The Classics Challenge 2009 is sadly over, so here I am to sum up how it went.
The list I started with is as follows:
Definitely:
Silas Marner by George Elliot
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Tenent of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
Saturday by Ian McEwan
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Possibly:
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
What I read was:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier
Dune by Frank Herbert
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
Martin Chuzzelwit by Charles Dickens
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Saturday by Ian McEwan
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Middlemarch by George Elliot
I, Claudius
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
So basically except for Silas Marner I got to everything on my list and then some.
Thanks much to Trish for hosting! You're brilliant!
I need to review a couple of more books, but I'm a bit short of time right now. I hope to get to it within the next couple of days.
1 comment:
Sheesh, that's a great list! Which was your favorite? I've been wanting to read Ivanhoe for ages.
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