Victorian October - #Victober 2018 TBR

Victober 2018 Playlist:

Victorian Secret Publishers:

Channels Mentioned:

Adam @ Memento Mori:

Mel @ Mel's Bookland Adventures:

Katie @ Life Between Words:

Bree Hill:

Katie @ Books and Things:

Doris @ All D Books:

Katie @ Katie's Book Nook:

Kate @ The Novel Nomad:

Books Mentioned:

John Halifax a Gentleman:

Mary Barton:

The Mayor of Casterbridge:

David Copperfield:

Wuthering Heights:

Grania: The Story of an Island:

East Lynne:

A Burglary:

Clara Vaughan:

The Small House at Allington:

The Trail of the Serpent:

Deerbrook:

Zoe:

Emily Bronte's Poetry

Esther Waters:

Scenes of Clerical Life:

Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush:

Ghostly Tales:

Vanity Fair:

[SpinstersLibrary]

Great TBR, I'm loving all the Gaskell hype and I hope I'll enjoy her books as much as you do! There are so many interesting and obscure books on your TBR, I'm interested to hear what you make of them.

[mementomoriadam]

Thanks for gently nudging me into reading Gaskell! I can’t wait... these days most of my Victorian reads revolve around my boy, Thomas Hardy (Casterbridge is wonderful) so it will be a treat to pick some more up in October!

[bookishshenanigans]

Mary Barton is wonderful, it was my first Gaskell novel and I can't wait to read Wives and Daughters. I also loved The Mayor of Casterbridge and The Small House at Allington, I'm looking forward to starting to read the Barsetshire series from the beginning. Some really great and obscure reads here. Excited to hear your thought on them.

[jansmith]

So interesting! My October reading has always been creepy, so I think that a combination of Victorian and spooky is in order. Such a wide range. Great video!

[kathybolton]

What an amazing list, Kate! There were many I've never heard mentioned before so will be eager to hear your reviews. I keep changing my mind about my list. There's just so many great ones!

[meghanthestorygirl]

So glad you're reading Mary Barton! It's so fun to see the differences and similarities between it and North and South.

[ThatsWhatSheRead]

I always get so excited to see how excited you are about victober!!

[monicap]

Hi! This is such an interesting and in-depth tbr! I'd never even heard of half of the books you're hoping to read, and I was English major!

I actually just started a channel, and I hid my victober tbr in my September wrap up (maybe I shouldn't have. Alas). But I'm planning on reading Wives and Daughters, Vilette, and the Invisible Man (which I think counts as Victorian? I'm still not super sure)

I'm really excited to be participating this year, since I hadn't even heard of Victober last year!

[katiejlumsden]

I'm so glad I'm not the only one with a 20-minute-long Victober TBR :D. Mine will be up on Monday. I can't wait for our buddyreads. The publisher Victorian Secrets sounds amazing. I can't wait for you to read The Small House at Allington! And you are going to love David Copperfield - do you have the Simon Armitage audiobook? It's so good!

[BeDutch]

I am so excited to hear your thoughts on East Lynne! Your videos make #victober so much fun 😄

[CuriousReader]

I'm also thinking I might want to read some of Emily Brontë's poetry, I haven't read much Victorian poetry but I feel like the Brontë sisters have such beautiful imagery in their writing, it's bound to be beautiful. So many interesting books here! I really look forward to hearing your thoughts on these and all of the Victober videos! :)

[BlatantlyBookish]

I'm so excited for Victober this year! I'm hoping to post my TBR today or tomorrow. And thank you so much for curating a Victober TBR playlist! It's so helpful to have all the TBRs organized in one place. I'm planning on reading Mary Barton for Victober as well with Petra. I know you already have a lot of people in your buddy read, but would it be possible to add one or two more? There are so many books on your TBR that I now want to add to mine lol, but I'm trying to keep my reading goals realistic for this Victober. We'll see how that goes lol. Happy reading! :)

[mcrbus]

I'm so excited to get to The Mayor of Casterbridge! I also want to read all of Hardy's books and Casterbridge will be my third so far :) I adore Wuthering Heights, I reread it earlier this year and it's just so good. Ah it's such a great idea to listen to readings of poetry. Hope you have a great reading month :)

[LeanneRose]

BEAUTIFUL PRONUNCIATION! You go girl! There are so many books here that I've never heard of, and I'll definitely have to check them out :)

[anitahayne]

Thank you for reading a sentence from each book. Great idea! I’m finally going to read a novel for Victober. I have picked “The Way We Live Now.” I have never attempted Anthony Trollope. I would love it if you would read favorite passages from novels you read for October.

[SamanthaPajor]

I like that you read a little bit from each book!

[alldbooks]

Ahhh! Loved that introduction to Deerbrook! That might have to go on the wish list for next year. Looking forward to our buddy reads. Soon!

[jenniferbrooks]

I love the thought of the serialized app for Vanity Fair! I may have to try that as it really intimidates me and I really want to take my time with it when I finally start it.

I also love your long, ambitious TBR. It's put a few things on my radar, especially that Ghost Tales book!

I just uploaded my TBR and I'm excited to get started. Bring on the Vic Lit!

[AliasTwiggy]

So many books and authors I haven't heard of! I'm halfway through Wuthering Heights (my second time reading it). Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on that and East Lynne, which is on my general TBR.

[RaineyDayReads]

I’m really excited to read “Wives and Daughters” and also “Middlemarch”... although I’m thinking that’s all I’ll have time for as they are both so long! I’m impressed with your ambitious TBR!