Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week’s topic is books I love but haven’t reviewed or talked about. That’s a slight problem because I’m not shy about pimping my favorite books. If you come here often, you know what I like. To find favorites that I don’t scream about in every post, I had to cast my mind way back to before I started blogging. Before the blog, I was in school and mostly read classics. That’s how I ended up with this list of the best classic books I’ve read.
Before I could write the list, I had to figure out how I’m defining “classic.” Should my list only include old stuff, like Beowulf? Or should I include modern classics, like The Handmaid’s Tale? Since I have a lot of modern classic favorites, and I blather about them constantly, I decided to make a list of not-modern classics. So . . . what’s “not modern”? My college literature professors defined “modern” as “anything after WWII.” I’m running with their definition.
Basically, this introduction was a long-winded way of saying, “I made a list of books published before 1945 that I think are readable and culturally relevant.” I put them in order by publication date. Let me know which ones you loved and hated.
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