If I have time for another Gaskell, I really want to read Sylvia's Lovers this year too (although I've heard there is a lot of dialect in it so I'll probably have to find an audiobook!)!
Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens are both on my 2024 TBR, I have a project of reading books by classic authors that I’ve only read one from so far. I am really eager to start! Great list!
Which Gaskell are you hoping to read? I love her writing so much! That is a really fun project to explore more writing by classics authors that you haven't read much from yet, I hope it makes for a great year of reading for you!
I’ll add my vote for Dombey and Son as one of my favorites, if not my very favorite Dickens. I really enjoyed Crime and Punishment and feel a reread is in order and reread Mrs Dalloway last year and loved it all over again. Lots of great titles Chelsea!
I'm looking forward to reading A Tangled Web but also feels a little bittersweet to be one step closer to having read Montgomery's complete bibliography. I know I can always reread them thankfully!
I read Crime and Punishment last year and loved it! Can't wait to hear what you think. And coincidentally, I am also planning on reading LOTR this year for the first time and also in May!! 🤣🥳 RUclipsr's Emma and Caroline (Book of Tubes Book Club) are reading it in May so I'm tagging along. I'd love to connect when the time comes. Happy reading!
That is so neat that you will be reading LOTR for the first time this month as well... I'm hoping to do a video of my thoughts on it at least, or maybe even a reading vlog of each of the three books, so it will be fun to hear your thoughts as you read them for the first time as well!
I enjoy classics, too, though I usually only read 6-8 per year. I read Anna Karenina a few years ago for my annual Big Book Summer Challenge (keep that in mind for classics with 400+ pages!). I haven't read Crime & Punishment yet. Fascinating story behind Belinda. I'm not much of a fantasy person, either, but you're right - Tolkien is an exception. When we were first dating, my husband and I read The Hobbit aloud to each other (he's a BIG fan and has beautiful leather-bound editions). But I've still not read LOTR. I love Dickens and have never heard of that one! I need to reread Tale of Two Cities - haven't read it since HS. I have to admit I strugged a bit with Mrs. Dalloway, but I know many people love it. I would like to try other books by Woolf. I've been meaning to read Elizabeth Gaskell for a while. And I only read Anne of Green Gables about 10 years ago, as an adult, so I would love to read more from LM Montgomery. Let's see ... I just read As They Were by MFK Fisher (my first be her) and enjoyed it. I would like to read Oliver Twist this year and maybe reread 1984 (it's been 40 years!). And I;m thinking of reading Lonesome Dove in June for both June on the Range and my own Big Book Summer Challenge (that runs from end of May to early September). My first time visiting your channel, so nice to "meet" you!
Thank you so much for checking out my channel and for all the great bookish discussion! I am in the middle of Crime & Punishment now and quite enjoying it! That is such a sweet story of you and your husband reading Tolkien to eachother! 💗 Definitely recommend checking out Elizabeth Gaskell (Wives and Daughters is my favourite of hers) and more Montgomery (the rest of the Anne books are equally wonderful as is The Blue Castle and the Story Girl duology)! I really want to read Lonesome Dove sometime too... I have heard so many good things about it!
I love your list of classics. I hope you enjoy them. I just want to add, at my advanced age, I finally read the Hobbit as well as The LOTR Trilogy this past December. What a treat and I wonder why it took me so long to get to it. It was so captivating. I did the immersion read and listened to the Andy Serkis performance on audio while reading the text. It was a performance not just narration and I will confidently assert that this series were the best audiobooks I have ever listened to. They were that good.
I'm so glad to hear your loved the LOTR audiobooks! I was so torn between which of the two versions to buy and did a ton of reading reviews and listening to the samples, and finally decided to get the Andy Serkis version and it sounds like I made the right choice! Your comments make me even more excited to listen to them!
@@VoyageofaTimeWanderer I am going to be presumptuous here but I think you will be very pleased with the Andy Serkis version. I hope you will give us your thoughts and reaction when you have listened to them.
@@binglamb2176 Having a good narrator can really make a reading experience even more incredible! I don't want to make a promise, but I am thinking about doing a reading vlog of each of the three books since they are so well beloved by so many people!
I have been trying to get to East Lynne and The Picture of Dorian Gray for the past two years and haven't, so, they are on top of my list along with a T. Hardy. There are others but they are the most important. I am now finishing up Oliver Twist and just starting No Name.
@@VoyageofaTimeWanderer I have read several of his already but wanted to go back to his beginning and read Desperate Remedies. I know it is not supposed to be great but I want to read all his works. I am saving Jude till the end since it is his last novel he wrote.
@@theresas709 It is always fun to read an author chronologically when you know you want to complete all their works eventually (that's what I am doing with Elizabeth von Arnim)... seeing how their writing style and themes change over time is so interesting. I have only read two by Hardy so far, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Far from the Madding Crowd.
I am not a fantasy person either and I loved the Hobbit and Fellowship of the Rings. The Two Towers went a little slow for me. I have never read the last one and it is on my tbr for Feb.
I’d like to read The Divine Comedy and reread Don Quixote. Maybe it’s because I’ve watched the movies multiple times, but LOTR is one of the few fantasy series that doesn’t confuse me.
Those are two impressive classics on your TBR this year! I will be interested to hear your thoughts on The Divine Comedy... I feel like that would be such an interesting book to have read!
A great list! I have read 5 (and I also have never read LOTR). "Mr Harrison's Confessions" is very funny. "Belinda" is a fascinating book, particularly as it deals with race and female illness. I also enjoyed Edgeworth's "Castle Rackrent", which is shorter and a critical look at Irish landlords. I enjoyed "The Doctor's Wife" quite a bit. It's my understanding that Braddon wrote this book in direct response to Flaubert's "Madame Bovary", so if you haven't read that, you might want to at least understand the basic plot of the French classic to see what Braddon does with the same premise. (And there's speculation that George Eliot's "Middlemarch" was in part a response to both, as it also features a doctor & his wife.) Good luck with all of your reading and, to give you a little incentive, the ending of "Little Dorrit" is fantastic, even if it gets a bit bogged down in the middle.
Thank you so much for a such a lengthy comment with lots of interesting information! I am in the middle of reading Middlemarch right now, hoping to be done by the end of January so your comment has me thinking I should try to pick up Madame Bovary this year too so I can complete the trifecta and be able to compare them all against each other. I see Juliet Stevenson did the narration for an audiobook and she is one of my very favourites narrators so I am really tempted now!
Middlemarch is one of my favorite books of all time; hope you are enjoying it. And Juliet Stevenson is my favorite female narrator. I have her audiobooks of Middlemarch, Jane Eyre, all Jane Austen and North & South.
I rate The Brothers Karamazov above C and P. War and Peace a must, and his final novel, Resurrection. And, speaking of Russian. Boris Pasternak's classic. Jane Eyre much better than over-rated Austen. News from Nowhere by William Morris and Island by Aldous Huxley for utopian fiction. And by Martin Boyd, Lucinda Brayford. I like most of Dickens, but Dombey and Son was boring! Lastly, one of the truly greats, Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo. Quite a few of Trollop, too 😊.
CRIME AND PUNISHMENT!!! One of my all time favorites (as is LOTR). I’m rereading both of them in 2024 😊
I love your enthusiasm for Crime and Punishment!! I really hope I come to love it too!
Crime and Punishment is brutal. There's so many horrible things that happen I would just give up.
I'm so glad you're going to read A Tangled Web! I love the way LM Montgomery writes about the quirks and foibles of extended families.
I'm looking forward to picking it up sometime this spring when I am always in a Montgomery mood!
This is a super list! I really really enjoyed The Doctor's Wife! I can't wait to hear what you think of it!
I can't wait to get back to Mary Elizabeth Braddon, I really missed reading her this past Victober!
I’m reading Mr Harrison’s Confessions this year, too, and hopefully Cranford and Ruth, as well! Fantastic list, Chelsea!
If I have time for another Gaskell, I really want to read Sylvia's Lovers this year too (although I've heard there is a lot of dialect in it so I'll probably have to find an audiobook!)!
It always surprises me, how popular Dostoyevsky is in the West! Hope you'll have a pleasant experience with your TBR
I love this video idea! I’ve been reading mostly contemporary and now I’m inspired to look into the classics. Thank you for your recs!
I'm so glad you enjoyed the video! I hope you enjoy exploring the classics a little more this year, there are so many incredible old(er) novels!
Best wishes with your reading choices in 2024. I hope you have some great reads.
Thank you! Hope you have a 2024 full of wonderful books as well!
These are some cool choices. Looking forward to seeing your reviews
Nice list.
Elizabeth Gaskell and Charles Dickens are both on my 2024 TBR, I have a project of reading books by classic authors that I’ve only read one from so far. I am really eager to start! Great list!
Which Gaskell are you hoping to read? I love her writing so much! That is a really fun project to explore more writing by classics authors that you haven't read much from yet, I hope it makes for a great year of reading for you!
I loved Mrs. Dalloway! Enjoy!
Thanks, I hope I like it as well!
Looks like you'll have a fantastic reading year!
I hope so! Wishing you a wonderful year of reading ahead too!
I’ll add my vote for Dombey and Son as one of my favorites, if not my very favorite Dickens. I really enjoyed Crime and Punishment and feel a reread is in order and reread Mrs Dalloway last year and loved it all over again. Lots of great titles Chelsea!
I'm excited that you have such positive things to say about so many of the books on my list... I'm hoping it will be a great year of classics reading!
Ah, Crime and Punishment is wonderful! And I very much enjoyed A Tangled Web.
I'm looking forward to reading A Tangled Web but also feels a little bittersweet to be one step closer to having read Montgomery's complete bibliography. I know I can always reread them thankfully!
@@VoyageofaTimeWanderer there are still so many I haven't read. But her stuff is so good for rereading!
I read Crime and Punishment last year and loved it! Can't wait to hear what you think. And coincidentally, I am also planning on reading LOTR this year for the first time and also in May!! 🤣🥳 RUclipsr's Emma and Caroline (Book of Tubes Book Club) are reading it in May so I'm tagging along. I'd love to connect when the time comes. Happy reading!
That is so neat that you will be reading LOTR for the first time this month as well... I'm hoping to do a video of my thoughts on it at least, or maybe even a reading vlog of each of the three books, so it will be fun to hear your thoughts as you read them for the first time as well!
I enjoy classics, too, though I usually only read 6-8 per year. I read Anna Karenina a few years ago for my annual Big Book Summer Challenge (keep that in mind for classics with 400+ pages!). I haven't read Crime & Punishment yet. Fascinating story behind Belinda. I'm not much of a fantasy person, either, but you're right - Tolkien is an exception. When we were first dating, my husband and I read The Hobbit aloud to each other (he's a BIG fan and has beautiful leather-bound editions). But I've still not read LOTR. I love Dickens and have never heard of that one! I need to reread Tale of Two Cities - haven't read it since HS. I have to admit I strugged a bit with Mrs. Dalloway, but I know many people love it. I would like to try other books by Woolf. I've been meaning to read Elizabeth Gaskell for a while. And I only read Anne of Green Gables about 10 years ago, as an adult, so I would love to read more from LM Montgomery. Let's see ... I just read As They Were by MFK Fisher (my first be her) and enjoyed it. I would like to read Oliver Twist this year and maybe reread 1984 (it's been 40 years!). And I;m thinking of reading Lonesome Dove in June for both June on the Range and my own Big Book Summer Challenge (that runs from end of May to early September). My first time visiting your channel, so nice to "meet" you!
Thank you so much for checking out my channel and for all the great bookish discussion! I am in the middle of Crime & Punishment now and quite enjoying it! That is such a sweet story of you and your husband reading Tolkien to eachother! 💗 Definitely recommend checking out Elizabeth Gaskell (Wives and Daughters is my favourite of hers) and more Montgomery (the rest of the Anne books are equally wonderful as is The Blue Castle and the Story Girl duology)! I really want to read Lonesome Dove sometime too... I have heard so many good things about it!
@@VoyageofaTimeWanderer Thanks for the recs! I added them to my TBR list :)
I love your list of classics. I hope you enjoy them. I just want to add, at my advanced age, I finally read the Hobbit as well as The LOTR Trilogy this past December. What a treat and I wonder why it took me so long to get to it. It was so captivating. I did the immersion read and listened to the Andy Serkis performance on audio while reading the text. It was a performance not just narration and I will confidently assert that this series were the best audiobooks I have ever listened to. They were that good.
I'm so glad to hear your loved the LOTR audiobooks! I was so torn between which of the two versions to buy and did a ton of reading reviews and listening to the samples, and finally decided to get the Andy Serkis version and it sounds like I made the right choice! Your comments make me even more excited to listen to them!
@@VoyageofaTimeWanderer I am going to be presumptuous here but I think you will be very pleased with the Andy Serkis version. I hope you will give us your thoughts and reaction when you have listened to them.
@@binglamb2176 Having a good narrator can really make a reading experience even more incredible! I don't want to make a promise, but I am thinking about doing a reading vlog of each of the three books since they are so well beloved by so many people!
We’re rereading both LOTR and C&P this year!!
I’ve never read Mr Harrison, I’m adding it to my TBR list!
Fun that we have a few books in common on our TBRs this year! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on them as well!
Ooo Dostoyevsky is also on my classic TBR this year!!
Which Dostoyevsky are you hoping to read in 2024? This will be my second of his after reading the novella White Nights at the beginning of 2022.
I want to read C&P too this year but I don’t know when l will squeeze it in!
Trying to squeeze in all the books I want to read is the perennial problem!
I have been trying to get to East Lynne and The Picture of Dorian Gray for the past two years and haven't, so, they are on top of my list along with a T. Hardy. There are others but they are the most important. I am now finishing up Oliver Twist and just starting No Name.
Those are great classics for your 2024 TBR! Which Hardy do you think you will want to pick up?
@@VoyageofaTimeWanderer I have read several of his already but wanted to go back to his beginning and read Desperate Remedies. I know it is not supposed to be great but I want to read all his works. I am saving Jude till the end since it is his last novel he wrote.
@@theresas709 It is always fun to read an author chronologically when you know you want to complete all their works eventually (that's what I am doing with Elizabeth von Arnim)... seeing how their writing style and themes change over time is so interesting. I have only read two by Hardy so far, The Mayor of Casterbridge and Far from the Madding Crowd.
I am not a fantasy person either and I loved the Hobbit and Fellowship of the Rings. The Two Towers went a little slow for me. I have never read the last one and it is on my tbr for Feb.
Glad to know that you have enjoyed LOTR despite not being into fantasy as well! I hope you enjoy the final book in February!
I’d like to read The Divine Comedy and reread Don Quixote.
Maybe it’s because I’ve watched the movies multiple times, but LOTR is one of the few fantasy series that doesn’t confuse me.
Those are two impressive classics on your TBR this year! I will be interested to hear your thoughts on The Divine Comedy... I feel like that would be such an interesting book to have read!
A great list! I have read 5 (and I also have never read LOTR). "Mr Harrison's Confessions" is very funny. "Belinda" is a fascinating book, particularly as it deals with race and female illness. I also enjoyed Edgeworth's "Castle Rackrent", which is shorter and a critical look at Irish landlords. I enjoyed "The Doctor's Wife" quite a bit. It's my understanding that Braddon wrote this book in direct response to Flaubert's "Madame Bovary", so if you haven't read that, you might want to at least understand the basic plot of the French classic to see what Braddon does with the same premise. (And there's speculation that George Eliot's "Middlemarch" was in part a response to both, as it also features a doctor & his wife.) Good luck with all of your reading and, to give you a little incentive, the ending of "Little Dorrit" is fantastic, even if it gets a bit bogged down in the middle.
Thank you so much for a such a lengthy comment with lots of interesting information! I am in the middle of reading Middlemarch right now, hoping to be done by the end of January so your comment has me thinking I should try to pick up Madame Bovary this year too so I can complete the trifecta and be able to compare them all against each other. I see Juliet Stevenson did the narration for an audiobook and she is one of my very favourites narrators so I am really tempted now!
Middlemarch is one of my favorite books of all time; hope you are enjoying it. And Juliet Stevenson is my favorite female narrator. I have her audiobooks of Middlemarch, Jane Eyre, all Jane Austen and North & South.
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is a must 🙂
Thank you for the recommendation! I own that one but haven't gotten around to it yet!
Lord of the Rings is so good, I need to re-read it. Maybe this year
I'm hoping I end up loving LOTR as much as so many others do!
I rate The Brothers Karamazov above C and P. War and Peace a must, and his final novel, Resurrection. And, speaking of Russian. Boris Pasternak's classic. Jane Eyre much better than over-rated Austen. News from Nowhere by William Morris and Island by Aldous Huxley for utopian fiction. And by Martin Boyd, Lucinda Brayford. I like most of Dickens, but Dombey and Son was boring! Lastly, one of the truly greats, Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo. Quite a few of Trollop, too 😊.