Oldies but Goodies!
- To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
- A Separate Peace by John Knowles
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder
- The Natural by Bernard Malamud
- Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Favorite book older than you?
Let us know in the comments!
Let us know in the comments!
I remember reading Lord of the Flies in school - crazy!
ReplyDeleteI actually read it twice. Once in 10th grade english and then again for a film elective. We read the book and watched the film (the old one). I thought it was a great book
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ReplyDeleteI've only read Animal Farm and Romeo and Juliet from your list. I honestly don't remember much from Animal Farm...
He's cute, right? I remember thinking Animal Farm was brilliant, and I was like 14 when I read it. Orwell was a genius, in my opinion.
DeleteI've read most of these too! I remember really enjoying A Separate Peace. I have a cool version of Mixed-Up Files and want to re-read it soon.
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A Separate Peace was one of my freshman year books. Mostly everyone hated it, but I liked it. LOVED Mixed-Up Files. Obsessed with the movie, and then I got to revisit when my daughter was in grade school. She was so sad when we went to the Met and the bed was gone
DeleteI should have put Lord of the Flies and some of the others here on my list, too! I completely forgot about them. Ugh. My list is so boring. Yours is fun.
ReplyDeleteMy list is almost all required reading. You didn't have to go as far back as me, because you're younger.
DeleteAnimal Farm I read in school, I’ve never read it again instead I opted for 1984 instead.
ReplyDeleteI have not revisited any of these books since I first read them, but I don't re-read.
DeleteThis is a great list. Even though I was never a big fan of required reads in school, your list definitely contains most of my favorites.
ReplyDeleteI don't really read any books 50 years or older, so I had to dig into my required reading. I liked a lot of the books I read in school, believe it or not.
DeleteI’ve read almost all of these! I need to reread Charlotte’s Web. I remember my 3rd grade teacher reading it to us, and I loved it.
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That book made me cry. It was sad for my little kid self.
DeleteThis list definitely brings back memories! I've read half of them. TKAM is my favorite book of all time. I also like A SEPARATE PEACE, which I just re-read last year.
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT!
We read A Separate Peace when I was a freshman, and I was one of the few that liked it. Very under appreciated by my peers.
DeleteI read Romeo and Juliet in school, and I think I read the Judy Blume book while a young teenager. I definitely read some of her books. All of Agatha Christie's books are older than me, and I've read most of them. Rebecca is also one I can think of offhand that is older than me. I'm sure I've read others, but none are coming to mind this late at night, lol. :)
ReplyDeleteI definitely read Margaret as a pre-teen, because my sister (slightly older) and her friends were passing the book around, but I read a lot of her other books in my teens and grade school too. She wrote so many! Mostly, any old books I read were for school. That's why my TTT looks like a required reading list.
DeleteThat cover of Are You There God It's Me Margaret instantly takes me back because that's the exact version I had. That book (and many other Blume books) were such a huge part of my childhood.
ReplyDeleteThat is the one I read. It was passed from girl to girl on my street.
DeleteTo Kill A Mockingbird one of the two of these I've read and it was the cover version you have here! :)
ReplyDeleteI couldn't remember what the cover looked like for that one. I was 14 when I read it, and I am very much not 14 now.
DeleteOh, all of these are great! And I love your title. It's perfect! :)
ReplyDeleteThanks! Mostly required reading stuff. That's what I get for obsessing about new releases.
DeleteI am ashamed to say that I haven't read any of these!
ReplyDeleteThey are mostly required reading in American schools, so I can understand why you haven't
DeleteSome of these I'm going to have to add to my own tbr! Thanks for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteI am surprised you haven't read them all already.
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