Summer Classics

[RingoLass]

Let's make a list of some of the best summertime classics to read!

1) Persuasion-Jane Austen

[neilgee]

2. The Go-between - LP Hartley

[RingoLass]

"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." :)

[neilgee]

The first line. Well remembered, you. :party:

The darling buds of May - H.E. Bates

[LitNetIsGreat]

Wordsworth...

[ktm5124]

3. The Great Gatsby
4. Mrs. Dalloway

[Whifflingpin]

Le Grand Meaulnes - Fournier

[wokeem]

To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee

[janesmith]

"The Woodlanders"- Thomas Hardy
"Silas Marner"- George Eliot

[applepie]

I've always loved Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer as summer reads. I also like The Cay by Theodore Taylor.

[JuniperWoolf]

I have a few books that I tend to re-read every summer (I'm a re-reader, I re-read everything).

The Grapes of Wrath
All of Alan Moore's Swamp Things
The Secret Garden
Watership Down

In the winter, I read:

A Christmas Carol
Into the Wild

[bounty]

im thinking of reading either moll flanders, anna karenina, or madame bovary...any thoughts?

by the way juniper, watership down is one of my favorite books and one of the few ive read twice. (have we had this conversation before?)

[dfloyd]

You'd better start today if you want to finish by September. Unabridged it's nearly a thousand pages. I'd read it before, but this time through it seemed longer. About 2,100 minutes. It's my favorite Tolstoy long novel. Previously, I had read Resurrection, which isn't as long. Last year I finally read War and Peace and his three-part novel: Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth. I am through with Tolstoy for a while.

[bounty]

thanks dfloyd---i'll give it a good thought. ive got what i suppose to be an unabridged version, ~800 pages. i agree, it would probably take me until september to read it...!

[keilj]

I was younger when I read it one summer - but Lord of the Flies

[March Hare]

im thinking of reading either moll flanders, anna karenina, or madame bovary...any thoughts?

Save AK for the colder months. Faulkner is for the summer. The dust of dry roads in your throat only remedied by an admixture of whiskey and sugar-water.

[Ristshot]

On the Road and Dharma Bums always feel like summer reads to me by Kerouac.

A Midsummer Night's Dream also

[bounty]

Save AK for the colder months. Faulkner is for the summer. The dust of dry roads in your throat only remedied by an admixture of whiskey and sugar-water.

thanks for the thought march hare...ive got a half dozen faulkner books, havent read a one yet. any couple that you might recommend?

[Whifflingpin]

Cider with Rosie - Laurie Lee (not to mention his other books)

[Babak Movahed]

Umm I guess,
Moby Dick
The Brothers Karamazov
and I don't know if this counts but A People's History of the United States


im thinking of reading either moll flanders, anna karenina, or madame bovary...any thoughts?

by the way juniper, watership down is one of my favorite books and one of the few ive read twice. (have we had this conversation before?)

Well I haven't read Moll Flanders but between Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary I would pick Madame Bovary. The imagery is quite beautiful, Emma Bovary is a very well written character and it's half as long as Anna Karenina haha

and as for Faulkner, go with The Sound and the Fury

[bounty]

thanks babak...i think i'll go with madame bovary...

just a smidgen too late for faulkner, im about a third of the way through as i lay dying, and you know, im not really enjoying it all that much. i like the premise and the method of story telling but i dont know what the characters are talking about half the time---i dont like any of them yet either. i should have waited!

[mystery_spell]

Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead.

I'm currently enjoying it while the summer heat melts me away.