Because I have been asked what books I might like to have (and a list would also be handy for my husband for gift-buying purposes 😉 ), I am creating this wishlist page. It is a work in progress. These are books I’d like to read or books I’ve read and loved and would like to have a copy on my shelf.
The first section is all classics. I LOVE reading classics! The second section is everything else. 🙂
I would love to continue to build my collection of Penguin Classics Black Spines, Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions, and Barnes and Noble Classics Editions (unabridged ones). When it comes to classics, I prefer to read unabridged versions.
Classics
My Antonia by Willa Cather
O Pioneers by Willa Cather
Mama’s Bank Account by Kathryn Forbes
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
The Warden by Anthony Trollope
Our Friend Manso by Benito Pérez Galdos
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Wonderful O by James Thurber
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë
Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
La Reine Margot by Alexandre Dumas
The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas
Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
Good Morning, Miss Dove by Frances Gray Patton
The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
Perelandra by C. S. Lewis
That Hideous Strength by C. S. Lewis
The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
The Pearl by John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
The Complete Anne of Green Gables Collection by L. M. Montgomery
All Other Books
Out of the Easy by Ruta Sepetys
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Britt-Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman
Things My Son Needs to Know about the World by Fredrik Backman
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Before Green Gables by Budge Wilson
The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman
The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
The Last Bookshop in London by Madeline Martin
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Madeline Martin
The Little Beach Street Bakery Series by Jenny Colgan (all except Books 1 and 2 which I already have)
*All of Sarah Addison Allen books*
The French House by Jacquie Bloese
Elektra by Jennifer Saint
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