T13 - Classic Books Edition
...I never read as a youth (and still need to read!)
Here are the authors of 13 classic books I never read growing up. I still want to get to them though! Do you know the titles? (Some authors represent more than one book, of course, but I'd never read any of them, so I'm flexible when it comes to exact titles.) No googling! lol
Alphabetical Order by Author
1. L. Frank Baum
2. Emily Bronte
3. Stephen Crane
4. Alexandre Dumas
5. Fred Gipson
6. Harper Lee
7. Jack London
8. John Milton
9. Mary Shelley
10. Bram Stoker
11. Leo Tolstoy
12. Mark Twain
13. Jules Verne
Extra Credit: List your own (a few, not 13) missed classics that you still want to get to!
Answers... (I should link them to Amazon so you can buy them!) I have never read (but I intend to):
1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz nor any Oz books
2. Wuthering Heights nor any of her sister's books
3. The Red Badge of Courage
4. The Three Muskateers nor The Count of Monte Cristo
5. Old Yeller
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
7. The Call of the Wild nor White Fang
8. Paradise Lost nor Paradise Regained
9. Frankestein
10. Dracula
11. Anna Karenina nor War And Peace
12. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn nor Tom Sawyer
13. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea nor Around the World in 80 Days
Oh well. I read the Cliff notes on some. lol
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39 comments out loud:
OK, I will take a stab at this.
1. The Oz books.
2. Geez, was she the one who did Wuthering Heights, or was that one of the others?
3. I know I read short stories by him in high school literature classes, but I can't think of any of them, or a book by him.
4. Count of Monte Cristo?
5. No clue :-(
6. She only ever wrote one book, To Kill a Mockingbird. I read it, recently even!
7. Shoot, he wrote nature stories, right? Brain fart.
8. Paradise Lost?
9. Frankenstein
10. Dracula
11. Some big fat Russian books?
12. Tom Sawyer, etc.
13. What was that one, with the submarine and Captain Nemo? He wrote that, right?
Of all of these, I've only actually read To Kill a Mockingbird. I'd like to read Uncle Tom's Cabin...
My birthday T13 is up!
Um... What jen said;)
Big fat Russian books is right! lol
1. Oz - read a chapter I think
2. all kinds of stuff. Personally, I prefer the poetry.
3. Couldn't tell you who he was
4. Count of Monte Cristo and those candy bar boys...
5. no clue
6. Actually read this mockingbird
7. Call of the Wild...I let the machine get it. :) Actually, we watched the movie after reading it
8. yes. never again, please!
9. Frankenstein
10. Dracula (read the book after working through the production)
11. no, sorry...haven't touched any of his tomes.
12. read several, and listened to the debate about how bad the N word was.
13. Have yet to go deep sea diving for this guy.
I've never read any of those... I can say I haven't read 13 books unless school books count!
Ok, I've read 3,4,6,12,and 13. I believe 3 is the Red Badge of Courage. Great list of Authors and Books. There's a couple I'd like to read still, like Emily Bronte and Jack London.
Happy Thursday!
All good authors... Knew most of them. Especially loved to Kill a Mocking Bird. Do I get extra credit for knowing that Demi Moore named one of her daughter's "Scout" from the book?
I think I have read Twain, Stoker and Bronte, but couldn't remember them if I had to.
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
Good list, Lyn! I used to work in a bookstore, so I won't spoil the fun, but there truly are some Must Reads on your list--and I'm not always a fan of the classics.
Happy TT!
I know of Harper Lee, Mark Twain and Leo Tolstoy.
Thanks for dropping by.
Here's my try:
1. Wizard of Oz, etc.
2. Wuthering Heights?
3. Red Badge of Courage
4. Father or son? 3 Musketeers, Count of Monte Cristo, Man in the Iron Mask
5. No idea.
6. My favorite - To Kill A Mockingbird
7. White Fang, Call of the Wild
8. Paradise Lost
9. Frankenstein's Monster
10. Dracula
11. another favorite author of mine: War and Peace, short stories
12. Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn
13. Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in 80 days.
1. The Wizzard of Oz
7. White Fang?
10. Dracula - nothing like the real story. I've been to Dracula's castle
12. Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper
12. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?
The only classic I've read on your list is the Prince and the Pauper. Some day I'd like to read Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.
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I'm having High School English class flash backs. ;)
I know some of them, some of them I don't. I like books that are fun to read tho!
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Wuthering Heights
The Red Badge of Courage
The Count of Monte Cristo
Old Yeller
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Call of the Wild
Paradise Lost
Mathilda
Dracula
War and Peace
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Most of them are movies now..hahaha
I read them all but I have not seen all the movies...
I think this is a great list. I did not put my name in your linky list because I didn't play this week but I have a little bit of time to visit the ones that posted...
Have a wonderful day!
Thanks for Thirteening!
Reading is a great thing. Most of them I knew. Cute. Mine is up too!
Funny - I recognize names but Huck Finn/Tom Sawyer's author is the only one I could associate with anything! Good list - thanks for visiting my TT!
I love to read, and I even have a Master's Degree in Spanish, with a focus on literature, but unfortunately every English class I ever took in school totally ruined me for classics in my own language. Probably because they all became associated with, "You HAVE TO read this!" I really hate people telling me what to do :)
Great list. Here's what I think I know and/or remember:
1. Wizard of Oz
2. Wuthering Heights
3. something about a soldier?....on tip of my tongue....
4. can't remember
5. no idea
6. To Kill a Mockingbird
7. The Call of the Wild
8. Paradise Lost?
9. Frankenstein
10. Dracula? (or do I have have 9 and 10 mixed up with Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde???)
11. sorry brain lapse
12. Huckleberry Finn
13. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (maybe it was more leagues than that;-)
Great list!
okay NOW i visited your tt this week. ;)
I see a few authors Iwhose works i have read but i just got off a 12 hour nigh shift and my brain is jello right now.
thanks for visiting my tt this week.
Wow, a lot of those I've never read either. Thanks for stopping by my TT!
there are *so* many i have not read either!! part of the problem was being forced to read them for school. as soon as i *had* to read them, i had no interest. years later, when i picked them up as an adult & by my own free will? i loved so many of the books i found unreadable in school. go figure. =P
you visited my blog but i couldn't tell if you couldn't find the place to comment on my TT...or if you couldn't *find* my TT at all! LOL it is right here & the place to comment is all the way at the bottom, just above "home" where it says "share your own thoughts"! ;-)
I've read them all (lie)! They are so great...I've re-read them often (also a lie).
Thanks for the to-do list!
The only one I have still yet to read from my youth is Atlas Shrugged. I've been dying to read it. I just can't seem to find the time.
Kay. I'm taking the Nestea challenge. Promise I'm not looking above.
1. no idea
2. Wuthering Heights
3.
4. Count of Monte Cristo (one of my favs)
5.
6. To Kill a Mockingbird (cry every time)
7. Call of the Wild
8. Paradise Lost
9. Frankenstein
10.
11. War and Peace or Anna Karenina
12. Could be a million options: Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Connecticutt Yankee, Puddinhead Wilson, I'm guessing one of the first two
13. ooh, just on the tip of my tongue
There's a fun website (I'll have to find it again and let you know) lists the first lines of famous books.
I've read #1 (every single one of the Oz books--I loved them when I was a kid), #2, #4, #6, & #12. Some of the others I'd like to read, others I'm just as happy having missed them.
Lyn, to my shame, I also haven't read several of those. However, you MUST read "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Wuthering Heights"! :)
1. Oz read some but not all. Entertaining plots but writing style, eh.
2. Have read both Bronte sisters. The dark romance plots have been reused so often that they seem overused until you recall that these came first.
3. Stephen Crane. Had to read his stuff in high school and still own some. Pretty miserable reading.
4. 5. 6. Have not read.
7. Jack London-definitely reading for boys. My brothers loved his work, I hated it. The same goes for Hemingway.
8. Milton is good reading, but only in small chunks. Too much is too much.
9. & 10. Shelley & Stoker I have read. Similar to Bronte sisters for the Horror category.
11. Tolstoy is all right. I would recommend Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky over War and Peace or Anna Karenina.
12. My husband loves Twain. I love his colloquialism's but hate his attitude toward life. Jaded and bitter.
13. Jules Verne. Another like Bronte's. Good sci-fi/fantasy from when there was very little sci-fi/fantasy. Now too many have immitated so it seems overdone.
I guess I could have listed titles but didn't look through the comments and am assuming others have.
I have read pretty much everything I want to because I love a good book and tend to go read it to the detriment of whatever else I am supposed to be doing. The only things I long to read are books which I can't get a hold of and are no longer in print or just haven't found yet or been able to afford.
There are several George MacDonald I need to get a hold of. (If you don't know who he was, he inspired both Tolkien and C.S. Lewis to write. He wrote Christian romance and sci-fi/fantasy before there was such a thing. Good stuff. If you want an intro try "The Princess and the Goblin" or "The Light Princess".)
I would also like to get of Oswald Chamber's life works and several other books of that sort. I would like to own all of Elisabeth Elliot's works as well as those of C.S. Lewis and several other classic authors I long for my kids to be able to read.
Heather, I do like George MacDonald! And just read a "lost" CS Lewis story - The Dark Tower (it was actually an unfinished novel). For supernatural mystery try Charles Williams and for good ol fashioned mystery, Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter stories. Thanks for the commnets.
I've read almost all of those books! They are really worth reading. Of course, a lot of those were required reading for me in school.
Thanks for stopping by my TT!
I made it almost to the end of Anna Kareninna and then I just stopped dead. One of the few books I haven't finished.
Some of those I still have to get to myself and I own a bookstore! Shame on me!
Happy Thursday!
Man, this is alot of work and I am so ignorant of things like this. I almost never read fiction. But it sure makes you look smart...
Some day I'll be able to sit & read again without falling asleep... Thanks for stopping by!!
Since I commute over a 100 miles a day (round trip) I spend a lot of time in my car listening to audio books. Just got done with Count of Monte Cristo a couple months ago - fabulous book.
Great list of classic books! I'm ashamed to admit this, but I've only read two of the 13: The Three Musketeers and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
I've never read the Oz books, Frankestein, or Dracula. I feel the same way as you that I would like to, but I always seem to find some other novel to grab before I get to those dusty classics. I highly suggest, though, reading Jack London as I feel he has such a great insight into wildlife and nature. No one quite can capture the essence of it like he can.
Ouch. You're the second 13 I've read today with a literary theme and I'm not doing much better with this one than I did with that. Out of this list, I can only name a few.
1. L. Frank Baum - Wizard of Oz and all the other Oz books. I read a few of them when I was a kid, but don't remember much about them. I know they were way different than the movie. I tried picking up another one of his books recently but couldn't get into it.
2. Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights? Or was that Charlotte? I just read WH recently. Quite the book. Makes my family look downright sane.
6, 8, 11, and 13 I know I should know, but can't remember.
7. Jack London - the wolf book - I just can't remember the name, but I know I know it.
9. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
10. Bram Stoker - Dracula
12. Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn among many many others.
Now I'm off to go check my answers against yours.
Thanks for a great 13! This was fun!
Wow, good classics. I loved reading Jack London when I child.
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