I'm going back to read the classics I missed

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Tolstoy, War and Peace. Karenina. Much better than Dostoevsky.

Kafka if you can. (I couldn't but I keep trying)

Hugo. I especially liked "Toilers of the Sea"

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Anonymous wrote:I'd add Barbara Comyns, Jean Rhys, Nell Dunn, Sylvia Townsend Warner to the list of great female writers (think Virago classics era).

Also can't recommend enough Margaret Laurence, a Canadian who no one seems to know outside Canada but both her novels and her short stories are phenomenal (if very Canadian).

Good additions! And I love Margaret Laurence. I've read Stone Angel and the Diviners. Others of hers you'd recommend?

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Good additions! And I love Margaret Laurence. I've read Stone Angel and the Diviners. Others of hers you'd recommend?

I am so impressed! I have *not once* encountered someone outside Canada who has read her. Maybe try A Bird in the House? But honestly Diviners is my favorite.

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Anonymous wrote:

Good additions! And I love Margaret Laurence. I've read Stone Angel and the Diviners. Others of hers you'd recommend?

I am so impressed! I have *not once* encountered someone outside Canada who has read her. Maybe try A Bird in the House? But honestly Diviners is my favorite.

Thanks! I'm on a book website called LibraryThing and I heard about Margaret Laurence there - there are quite a few Canadians. She's also on the 1001 books you must read before you die list, which I read from as well. I'll check out A Bird in the House.