Oh man. Talk about an endless topic! I think I’m going to choose some of my all-time favourites, but really this is only a small selection.
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There are so many more that I could have included on this list but it’s late and I’m tired, so I’m stopping there. Which books did you include on your list? Were any of my picks on yours this week too?
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Great list! I completely forgot to link up this week, lol. I’ve had 100 Years… on my bookshelf for some time and have just not gotten around to reading it. I did read Mockingbird in school and loved it. I suppose I would also throw some Ray Bradbury and Jane Austen in the list!
Haha! I did that last week too! I ended up blearily posting and linking at like 3 in the morning when I couldn’t sleep and remembered. What are even days of the week anymore at this point, anyway? 100 Years is one that takes a lot of effort. I tried a few times before I really got into it. It doesn’t help that there are so many characters that share names (I think there are 17 Aurelianos, for example). In the end I got into it because of my interest in Latin America and the language and culture. I needed that push. It’s one I’m really grateful I read, but also understand when readers struggle with it! Jane Austen for sure. I read all her books in a summer when I was in high school. Haven’t read any Bradbury, though!
Anne of Green Gables is lovely. I also enjoyed The Diary of a Young Girl and The Secret Garden. I’d like to read I Capture the Castle. Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
I loved Anne. It helped that my mom bears a lot of similarities, and so reading about her felt like befriending a younger version of my mum. I recently re-read The Secret Garden, and while it wasn’t quite as immersive a read as an adult, it was still really, really good. I Capture the Castle is one of my all time favourite books. Of course it is dated and gender roles are iffy, but it’s just so unexpected and outside of anything I’d read before (or, really, since) that it will always hold a special place in my heart. Worth picking up if you love diaries, achingly portrayed young adulthood and very dry humour.
Q and I Capture the Castle!! Wowser! Great work!
Two of my top favourites!!
Matilda was on my list this week too! I keep meaning to read Anne Frank’s Diary but I haven’t got around to it yet. I had to read To Kill A Mockingbird for school, it was one of the better of our assigned reads, but I still didn’t love it.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2021/02/02/top-ten-tuesday-301/
Those are three I read when I was young enough for them to form at least a small part of my view of the world, Anne Frank was a paradigm shift for me. I read Mockingbird so long ago now that I can’t speak to it more than to say that it made an impression at the time. I didn’t read it for school though, so maybe having picked it up voluntarily affected my experience!
Yeah it’s always hard to really love books that you’re assigned for school because by the time you’re done with them, you’ve overanalysed them to death! Mockingbird was definitely my favourite book I was assigned for school, it was so much better than the other book I had to read for my GCSEs, Lord of The Flies!
I’ve always felt very grateful that I never had to read Lord of the Flies in school! I don’t think I’d like it.
I hope to read James Baldwin this year.
I read him for the first time at the end of last year, but I then re-read him nearly immediately! The Fire Next Time was a great place to start – short, great as an audiobook (in case you like to underline, because there will be a lot of lines) and definitely still completely relevant. I’m glad I finally got to him; I can see why he has stood the test of time, though sad that things have changed so little.
I loved the Anne of Green Gables books.
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I did too, though I never made it through the later ones. I think Anne’s House of Dreams was as far as I got!
So many great titles on your list this week. I love Anne of Green Gables, Matilda. The Secret Garden, I capture the Castle 😀 Happy reading! 😀 My TTT https://readwithstefani.com/books-written-before-i-was-born-the-classics-edition/
Yes, all ones that stand out when I look back over my early reading experiences!