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Classics I Want to Read!

Hey everyone! Welcome to Nox Reads, I'm "Nox", and today I want to share which classics I'm hoping to read this year!

Since I'm an English major, a large part of my courses involves classic literature classes. So far I've had to read books like Beowulf, Paradise Lost, Le Morte d'Arthur (only a few of the books in it), Our Eyes Were Watching God, etc. It's safe to say that classics are important in my major. At the beginning of this year, @she.gets.lit.erary on Instagram shared their list for #getclassicallylit, and even though there's only four months left this year, I decided I'm going to try and read at least 12 classics by the end of 2019. Here's my list!
  1. Dracula by Bram Stoker
  2. Emma by Jane Austin
  3. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  4. The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
  5. Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
  6. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
  7. In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
  8. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  9. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  11. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  12. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
These aren't in any particular order. I did want to make sure that at least half of my list featured authors of color, because when I was in school (referring to kindergarten through senior year of high school), I wasn't given classics by diverse authors. I especially had to include Toni Morrison, because she was a gift to the community and I feel that reading her work is the best way to honor her legacy.

Thank you for reading! If you've read or want to read any of the books on this list, please let me know! Have a great day!

~ Nox
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