Rebecca is book-hooked’s Comments (group member since Jun 23, 2022)

Rebecca is book-hooked’s comments from the EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club group.

I recently completed the last of Jane Austin’s novels. Pride & Prejudice will always be my favorite but Persuasion is a high second. I enjoyed it a lot.

I second Before We Were Yours and The Love Hypothesis

I nominate The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (108 pages)

I second Scarlet Pimpernel and Tom Sawyer

I nominate Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (224 pages)

I nominate The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson (480 pages)

I second The Shining & Gone Girl

These aren’t modern, but here are some ideas:

Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connel (a short story)

Things I was required to read in middle school and enjoyed:
Diary of Anne Frank
Edgar Allen Poe
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick
The Outsiders by SE Hinton

I second:
Fried Green Tomatoes
Time Traveller’s Wife

I second:
The Hate U Give
The Thirteenth Tale

I nominate Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (224 pages)

I nominate The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (182 pages)

I nominate A Clockwork Orange (213 pages)

Gone with the Wind

One Word TBR
1) Candide by Voltaire
2) Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
3) Heidi by Johanna Spyri
4) Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
5) Matilda by Ronald Dahl