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The original topic for this week was “Books I Would or Wouldn’t Reread and Why.” As I’ve recently done blog hop posts about mostly contemporary books I wouldn’t read and have another one ready to go for next week’s WWBC theme, I decided to tweak this one a little and talk about classic novels I would like to reread someday.
From what I recall about their storylines, they were all memorable tales filled with characters that I found relatable or interesting in some way.
1. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
2. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
3. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
4. The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1) by Pearl S. Buck
5. Dracula by Bram Stoker*
6. The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
7. Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1) by Toni Morrison
8. Beowulf by Unknown
9. The Plague by Albert Camus
10. Calvin and Hobbes (Calvin and Hobbes, #1) by Bill Watterson**
*Well, other than the fact that the protagonist brushed off the stern warnings he was given from locals about venturing in Dracula’s territory. You’d think he would have taken them seriously when they told him not to go there. Ha!
** If there is such a thing as a classic comic strip, I’d argue that Calvin and Hobbes deserves to be counted as one. They somehow become funnier and more meaningful every time I reread them.