ONTD Book Club discussion

Since so many people have mentioned classics they want to read this year, I thought it best to make it one of our choices this month.

Nominate away!

(Please try to add the book links, it helps make the poll creation a hell of a lot easier.)

The Remains of the Day

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
Othello by William Shakespeare
Candide by Voltaire
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands I'm reading this right now. The way it is written makes it not so easy to read but her life is so interesting! She was born in Jamaica, lived in Panama and was a nurse during the Crimea war. Het autobiography is also one of the first autobiographies by mixed raced women (or so wiki tells me).
I don't know if it counts as a classic since I don't think the book is well known ( I never heard of her before watching an ExtraCredit episode on her life on youtube) but it was published in 1857 and I think it should be a classic.

Idris wrote: " Candide "


It is soooo great and clever. I've read it about 5 or 6 times. I took a class that focused heavily on Voltaire in college. Very fun.

Liesje Leest wrote: "Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands .... I don't know if it counts as a classic since I don't think the book is well known ( I never heard of her before watching an ExtraCredit episode on her life on youtube) but it was published in 1857 and I think it should be a classic. "

It will go on our list for sure!

, , and I've been meaning to reread Great Expectations since hs so I'm throwing it in lol.

The 3 Classics i have decided on for the year (ha) are The Great Gatsby, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Bastard Out of Carolina - so i nominate those 3 as options

The Time Machine

We've done Gatsby and Dorian Gray.

Here are a few I have on my reading list:

Sister Carrie
Silas Marner
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
All Quiet on the Western Front

@Jess, I can put up the polls this weekend, if you like?

they are up already https://www.goodreads.com/poll/list/4...

I sent out an email, but the code was messed up. I'm going to resend it tonight when I get on my laptop.