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This weeks Top Ten Tuesday is…
Top Ten Books Classic Books I Need To Read
10.Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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Many of the books I have chosen will be read so I can compare them to movie adaptions. This one is one of the many I have been dying to do so with.
9.Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
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I loved the movie and I dream to see the play one day.
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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Pemberley Digital announced they will be doing another web series like The Lizzie Bennett Diaries and Emma Approved with this classic novel so I want to read it before watching the web series.
7.The Lord of The Rings by J.R.R.Tolkien
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I read the Hobbit and so I must do a major read-book-then-watch-movie marathon with this classic series.
6.The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
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I just saw the movie and now I have to read the book.
5. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
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Some of the books I have read this year have mentioned bits of this books and I was ashamed that I had not yet read it.
4.Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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I saw the BBC mini series last summer and I loved it so I must read this book.
3.Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
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I’ve always wanted to read this. I’m going to try to read it for this summer.
2.Persuasion by Jane Austen
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I must finish reading all of my Jane Austen’s by the end of this summer.
1.Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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This will be the last Jane Austen book I shall read and then I can say I have read all of Austen. Somehow that gives me great satisfaction.
What are your Top Ten Classics and what do you think of mine?
You mentioned a lot of great titles on your list that I greatly enjoyed: LOTR, Anna Karenina, Persuasion (my favourite of Jane Austen’s books), Mansfield Park, Jane Eyre…I have Les Miserables on my eReader but I dunno when I’ll get around to that title myself…
Hope you enjoy those books when you get to them! Great list 🙂 My TTT
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Thanks, and I have been hesitant to read Persuasion, but since you said it’s your favourite maybe that will help ease my fear. Reading P&P was easy because it is so well popularized.
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It’s lovely to see Frankenstein on someone else’s list. I also think Mansfield Park is a fascinating choice!
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Thanks, and Frankenstein is a classic piece of literature that everyone needs to read, myself included.
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I keep thinking that I’m going to read Les Miserables, but I’m totally intimidated by the size of the book! I hope you get to read these books! 🙂
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Thanks, and yeah Les Mis is such a huge book but that just means the feeling of satisfaction at the end will be so much greater.
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Great list! I see several that are on mine or should have been. I do want to read Les Miserables and Anna Karenina one day.
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There are so many more that should be on my list but, alas there can only be ten. I hope you get to read those books someday as well.
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I like your top ten. I would have “Where the Red Fern Grows”, “To Kill A Mockingbird”, and “Of Mice & Men” in there…maybe “Fahrenheit 451” or even “Lord of the Flies” in there, too…but definitely the very first one I mentioned. 😀
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I need to read Where the Red Fern Grows, oh and I’ve read and loved to death To Kill A Mockingbird, and I expect to read the rest of those someday. Thanks for your mentions!
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You’re welcome, Keely. I hope you have a great day. 😀
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Wait, they’re doing a web series on Frankenstein? That’s sounds so intriguing!
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Excellent picks. I really hope you enjoy all of these. 🙂
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Thanks, I hope I do too.
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Jane Eyre made my list this week too of Classic books I need to read 🙂
Check out my TTT!
Katrina @ Chased By My Imagination
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Ha, I totally thought about binge watching the entirety of LOTR after the final Hobbit movie comes out too! Though, I don’t have an affinity of reading the books post-film adaptation (I just can’t get into it after I know what happens). Which is funny I guess because I’m totally capable of watching them again though… weird.
Cheers,
joey via. thoughts and afterthoughts
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Jane Eyre and Little Women are both wonderful classics! Good luck with Mansfield Park – I’m an Austen fan but even I found that one pretty slow-moving and boring, lol.
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I didn’t particularly like the movie adaption of the book, but I’m hoping I can get through it!
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