All About Books discussion

Since our group's first classic read The Mystery of Edwin Drood which sadly was the final unfinished novel of Dickens. I thought I would post this list to see what other novels of Dickens you have read.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/54...

I have read:

Great Expectations
A Christmas Carol
Hard Times
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (currently reading)

I will come back to this one and see how many more I will add once I have finished my dissertation.

I have read:

- Great Expectations
- David Copperfield
- Bleak House
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Oliver Twist
- A Christmas Carol
- Dombey and Son
- The Pickwick Papers
- Hard Times
- Martin Chuzzlewit
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Alomst all of them!!! I love Dickens!
Great Expectations
David Copperfield
Bleak House
A Tale of Two Cities
Oliver Twist
A Christmas Carol
Little Dorrit
Our Mutual Friend
Nicholas Nickleby
The Pickwick Papers
Dombey and Son
Hard Times
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Reading now

I still have three to go plus one ON Dickens:

Martin Chuzzlewit
Barnaby Rudge
The Signalman and The Ghost at the Trial
Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin

He's my favourite author, so I have read all of his novels at one point or other. The "Centennial Edition" published in 1970 by Heron books (who remembers those lush editions in gold-tooled leatherette, with integrated silken bookmarks...) attempted to include ALL his works, even the very short pieces in his magazines. I haven't bothered much with those.

There quite a few biographies of him but I like Peter Ackroyd's Charles Dickens which is almost as much a study of the culture and period Dickens was born into, as it is a biography.

And as well as Claire Tomalin's, there's another really good biography of him
Charles Dickens by Jane Smiley (the Pulitzer prize-winning novelist)

Nice to know them Jean; I was planning to read one biography of his next year!

Jean wrote: "He's my favourite author, so I have read all of his novels at one point or other. The "Centennial Edition" published in 1970 by Heron books (who remembers those lush editions in gold-tooled leather..."

I am going to read Claire Tomalin's biography on him soon for my dissertation.

I read it in January and thought it was excellent. Really well researched with some interesting anecdotes thrown in