Book Club

[rockygems123]

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@beach-mom wrote:

Jane Eyre. Little Women, The Little Prince, Gone With the Wind, Les Miserables, East of Eden, A Christmas Carol, The Great Gatsby, Black Beauty, Fahrenheit 451, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Scarlet Letter 

These are books I've read and I can think of. I didn't like all of them. The first 4 I listed are probably my favorites.  

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@beach-mom 

Les Miserables was a tough one to get through for me. Those are great classics though!

[AuntMame]

Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Jane Eyre, Sister Carrie, The Human Comedy, Mill & the Floss, All Creatures Great & Small, Don Quixote, Les Miserables, Scarlet Pimpernel, Huckleberry Finn, Great Expections, The Flounder by Gunter Grass. 

J.K. Rowling said that her favorite book is "I Capture the Castle" by Dodie Smith. Smith was a playwright who most famously wrote "101 Dalmations." I agree that "I Capture the Castle" deserves to be on the great books list. It's about two sisters stuck in a falling-to-pieces castle in the British countryside, along with their flakey impoverished father and his eccentric girlfriend. Both poignant and comic. Highly recommend it. 

[AuntMame]

Omigosh, I forgot to mention one of my favorite classics:

Nathanial Hawthorne's "House of Seven Gables"

Reread it about once a year.