Thursday Thirteen Ed. #64
by Gail
1. How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
3. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
4. The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
5. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
6. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
7. Short stories by Leo Tolstoy
8. The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings
9. My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
10. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
11. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (I’m in the middle of this one.)
12. My Antonia by Willa Cather (I’m reading this next.)
13. Okay, now you suggest a book!
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Great List!! Lately I have been reading a lot of Francine Rivers books.
My TT is up!
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. It was the first Dickens I read and I will always remember it.
Have a Happy!
Great TT!! There are a few books on there I haven’t read yet.. right now I am reading Monk goes to Hawaii!! LOL I’m a Monk dork! LOL
Bev – Great Expectations is already on my list! *chuckle* I loved it, too. It is one of my favorites.
I love #3, #6, and #10. “The Count of Monte Cristo” was really great too!
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Great list.
I loved Little Women, and all of Lousia May Alcott’s books when I was in high school. Thanks for the reminder – I should read them again. 
And I loved the Chronicles of Narnia when I was younger. Great books. 
For a suggestion, how about The Hobbit, or the Lord of the Rings trilogy?
Happy TT.
Ooh, great list! My suggestion isn’t as lofty a title, but I’ve read the book 4 times. I love it. Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg. Much better than the movie! Happy TT and stop by my blog whenever you’re in the neighborhood.
DKRaymer – I actually read Fried Green Tomatoes a long time ago when I was pregnant with my now eleven-year-old. The book is great, but I was afraid it might upset the sensibilities of some of my readers. Shhh!! We’ll keep it our little secret.
There’s probably not much overlap between your tastes and mine, but I heartily recommend I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith. A lot of people compare it to Jane Austen, although I wouldn’t know…
Great list! I am currently reading (among others) The Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter. I read a lot of fluff as a kid so I am trying to get to the good stuff as an adult. This is great so far.
Samantha
Some of those are some I want to read, too. I just finished Pride and Prejudice and want to read more of Jane Austen’s books. Little Women is one of my all-time favorites. Others are the Anne of Green Gables series, A Tale of Two Cities and David Copperfield by Dickens, most anything by Terri Blackstock, a lot of Dee Henderson’s books and many of Karen Kingsbury’s. I also like to read biographies and missionary stories.
Great list! I’ve recently discovered Brock & Bodie Thoene’s historical fiction, and have been immersed! I really liked Francine River’s “Redeeming Love”, but that’s the only one of hers I read. Thom’s “Follow the River” (another historical fiction, TRUE story about an AMAZING woman) rocked my world a few summers ago.
This is a great list–I’ve even read some. And you have a beautiful site with interesting links.
My TT is up.
just discovered your blog with this week’s TT, but thought i’d check out some of your other posts!
i love this list. To Kill a Mockingbird and all of Chaim Potok’s books are also favorite novels of mine! a couple others i’d recommend are Small Change: The Secret Life of Penny Burford and The Secret Life of Bees. i hope you’ll post more about your reading!