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

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. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
by Emily Bronte
 
2. Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
3. Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
 
4. The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
by Edith Wharton
 
5. Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
 
6. Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Samuel Richardson
 
7. Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
 
8. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
 
9. The House of Mirth (Modern Library Classics)
by Edith Wharton
 
10. Daniel Deronda (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
 
11. Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
12. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
 
13. Lady Audley's Secret (Penguin Classics)
by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
 
14. The Woman in White (Modern Library Classics)
by Wilkie Collins
 
15. Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
 
16. Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,)
by E. M. Forster
 
17. North and South (Penguin Classics)
by Elizabeth Gaskell
 
18. Northanger Abbey (Modern Library Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
19. The Mysteries of Udolpho (Oxford World's Classics)
by Ann Radcliffe
 
20. Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress (Oxford World's Classics)
by Frances Burney
 
21. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
 
22. Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys (Library of America)
by Louisa May Alcott
 
23. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
 
24. Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
 
25. Sister Carrie (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Theodore Dreiser
 
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Created by krissness on Jul 27, 2006.