My Favourite Classics Authors | Forever Favourites

In which I talk about my favourite classic authors . . .

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[triciam]

I’m all about Vic Lit, too!😊 Although Jane Eyre is my all-time fave book, Villette, Bleak House, Middlemarch, Vanity Fair and so many others are right up there for me. Thank you for mentioning Tenant of Wildfell Hall — another great one that doesn’t get a lot of attention (which is too bad!)

[wickedmusicalmad]

Thanks for vids like this! - I’ve only recently started reading classics and it can be so overwhelming to pick.

[adayofsmallthings]

Yay! I just happened to watch this video today - lovely to hear you mention A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Julius Caesar specifically. RSC Julius Caesar is on tour at the moment!

[lw]

For me my top novels from the 1800 to early 1900s.
1) Crime and Punishment
2) Middlemarch
3) Les Miserables
4) Tess of the Durberbvilles
5) A Christmas Carol
6) Frankenstein
7) The Way we live now
8) The Vicar of Wakefield
9) Howard's End
10) The Eustace Diamonds
11) Dubliners
12) Far from the Madding Crowd
13) Great Expectations
14) Pride and Predujce
15) Emma
16) David Copperfield
17) The Pickwick Papers
18) Kim
19) Dracula
20) Notre Dame De Paris
21) The old Curosity shop
22) under the Greenwood tree
23) Hard Times
24) Nicholas Nickleby
25) Our mutual Friend
26) Dombey and Son
27) The Gambler
28) Silas Maner
29) Can you forgive her?
30) the adventures of sherlock holmes

[Thecatladybooknook_PennyD]

This was awesome!! Some of my favs are definitely the Bronte sisters! I love their novels almost equally but Jane Eyre being my fav. I fell in love with Hardy last year with The Mayor of Casterbridge and will be reading Jude the Obscure with a friend in June. I love And Then There Were None too!!

[kschmoldt]

I just wanted to tell you I was at my local public library in my little town in California and I was browsing through the new books area and guess what? Your new book was on our shelf! I already read it and thoroughly enjoyed it but I just wanted to let you know!

[tom]

Great video, as always, although I was quite surprised that George Gissing didn’t make the list. My favourites are:

1. The Brontë’s
2. Henry James
3. Jane Austen
4. George Eliot
5. Thomas Hardy
6. Edith Wharton
7. James Baldwin
8. George Gissing
9. D.H. Lawrence

[juliequick]

A very timely video as I’ve just been thinking I’ve not read any classics this year so far. Shock horror! I’ve lots of ideas now and am looking forward to the 2nd part later this week. Thank you for another brilliant video 🤓

[juliereadsherbookshelf]

Recently came across Nella Larsen by reputation and was intrigued. Adding that to my list!

[kimberlycook]

Katie, I just finished reading your novel! Bravo ! I enjoyed It very much…great characters and plot. I won’t spoil the story for others, but let’s just say it was a wonderful read. Thank you.

[ReadingNymph]

I agree I love the Bronte sisters so much ♡
I'm currently reading my second Thomas Hardy book, I love his writing and imagery, its fantastic.
Passing reminds me of a newer book I believe its called Vanishing Half.
So many of these authors are on my tbr 😊

[alicialozano]

Wonderful Katie, my 4 favorites authors are the same than yours, but Austen is my first. Wives and daughters is my favorite Gaskell too. Yesterday I bought Howard's end, is my first time with Forster😊😊, totally enjoyed your video.

[mathequation]

Thank you for this great video! Wuthering Heights is my favorite book of all time. I wish Emily Bronte lived for a million years -- she's a total genius! Also: I love that Agatha Christie made your list. I think she has never been replaced. The lightness of her writing, her humor & wit --- I am having a blast and smiling the entire time I am reading about crimes & murders. She is a gem!

[KierTheScrivener]

I love this list. I don't even know where I would start with favourite authors. I have so many and they are all so varied. Lucy Maud Montgomery is my chosen favourite as she introduced me into literature. I was later to the Jane Austen party but I do love her work so much. One of my friends has given to calling me Austen because I always talk about her which is the highest compliment.

[karenbird]

Titus Andronicus, is just brutal. I read it last month.

[buddhabillybob]

Great list! I haven't read anything by Nella Larsen. She is on my list.

[jimsbooksreadingandstuff]

Great rundown, I have added Passing and Anthony Powell to my want to read list.

[MLLatUtube]

Jane Eyre is my favorite novel of all time followed very closely by Pride and Prejudice. I do agree with you about Mansfield Park too. Anthony Trollope and Wilkie Collins as well as Elizabeth Gaskell would be on my list for sure as well. I have trouble thinking of Agatha Christie as classic, although of course she is. She may be my favorite author - I have read all of her novels.

[chloelauryn]

Loved this video, and saved many of your book recommendations! cant wait to read some new authors:)

[MartinDSmith]

Dickens's sense of humour and imagination are a winning combination.Oliver Twist is a wonderful novel. Mansfield Park and Persuasion are very enjoyable Austen reads.Charlotte Bronte's novels are deeply felt and thought out, including The Professor.I do hope to read Jude The Obscure at some point this year.