Classics you have yet to read

[Erika]

Which classic book have you not yet read but would love to and keep meaning to?

[Erika]

I have yet to read To Kill a Mockingbird and keep meaning to. It is one of those rite-of-passage books that my year in school missed doing.

It is my must read book for March.

[Mary]

It's a great book, Erika. One of the few I had to read in high school that I thoroughly enjoyed.

There are really too many for me to name. I'm embarrassed to say how many classics I've never read. I would like to read more Jane Austen. I only just read Pride & Prejudice last year and that was the first of hers I'd read. I have Sense & Sensibility but haven't gotten into it yet.

[Kristi]

For Christmas I got a book of all of Jane Austen's works. I have only read Pride and Prejudice before i got this book. Right now I am reading Sense and Sensiblity

I can't think of any others off the top of my head though I know there are some.

There are a few I know I would like to re read now that I might enjoy them more because it is not required

[Rachel]

I have been trying to trudge through The Fountainhead for an embarassingly long amount of time. I like it, and have no problem getting into it, but it's so loooooooong. :bigyawn

[Brooke]

I haven't read many classics -- Dickens, Austen, etc. I've read more of the "contemporary classics". I'm just not too interested in reading the others.

[Erika]

Contemporary classics are part of it Brooke :D I'm not a huge Dickens fan either LOL But I have just adored Austen since I was 16 and read Emma for school. Pride and Prejudice is one of my favourite books of all time.

[Desirae]

I'd like to read more of Austen's: Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility for sure.

[Jejune]

I'm slowly trying to go through all the books that I see referred to in other books, or that I think I need as a cultural touchstone. Frankenstein is one that springs to mind.

[Victoria]

ahhhh what's that book by that Irish guy...Ulysses by James Joyce.

I love to kill a mockingbird and the fountainhead.

[Lori]

I have classics I "plan" to read, and classics I actually plan to read. I have collected such an enormous assortment of books over the years that I have fully accepted that many of them are just not going to be read by me. By my descendents, maybe, but not by me. I'd put Ulysses in that category. It's sitting on my shelf, but I really don't think I'm ever going to read it.

Then there are classics I actually do want to read. Most of them are by authors I've read and liked. I think I hit most of the absolute "must-read" English classics, or at least know enough about them that I feel like I've read them, (I was an English major and then studied English for 4 years in grad school), but there's a lot of ancient and world literature that I would really like to read, as well as a few things by British authors I'd like to read more of (George Eliot comes to mind).

[Jejune]

Daniel bought Ulysses and a study guide. I don't know if he really means to read it, but it's there. I have no real plans to read it, although I sometimes like Joyce, but I could absolutely see becoming bored and beginning it on a whim. If I started it, I'd probably finish. But right now it's just there.

[Kate]

I have a copy of War and Peace here that I should read...but I keep finding other things that interest me more, so I keep leaving it until next time. I wonder if "next time" will ever come.

[MistressAndMaid]

I am going to read Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy if it kills me. I got through Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky and Bleak House by Charles Dickens, surely I can get through Anna Karenina??

[Jbird]

My parents forced me to read "The Fountainhead" in high school as punishment. I had to write a book report about what lessons I had learned from the book! But I ended up loving it. As for what classic I want to get to, "Atlas Shrugged" has been sitting on my bookshelf for years. It's so intimidating, but I'll get there someday.

[giana]

Kristi Im a Jane Austen addict...go read Emma now!!!
I mean to read Germinal but never got my grubby hands on it