Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by
The Broke and the Bookish.
This week's theme is
Top Ten Of The Most Unique Books I've Read. I decided to go with classics because there are some wonderful old books out there that get overlooked in the blogging community.
Click the covers to go to the Goodreads links.
1.
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
How many 1000+ page Russian novels that are set during the Napoleonic Wars and have such fantastic characters are there?
2.
The Iliad - Homer
It's such an old book, it would be disappointing if it
wasn't unique.
3.
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame - Victor Hugo
It's so dark I can't believe they made a Disney movie out of this. Lots of architecture in this one.
4.
The Lost World - Arthur Conan Doyle
Dinosaurs in the early 19th Century! Also the guy doesn't get the girl and it's for a pretty hilarious reason.
5.
The War of the Worlds - HG Wells
One of the first stories about an alien invasion in London. (Why is it always London? Looking at you, Doctor Who writers. Are the rest of us not worth it?)
6.
The Great Gatsby -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A short novel about horrible people in 1920s New York. Cool.
7.
The Phantom of the Opera -
Gaston Leroux
Better than the musical tbh because there's much more in it. Like more characters.
8.
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
A very important novel that I appreciated more as I studied it than when I was reading it. If you're a woman you should probably read this book.
9.
One Hundred Years of Solitude -
Gabriel García Márquez
Happy families in South America.
So many generations pass. I also vaguely remember there not being any chapter breaks.
10.
The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Like Doctor Who but even weirder, which is certainly an achievement.
What are the best or most unique classics you've read? Do you enjoy old books? Do you prefer to read classic lit or newer books?
