Victorian Literature TBR 2024-2025

In which I talk about some Victorian literature I want to read . . .
My 2022-2023 TBR video: • 2022-2023 Victorian Li...
Books Mentioned
The Roar of the Sea, Sabine Baring-Gould: / 20880039
Clara Vaughan, R.D. Blackmore: / 26607695
Cometh Up as a Flower, Rhoda Broughton: / 1835397
Coningsby, or the New Generation, Benjamin Disraeli: / 82310
Miss Brown, Vernon Lee: / 7202866
The Perpetual Curate, Margaret Oliphant: / 882166
Jessie Phillips: A Tale of the Present Day, Frances Trollope: / 1778694
The Daisy Chain, Charlotte Mary Yonge: / 611947
London Labour and the London Poor, Henry Mayhew: / 448459
Moths, Ouida: / 39371727
Diana of the Crossways, George Meredith: / 661950
The Wing of Azrael, Mona Caird: / 9361585
Red Pottage, Mary Cholmondeley: / 968595
The Heavenly Twins, Sarah Grand: / 882948
A Superfluous Woman, Emma Frances Brooke: / 27134592
The Woman Who Didn’t, Victoria Cross: / 6564743
The Dead Secret, Wilkie Collins: / 1009216
The Shadow of Ashleydyat, Ellen Wood: / 299990
Wylder’s Hand, Sheridan Le Fanu: / 2533794
The Doctor’s Wife, Mary Elizabeth Braddon: / 80606
The Rose and the Ring, William Makepeace Thackerary: / 654972
Phantastes, George MacDonald: / 174948
The Wood Beyond the World, William Morris: / 723155
The Hour and the Man, Harriet Martineau: / 19448417
Agatha’s Husband, Dinah Mulock Craik: / 7009037
A Life for a Life, Dinah Mulock Craik: / 898984
An Unsocial Socialist, George Bernard Shaw: / 284378
Her Mother’s Darling, Charlotte Riddell: / 131081672
London Assurance, Dion Boucicault and John Brougham: / 21271547
Trelawny of the Wells, Arthur Wing Pinero: / 5335532
Ralph the Heir, Anthony Trollope: / 517088
Ayala’s Angel, Anthony Trollope: / 144425
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson, Anthony Trollope: / 427343
Workers in the Dawn, George Gissing: / 7768980
Demos, George Gissing: / 10873652
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[@toddbelanger1923]

America loves you..:)...I learn so much watching your videos... Thank you and nice line up TBR

[@IamSquirrel]

Yes we do!!!🐿️

[@janeturner9064]

Have Sheridan le Fanu's "Madam Crowl's Ghost' in my Christmas reading pile!

[@dqan7372]

Seem to recall reading "Phantastes" decades ago. Liked it well enough to finish it, I think, but I don't remember much. In fact, according to the synopsis, I don't remember anything. 🤔 Went looking for my copy and all I found was my misplaced edition of "Lolita" that I was looking for earlier this year. Well, one mystery solved. Happy reading!

[@FaithMost]

Demos is one I really enjoyed! Just discovered Gissing a few years ago and have been reading whatever I can find!

[@AmalijaKomar]

Love love love Le Fanu.

[@joyceredman2136]

I loved the Dead Secret.

[@barbarahelgaker390]

Fabulous list - many new titles ( to me) and some I have heard of but have not got round to yet! Inspiring - now I have to go and make my list!

[@historical_lisa315]

Just finished Mayhew’s London Labor… (Read as well as listened to the Audible book). Well worth it. Revolutionized the way I read Victorian fiction.

[@lindaklinedinst9236]

I always love waking up and seeing a Video from you. I always wake up and immediately watch your Videos which is between 3 and 4 am Indiana time. You got several Victorian Books to read over the next few years. They all sound good too. I hope that you will enjoy them all as you read each one of these. I am going to finish reading Out Of Circulation by Miranda James. I was reading some Library Books but it is very bitter cold out and we got snow so I took them back to my local library. Take Care & Happy Reading ❤️🤗☕️📖🔰📒📚❤️

[@ReadingIDEAS.-uz9xk]

Some great books there. Best wishes with your reading.

[@christysmith1058]

What a great list! I’m putting several of them on mine. Of the ones I’ve read, I’ve most enjoyed The Doctor’s Wife (which really seemed modern to me), The Daisy Chain, The Dead Secret (I’m a huge Wilkie Collins fan and I got a kick out of your pairing him with Braddon), and The Wood Beyond The World. I love that you mentioned William Morris. This was the first book on your list that I ever read, a lifetime ago when I was on a William Morris kick in college. On the other hand, I’ve tried to read The Perpetual Curate several times and just couldn’t get into it. I don’t know why because it sounds like something I’d like and I do like Margaret Oliphant.

[@jamesduggan7200]

No, it's not too early for a new tbr; I find mine is a work in progress, or something to be revised after being stumbled over while looking for something else. For me, the only disappointment in 2023 is William Faulkner. Also there is the Collected Poems of Anne Sexton, tho I didn't actually expect a great deal of progress there. So, both of those authors are high up on the list for '24, and I expect I'll try to squeeze in some John Steinbeck. Usually I put a few French language books on the list, tho they tend to be impulse purchases, even if I say I want to read the French Nobelists. Thx Kate - Happy holidays!

[@reader4532]

Love your classics content!! I gave up on Sybil by Disraeli, will be interested to hear how you like Coningsby. I'm thinking of rereading the barchester series even though I have masses of Trollope titles I haven't read yet. He is so good.

[@MichelePJ]

Always learning about "new to me" Victorian authors! Thank you! 📚❤

[@Barbarabrubru]

I Just discovered your Channel, thank to Books and Bao last wrap up where Willow talks about your book 👍. Really happy to find a lot of inspiration here for my readings as I want to explore more Victorian era novels ! 😊 I enjoy reading in English (my second language as you probably guessed) 😀, and I like your enthousiasm 👍

[@launchedathousand]

Looking forward to hearing about all these interesting reads in the future! I'm still in my beginner journey with Victorian Literature so in the next 2 years I'm hoping to have started reading Trollope and Elliot, and to continue reading Hardy, Wilde, Collins and Gaskell.

[@hannahwebster5606]

I recommend Ann Hereford by Ellen Wood. It's a sensation novel with some Jane Eyre/Villette vibes

[@mae9064]

Watching and listening to you in Cork, Ireland 🇮🇪 great plans and titles. ❤

[@battybibliophile-Clare]

I have added some of these to my own Victorian TBR. I love how enthusiastic you are about Victorian novels. I am reading A Tale of Two Cities and Bleak House before the year end. I also want to reread some Trollope beginning in December but going into 2024.

[@MLLatUtube]

I thought A Life for a Life sounded interesting so I paused the video and picked it up for my Kindle. Looks like a great list - can't wait to see what you think of them all.

[@JodieTheReader]

Canadian here- Your videos post at 1030pm my time and I always look forward to watching your videos before bed. I’m slowly working on putting together my next TBR and it’s so much fun.

[@katiejlumsden]

Thanks very much :)

[@marianapgar4409]

Please let us know what you think of your new Ellen Wood book. I recently purchased another one of hers, having enjoyed East Lynne. The title is Dene Hollow, and it is supposed to have elements of the supernatural. Really looking forward to reading another book of hers.

[@kathleencraine7335]

Interesting and eclectic list as always! Of your books for 24 & 25 I've read: 1) The Perpetual Curate, which is probably my favorite of the Carlingford series; 2) The Doctor's Wife, written as a response to Madame Bovary, so keep that in mind as you read it. (I liked it better than Flaubert); 3) The Unsocial Socialist, with some interesting views on marriage, but does go off on philosophical tangents, which was OK for me; 4) Trollope's Struggles--completely different from any other Trollope I've read, and I didn't get on with it, but that just might have been my "Trollopian" expectations. I also have Jessie Phillips on my TBR--hopefully this upcoming year or Victober; and YES to William Morris--I'm not much of a design person either, but he can't go wrong in my book. That novel sounds interesting and I will try to find it. Thanks!

[@radiantchristina]

Great selection! Workers in the Dawn is one of my favorite classics. It is so fabulously bleak 💔

[@katiejlumsden]

So excited for that one! George Gissing is amazing

[@KierTheScrivener]

My goal is to read as much Anthony Trollope as well, I'm starting at seven and Elizabeth Gaskell, I'm starting at 2. I read The Light Princess by George McDonald and it's wonderful and funny, and Night Girl and The Day Boy is a fairytale geared older and very poetic. They are both about hour reads.

[@josmith5992]

What a great list Katie! Some of these are on my own very vague TBR. I’ve only read a few of these, A Superfluous Woman which I really enjoyed although I’m not sure about that description 😉I’ve also read The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson and Ayala’s Angel and really enjoyed both. I’m yet to read most of these authors but thank you for the inspiration to pick them up!

[@katiejlumsden]

Good to know on A Superfluous Woman!

[@stephenn3727]

Thank you!

[@zu_1455]

🖤

[@Dinadoesyoga]

Wow! I love hearing about these lesser known Victorian authors and novels. "Women would be prettier in a socialist society." 😂😂😂 These Victorian men crack me up. All I can do is roll my eyes and laugh. I recently finished The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins, and I was doing just that throughout. 😅

[@katiejlumsden]

I mean, really, William Morris? REALLY?! XD