CLASSICS I WANT TO READ IN 2024

it's a new year and that means new books and endless reading possibilities my favorite point of the year is sitting down right at the beginning and deciding what I would like to read theming my reading thinking about new Authors I want to try and ways I want to challenge myself as a reader and this is my Classics I want to read in 2024 video filming my Classics I want to read video really has become a yearly tradition for me and I hope that this video will inspire you to read some more Classics this year just as it inspires me with my own Classics reading so let's look at what I have planned for 2024 and there's one author that I am almost definite will come to Define my year this year she's become a new favorite of mine an author I read for the first time in 2023 and I am obsessed it's an obsession I can't see going anywhere anytime soon it's just going to keep going and I'm here for it so the author I want to read first in 2024 is Agatha Christie I really am becoming somewhat of a mystery girl but the problem with reading Agatha Christy is that I think I'm a detective now I think I miss marel I think I can out whip poo it's becoming a problem because every new mystery I read my confidence grows and I'm becoming slightly delusional so with my Agatha Christie reading I am trying to read the Miss marle books vaguely in publication order I'm reading the Pu books out of order and then reading the standalones whenever I feel like it so I'm trying to read a range of her books because I do think that there are differences depending on when she wrote them some books just naturally are better than others she wrote so so many books there are going to be some that hit or miss and others that she is most known for so the book I want to kick my Agatha Christie reading off with this year is the murder of Roger Acro which many say is her best book not just her best loved but her best crafted too and one of you lovely people left a comment on my last video which said that really you should read Agatha Christie's best books first because the more you read the more you know her tricks and what she's doing so if you read the best books first then you can enjoy them more and really see them for what they are and how good they are and I've really taken that to heart this was published in 1926 it's one of Agatha Christie's early Mysteries and it is a PUO book and I've read one other PUO book so far which was the murder on the Orient Express and while I loved it I didn't enjoy it quite as much as some of the Standalone Agatha Christie I've read so I'm really interested to know how I find poo in this book what I found so far with poo is that he likes the sound of his own voice which fair enough it's his book he is the main character he's the detective solving the mystery but because of that Agatha Christie has these moments where he's showing how clever he is and I find that that detaches me from his character slightly because it's just annoying it rubs me up the wrong way I'm hoping to read this one in the next few weeks so hopefully it will be just as good as everybody says another Agatha Christie book I would like to read this year is death on the Nile and this is also a porro book it was one that was written over a decade after the murder of R akroy so I think it would be interesting to read them sort of back to back and compare the decade development in Christy's writing style and where she was taking the stories and the characters I'm really excited about this one because I think the agath Christie does setting really well I love the way that she writes about plays and how she includes plays in the setup for the murder that has taken place this is set on a cruise steamer that is going down the Nile and parro is on this Cruise steamer and of course a murder has happened and we know that somebody on this boat is the murderer so it's Poo's job to to solve who it is I'm wondering how similar it will be to murder on the orian express because those two do sound very similar except we got a cruise steamer going down the Nile and a train so hopefully there'll be some difference but I think it's going to be quite a clever one well I fully expect that I'll read a lot more Agatha Christie this year the final Agatha Christie book I would definitely love to read is sparkling cyanide which is one of the Standalone Mysteries so there isn't a specific detective involved in the solving of the crime that has taken place the premise of this revolves around a dinner party for six but there are seven places at the table and everybody in attendance is very aware that just a year before they were in exactly the same position where a woman called Rosemary died at the table and the seventh place is empty but laid for her this sounds right up my street and it's one that's included in a lot of best of Agatha Christie lists away from Agatha Christi and an author unrelated but who who was writing at the same time is Virginia wolf and I've read quite a few of her novels which I love I'm a big Virginia wolf fan when I read a Virginia wolf I try to carve out as much time as possible and read the book in as few settings as I possibly can because that's my favorite Virginia wolf reading experience but I came to this realization that I haven't read as much non-fiction from Virginia wolf as possible I've read A Room of One's Own but there's so much of her writing that I still haven't got to so I thought that this year I would focus on trying to read some more Virginia wolf non-fiction and the book that I've gone for is the common reader this is volume one so I'll try to read this and hopefully the other volume if I can so this is a collection of essays from the perspective of the common reader readers from across the ages and each essay looks at literature spanning a broad range of History just looking through we can see essays on cha on Elizabeth and plays on Modern fiction lives of the Obscure Jane Austin Jane air and wering Heights all things I really really love and I always really respect Virginia Wolf's opinion as a writer and also as a Critic and this really was what established her as a literature critic I don't know yet if I'll read this all in one go or if I'll break the essays down and read them over a longer period of time but either way I'm really looking forward to it and hoping it inspires some of my own reading too another non-fiction classic I would like to read this year is night walks by Charles Dickens and this is in Penguins great ideas Series this is another collection of essays about Charles Dickens musings on the night walks around London he went on and though I think this is going to be a great insight into Charles dickens's mind what I'm probably most excited about with this book is looking at what Victorian London was like so actually walking around Victorian London with Charles Dickens as a tour guide I think everybody would like Charles Dickens as a tour guide right whereas Virginia wolf wrote about the common reader Ian forer did a series of lectures about aspects of the novel and it was turned into an essay collection too so we've gone from Reading to the art of writing and what I really like about the idea of reading this alongside Virginia wolf is that it talks about rejecting the historical view of criticism M that demon of chronology as Ian forer called it that considers writers in terms of the period in which they wrote and instead asks us to imagine the great novelists at work together in a circular room so it's looking at writers not just in context of the time that they were writing but looking at them in relation to each other learning from each other and building on what already has been done I've read extracts from this before but it's going to be great to read it all in one go I am somewhat of an em forer fan Howard's end is one of my favorite books of all time I'm a big fan of Morris too I wasn't quite as much of a fan of A Room With a View which was the first forer book that I read I would like to continue with his novels and this year I think I should give a Passage to India ago look at this lovely orange penguin paperback I love these additions so much this is a book that set during the British rule of India and was heavily inspired by Ian Foster's own time in India during the 1910s so it's going to have heavy themes of Empire and colonialism and I think it's going to be important to read it in the context of the time it was written but I also think it's equally as important to critique it based on who we are and the world that we live in now for those of you who don't know I am currently studying for a degree in history and my module this year is based on war in Europe during the 20th century so I've looked looked at the first world war the second world war and I'm going right up to the Cold War so some of the books I want to read this year have been heavily inspired by the reading that I've done so far and things have piqued my interest as I have been studying an author we looked at as part of our modu reading was Christopher isherwood and these are his Berlin novels so they start with Mr Norris changes trains and goodbye to Berlin and these were the inspiration for Cabaret they are set in Berlin during the inter War years and it was an era of jazz and exploration and adventure and bright lights and entertainment but it was also an era of deprivation and struggle and people were still living in really shocking conditions despite the fact that elsewhere in the city it very much felt like a new age both books were published in the 1930s and it's very difficult to read the books now and not to want to reach in and tell the characters I know what's coming war is on its way you've lived through one war and there is another Right Round the Corner something that wasn't unfelt completely by people at the time but we know for sure we know what happens and the characters the author doesn't based on the extracts I've read so far I think I'm really going to enjoy this another book set in inter War Germany is Mana by Anna Miner who was either ion's mother Eva ibbitson is one of my favorite authors if you haven't read her ya/ adult novels they are the absolute best and I love her children's books too so I've always wanted to read this but I thought now would be the perfect time this is a beautiful pany Edition I love their book shop so much and love the selection of books that they publish this opens in 1920 and runs up into 1933 I could talk about this all day but I'll hand you over to the far superior Wordsmith of Eva ibbitson who said I remember my mother writing Mana in the sitting room of a flat in Biz Park its Origins were a small piece in a newspaper describing the fate of a 12-year-old girl in a German Town the book spans the period between 1920s when Germans were trying to forget the defeat and horror of the war and 1933 when the hopes and aspirations of decent people had suffered a second defeat in the Triumph of narcissism the story of five children and their loyal and Resolute friendship Mana opens with the five nights on which they are conceived they gradually meet and only partly understanding are drawn into the Destinies of their parents I really am looking forward to reading this for my final year of University I think I'm going to choose a module on Welsh history so I thought I would add some wellsh Classics to my list this year I thought I'd go way back in time and read some of the Mogan the book is made up of 11 stories from medieval Wales and they weren't stories that were written together but they were stories that were put together and translated into English and that's how they have ended up together the stories date between 1382 and 1410 which is not it's safe to say my time period so it's going to be really nice to challenge myself as a reader and not just because of the language but because there's going to be so much historical context that I need to get to grip with too I'm really excited about this I love a little bit of a challenge and I know it's going to be a fun Challenge and then finally I would love this year to be the year that I read some George Orwell I love these beautiful penguin English Library editions and I've wanted to read some George Orwell for years but I've never got around to it I don't think that the time's been right I really do believe that sometimes books find you at the right time and you weren't meant to read them before cuz maybe wouldn't understand them in the right way maybe you don't need that book in your life at that point but I really do feel like now is the right time for George Orwell so I'd like to read 1984 and animal farm animal farm was published first in 1945 and 1984 followed in 1949 and both are extremely political in nature animal farm is the story of a revolution told through the lens of a group of farm animals and 1984 is about a future Society where everything is controlled down to your every thought by the party it has the iconic opening line it was a bright cold day in April and The Clocks Were Striking 13 I think it might be quite nice to read these in quick succession and be able to compare the two so I might try to do that so those are the classics that I am hoping to read in 2024 I'd love to know in the comments what Classics you are hoping to read this year share with me your exciting TBR piles I am sending you all the luck for the reading year ahead happy reading

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Published: Mon Jan 08 2024