Which classics are you reading now?

[Tim]

Dracula by Bram Stoker

[Marta]

Tim wrote: "Dracula by Bram Stoker"
I listened to the full-cast audiobook of Dracula last year and unexpectedly loved it. Mina is a great character!

[Aiden (The Book Scourge)]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

[Tim]

Marta wrote: "Tim wrote: "Dracula by Bram Stoker"
I listened to the full-cast audiobook of Dracula last year and unexpectedly loved it. Mina is a great character!"

I'm about half-way through the book and I'm loving it. Much to my surprise.

[Paula]

Tim wrote: "Marta wrote: "Tim wrote: "Dracula by Bram Stoker"
I listened to the full-cast audiobook of Dracula last year and unexpectedly loved it. Mina is a great character!"

I'm about half-way through the b..."

I've read many vampire stories and Bram Stoker's Dracula is by far the best in my opinion.

[Zofia]

I just started reading The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki.

[La Tonya]

The House on Mango Street

[Tim]

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe

[Paula]

Prince Caspian by C. S. Lewis

[Ashley]

Currently, I'm reading Crime and Punishment. I think it's my favorite book by Dostoevsky so far.

[Tim]

La Tonya wrote: "The House on Mango Street"

I found out about The House on Mango Street about three years ago from booktuber ReadSusieRead. I read the book and greatly enjoyed it. I feel it should be regarded as a post-modern classic.

[Terese]

Re-reading War & Peace, I’m enjoying it A LOT more now than I did in my twenties when I found it kind of overwhelming :)

[Kathy]

Reading I saw this on the Great American Read by PBS and realized I had never read it. What intrigued me was that the author said that everything that she has included in this novel has happened to women at sometime in history. Scary from what I have read so far.

[Tim]

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

[Tim]

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

[Jim]

Reading two: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck and Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.

[Tim]

The Iron Heel by Jack London

[JazzyJake]

Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov

Jim, how is the Hardy going?

[Jim]

Pretty well, Jake. I'm enjoying the story.

[Tim]

Sula by Toni Morrison

[Jim]

I finished Far From the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), which I thought was excellent. Now reading The Way We Live Now (1875) by Anthony Trollope (1815-82).

[Jim]

Taking a break from The Way We Live Now, I'm currently reading The Souls of Black Folk (1903) by W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963). Interesting so far. Before that I read and enjoyed a classic western, a Vintage/Random House hardcover edition of The Ox-Bow Incident (1940) by Walter Van Tilburg Clark (1909-71).

[Aiden (The Book Scourge)]

2001: A Space Odyssey

[Tim]

Just finished The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo. Hugo's writing is without peer. This classic should be read by all.

[Linda R,]

The hunchback is a great book, different from what I expected. Esmeralda is a more complex character than the hunchback.

[Linda R,]

Finally got around to reading Tom Jones. I prefer romanticism to classicism in novels but I was favorably impressed with Fielding style and balance.

[Tim]

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

[Krystal]

I've read The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas three times now, but I'm currently reading Louise de La Vallière for the first time. Last time I couldn't track down a copy so I just skipped it and went straight to The Man in the Iron Mask.

[Maryam]

Eight Cousins: Or the Aunt-Hill (Eight Cousins #1)

I just love this book. It sets a great atmosphere and draws you into the lives of this family.

[Paula]

Jim wrote: "Reading two: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck and Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy."

A Pulitzer winner by Pearl Buck. I enjoyed it. Did you know it's part of a series? I have yet to read any of the others, but admire her writing.

[Linda R,]

Krystal wrote: "I've read The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas three times now, but I'm currently reading Louise de La Vallière for the first time. Last time I couldn't t..."

Great stories, all of them.

[David]

Which century? Latin or Greek & which translations? Now I’m re-reading plays of Chekhov and Walker Percy novels.

[Linda R,]

David wrote: "Which century? Latin or Greek & which translations? Now I’m re-reading plays of Chekhov and Walker Percy novels."

I have read a few Chekhov plays but Walker Percy was a new name for me, until your post. I've looked him up and love his quotes. Thanks for sharing.

[Linda R,]

I made it a goal to read all of Hemingway someday. I'm on my 5th novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. As always it is fresh and engaging. The reader is drawn right into the scene.

[Terese]

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder Reading Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, I had no idea what it was about going in, was surprised, but am really enjoying it now that I'm about halfway through.

[Krystal]

Linda R, wrote: "I made it a goal to read all of Hemingway someday. I'm on my 5th novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls. As always it is fresh and engaging. The reader is drawn right into the scene."

I've yet to read any Hemingway. For some reason his work doesn't really attract me!

[P]

Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

[Linda R,]

Krystal wrote: "I've yet to read any Hemingway. For some reason his work doesn't really attract me!"

I acquired a taste for Hemingway late in life. Love him now and Steinbeck.

[Tim]

Just finished The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

[Paula]

I'm reading (finally) a modern classic, The Outsiders.

[Tim]

The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

[Amelina]

I'm currently reading Anna Karenina (translated by Constance Garnett). I've also acquired the Maude translation to read next. Tolstoy is one of my favourite authors.

[Tim]

Starting to read Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley.

[Krystal]

Have moved on to The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas and have also started The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

[Joy]

Vanity Fair

[Zeljka]

I just finished Anne of Green Gables - I like it even more than when I was kid.
Currently am listening to Little women.

[Krystal]

One Hundred Years of Solitude

[Tim]

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

[Joy]

Just finished King Solomon's Mines which was surprisingly funny.

[Paula]

This may sound weird, but I finally picked up The Analects by Confucius. I'm even taking notes!