Classic Books Reading Challenge of 2023 || Book Club Announcement
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- Опубліковано 21 гру 2022
- Hey Booktube! Time for a new reading challenge for 2023, all about classic books! I'm hoping to read a big classic every two months and a few shorter ones throughout the year!
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J-F: North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell amzn.to/3hAMMeY
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M-A: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen amzn.to/3Vcr2DU
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M-J: Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte amzn.to/3hAxtTz
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J-A: Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy amzn.to/3HHhsWF
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S-O: Middlemarch by George Eliot amzn.to/3Woqiws
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N-D: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert amzn.to/3HJRYHY
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A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf amzn.to/3WnwQvX
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand amzn.to/3WtPnpK
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston amzn.to/3BIaaxO
Lord of the Flies by William Golding amzn.to/3GblnKh
Beloved by Toni Morrison amzn.to/3FAuQsV
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What are some of your favorite classic books?
Power of now of Ekart Tolle
The Physicists by Dürrenmatt
Alice and wonderland and Thumbelina Peter Pan ❤ The Secret Gardner Dracula
Dracula, The Secret Garden, Peter Pan, Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice (just to name a few)
The Odyssey, Don Quixote, Frankenstein, The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Mis, Wuthering Heights, Bleak House, Huckleberry Finn, Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz
Anna Karenina is my second favorite book of all time. The writing is beautiful, the psicological exploration of characters is amazing, and it's way ahead of his time.
what ur first place favorite，just curious😂
@@londonzhou418 Hi, David Copperfield
is it like an extremely sad kind of book ???
@@arsh4847 It is sad but it has beautiful moments also
LOVE Virginia Woolf. I think A Room of One's Own is a great place to start with her - it's an essay so not too long but very characteristic of her style. If you like it, Mrs. Dalloway is my favorite from her!
Oh that's good to hear! I'll go in that order then :)
My husband and I are looking forward to joining for the year! We went to a used bookstore yesterday and were able to find all but Agnes Grey. I'm pumped 😁
That's awesome! Classics are so much easier to find!
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was SO good and I’m so mad she’s the least « hype » of the Brontë sisters even though she’s the most dedicated one, I can’t wait to read more by her
Right? It was so good! I'm hoping we'll like this one too
Just saw this channel because I have been interested in the classic books so I'm starting late but I will follow along. Thank you for this.
I found a way to make Anna Karenina less terrifying, one of the editions my library has says it's "a novel in eight parts" and we have eight weeks to read it... I think I know what I'm going to do! ; )
EDIT PS I love Lord of the Flies and The Double Tongue by Bill Golding, even though he died before he finished Double Tongue
Ana Karenina will also be my big project for this year - excited but immensely terrified 😅
The two books Emily was least enthused about happen to be some I really enjoyed. The leading lady in Mansfield Park is underrated in my opinion. She’s strong in her own way, you just have to keep in mind her background. And regarding Anna Karenina, it can depend on the édition because Tolstoy wrote many. My friend gave me excellent advice when I picked it up : Feel free to skip his 20 page essays on farming techniques and focus on the novel :)
I’m in for Anna Karenina and Middlemarch. I have had both on my shelf for 5+ years because same…terrified 😄 I’m glad I’ll have support!
I don't think I would have picked them up any time soon if it weren't for the book club! I'm glad we're in this together :D
Middlemarch I've DNF-ed twice. I'd be up to a group read if it means to finally read the book.
So many of these are on my tbr and all this video did was give me anxiety lol
definitely participating now! I was already tempted with North and South because I've wanted to read it for years now so I was already thinking of joining even if only for that book, but then you brought out Middlemarch and I was sold and then Madame Bovary???? I absolutely HAVE TO participate!
I have already read Mansfield Park (I really liked but if you like strong characters I don't know if it's the right book) and Anna Karenina but I wouldn't mind rereading them (especially AK since I low-key skipped the last 100 pages and I would really like to ACTUALLY finish the book)
I love North and South and Wives and Daughters by Elisabeth Gaskell. And I am very sorry that in Slovak schools there is no mention of her. We learn about Bronte sisters and Austen. But no Gaskell. I found out about her when I was adult. As for Anne Bronte, I read Tennet...this year, it was really great. I was also amazed how progresive it was. I reccomend a movie To Walk Invisible about sisters. There you can see what inspired Anne for this novel. And I am planning to read Agnes Gray too next year.
Just read Virginia Woolf this year and was a quick read. Really enjoyed it.
North and South is just perfect. Can't wait to see your review!
I added several of these to the tbr, I'll try to join for a few of them!
IOVE Elizabeth Gaskell!!! So excited to hear your thoughts.
I tried to read Mansfield Park several times over the years and this year I was finally successful. And I was so surprised with how much I liked it!! It’s very much a story of manners and morals and sticking with your principles. I had a lot of verbal reactions to character decisions and dialogue (in a good way!). Fanny is a really interesting character and much more nuanced and strong than often portrayed. I read a chapter a day (or sometimes more) and finished it in less than 2 months
I read Madame Bovary in high school and hated it at the time. If I re-read it now as an adult, I would probably enjoy it. I would describe the main character as the original desperate housewife!
I loved North and South! I read it this year and was really surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It’s less about the romance and more about society/ workers rights at that time. I liked it a lot.
Anna Karenina is beautiful too. It’s one of my all time favorite classics. Such a great book.
To the Lighthouse is my recommendation.
Lord of the flies is absolutely amazing! It’s one of my favorite books and I love it! I hope you like it too
Don’t know if you knew this but Cyrano had a film adaption this year with Peter Dinklage as Cyrano and music composed by The National and I absolutely loved it! It’s worth checking it after you read the book!
I loved Agnes Grey! I’ll definitely read it again with you
Looking forward to reading North and South, Manfield Park and will get the Agnes Gray one too. This year I am committed to reading more classics and nonfiction as well. I have loved reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, Howard's End by E. M. Forster, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson.
We have the exact same perspective on Ann Brontë! I’m so excited to read Agnes grey
SO EXCITED!!! 🎄❤️💚❤️🕎🕎🕎📖☃️☃️📖🎁🎁🎁☃️☃️💚❤️🎄🕎📙🕎🎄💚💚❤️🕎🎁📖☃️☃️☃️📖📖💚❤️🎄🕎📙🕎🎄💚💚💚🎄🎁📖☃️☃️📖🎁📚🎁🎁❤️🎄
I've read most of your book club picks over the past few years. I liked them all, but it took me much longer than 2 months. If you're looking for more classic women authors, look into Edith Wharton, Ann Radcliffe, and Elizabeth Von Arnim.
Anna Karenina and Beloved are on my classics list for 2023 as well! And I 100% agree with what you said about the intimidating factor of Tolstoy lol I'm planning to start the novel in January so I can take it slow if need be.
I read Madame Bovary 2 years ago and LOVED it! I'll reread it with you in November! 😁💛
Finally someone that likes it! I was getting worried lol
😂😂 Well, it IS slow... But so beautifully written!
Don’t know how I would feel about it with my views now but I read Their Eyes Were Watching God last year and I really liked it. I already have my own challenge of trying to read 2 classics a month and A Room of One’s Own and Lord of the Flies are part of it but I will try to squeeze the rest of these in! 💙
I loved Anna Karenina. Don’t be afraid, it’s great.
Anna K. is sooo good but sad like lots of classics. Middlemarch is very good and North and South is amazing!!
That's a great selection of books there. Beloved is great and a good choice to start. My favourite Woolf to date is To The Lighthouse but her books are deceptively short and multi-layered.
I think "Beloved" is a great starting point for reading Toni Morrison. My favorite is "Song of Solomon" though
I adore Song of Solomon. My first Morrison was The Bluest Eye in high school. Blew me away! If you can find it, check out her short story called "Recitatif". So great!
This sounds like a great reading challenge! I'm so bad at reading classics so I think I will try to participate and read at least one of the books. Many of the books in this video are on my tbr. I've been wanting to read Anna Karenina, for example, but it's just so huge that it really intimidates me... Also North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell would happen next year because I own it on my bookshelf.
I have been dying to read North & South so I appreciate the push to read it next year haha. I LOVED the tv show
I'm hoping the book will be just as good as the show (I can't wait to finish it!)
I have been meanning to read North and South for years...this is a good push :)
I love this idea! I’ll hopefully pick up a few along the way. Surprisingly I’m not a classics person, but one of the view I’ve read is Anna Karenina. It’s actually super easy to read and I flew through it. I’m not a classics person so the fact I’ve read it and loved it hopefully shows it is accessible!
A few people have said the same thing so I'm feeling reassured!
Love Jane Austin and i haven’t read Man’s field park definitely going to read it ❤️☃️💚☃️🕎🕎🎄🎁🎁🎄📖📚📖🎄❤️🕎📙📙🕎❤️💚☃️📖🎄🎁🎁🎄🕎📙📙🕎❤️💚☃️❤️📙📖📖📖📙📙❤️☃️💚📚📚📚
Hi Emily! I can't afford the patreon right now, (maybe later!) but I would love to take part in the Classics Books Challenge. I have been wanting to read classics, so I think this is just the kick in the butt I need, lol. Thanks for doing this! Can't wait!
Their Eyes Were Watching God is one of my favorite books. The writing is stunning.
Anna Karenina is one of my top favorites. It's easy to get into because it starts with an affair being discovered. The side story of Konstantin Levin is why I read this book - he's such a great character.
Cyrano de Bergerac is one of my favorites! I absolutely love it.
I have a list of classics that I'm trying to work through next year, too. I also want to read North and South, as well as The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (although I read Agnes Gray in high school and have no memory of it), The Pickwick Papers by Dickens, and I'm leaning towards Orlando by Virginia Woolf (because I sort of remember reading Mrs. Dalloway in one of my college lit classes but need to work up to rereading).
Omg, as a primarily classics reader I'm just so excited for that challenge! On that list, I've only read and loved Lord of The Flies, and unfortunately DNFed Madame Bovary (really wasn't my cup of tea) and Mansfield Park (will try again as I also had a hard time with the writing style - felt the same about P&P but it was somehow worst in MP, those dialogues are sometimes just so cryptic to me 😅). In that list, I'm mainly interested in North and South and Agnes Grey (at least for 2023). Very excited to hear your thoughts about all of these, especially Madame Bovary as I cringe everytime I hear women victimize her in any way (I've spoiled the ending for myself, so I know the story well enough to know I made the right choice in putting it down - but that's just me, most people love it).
Also, I need you to go listen to "Don Quixote" in Spanish because I've studied that language for three years and now that I know it's just very satisfying! But prepare the back of your throat to make that /x/ sound (using phonetics here because it doesn't exist in French nor English 😅). Also, I've read a good chunk of that book and I really enjoyed it. I only put it down because it became quite repetitive after a while, but it was indeed funny and clever (though I feel quite a few references probably went over my head), and I must say Cervantes wrote one of the funniest preface I've ever read, only matched by Gargantua & Pantagruel by Rabelais (that I've heard he was inspired by as both works were written around the same time). I'm glad I gave it a fair shot for sure, it's quite a unique book as he was truly making fun of chivalric romances he utterly despised (if you've watched Monty Python, there are similarities). 😂 Because humor is very much intertwined with cultural references and language, I think it would be hard to find a great translation (though the French one I found was truly amazing, and I can confirm it as I compared a passage to the original Spanish out of curiosity).
Oh I love the North and South tv series😍 now I just need to read the book and rewatch it again.😁
I hope you guys love north and south!!! Its one of my fav classics and in my humble opinion it is even better than pride and prejudice 😬
That's high praise! Hope I'll feel the same!
Oh man. I am looking forward to your reaction to madam bovary. It is quite the story.
I love your choices❤
I just recently joined your patreon, so I'm excited for this challenge 😊
I hope we'll find a few favorites!
Lol I saw that boys/girls experiment clip and totally thought of Lord of the Flies! I read it in 9th grade and definitely left an impression.
I read Beloved as a teenager because my mom liked it but I don't remember much about it and I think a lot must've flown right over my head back then, as it does when you're a teen. I found an old copy of Lord of the flies in a used bookstore and thought the same: I kind of know what it is about but wanted to read it for myself. This isn't something we read in french schools 😉, but I truly enjoyed it.
Hi Emily! First of all, Happy New Year! 📚🎄☃️ My current reading is "Anna Karénina"!!! 💜😜🤓, I'm about three hundred pages, and I'm loving it 😍, it reads very fast, it's very enjoyable! 📖 Also, I want to read "Madame Bovary", which I have an amazing illustrated edition 🥰💜, and "The three Musketeers" 🧐💙🤓. Thanks for yours videos! Kisses from Spain! 📚📖😘
Anna karennina is worth it, I loved it ❤️❤️
I had trouble reading and understanding The Eyes Were Watching God. My mother's advice was to read what is written since the book in written phonetic English.
So happy reading. 📚❤️😍🥰🤩😘
Middlemarch is a great book, but it is sooo long, just keep in mind it might get boring at times but it is totally worth it at the end 😊
I will be reading with you Madame Bovary bc it’s the only one I haven’t read, I’ll also pick the Cyrano one, Their eyes were watching God and Beloved. Can’t wait! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Classics always tend to have slow bits... no TikTok so they had better attention span XD
I may subscribe to your patreon just to read Middlemarch with you all. I have it since 1995 I think! I read all of your other choices. Mansfield Park is my least favorite Jane Austen book... it felt preachy to me. I really liked Anna Karenina... but you'll learn everything there's to know about russian agriculture! I tried Madame Bovary at 14 and hated it (at 14, you cheat, you're a b***, no nuance!) but loved it at 30! Cyrano is beautifully written. Love that story. I read A room on one's own at 13... but in French... I may read it again with you in English. I have that same edition. In modern classics, have you read Zweig? I can't remember... but I love his writing!
I loved Mansfield Park. It’s kind of like a fairytale. The main character is strong in a different sense to Elisabeth.
I participated in your 2022 challenge and had a good time and plan to do the same in 2023. For others interested in this challenge, libraries will often have unlimited copies of classics. The ebooks may also be free with an Amazon Prime subscription through Kindle. And I verified that all audiobooks for this year are available for free with an Audible subscription, at least in the US. I like to read classics physically while also listening to the audio so this is perfect for me. I find this helps with focus and retention and I'll enjoy the story better.
That's super helpful!
Beloved is my favorite Toni Morrison (though the Bluest Eye is a close second). It's part of a trilogy, but they aren't really related directly. I always think the other two were Love and Paradise, but I know I'm wrong about one of them. (Those two are also very good.) I highly recommend watching the movie after. All of the actors are incredible in their roles, but Thandie Newton is a marvel as Beloved.
omg the best Toni Morrison (in my opinion) is the bluest eye, although major trigger warnings
also if u start their eyes were watching god and find it difficult, id recomend the audiobook (for me the dialect of the characters was pretty hard)
Lord of the flies is fantastic! 😍
Their Eyes Were Watching God is one to listen to on audiobook to get the authentic African-American vernacular. I've had North and South on my want to read list for a while (I've only read Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell). Tenant of Wildfell Hall is in my opinion much better than Agnes Grey. Two months for Anna Karenina will be necessary it is a chunker. I restrict my Jane Austen to July Mansfield Park along with Sense and Sensibility are the two I have yet to read. Good luck with your reading great choice even without the squirrel's help.
Im not really much of a classics gal but... you make me wonder if maybe i would enjoy some. I think a book club could help
I'm planning on reading Anna karenina next year
Four of these are re-reads for me and I've read Madame Bovary several times in French and English for school!
Does the English translation do justice to the original text?
@@amartyasingh6295 Yes I think it does.
I've wanted to pick up Lord of the Flies for a while so maybe 2023 is finally the year
I recommend you read Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye before Beloved. I read them the other way around, but both are magnificent.
Everyone is mentioning that one! I don't have it but I've been looking for a copy!
Hi Emily, Mansfield park is in my opinion one of the hardest to go through Austen novels and I love her a lot so be warned that it is a bit ... tedious. Love your content and have a very Merry Christmas!
I had a hard time reading Mansfield park
Oh boy... I'll try not to start reading it last minute XD
Merry Xmas!!
I read Their Eyes were Watching God & it was rough…for me it was too much, but I can see others loving it. Can’t wait to hear how you like it. These are some great choices. I decided to pick up some classics this year too & starting with Jane Eyre. Hopefully it is not a disappointment since everyone seems to love it.
@Lakacia Lloyd I am from the South as well and struggle with books written in regional dialect so I do them on audiobook as read alongs. It really helps me get through them.
Oh yes. The audio book for Their Eyes Are Watching God is great! Much better than sounding out the dialect myself. lol I've read this book twice. It's one of my faves.
I was already planning on reading North and South, so I will make sure to acquire a copy ASAP! I read Anna Karenina in high school and I liked it but that was almost 10 years ago now so who knows if I would still recommend it.
I always wonder if I'd like the books I used to if I reread them
I was traumatized with Lord of the flies in school, but I loved North and South, I read it after watching the Miniseries, loved it, it is a bit like Jane Austen meets Charles Dickens. Or just like the title the *South* meets the *North*. Now i want to rewatch the Miniseries...
North & South is good. It is also made into a miniseries.
You read The Count of Monte Cristo, so you can read Anna Karenina. I'm currently reading it myself and it's really good.
I did... although there was 2-3 years in between part 1 and 2 lol
@@BookswithEmilyFox if it helps the chapters are only a few pages long. It also took me several years to read Monte Cristo. I have started both Les Miserables and War & Peace, but haven't picked it up again. They are in my book graveyard of shame. 😉
I listened to Anna K a couple of years ago. I would never have finished it if I tried to read it physically.
I put my name on the waiting list for the audiobook at my library in case I get discouraged lol
I found Anna Karenina reads easier and faster than the Dostoevsky books I've read. Also, it's more of a moral lesson, if that makes sense. Like a cautionary tale.
For me it was the opposite :)) It took me 2 years to read AK, and a few days for Crime and punishment... I find Tolstoy to be somehow clunky and takes himself seriously. Dosto feels so lively and raw and writes with such fluency.
- Again, for me. It's interesting how we can perceive things so completely differently!
but for Emily, I think your view would work better seeing how she struggled with C&P heh (I didn't have the heart to watch that whole video ahahah)
Far from the madding crowd is a beautiful novel. It's a romance and it has some clichés but personales found it really funny
Thank you for helping us. May Almighty God bless you 🙏✨🥰✨🙏
Mansfield Park as your revenge story? Oh Emily 😂
Listen, it might not be an epic one but I will not be bested by Mansfield Park 🤺
I was forced to read Mme Bovary in high school soai kinda hate it. It has a lot of extremely detailed descriptions of settings, which makes it a slow book. I hope you enjoy it though.
Their eyes were watching god is one of my favorite books too! I hope this isn’t too much info abt the book, but all the dialogue is written in dialect. English isn’t my first language, so it took a few pages to get used to, but once i did, it was no problem! I just think that’s a good thing to be aware of going into it. And the prose is BEAUTIFUL💕
Thanks for the heads up! It can definitely make it harder to read that way, we'll see how it goes!
For a big russian classic, Anna Karenina is a very fast paced novel.
Surprised you didn't mention about the French flaps to the Mansfield Park paperback.
In my opinion far from the madding crowd is the best cozy read, but yeah I guess middlemarch is fine as well
If you can listen to the audiobook of Their Eyes Are Watching God. It is a wonderful listen.
You should definitely watch Roxanne (modern Cyrano) with Steve Martin and Darryl Hannah. I never liked Steve Martin's humor but his acting and writing are awesome.
i have 200 pages left to finish anna karenina and it’s so good! it’s my first russian classic, also i don’t think it is a romance or entirely about anna neither and even though it’s chunky i did not find it hard to get through, i’m excited to hear your thoughts about it!
Who's the translator of your edition?
@@amartyasingh6295 not sure about the translator, but my copy is from wordsworth classics!
@@marianacruz0 it's by Aylmer and Louise Maude, Tolstoy personally approved their translation damn! Thanks for letting me know
I want to read all of them with you except Mansfield Park because I hated it and gone with a short version 😂
I keep hearing it's not the best so I'm worried... oh well at least once I'm done with it I get to watch the adaptation!
Have you read anything by HG Wells? I loved The Time Machine. In general I like Daphne Du Maurier, I have a hard time with many classic because they can't keep my attention. Struggled through the first pages of Mrs Dalloway, then dnfd the book.
Next year it could be cool to do one classic from every continent (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania)
Good luck, I've got my own classics reading project that I'm starting next year that will finish up in 2024: I'm going to read all of Charles Dickens' fiction. One a month
What's the one book you'd suggest to get into Dickens' work?
@@amartyasingh6295 A Christmas Carol, then probably Great Expectations
@@marcusmusings thanks mate really appreciate it
@@amartyasingh6295 Oliver Twist is a good choice too!
Be prepared for Beloved having very difficult subject matter (it deals with slavery and it's aftermath). But, wow what an incredible read!
I’ve been reading some Edith Wharton and been loving it. Will definitely be reading Middlemarch. Lord of the Flies is awful. About man’s inhumanity to man. Read it in high school hated it. I loved reading Beloved. So good and sad.
I'm want to try reading vanity fair I knew the magazine and then found out there's a book so want to try reading it
My favorites are Vanity Fair, Don Quixote, and for a more modern Latin American curveball, either Pedro Paramo (super short) or The Death of Artemio Cruz.
You can never go wrong with Don Quixote.
Pedro Paramo is excellent. Don’t hear much about it, which is too bad.😊
@@duffypratt: A novel from 1955 that inspired Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes and other notable Spanish speaking authors. I highly recommend Carlos Fuentes’s novel Terra Nostra.
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Recitatif by Toni Morrison - listen to it with the intro my Zadie Smith
Hi random question did you read witches steeped in gold and if did you like it?
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Do their eyes are watching god on audio!! It’s so good in that format