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| I have this set of Victorian Women Author stamps, which I treasure! |
Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is Top Ten ALL TIME Favorite books in X Genre. Since I love Victorian novels, my only issue was limiting the list to 10. The last one is not strictly a novel, but a literary bio, one of the first of its kind, but it reads like a novel.
I ended up limiting my list of books to those I had read at least twice, though I don't think there's a book on here I haven't read at least three times. And, it had to be one that I plan to reread. After all, favorite means favorite!
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
- The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
- Vanity Fair, by William Thackeray
- Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
- Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte
- North and South, by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Wives and Daughters, by Elizabeth Gaskell
- Bleak House by Charles Dickens
- The Life of Charlotte Bronte, by Elizabeth Gaskell
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| Sadly, I couldn't find a Wilkie Collins Stamp |
An interesting list - no Jane Austen. I've read most of them, but not the Gaskells, nor David Copperfield (although I have a sneaking feeling that I have read it, unless that's because I've watched TV versions!). I'll have to think what my list would include.
ReplyDeleteOoops - just realised your list is Victorian novels!!!
ReplyDeleteRight you are! :)
DeleteThis is great meme. I like your list. I would be a little hard pressed to compose my own because choosing would be difficult.
ReplyDeleteI have never read Elizabeth Gaskell. I really need to give her work a try.
I have read them all but no Trollope
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy Trollope, but none of his made this list because I haven't reread any of them yet!
DeleteThis is such a great list... I've read 7/10. Wives and Daughters will definitely be my next Gaskell, but I hadn't considered The Life of Charlotte Bronte. Should probably rethink that.
ReplyDeleteWhen I got so caught up in Trollope last year, I vowed not to read Dickens again until I'd finished all of Mr. T... it may be a while before I get to David Copperfield ;-)
Finishing all of Trollope is a tall order! Good luck. I have one more book in the Barsetshire series and really looking forward to it.
DeleteI love Middlemarch and The Woman in White! They're two of my favorites, too. :)
ReplyDeleteWell, there are four of these that I've read more than once and two others that I intend to read again so I have to approve of your list! :)
ReplyDeleteI have read and loved all of these, but most of them only once...I am hoping to get around to a reread someday!
ReplyDeletePretty damned embarrassed to say that I have never read any Collins or Gaskell - gasp! Seriously need to get that rectified!
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