Novels From the Well-Educated Mind List That Turned Into Relationships
Don Quixote - Cervantes
If you like quotes about life, truth, and common sense,
you'll find them abundant in this one.
If you like quotes about life, truth, and common sense,
you'll find them abundant in this one.
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Completely wonderful, with a touch of hysterical.
Completely wonderful, with a touch of hysterical.
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
An engrossingly strange, epic story.
An engrossingly strange, epic story.
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
Not to be taken seriously, but oh, so shocking.
Not to be taken seriously, but oh, so shocking.
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Brillant.
Brillant.
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
If you love a good, long, deep story, you'll love Tolstoy for this one.
If you love a good, long, deep story, you'll love Tolstoy for this one.
Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
If you love language and words, this is Hardy's treat.
If you love language and words, this is Hardy's treat.
Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
So many lessons here to be taken very seriously, even by Twain.
So many lessons here to be taken very seriously, even by Twain.
House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
Try to read this one without becoming emotionally invested.
Try to read this one without becoming emotionally invested.
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tragedy ~ you cannot turn your eyes away.
Tragedy ~ you cannot turn your eyes away.
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Ellison has something to say. Listen up.
Ellison has something to say. Listen up.
Honorable Mentions:
I have to include these titles because I had already read them before The Well-Educated Mind, but they were on the list, and I gladly reread them; now I keep them even closer with a deeper understanding and appreciation.
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
You need to read this one, my fellow Americans.
Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
Compelling.
1984 - George Orwell
Please learn this: Communism sucks the life out of people.
Please learn this: Communism sucks the life out of people.
Have you read the Invisible Man? That's such a good story. I have a biography of Ellison that I am looking forward to reading.
ReplyDeleteYes, I loved it. It is powerful, shocking, and impressive. I should like to read a biography of his, too.
DeleteThose are a great selection of books. Makes me want to re-read most of them, but who has time for that when there is still so many other works to read! The only two I haven't read are The Return of the Native by Hardy and The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.
ReplyDeleteI think of that, too, sometimes: why reread when there is so much more that I have not even touched; however, sometimes these stories call me back, and that is how I feel right now. I miss them so much and want to return to them. But, we'll see.
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