30-day Challenge! - Day 10: Favorite classical book

[Trisha]

Day 10: Favorite classical book

- Wuthering Heights

Who wants to play!

[Annina]

I choosed my books from 1001 books list.. "Captain Corelli's Mandolin": or The Reader

[Barbara]

Pride and Prejudice

[Antonio]

I don't know if it's my favorite, but I'd say The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. And I'd include Ivanhoe by Walter Scott. Both of them are related to my childhood's readings, so there's a nostalgic part I can't deny ;)

[Bob, Short Story Classics]

Les Misérables, it's long, but really good.

[Cindy]

[Maddie]

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

[Terri]

Of Human Bondage

[Kat]

The Count of Monte Cristo. I wish I had been assigned this book when I was in middle/high school, my younger self would really have enjoyed it.

[Jenny]

Hmm... I think I'll have to go with The Lord of the Rings.

[Cleo]

Hmmm ...... many come to mind but I'll go with:

The Iliad by Homer

[Diana S]

I have 3 all-time favorites:


A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

[Tracy]

I know it is cliche, but I really do love "Pride and Prejudice". My eighth grade English teacher recommended it to me and now I have shared and recommended it to my daughters. It is a timeless love story.

[Apoorv]

Day 10 : Favorite Classic Book

This one is a real tough one to choose.. but I would say since this two are the ones I read recently and enjoyed thoroughly, it has to be :
- A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
- The Stranger by Albert Camus

[Kristi]

My hands sown favorite classic is Oliver Twist...Love love love it! A close second is Pride and Prejudice.

[Gavin]

Defintely The Lord of the Rings.

[Edīte]

or

I started to read because of the Mysterious Island, loved it so much that become hooked on reading for life

[Rachel]

Wasn't able to post yesterday, here is my May 10th Entry:

My favorite classic book is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I'm a big Austen fan, and enjoy all adaptions of that novel.

[Aprilleigh]

Oh wow, that's a tough one too - The Odyssey by Homer was probably the first one a really fell in love with.

[Pink]

Animal Farm

[James]

Sense and Sensibility, Enchanted April, and A Room with a View.

[Lindy-Lane]

there are so many. but i'll go with the first that i recall reading when i was in the 6th grade and that would be David Copperfield by Charles Dickens.

[Amy]

Gone with the Wind, read under the covers with a flashlight during my teen years.

[Tytti]

Well my all-time favourite is Gone with the Wind, though I read it when I was 11 so my taste might be different now... But I doubt it.

But if I had to choose a "real" classic (bit older and so on and save the all-time favourite for a possible another question), I would probably say Jane Eyre.

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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Amazing!

[Hilary]

David Copperfield or Pickwick Papers by Dickens

[Joseph]

The Lord of the Rings my full review: http://100greatestnovelsofalltimeques...

And a close second to The Count of Monte Cristo

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To Kill a Mockingbird

[siriusedward]

Very tough to choose from.
Can I choose 10/20 ?
:(
Just from last year, if I have to choose one


Middlemarch

[Loretta]

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. :)

[Bat-Cat]

The Lord of the Rings
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
War and Peace
The Idiot
Middlemarch
Jane Eyre

As you can see it is a tough question for me!!! ;-)

[Kathleen]

Elena, Loretta and Bat-Cat, I have to agree with all three of you! I would have a three-way tie:
Middlemarch
Wuthering Heights and
War and Peace

[Loretta]

Kathleen wrote: "Elena, Loretta and Bat-Cat, I have to agree with all three of you! I would have a three-way tie:
Middlemarch
Wuthering Heights and
War and Peace"

Excellent Kathleen! :)

[Gerard]

One Hundred Years of Solitude
Slaughterhouse-Five
Beloved
The Catcher in the Rye
The Brothers Karamazov
The Stranger
A Clockwork Orange
Gravity's Rainbow
Nausea

Plenty more, but these are the ones I often still think about

[Bat-Cat]

Kathleen, thanks for including me in your three way tie. It was a bit of a challenging question for me because it seems, depending on my mood, that there are lots of books that might fit the category. War & Peace is another one but I must confess that I have yet to read Wuthering Heights. I will have to make it a point to get to that sooner rather than later as I know it is one of your favorites. ;-)

[Kathleen]

Bat-Cat wrote: "Kathleen, thanks for including me in your three way tie. It was a bit of a challenging question for me because it seems, depending on my mood, that there are lots of books that might fit the catego..."

Thank you Bat-Cat! I agree it does depend on mood. For me, Wuthering Heights is in a class all its own though, sort of a force of nature. It is one people are divided over, and whenever you get to it, I'll be curious to know what you think.

[Brina]

Gone With the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird, tie :)

[Bat-Cat]

Kathleen wrote: "Bat-Cat wrote: "Kathleen, thanks for including me in your three way tie. It was a bit of a challenging question for me because it seems, depending on my mood, that there are lots of books that migh..."

I saw the Wuthering Heights movie (not sure was version) a couple of years ago and didn't enjoy it very much. Perhaps that has tainted my opinion of the book. "A force of nature", wow, such high accolades! That definitely appeals to me, especially coming from you! I may just have to figure out where I can add it to the lineup. ;-)

[Kathleen]

Bat-Cat wrote: "Kathleen wrote: "Bat-Cat wrote: "Kathleen, thanks for including me in your three way tie. It was a bit of a challenging question for me because it seems, depending on my mood, that there are lots o..."

You might just give it a try--I think you can tell after a chapter or two if it is for you or not. :-)

[Bat-Cat]

Kathleen wrote: "Bat-Cat wrote: "Kathleen wrote: "Bat-Cat wrote: "Kathleen, thanks for including me in your three way tie. It was a bit of a challenging question for me because it seems, depending on my mood, that ..."

Thanks, Kathleen, I will. ;-)

[Rhedyn]

Les Miserables, A Tale of Two Cities, and The Scarlet Pimpernel

[Renee]

It seems to get mixed reactions. People seem to love it or hate it, but I think for now, it would have to be David Copperfield. I haven't read all of Dickens' work though, and lots of people seem to like the Russian classics. I really need to get around to reading those!

[Jehona]

I'm going to reread it and my opinion might change, but for now it's The Stranger.

[Maggie the Muskoka Library Mouse]

Gone With the Wind

[Joseph]

A Tale of Two Cities

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[Robin P]

Emma
David Copperfield
The Three Musketeers
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Little Women
A Christmas Carol
Middlemarch
The Grapes of Wrath

[Lynn, New School Classics]

Day 10 for me was yesterday. I saw this topic and thought, "Nope. I can't pick just one." So after a day of procrastinating: The Remains of the Day. When I came to this group I would have said Wuthering Heights. It was my favorite book for a couple of decades and I read it three times I believe. It was also my first book to read at different stages of my life which was a fascinating experience. But in this group I have of course read much more broadly than I had before. The Remains of the Day was extremely poignant to me. I read it as a 54 year old cancer survivor, a wife, mother and soon to be grandmother. This story of a man who had voluntarily foregone all the things which I felt made life worthwhile was incredibly emotional. It was so unlike anything else I had read before.

[Sara, Old School Classics]

I had a very strong reaction to The Remains of the Day as well, Lynn. What was so sad for me was that he discovered his loss too late to salvage anything. I can see how it would have been poignant timing for you.

I am going to say Moby-Dick or, the Whale, although I could, of course, pick a hundred others. The greatness of this novel never fails to hit me, no matter how many times I read it.

[Elizabeth]

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

[Sherry]

So hard to choose!

Kristin Lavransdater
Robinson Crusoe
War and Peace
Jane Eyre
Little Women
Pilgrim's Progress
Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor (maybe not an official 'classic' yet as it was published in 1955).