Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something

[Anonymous]

thinking of reading Mill on the Floss again which I hated in high school. Then I thought I'd get recommendations instead.

[Anonymous]

I just started reading The Dubliners, definitely has a lot more meaning to me now-and I'm more appreciative of Joyce's style. I also re-read Wuthering Heights, and with more understanding of the context of the Brontes' lives I was just blown away by the book. How did she write that?

[Anonymous]

Gatsby. Most of the cynical undertone went right over my head in HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:thinking of reading Mill on the Floss again which I hated in high school. Then I thought I'd get recommendations instead.

Amazing book. I read it in my 20s and am glad I was older when I read it.

I think re-reading Austen is on my spring to-do list.

OP, I recommend Our Mutual Friend - my favorite Dickens.

[Anonymous]

I went through a Jane Austen reading blitz when I was pregnant and read almost all of her work. I could not stand Jane Austen's writing when I was in high school and college. But as an adult I love it.

[Anonymous]

Middlemarch. Definitely wasn't ready for it when I was younger. Appreciated it so much more as a grown-up.

[Anonymous]

Age of innocence or anything Wharton.

[Anonymous]

Re-read the narnia Series every 10 years

[Anonymous]

Would recommend Middlemarch over Mill on the Floss. Also Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace. East of Eden, Jane Eyre, Catch-22,

[Anonymous]

Jane Eyre. Read it in high school and then reread it a few years ago. I got a lot more out of it the second time, esp a better understanding of its commentary on women's role in society

[Anonymous]

The Count of Monte Cristo

[Anonymous]

The Master and Margarita. One of the great books of the 20th century.

[Anonymous]

Animal Farm, The Jungle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Austin

[Anonymous]

Jane Austen for sure. Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Dickens.

[Anonymous]

Second Middlemarch, or Anna Karenina.