 Hahahaha, poor fellow :c

[@MilenaReads]

Anne has a shitty sentence in the beginning, but that's about it. The rest has aged pretty well! Much better than other children's classics I've read.

[@chaosintheenchantedforest]

Here's another one that wanted to read more classics this year. I'm failing at that goal though.. but I do hope to pick up some Gothic classics like dracula , Frankenstein and Dr jackal en hide at autumn. The other vampire stories that you mentioned also sounded great especially the female vampire so ill add that to the list too.. I also own Anne of green gables wich I want to read because of pages and co. And little woman that I still need to read. I want to read Jane austen just because they have the prettiest set of those books and I have an excuse to buy that one then.. but I hear there all hefty in romance and I don't like that 😅

[@lazyhomebody1356]

Honest, Jane Austen is NOT mushy or silly, like most romances. There is always a battle of the wills between lovers getting together

[@chaosintheenchantedforest]

@@lazyhomebody1356 that might help 😊

[@TheTangledSkeinsCrafter]

Are you sure you have not seen two adaptations of Pride and Prejudice? Colin Firth and Keira Knightly were in different adaptations.

[@GavinReadsItAll]

I think you’re absolutely right, I must have seen both versions and them merged them into one in my mind 😂

[@rebeccawaggner5291]

I really want to read classics but the old English makes me feel unintelligent 😂 I did grab a bunch of them in Manga Classics. 🤷

[@abendstern782]

I've read Dracula and found it boring, lol.I love the childrens classics so. If you love horses don't read Black Beauty it is really sad.

[@cryingaboutbooks]

💓💖💞💘💗

[@Paris_Lavender]

From what I remember, Anne of Green Gables and Black Beauty aren't too problematic. But Around the World in 80 Days has a really racist section. Just...steel yourself when Fogg gets to India. It's not pretty.

[@palefacedbeauty4778]

I loved pride and prejudice but really hated Emma. In saying that in school we didn't study Emma as a comedy though. If I studied it as a comedy the I probably would've enjoyed it more. I loved the independence and headstrong women and in Emma I just found her so annoying 😒

[@kyeleestubbs5561]

Journey to center to earth was really boring. It is geology heavy terms