19th Century Novel Group
We read big fat fiction written in the 19th Century from all over Europe. Maybe soon we’ll read fiction from America and China! Stay tuned and think about joining this awesome group! We read slowly, meeting every two or three months. Yes, you can handle it!
Books We’ve Read So Far
Emma, Jane Austen
Middlemarch, George Eliot
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Frankenstein, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Plague, Albert Camus
The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton
Books We Have Ambitions to Read
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Cousin Bette, Le Pere Goriot, Honore de Balzac
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
Howard’s End, E.M Forster
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (not 19th C but so close and so cool!)
The Lady with the Dog, Anton Chekhov
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
Flowers in the Mirror, Ju-chen Li
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Dracula, Bram Stoker
Moby-Dick, Herman Melville