Anonymous
Post 02/19/2015 19:07     Subject: Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
Second Middlemarch, or Anna Karenina.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2015 19:04     Subject: Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
Jane Austen for sure. Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Dickens.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2015 18:42     Subject: Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
Animal Farm, The Jungle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jane Austin
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2015 18:40     Subject: Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
The Master and Margarita. One of the great books of the 20th century.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2015 18:34     Subject: Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
The Count of Monte Cristo
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2015 18:27     Subject: Re:Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
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
Post 02/19/2015 18:27     Subject: Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
Would recommend Middlemarch over Mill on the Floss. Also Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace. East of Eden, Jane Eyre, Catch-22,
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2015 17:06     Subject: Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
Re-read the narnia Series every 10 years
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2015 16:05     Subject: Re:Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
Age of innocence or anything Wharton.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2015 13:55     Subject: Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
Middlemarch. Definitely wasn't ready for it when I was younger. Appreciated it so much more as a grown-up.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2015 13:55     Subject: Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
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
Post 02/19/2015 13:32     Subject: Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
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
Post 02/19/2015 13:30     Subject: Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
Gatsby. Most of the cynical undertone went right over my head in HS.
Anonymous
Post 02/19/2015 13:05     Subject: Re:Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
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
Post 02/19/2015 13:00     Subject: Classics worth reading or rereading as a 40-something
thinking of reading Mill on the Floss again which I hated in high school. Then I thought I'd get recommendations instead.