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Is there still a Classics we are reading thread?

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divinemintthins · 11/01/2017 17:19

I have decided to reread some of my favourite Classics, plus have a go at Trollope (never read). I an currently on The Warden.

My list of books to read in the next couple of months, expect it will take me that long tbh is ...

A Passage to India, Agnes Grey, Out of Africa, My cousin Rachel and something Austen or Hardy.

I haven't read any of them for a few years so am looking forward to it, fire, blanket, tea or wine depending on the night Smile.

I tend to reread Classics in the cold dark Jan/Feb evenings and then forget about them, anyone else?

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MiddlingMum · 16/01/2017 15:38

I'm reading Dickens at the moment, but try to read all 14 of Thomas Hardy's most years. Also George Eliot, the Brontes, Zola, etc.I read several Trollope's last year, I really enjoyed them. VS Naipaul (especially A House for Mr Biswas), John Steinbeck (especially The Grapes of Wrath) and Tolstoy (especially Anna Karenina) are fantastic reads.

If you're looking for something different, have a look at Knut Hamsun, a Norwegian writer. His Growth of the Soil is one of my favourite books ever.

I love classic novels, I read far more of them than contemporary ones.