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2011 Victorian Literature Challenge
2011 Victorian Literature Challenge (Starts Jan 1, 2011)
Selected Level: Desperate Remedies: 15+ books.
Here is the list of books I’ll be reading over the next year as part of the 2011 Victorian Literature Challenge. I will try to blog and post about each one. Many of these I have read and many I have not but have wanted to and thought this would be the perfect excuse. All of these books were written during the specified Victorian timeline (1837-1901).
These books are in no special order and I will not be reading in this order but I will post what I am reading.
Challenge starts Jan 1 2011! Here’s the list!
- Wuthering Heights/ Emily Bronte
- Great Expectations/ Charles Dickens
- The Moonstone/ Wilkie Collins
- The Woman in White/ Wilkie Collins
- The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes/ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Picture of Dorian Gray/ Oscar Wilde
- Middlemarch/ George Elliot
- The Mill on the Floss/ George Eliot
- Silas Marner/ George Elliot
- Agnes Grey/ Anne Bronte
- Les Miserables/ Victor Hugo
- The Importance of Being Earnest/ Oscar Wilde
- Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass/ Lewis Carroll (since they are both short)
- A Christmas Carol/ Charles Dickens
- Vanity Fair/ William Thackeray
- The Purloined Letter and other short stories/ Edgar Allan Poe
- Tale of Two Cities/ Charles Dickens
- The Turn of the Shrew or The Portrait of a Lady/ both by Henry James
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes/ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes)/ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
11 Comments
Jillian
Oh yay!! What an awesome list!!
(Is Sense and Sty a Victorian read? I thought it was published in 1811?)
I wanted to read that one too. If you can do it, I might do it. 😛
Have fun!
Jillian
Oh yay!! What an awesome list!!
(Is Sense and Sensibility a Victorian read? I thought it was published in 1811?)
I wanted to read that one too. If you can do it, I might do it. 😛
Have fun!
The Lit Bitch
Ohhh good catch 🙂 I seem to always consider Austen part of the ‘Victorian’ era since it’s within a decade or so LOL 🙂
I will modify my list….let’s see……Les Miserables/ Victor Hugo and Madame Bovary/Gustave Flaubert or perhaps David Copperfield/ Charles Dickens or The Importance of Being Earnest/ Oscar Wilde….so many to choose from 🙂 though I might still read the Austen novels since I just love Austen so much 🙂
Jillian
Me too, on Austen! I know, I thought she was Victorian too, and was disappointed when I saw the date.
Go for Wilde! I am! 🙂
Bethany
EXCELLENT LIST
I really ought to read some Arthur Conan Doyle. It’s almost embarrassing that I haven’t yet, considering I’ve been in Edinburgh for six years.
Also – Austen is always considered as a Victorian writer even though she didn’t publish in the Victorian era! That’s because the themes, the style, etc are all a precursor to what came after. She was before her time, as they say!
The Lit Bitch
Hummm well the plot thickens 🙂 perhaps I will read an Austen novel, I’ll have to see how things go with the first couple 🙂
I’ve read the four novels of Sherlock Holmes and the Adventures of- of the four novels I would recommend The Hound of Baskervilles, the Adventures of were good too which I why want to read more for the Challenge 🙂
So excited!!
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