krissness's "Classic Chick Lit I Want to Read"

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I have never been big on fiction, but lately I have been reading and enjoying Jane Austen and other late 18th/19th/early 20th century writers, mostly English. I say "chick-lit" because most of these books are either written by women or focus on female characters. This is the list of books that I am planning to read.

  1. 1.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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  2. 2.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  3. 3.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  4. 4.
    The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  5. 5.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  6. 6.
    Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

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  7. 7.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  8. 8.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  9. 9.
    The House of Mirth (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  10. 10.
    Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  11. 11.
    Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  12. 12.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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  13. 13.
    Lady Audley's Secret (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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  14. 14.
    The Woman in White (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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  15. 15.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  16. 16.
    Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,)
    by E. M. Forster

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  17. 17.
    North and South (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth Gaskell

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  18. 18.
    Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  19. 19.
    The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ann Radcliffe

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  20. 20.
    Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Frances Burney

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  21. 21.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  23. 23.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  24. 24.
    Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  25. 25.
    Sister Carrie (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Theodore Dreiser

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Created by krissness on Jul 27, 2006.
 

Comments

goodwinmd13
Cincinnati

Pride and Prejudice? — 3 years ago

Pride and Prejudice is considered one of the most well known classic chick-lit. There is even a book about P&P called “Flirting with Pride and Prejudice: Fresh Perspectives on the Original Chick-Lit Masterpiece”

Plus it is way better than either Northanger Abbey and Emma.

Jan 25, 07:34AM | 1 comment | Reply to this

bookworm148

Jane Eyre — 3 years ago

Jane Eyre was fabulous! A bit slow at times, but I couldn’t put it down. I read it in three days I think. It’s definitely worth it!

Oct 24, 11:19AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

krissness
Arlington

Emma is completed! — 3 years ago

Really it didn’t take that long to finish Emma (like two weeks reading only a bit each day), but compared to the previous Jane Austen books, and even to Wuthering Heights, it seemed really slow. It was enjoyable though and I’m glad I consumed it. What to read next…..?

Aug 11, 03:26PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

krissness
Arlington

Northanger Abbey and Emma — 3 years ago

I finished Northanger Abbey recently and I loved it. It was such a hilarious satire on the types of gothic novels that were popular during Jane Austen’s life. I have read many places that this is considered her worst book, but I enjoyed every minute of it and laughed quite a lot.

On the other hand, I am having trouble getting into Emma, which is supposedly considered Austen’s “most perfect” work.

Jul 29, 07:05PM | 0 comments | Reply to this