My ranking of all the Victorian Novels I’ve Read (Part 1)

9I forgot I read The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins. I enjoyed that one too!
And I forgot to mention Dracula which I really enjoyed so much!

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In this Part 1 video I list the following books, the first one being my least favorite Victorian novel!
1) The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley
2) Through Russian Snows by G. A. Henty
3) Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat
4) Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat
5) Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
6) At the Back of the North Wind by George MacDonald
7) Princess and Curdie (????) by George MacDonald
8) King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard
9) Black Beauty by Anna Sewall
10) Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
11) Romance of the Shop by Amy Levy
12) Lady Audley's Secret by Mary Elizabeth Braedon
13) Callista by John Henry Newman
14) In the Roar of the Sea by Sabine Baring-Gould
15) The Little Minister by J. M. Barrie
16) Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes
17) Treasure Island by Robert Lewis Stevenson
18) Kidnapped by Robert Lewis Stevenson
19) The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
20) The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
21) The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins
22) Dracula by Bram Stoker (so sorry I left this out because I have a lot to say about it!)
23) The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
24) Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
25) Three Men and a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome (forgot to list this above - this list is definitely out of sync with the order I presented the books in the video)

[ChristyLuisDostoevskyinSpace]

I just filmed an unedited video too, and it's so hard to keep them short 🙈 But yours was packed with good stuff at least! 😂 I love that you did this, too! I kind of agree about George MacDonald 😅 I struggle with him. But yayyy a Conrad! It seems like he is not very popular with booktube! I'm really enjoying Lord Jim rn! This was great, thanks Faith!

[mitzireadsandwrites]

Yeah, The Water Babies is just plain weird. 😂
And wasn't Kate's interview with Professor Milbank so interesting? I'm loving her interviews she's including this month. It's helping me notice so many things in my reading.
I loved The Princess and the Goblin, but didn't get At The Back of the North Wind at all. Still, he's written some adult novels so I'm going to keep trying his work.