Such a fantastic list! I want to read everything by Dickens, du Maurier, and Bradbury, too! I'm also working through Agatha Christie and Elizabeth Gaskell.
Great list - I have recently discovered the fantastic, witty, political, and moral writing of Graham Greene. So far, I have read Our Man in Havana, The Quiet American, Travels with My Aunt and Brighton Rock and enjoyed them all immensely. I'm sure he wrote about 25 novels so have some way to go........😊
Read all Hemingway, all the Sherlock of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, all Nassim Taleb. Might try and read all Dumas but there's a lot! Best wishes with your reading choices.
Oh gosh!!! So so so many!!! Agatha Christie, of course, Ian McEwan, T. Greenwood, Graham Joyce, Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine, Haruki Murikami, Alan Bradley, Tana French, Brian Doyle, Elizabeth George, Colin Dexter, Alexander McCall Smith, Rene Denfeld, Marcy Dermansky, Keith Rosson, Jennifer McMahon, Yiyun Li, Laurie Frankel, Karen Russell, Antoine Laurain, Ruth Ware, Catherine Chidgey, Peter Rock, Claire Keegan, Jonathan Evison, Max Porter, Rachel Ingalls, Iain Reid, Marisha Pessl, Peter Heller, Otessa Moshfegh, Patrick DeWitt..... I mean, I could do this all day! As far as classics goes, Hardy, Dickens, Eliot, Cather, Forster, DuMaurier, Wharton, Austen, Hawthorne, Dostoevsky, Maugham, Euripides, the Brontes, Flaubert..... again..... someone shut me up, lol. 🤷🏻♀️
The title of this jumped out at me as I rarely feel I need to read everything by an author but I do have a select few where I have done so such as George Eliot or plan to do so like Virginia Woolf. I was really interested to hear yours. None directly overlap although all of yours are great authors.
Thanks Ros. I am in the opposite position with Eliot, having not yet worked up the courage to start her works. One day. I always thought I would read lots of Virginia Woolf but I need a break after To the Lighthouse. I will try again at some point. Interesting that you don’t often feel the need to read everything by an author, I think I like the idea of completing things, even if they are backlists of authors. 😊📚
I happily approve all of these! Esp Dickens, & Bradbury❣️ I would like to read all of Gene Stratton-Porter (hard to find) and Terry Pratchett, & Lloyd Alexander… off the top of my head.
I love this!!! - and I was so pleased to see Bradbury and Wyndham on here; two of my all time favourites. I am definitely going to do my version of this....already know in a heartbeat who the authors will be. Great video Alice.
Thanks Gareth! Glad it inspired you and I can’t wait to read more of both Bradbury and Wyndham. I need to do some research into what there is to read for Bradbury and then see what I can get hold of. I’ve actually just remembered while typing that another collection of his I have read! 😂📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf It's been great starting my deep dive with Bradbury - I can give you the list that I have of the books I'm going to read so that you can see the confusing list of collections in one list if you like?
I love this idea, Alice! I’ve had a season or a year where I’ve focused on an author and tried to read as much as I can in that time frame. In fact, I’m currently having a Year of Christie 2.0 since I couldn’t read everything I planned in 2023 for my original Year of Christie project. I’ve read something by each of the authors on your list, except John Wyndham. Thanks to the FOMO book club, I had my first Daphne du Maurier adventure with Jamaica Inn which was quite enjoyable. I want to read more of what she has written. I have so many authors that I’d love to read all of their work, especially Stephen King (read most of his novels, but need to read LOTS of his short stories), Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Gaiman, and Shirley Jackson. And, that doesn’t even include authors who write children’s books. 😂 Best wishes on your reading adventures and this fantastic project. 📚🎉
Thanks Kat. I love the idea of year of Christie! There were a few years when I was reading her mysteries where I was thinking it would be the year of finishing her and it wasn’t for so long! I did once definitely have a summer of Christie where I went to Devon and read so many. Hope you enjoy all your choices! I’d love to read more by Edgar Allan Poe and I’ll probably read all of Shirley Jackson if I can hold of them. 😊📚
Great video idea! I often think about my ‘auto-buy’ authors, those that are still writing, but consider the collections of work by authors no longer with us less often. Thank you for getting me to think about who is on my list!📚✨😊
Thanks Tabitha. I feel like I could easily do another video of those who are still writing, especially authors whose series I’ve been reading for a while. 😊📚
Excellent video. Good luck with super prolific Bradbury! I have read all of Dickens novels but still loads of stories etc to read sometime. Think read most of Wilkie Collins ages ago,also Hardy and Woolf. It's always great to find something you haven't read from a favourite author. I love re-reading favourites too.
Bradbury is going to be hard to source everything. Maybe I just need to keep borrowing the giant book of his stories. Rereading is always good, I need to make more time for it. 😊📚
What a wonderful idea for a video!! Your choices are perfect! I'm not usually a short story fan, but Bradbury is an exception - his are great!. I've read all of the novels of Amanda Cross, Anne George, Nevada Barr, Ngaio Marsh and Karen Kijewski, all mystery writers and want to read all of Michael Connelly, John Steinbeck, Greg Iles, Ken Follett and so many more!! I'm loving the comments too - more on my TBR 🤯.
Thanks BJ! A great selection of authors there. Bradbury is the king of short stories. I can never quite believe how much he can fit into a few lines. Yes my TBR isn’t being made any shorter by the comments on this one. 😂
Completely agree with your list (aside from Dickens, who just doesn’t do it for me.) I’d love to read all of Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, Patricia Highsmith, Gabriel Marcia Marquez, Ali Smith and Toni Morrison. If only I could stop paying attention to new releases! I need to enter that Twilight Zone episode where time just stops.
Becky Chambers :) and Jane Austen who although having seen many adaptations have not read a single one - just about to start with persuasion :0 Interesting to see which 5 you had :)
We have some similar ones: Ishiguro Dickens All of Miss Marple (i really prefer her to Poirot 😅) Elizabeth Gaskell Anthony Trollope Dostoevsky Tolstoy Brontes (I've read all of Anne/Emily plus Jane Eyre so need to focus on the rest) I enjoy Wyndham too but have only read 1 so far. (The Chrysalids)
Excellent choices! I’d also like to get to more of Charlotte Bronte’s books, having read the same ones as you. I can’t wait to get to The Chrysalids. I also would like to read more Trollope and Gaskell before deciding if I would like to read them all. Thanks for your comment. 😊📚
Excellent video! I'd love to read all of Dickens' full lenght novels too. And Gaskell's and Trollope 's. And perhaps Dumas' but there are so many 😂. I may do this on IG, since I don't have a RUclips channel.
There are several I want to read but John Steinbeck is the one I am working on now. I am almost done with Mary Stewart. I still need to get to her Arthur series.
John Steinbeck is a great author to choose. I’ve only read Of Mice and Men and The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, but I’m very interested to read more. 😊📚
I also have a project to read through Dickens' novels, the four you have read are my four favorites so far (David Copperfield is my #1), I have just three left to read (Barnaby Rudge, Nicholas Nickleby and the Mystery of Edwin Drood). My favorite of Wyndham's is The Chrysalids. Charles Dickens is the only writer, who I want to read all the novels from. Reading so much of Agatha Christie is impressive, she was prolific. I have read all three of Kafka's unfinished novels and most of his short stories, but these days I prefer to read a great variety of different authors, even with some of my favorite authors like Margaret Atwood, Sara Paretsky and V E Schwab, I am not looking to read all of their books. I am not a completionist.
Yes I like a lot of variety which is why I haven’t progressed any faster with these. I can understand not being a completionist and there are plenty of authors I love where I wouldn’t be worried that there was a book I hadn’t read of theirs but sometimes the collector in me wants to complete things. 😂📚
Yes, that’s what I was trying to say. I really enjoyed both and I liked the way he linked the stories together, although they are definitely linked more strongly in The Martian Chronicles. Thanks for your comment. 😊📚
I have read a lot of Ray Bradbury, one fun thing i recommend is reading Pet Sematary (if you havent already) and then reading one of Bradbury's short story collections called The October Country. Also the ligjtning rod salesman from Something wicked apoears in Stephen Kings The Dead Zone ;) Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Catriona Ward are two I need to finish their backlist. I'm all caught up on several authors the most impressive of which is Stephen King at almost 70 novels.
Ooh I like this knowledge on Bradbury! I’ve never read Pet Cemetery or The October Country so that’s now a project I want to do. The Lightning Rod Salesman is cool. I’d like to read more of Kiran Millwood Hargrave for sure. Haven’t tried Catriona Ward yet but have been meaning to look out for Sundial - is that a good place to start? 😊📚
Really interesting video - I feel Oliver Twist should be a Dickens you can read quickly, but realise I have not read as much of them as I thought I had. My authors to read have less of a backlist as are very much still publishing. Zen Cho's (fantasy) work I love and have read all 3 novels a novella and want to read her short story collection. Nnedi Okorafor (African Futurisim) is one where there is a nice variety to read. I have read novella trilogy Binti and first book in her MG/ YA series Akata Witch. P djeli Clark (Fantasy) Keriran Millwood Hargrave, Becky Chambers, and Alice Oseman (YA Contemporary)...so i have alot it turns out, but all doable. 😂💜📚
Urgh, not Dickens!! 😱🥱 DuMaurier I can get on board with though. I can’t believe I only read my first book by her last year! I’m hoping I can get to some more this year. I can’t believe I still haven’t read any Wyndham 😱 Kingsolver is on my list of authors I want to read everything from. I probably need to put a bit more intention behind that though 😂
I think Kingsolver needs to be on my list too but I want to pick up another of her books before fully committing! Pretty sure she will deserve it though, along with Becky Chambers. 📚📚📚
The only author whos books I have very nearly read entirely, is Juliet Marrillier. I love her work! I do still have one novel and a couple of short story collections to read, then I am done!
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf I think you would like her..she writes historical fantasy/ fairytale-esque stories. I would either start with Daughter of the Forest, which is the start of a series, but can easily be read as a standalone or with Dreamers Pool, which again is part of a trilogy but can be read on its own. Or if you want a true stand alone, she has a beauty and the beast retelling called Hearts Blood, which is very good. I started with Daughter of the Forest.
Amor Towles, obviously, proselytising for him! I might try and read all of Ovid, I find the style (even in translation I can't read Latin) funny and irreverent. I expected him to be dry and hard to read and he's not, a good reminder that not all ancient writers are the same. I've only read 'Metaphorphoses' and 'Heroides' so far.
I have read all of Patricia Highsmith's books. I loved her Talented Mr. Ripley books( 3 in all) the best. I would love to read all of Agatha Christie books , I have quite a few but not all. I also would love to read all of Sherlock Holmes books. I absolutely love Charles Dickens , but still have not read all his books. I would love to finish reading all of Jeffrey Eugenides. I have read The Marriage Plot, Virgin Suicides, and now reading Middlesex. Love your channel, and feel blessed to have found it. 🙏 🤗
Ooh Highsmith is another author I’m intrigued to read the backlist of. I’ve only read The Talented Mr Ripley but I have two on my TBR. I’ve read all of Sherlock Holmes, not sure if I’ve read absolutely everything from Arthur Conan Doyle though. Thank you so much for your kind words, that was a lovely comment to read this morning. 😊📚
Excellent. I’ve only tried one of hers but have been meaning to get back to the series. I recently finished Elly Griffiths Ruth Galloway series and that’s been one I did all on audio. 😊📚
Thanks, Alice!🌷I’m ever so slowly working my way through all novels by Dickens and George Eliot. For me though it’s especially crime writers (George Bellaires, Dorothy Sayers come to mind) whose body of work I tend to read. I’ve recently discovered a French author, Fred Vargas (who, by the way, is a woman😊) who writes crime novels set in Paris, with rather eccentric characters I find irresistible. Oh, and I’m currently listening to Kazuo Ishiguro’s short-story collection, Nocturnes, and loving it!
I love this! This requires a video response! ❤
Yay! I will look forward to watching your list. 😊📚
I agree! What a great idea!
@@GinaStanyerBooks thanks Gina. 😊📚
Such a fantastic list! I want to read everything by Dickens, du Maurier, and Bradbury, too! I'm also working through Agatha Christie and Elizabeth Gaskell.
Thanks Mitzi. I love your list. 😊📚
Ishiguro would definitely make my list! Possibly Wyndham as well.
Excellent! I need to get to my next Ishiguro. 😊📚
Great list - I have recently discovered the fantastic, witty, political, and moral writing of Graham Greene. So far, I have read Our Man in Havana, The Quiet American, Travels with My Aunt and Brighton Rock and enjoyed them all immensely. I'm sure he wrote about 25 novels so have some way to go........😊
It’s always exciting to find a new to you author and enjoy their backlist. I must try Greene one day. Happy reading! 😊📚
I’m definitely a completionist for a lot of authors 😅
I do love to complete things, so the idea of reading everything by an author is so appealing to me. 😊📚
Read all Hemingway, all the Sherlock of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, all Nassim Taleb. Might try and read all Dumas but there's a lot! Best wishes with your reading choices.
Great choices. I’ve only read two by Dumas- The Count of Monte Cristo was excellent. 😊📚
Oh gosh!!! So so so many!!! Agatha Christie, of course, Ian McEwan, T. Greenwood, Graham Joyce, Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine, Haruki Murikami, Alan Bradley, Tana French, Brian Doyle, Elizabeth George, Colin Dexter, Alexander McCall Smith, Rene Denfeld, Marcy Dermansky, Keith Rosson, Jennifer McMahon, Yiyun Li, Laurie Frankel, Karen Russell, Antoine Laurain, Ruth Ware, Catherine Chidgey, Peter Rock, Claire Keegan, Jonathan Evison, Max Porter, Rachel Ingalls, Iain Reid, Marisha Pessl, Peter Heller, Otessa Moshfegh, Patrick DeWitt..... I mean, I could do this all day!
As far as classics goes, Hardy, Dickens, Eliot, Cather, Forster, DuMaurier, Wharton, Austen, Hawthorne, Dostoevsky, Maugham, Euripides, the Brontes, Flaubert..... again..... someone shut me up, lol. 🤷🏻♀️
I forgot to add Ishiguro. All I can tell you is to bypass The Unconsoled -- it's shit, really sorry to say.
The title of this jumped out at me as I rarely feel I need to read everything by an author but I do have a select few where I have done so such as George Eliot or plan to do so like Virginia Woolf. I was really interested to hear yours. None directly overlap although all of yours are great authors.
Thanks Ros. I am in the opposite position with Eliot, having not yet worked up the courage to start her works. One day. I always thought I would read lots of Virginia Woolf but I need a break after To the Lighthouse. I will try again at some point. Interesting that you don’t often feel the need to read everything by an author, I think I like the idea of completing things, even if they are backlists of authors. 😊📚
I happily approve all of these! Esp Dickens, & Bradbury❣️
I would like to read all of Gene Stratton-Porter (hard to find) and Terry Pratchett, & Lloyd Alexander… off the top of my head.
Great list! I’ve only tried Pratchett from those and I’m definitely going to carry on reading Discworld. 😊📚
I definitely want to read all Daphne and dickens. I also want to read all Wilkie Collins
Great authors to read. 😊📚
I love this!!! - and I was so pleased to see Bradbury and Wyndham on here; two of my all time favourites. I am definitely going to do my version of this....already know in a heartbeat who the authors will be. Great video Alice.
Thanks Gareth! Glad it inspired you and I can’t wait to read more of both Bradbury and Wyndham. I need to do some research into what there is to read for Bradbury and then see what I can get hold of. I’ve actually just remembered while typing that another collection of his I have read! 😂📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf It's been great starting my deep dive with Bradbury - I can give you the list that I have of the books I'm going to read so that you can see the confusing list of collections in one list if you like?
@@bookssongsandothermagic that would be great if you don’t mind, thanks Gareth.
What a great idea! Short stories Definitely make this more complicated.
I agree! I did try to avoid thinking about it short stories but Bradbury is just the absolute master of them so I want to read as many as I can! 😊📚
I would love to read everything from Christie one day!
I worked on that one for so long, and I'm both glad I've finished most of hers and sad I have no more mysteries to read for the first time. ☺📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf it's bittersweet!
I love this idea, Alice! I’ve had a season or a year where I’ve focused on an author and tried to read as much as I can in that time frame. In fact, I’m currently having a Year of Christie 2.0 since I couldn’t read everything I planned in 2023 for my original Year of Christie project.
I’ve read something by each of the authors on your list, except John Wyndham. Thanks to the FOMO book club, I had my first Daphne du Maurier adventure with Jamaica Inn which was quite enjoyable. I want to read more of what she has written.
I have so many authors that I’d love to read all of their work, especially Stephen King (read most of his novels, but need to read LOTS of his short stories), Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Neil Gaiman, and Shirley Jackson. And, that doesn’t even include authors who write children’s books. 😂 Best wishes on your reading adventures and this fantastic project. 📚🎉
Thanks Kat. I love the idea of year of Christie! There were a few years when I was reading her mysteries where I was thinking it would be the year of finishing her and it wasn’t for so long! I did once definitely have a summer of Christie where I went to Devon and read so many.
Hope you enjoy all your choices! I’d love to read more by Edgar Allan Poe and I’ll probably read all of Shirley Jackson if I can hold of them. 😊📚
Great video idea! I often think about my ‘auto-buy’ authors, those that are still writing, but consider the collections of work by authors no longer with us less often. Thank you for getting me to think about who is on my list!📚✨😊
Thanks Tabitha. I feel like I could easily do another video of those who are still writing, especially authors whose series I’ve been reading for a while. 😊📚
Rest in Peace Sweet Girl 👼
Excellent video. Good luck with super prolific Bradbury! I have read all of Dickens novels but still loads of stories etc to read sometime. Think read most of Wilkie Collins ages ago,also Hardy and Woolf. It's always great to find something you haven't read from a favourite author. I love re-reading favourites too.
Bradbury is going to be hard to source everything. Maybe I just need to keep borrowing the giant book of his stories. Rereading is always good, I need to make more time for it. 😊📚
What a wonderful idea for a video!! Your choices are perfect! I'm not usually a short story fan, but Bradbury is an exception - his are great!. I've read all of the novels of Amanda Cross, Anne George, Nevada Barr, Ngaio Marsh and Karen Kijewski, all mystery writers and want to read all of Michael Connelly, John Steinbeck, Greg Iles, Ken Follett and so many more!! I'm loving the comments too - more on my TBR 🤯.
Thanks BJ! A great selection of authors there. Bradbury is the king of short stories. I can never quite believe how much he can fit into a few lines. Yes my TBR isn’t being made any shorter by the comments on this one. 😂
Completely agree with your list (aside from Dickens, who just doesn’t do it for me.) I’d love to read all of Iris Murdoch, Muriel Spark, Patricia Highsmith, Gabriel Marcia Marquez, Ali Smith and Toni Morrison. If only I could stop paying attention to new releases! I need to enter that Twilight Zone episode where time just stops.
Absolutely! That’s pretty much the only way I will be able to read all I want to read. I’d like to read more Highsmith too. 😊📚
Becky Chambers :) and Jane Austen who although having seen many adaptations have not read a single one - just about to start with persuasion :0 Interesting to see which 5 you had :)
I love Persuasion! Hope you enjoy your reading. I’d also like to read all of Becky Chambers. 😊📚
We have some similar ones:
Ishiguro
Dickens
All of Miss Marple (i really prefer her to Poirot 😅)
Elizabeth Gaskell
Anthony Trollope
Dostoevsky
Tolstoy
Brontes (I've read all of Anne/Emily plus Jane Eyre so need to focus on the rest)
I enjoy Wyndham too but have only read 1 so far. (The Chrysalids)
Excellent choices! I’d also like to get to more of Charlotte Bronte’s books, having read the same ones as you. I can’t wait to get to The Chrysalids. I also would like to read more Trollope and Gaskell before deciding if I would like to read them all.
Thanks for your comment. 😊📚
Excellent video! I'd love to read all of Dickens' full lenght novels too. And Gaskell's and Trollope 's. And perhaps Dumas' but there are so many 😂. I may do this on IG, since I don't have a RUclips channel.
Fabulous! Let me know if you do, I’d love to see your list. 😊📚
I would like to read all of Peter May, Agatha Christie and Anna Jacobs.
I’ve not tried May or Jacobs yet, but I will have to. 😊📚
There are several I want to read but John Steinbeck is the one I am working on now. I am almost done with Mary Stewart. I still need to get to her Arthur series.
John Steinbeck is a great author to choose. I’ve only read Of Mice and Men and The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, but I’m very interested to read more. 😊📚
Bradbury is on my list to complete also! Love his work!
The way he writes is just so brilliantly descriptive. I can’t wait to read more. 😊📚
I try to read all of Ishiguro and Allende. I read all of Patrick Radden Keefe (non-fiction). Good list!
Thanks. Great choices, I need to try Allende. 😊📚
I also have a project to read through Dickens' novels, the four you have read are my four favorites so far (David Copperfield is my #1), I have just three left to read (Barnaby Rudge, Nicholas Nickleby and the Mystery of Edwin Drood). My favorite of Wyndham's is The Chrysalids. Charles Dickens is the only writer, who I want to read all the novels from. Reading so much of Agatha Christie is impressive, she was prolific. I have read all three of Kafka's unfinished novels and most of his short stories, but these days I prefer to read a great variety of different authors, even with some of my favorite authors like Margaret Atwood, Sara Paretsky and V E Schwab, I am not looking to read all of their books. I am not a completionist.
Yes I like a lot of variety which is why I haven’t progressed any faster with these. I can understand not being a completionist and there are plenty of authors I love where I wouldn’t be worried that there was a book I hadn’t read of theirs but sometimes the collector in me wants to complete things. 😂📚
Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man are what is called fix-up novels, connected stories to be sort of a conjecturel novel.
Yes, that’s what I was trying to say. I really enjoyed both and I liked the way he linked the stories together, although they are definitely linked more strongly in The Martian Chronicles. Thanks for your comment. 😊📚
Welcome!
I think I read all DuMaurier by the time I was 15 back in the 60's. I would like to read all Madeleine L'Engle and Rachel Held Evans.
Brilliant! I’ve not tried either of those two authors, I’ll have to check them out. 😊
I’m with you on DuMaurier
She is so good at atmosphere! 😊📚
I have read a lot of Ray Bradbury, one fun thing i recommend is reading Pet Sematary (if you havent already) and then reading one of Bradbury's short story collections called The October Country.
Also the ligjtning rod salesman from Something wicked apoears in Stephen Kings The Dead Zone ;)
Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Catriona Ward are two I need to finish their backlist.
I'm all caught up on several authors the most impressive of which is Stephen King at almost 70 novels.
Ooh I like this knowledge on Bradbury! I’ve never read Pet Cemetery or The October Country so that’s now a project I want to do. The Lightning Rod Salesman is cool. I’d like to read more of Kiran Millwood Hargrave for sure. Haven’t tried Catriona Ward yet but have been meaning to look out for Sundial - is that a good place to start? 😊📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf
Yes I started with Sundial!
Really interesting video - I feel Oliver Twist should be a Dickens you can read quickly, but realise I have not read as much of them as I thought I had.
My authors to read have less of a backlist as are very much still publishing.
Zen Cho's (fantasy) work I love and have read all 3 novels a novella and want to read her short story collection.
Nnedi Okorafor (African Futurisim) is one where there is a nice variety to read. I have read novella trilogy Binti and first book in her MG/ YA series Akata Witch.
P djeli Clark (Fantasy) Keriran Millwood Hargrave, Becky Chambers, and Alice Oseman (YA Contemporary)...so i have alot it turns out, but all doable. 😂💜📚
Becky Chambers is absolutely another one of mine, even though I’m only two books down. I like the sound of your choices! 😊📚
I also wanna read more by Dickens. But my plan was thwarted by the tale of two cities. I just couldn't get farther page 50😢
Oh no! That’s not good. I feel like that will be very different to his others. 😊📚
I really want to read all the books by Tash Aw - have only read "The Harmony Silk Factory" (twice) so far, it's such a great book!
Also Mildred D. Taylor, "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry" has been one of my absolute favourites for the last three decades!!!
I read this one at school and it was wonderful. I remember reading a sequel about the same family. 😊
I’ve not heard of this author, I will have to look them up! 😊📚
Urgh, not Dickens!! 😱🥱
DuMaurier I can get on board with though. I can’t believe I only read my first book by her last year! I’m hoping I can get to some more this year.
I can’t believe I still haven’t read any Wyndham 😱
Kingsolver is on my list of authors I want to read everything from. I probably need to put a bit more intention behind that though 😂
I think Kingsolver needs to be on my list too but I want to pick up another of her books before fully committing! Pretty sure she will deserve it though, along with Becky Chambers. 📚📚📚
Wow a real elite list 😮
Thanks Al. 😊
The only author whos books I have very nearly read entirely, is Juliet Marrillier. I love her work! I do still have one novel and a couple of short story collections to read, then I am done!
Excellent! I’ve not read her yet, is there a best place to start? 😊📚
@@AliceandtheGiantBookshelf I think you would like her..she writes historical fantasy/ fairytale-esque stories. I would either start with Daughter of the Forest, which is the start of a series, but can easily be read as a standalone or with Dreamers Pool, which again is part of a trilogy but can be read on its own. Or if you want a true stand alone, she has a beauty and the beast retelling called Hearts Blood, which is very good. I started with Daughter of the Forest.
Amor Towles, obviously, proselytising for him! I might try and read all of Ovid, I find the style (even in translation I can't read Latin) funny and irreverent. I expected him to be dry and hard to read and he's not, a good reminder that not all ancient writers are the same. I've only read 'Metaphorphoses' and 'Heroides' so far.
Ooh I’ve not tried Ovid, or Towles as you know, I will give both of them a go! 😊📚
I have read all of Patricia Highsmith's books. I loved her Talented Mr. Ripley books( 3 in all) the best.
I would love to read all of Agatha Christie books , I have quite a few but not all.
I also would love to read all of Sherlock Holmes books.
I absolutely love Charles Dickens , but still have not read all his books.
I would love to finish reading all of Jeffrey Eugenides. I have read The Marriage Plot, Virgin Suicides, and now reading Middlesex.
Love your channel, and feel blessed to have found it. 🙏 🤗
Ooh Highsmith is another author I’m intrigued to read the backlist of. I’ve only read The Talented Mr Ripley but I have two on my TBR. I’ve read all of Sherlock Holmes, not sure if I’ve read absolutely everything from Arthur Conan Doyle though.
Thank you so much for your kind words, that was a lovely comment to read this morning. 😊📚
Sarah Waters
That’s a great author to pick! I’d like to read more from her. 😊📚
Louise Penny, all on audio.
Excellent. I’ve only tried one of hers but have been meaning to get back to the series. I recently finished Elly Griffiths Ruth Galloway series and that’s been one I did all on audio. 😊📚
Thanks, Alice!🌷I’m ever so slowly working my way through all novels by Dickens and George Eliot. For me though it’s especially crime writers (George Bellaires, Dorothy Sayers come to mind) whose body of work I tend to read. I’ve recently discovered a French author, Fred Vargas (who, by the way, is a woman😊) who writes crime novels set in Paris, with rather eccentric characters I find irresistible. Oh, and I’m currently listening to Kazuo Ishiguro’s short-story collection, Nocturnes, and loving it!
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Thanks Victoria. 💛