"Painfully to pore upon a book
To seek the light of truth."
- Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
"Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize above my dukedom."
- Shakespeare, The Tempest
"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading." - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
However, being an English student, I do read quite a bit... some of my favourite books (in no particular order) are:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the Pearl Poet
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Shirley by ditto
Jane Austen's novels (especially Emma and P&P)
Middlemarch by Virginia Woolf
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
The Collected Works of William Shakespeare :D
Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translations by Brian Friel
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Frost in May by Antonia White
Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The York Mystery Plays by... well, I wish I knew; if I did my academic career would be guaranteed ;)
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Daddy's choices:
ReplyDeleteThe Divine Comedy by Dante
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera by ditto
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee