Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created at the Broke and Bookish. Check out their blog and join in the fun !
This week the topic is anything to do with classics – the ones that are your favorites or the ones you want to read or pretty much anything to do with the word “classics”. So I figured the easiest way to do this without getting carried away by the wealth of classics literature in the world would be to go over to my Goodreads account and select the most appropriate ones. All images are courtesy Goodreads.
Links to Goodreads (Clockwise from top left) : Samskara , The Argumentative Indian , The Great Indian Novel , Memories of Rain , A Suitable Boy , Laburnum for my head , Fire on the Mountain , Godaan , Aavarana , The Guide
Have you read any of these ? Are they on your TBR too ? What is your TTT take on Classics ? Don’t forget to link it in the comments !
The Resurgent Bookworm 
“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” has been on my “TBR” list for a while. Maybe when I’m done with the three new books I already have I’ll try that one! I’ve had my eye on “Rebecca” for a while too. I’ve tried to watch the movie twice, but I was interrupted twice so the ending hasn’t been ruined for me!
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I tried Uncle Tom’s Cabin in school but gave it up since I didn’t understand the gravity of it – picked it up again last year and finished it 🙂 I have to finish 4 more books till I can get to Rebecca !
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to kill a mockingbird is all of the feels to me!
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I love Rebecca! Can’t wait to see what you think of the novel!
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How cool that you included Indian classics! The vast majority of the classics I’ve read are British or American, with a few French, German, and Greek sprinkled in. I will definitely look into the Indian classics.
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I am from India so its part of a resolution to read more Indian literature . Co-incidentally I just stopped by your blog a few minutes ago and checked out the Maltese Falcon 🙂
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Sounds like a great resolution! My ancestors came to America on the Mayflower (John & Priscilla Alden), so at least my love of British Lit is part of my heritage. 😉
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To Kill a Mockingbird is superb and I bet you’ll love it! 🙂
The language in the Great Gatsby is magical and lyrical,and Jay Gatsby himself is unforgettable!
Oscar Wilde is at his best in The Picture of Dorian.The conversations are very witty,but also are food for thought.The plot is excellently written and you can feel Wilde’s genius in this book.I also like how the book is subtly autobiographical in nature.I think you’ll like it!
And come on,you MUST read The God of Small Things! Try seeing it as one of the most recent gems your country has produced! :p
Hmm,I must add ”Absalom,Absalom”,”One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”,”Rebecca” in my wish list! I have Catcher in the Rye at home,but haven’t yet read it!
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I have read To Kill … already and yes I absolutely loved it ! 🙂
I am looking forward to reading both Gatsby and Dorian Gray especially because I haven’t read any of their other works so it will be a first for me.
Ha Ha 🙂 ok maybe I will consider it after all ! Just have to set my prejudices aside (oh so tough!)
I really want to read all 4. I have a copy of Rebecca at home that belonged to my late grandfather but its missing the 1st few pages and coming apart. I don’t whether to risk skipping those pages or go for a new copy 😐
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I need to get to Tom Sawyer as well!
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Wow! You really went all out on this post. Great job. 🙂
You should definitely get to reading The Great Gatsby, especially if you enjoyed the movie.
I seriously want to read To Kill a Mockingbird and White Fang. I just haven’t gotten to them yet…
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I guess I did 🙂 Great Gatsby is definitely at the top of my TBR but I haven’t seen the movie yet (despite the fact that it had an Indian actor) 😉 Do read both – you will definitely love them !
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I will try to read them, but I seem to always be lacking in time.
You’re the first person I’ve talked to who has yet to see the Great Gatsby movie. I’m surprised. 😛
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Yeah I get that a lot 🙂
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Terrific lists! I’ll have to steal some of these I haven’t read for my own TBR. In particular, I really want to read A Suitable Boy. On that note, have you read any of Rohinton Mistry’s books? I read A Fine Balance last year and it was amazing. I look forward to reading Family Matters.
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Steal away 🙂 I haven’t read his works actually but I’ve read a lot of positive reviews on various blogs so I may pick it up soon. The only thing thats keeping me away from reading A Suitable Boy is the fact that its over 1000 pages – thats intimidating !
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Great lists! Exodus — wow, I haven’t thought about that one in years, but I remember loving it at the time. So many great books here! I really need to reread To Kill A Mockingbird.
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Its my father’s favourite and he is very keen that I read it 🙂
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Quite the diverse collection here! Your list also makes me feel pretty basic that the only one I’ve come close to dabbling with is Catcher which I imagine I didn’t enjoy because it was a school read and the main character just killed me in the most negative way possible (but that’s another story for another day).
Cheers,
joey via. thoughts and afterthoughts
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I have started to read classics now and I have read two – Pride and Prejudice & The Great Gatsby. I loved both the novels. Since classics are a free download for my kindle, the incentive to read them is even more. Will check out some of the classics mentioned by you 🙂
Destination Infinity
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Believe it or not I don’t have an ereader 🙂 But once I finish all the paperbacks I have, I’m planning to download books from Gutenberg
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I haven’t read any of these but I will be reading a couple like The Great Gasby and To Kill a Mockingbird soon in the next few years. We read them in school (:
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I think I should add A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court to my reading list-it’s been too long since I read a Mark Twain novel! To Kill A Mockingbird, Jane Eyre, and Little Women are three of my all-time favorite classics as well.
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I would recommend it – has a wry sense of humour running through it 🙂
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Silent Spring is horrific! It read’s like a science manual of some kind. I know it was a revolutionary novel and changed thins in America but to call it a novel is stretching it I think.
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I’m not calling it a novel by any means. My definition of “classics” is pretty wide in the post – Silent Spring is a classic in environmentalism so I would like to give it a try 🙂
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If you’re passionate about environmentalism I would definitely recommend it. Was such an important piece of literature, it changed legislation with it’s arguments and Carsons struggle with cancer while battling court cases over it. I may just be ignorant in hindsight really 🙂
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I wouldn’t call myself “passionate” but my mother is an ecologist hence the interest 🙂 And thats why I went through a Jane Goodall phase as a kid !
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