Reading Challenge // 12 Classics To Read In 2016

As in my previous post where I told you about the 12 books I wanna read next year, in today’s one it’s all about the 12 classics I would love to get to in 2016.

None of them are required reading for University this year and that’s why I included them. I wanted to pick up some authors who I will study but whose books are not the ones I need to get to, mandatorily speaking. There are also some modern classics. All of them, however, have in common one thing: they've been added to my bookshelves this year and I don't want them to start piling up.

Here is the list:

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith.
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
Persuasion by Jane Austen.
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.
Middlemarch by George Eliot.
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert.
Mariana by Monica Dickens.
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple.

I hope you had an amazing Christmas Day and you got a lot of bookish gifts because those are the best, aren’t they? Have you read any of these classcis?

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