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This week’s Top Ten Tuesday<\/a> topic from That Artsy Reader Girl focuses on books from my to-be-read list that were written before I was born. Here are ten I’ve been meaning to read for a while:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Odyssey<\/em> by Homer (I’ve had a pretty copy sitting on my desk for several years. Maybe 2021 is the year to crack it open.)<\/li>\n

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  2. The Sagas of Icelanders<\/em> (I dragged this ~800-page tome with me to Iceland thinking I’d hunker down and read myths from the 1200s while on vacation there. I did not.)<\/li>\n

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  3. Walden and Civil Disobedience<\/em> by Henry David Thoreau (Karen and I were supposed to read this together a decade or so ago and I totally kept flaking on her. I’ll get to it someday.)<\/li>\n

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  4. The Enchanted April<\/em> by Elizabeth von Arnim (My two best college friends and I watched the movie, a travel adventure set in an Italian castle, a quarter century ago and I’ve been meaning to get back to it for a while. Maybe this year I’ll check out the source material, which dates from the 1920s.)<\/li>\n

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  5. Cakes and Ale<\/em> by W. Somerset Maugham (Don’t you want to read it based just on the title? Add to that it’s a satire skewering the literary world of London in the early 20th century and I’m doubly in.)<\/li>\n

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  6. Cold Comfort Farm<\/em> by Stella Gibbons (This routinely makes it onto lists of underappreciated, humorous novels of yore. There’s also an edition with Roz Chast illustrations, which tempts me even more.)<\/li>\n

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  7. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall<\/em> by Anne Bronte (I’ve long meant to read all the Bronte novels, and this is my college roommate’s favorite of the bunch.)<\/li>\n

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  8. The Pickwick Papers<\/em> by Charles Dickens (While I’ve intended to read this since I first devoured Little Women<\/em> in elementary school, I haven’t tried since middle school. I can probably get through it now.)<\/li>\n

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  9. Le Petit Nicholas<\/em> by Ren\u00c3\u00a9 Goscinny (I picked up a copy of this French children’s classic when I was in France more than a decade ago and I should really get around to reading it.)<\/li>\n

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  10. Around the World in 72 Days<\/em> by Nellie Bly (A memoir (based on the newspaper columns) of a journalist’s attempt to beat the 80 days it took the fictional Verne hero to circumnavigate the globe. Who doesn’t want to read a travelogue of a cutting-edge Victorian era newspaperwoman?)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What old books are on your reading list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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