Catching up on Classics (and lots more!) discussion

12 Books that have been Sitting on My Shelf for at least One Year
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Older Classics

1.Nicholas Nickleby
2. North and South
3. Richard II
X 4. Lady Susan 1/21/17. 4 stars
5. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Newer Classics, 20th century

6. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
7. Cannery Row
8. Moon and Sixpence
9. Pollyanna
X 10.The Lottery
X 11. A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute. 5 stars. 2/20/17
12. A Streetcar Named Desire
13. Yearling



Completed:

1, The Pearl by John Steinbeck. 4 stars. 1/14/17
2. We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. 4 stars. 1/16/17
3. Lady Susan by Jane Austen. 4 stars. 1/21/17
4. And Then There Were None 5 stars. 2/4/17
5. A Town Like Alice Nevil Shute. 5 stars. 2/20/17
6. The Lottery Shirley Jackson. 4 stars. 3/11/17
7. Hard Times Charles Dickens. 3 stars. 4/2/17
8. Invisible Man Ralph Ellison. 4 stars.
9. The White Tiger Man Booker Prize by Aravind Adiga. 6/14/17 4.5 stars
10. The Importance of Being Earnest 5 stars. 7/2/17
11. Beloved by Toni Morrison. 5 stars. 7/13/17 Pulitzer>
12. Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker. 4 stars. 7/21/17 1001 Books to Read list
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12 Alternates that have also been on my to be read shelf for over a year:

Older:
Bleak House
War and Peace
Middlemarch
Hamlet
Rachel Ray. Anthony Trollope

Newer:
My Side of the Mountain
Peyton Place
Cat of Bubastes
Pollyanna
Jack Maggs by Peter Carey
Silent Spring
The Dark Child by Camera Laye
Rascal
My Family and Other Animals
Essential Tales of Chekhov
1984
Native Son
X The Pearl
X We
X Invisible Man

You have some nice books there, Connie! Enjoy your reading in 2017!

Terris wrote: "You have some nice books there, Connie! Enjoy your reading in 2017!"

You've inspired me to do better this coming year. I planned to read most of those this year....

Good luck with getting those read! Nice list.

Kathy wrote: "Good luck with getting those read! Nice list."

Thanks!

A great selection of books to choose from, good luck!

Pink wrote: "A great selection of books to choose from, good luck!"

Thanks! I'll need it!

This sounds exactly like the type of theme I ought to have chosen. Good luck!

Melanti wrote: "This sounds exactly like the type of theme I ought to have chosen. Good luck!"


Thanks and good luck to everyone!

i have Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea & Peyton Place on my list this year too!

Alissa wrote: "i have Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea & Peyton Place on my list this year too!"


That's great...we can compare notes. :-)