Classic Book Recommendations 📖 fun classics that you don't need to study to enjoy

This video is for everyone who wants a great classic to read, but doesn't want to have to study or deeply analyse it in order to enjoy it. 📖

(All of the music in my videos is from Epidemic Sound)

[maggieg.recommendsandrants]

The Blue Castle by L.M. Montgomery (author of Anne of Green Gables) is a fun, charming story. It's one of her lesser known works, but I think it has become my new favorite from her!

[joychalaby]

P.s. I wrote one of my uni Victorian history essays on North and South and I can attest to the fact that as much fun it is to enjoy the novel, there's a lot of fun things to draw out and study in this story!

[bobwesty-ks]

Excellent suggestions all! Most I have read.Your descriptions have piqued my interest regarding those I have not. Thanks!

[anyaa]

Dear Jen,
This was such a lovely video! Even though I am studying for my literature degree and have to read so many classics each semester, I absolutely love to read them for fun as well. Some of my favourites that I have read like that are Jane Eyre (so happy you loved that one🥰), Anne of Green Gables and Pride and Prejudice. I would also highly reccomend Little Women, as a story about growing up and women's experiences.
There are so many classical stories that are accessible and easy to read without having to analyse them, and you showed that charm perfectly. I adore your videos, cosy atmosphere and pieceful storytelling present with each novel you talk about. Thank you for that. Sending lots of love and great books your way!!🧡🧡🌻

[joychalaby]

Jen, such a lovely list or selection of books you've got there, they're all such favourite classics of mine too...!
Agatha Christie's mysteries and Sherlock Holmes are such fun cosy ones (and the different adaptions are fantastic too! Have you seen the Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes by the way? It's so good and Cumberbatch apparently drew inspiration from his portrayal of Holmes).

But goodness, North and South, Rebecca, Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables and The Secret Garden are all such beautiful, engaging and brilliant novels!!! I love that you acknowledged how a good adaptation can help us enjoy a classic. I'm very much of the same mind, and with most of these the adaptations and books complement each other a lot :)

[bookswithchaimae]

Jane eyre is my favourite classic too, it’s so well written, i’m excited to read charlotte’s other novels ❤

[mary_yankulova]

Such a lovely video❤ I have picked “North and South” for my June classic. And you are gonna make ne read “Rebeka” finally 🙏

[ReadingNymph]

I have loved all of these. I need to read North and South, but all the others are some of my favourites ❤
Thomas Hardy is becoming a firm favourite author of mine, I think his work is just beautiful

[percydoeseverything]

Great list! Out of all of these (if I'm not too mistaken) I've only read Sherlock Holmes, which I feel holds up a lot better than you'd think. However, reading them from the editions I have make them a bit long at times.. I have really small editions, really need to look into getting new ones cause I actually love the stories.
The Secret Garden is one I've loved since I was a kid. One of the few I read early on and still love.

Pride & Prejudice is also one I can easily revisit, probably cause I grew up with the Colin Firth adaption and it just kinda plays in my head while I read the book.

[jeffreykaufmann]

Have you read "The Woman In White" by Wilkie Collins?
Its so rivetting!

[MsCathyheathcliffe]

OMG Where did you get your version of Jane Eyre! It's so beautiful! xox

[Lumieredumonde-x]

North and South, and Jane Eyre are one of my favourite classics 💜 just leaving this comment makes me wanna reread them haha