The Classics Spin #6

I wish I had known about this idea when it started but I'm glad I'm learning about it now. The basic idea is to list 20 "classic" novels and wait for the magic number to be revealed next week which will tell me the book I will be reading. I like this idea because, in a way, it forces me to read a classic that I keep pushing back on my TBR list because there are SO many New Releases that I keep giving precedence to! So, here is my (quickly put together) list of "classic" novels that I own and, most importantly, have not read yet!

1. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

2. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

3. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

4. Middlemarch by George Eliot

5. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

6. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

7. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

8. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

9. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

10. Five Children and It by Edith Nesbit

11. BUtterfield 8 by John O'Hara

12. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

13. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut

14. Orlando by Virgina Woolf

15. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell

16. Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

17. Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee

18. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

19. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

20. Richard III by William Shakespeare

Top Ten Romances in Books

 

For more info on Top Ten Tuesday & the future schedule go here!

I don't read much romance novels, although lately with all the YA books I've been reading they are riddled with an obvious coupling about to happen or a love triangle. In any case, I have gone back in my memory banks and picked the few romances I remember. While these might not ever be considered "the best" romances of all time found in books, especially since I've yet to read most classic novels filled with the most memorable romances of all times. But notice I said "yet" because I do intend to read the Bronte's and Jane Eyre, etc.

In the meantime, here is my less than adequate list that doesn't cover 10 but it's the best I could do...

• Hermione Granger & Ron Weasley (Harry Potter Series by JK Rowling)
  Their obvious love story, to me, is the subtlest and romantic of all time in the children's/YA genre today. Very real and relatable.


• C. Thomas Flood & Judy (Bloodsucking Fiends Trilogy by Christopher Moore)
  If you've never had the pleasure of reading a novel by Christopher Moore, or have only had the pleasure of reading his iconic Lamb, I suggest you pick this set of books up ASAP. While it's not the love story of the century, it is one that can easily last as long. In short, it's the love of a newly made vampire and a human.


• Scarlet O'Hara & Rhett Butler (Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell)
  If not for this inevitable love affair I feel the book would have felt as long as it actually is. They are both perfectly suited for each other and I like to imagine they end up together and separate several times in their tumultuous relationship.


• Katniss & Peeta (Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins)
  I know many feel she ended up with the wrong guy but I feel they were meant to be together since they know each others lives so well.  I rooted for them to be together in the end from the very beginning.