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Top Ten Tuesday – Oldest Books on TBR

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl with a new prompt each week. This week’s prompt is Oldest (aka Earliest Published) Books On My TBR (submitted by Nicole @ BookWyrm Knits).

For this prompt, we each selected 5 of the oldest books on our TBR. What are your favorite “old” books? Have you ready any on our TBRs?

Meagan

This was fun! I really need to read more classics (per my goal for the year and in general). I organized these in order of publication. Shout out to StoryGraph for their awesome filtering features for making this easy. These range from a publication date of 1813 – 1949.

Admittedly, I’ve picked up two of these and started, but haven’t finished. I hope to finish one more classic by the end of the year.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. A Top Ten Tuesday - Oldest Books on TBR.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. A Top Ten Tuesday - Oldest Books on TBR.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
1984 by George Orwell. A Top Ten Tuesday - Oldest Books on TBR.
Alyssa

Like Meagan, I used my StoryGraph TBR for this prompt. Which is specifically a list of books I already own. And I really don’t have too many on my TBR list that I’d consider all that old. My list has one book from 1890, and everything else is 1994-2000.

This reminds me how much I enjoyed Helen Hollick’s The Forever Queen back when I read it in the early 2000’s. I should probably finally read the second in the series.

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Kingmaking by Helen Hollick. A Top Ten Tuesday - Oldest Books on TBR.
Senator by Richard Bowker.
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin. A Top Ten Tuesday - Oldest Books on TBR.
I am the Chosen King by Helen Hollick

Comments

5 responses to “Top Ten Tuesday – Oldest Books on TBR”

  1. 1984 was such a good read.

  2. It’s scary how relevant 1984 has become in recent years.

    Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
    https://readbakecreate.com/oldest-books-on-my-tbr-ten-oldest-books-i-own/

  3. Pride and Prejudice is one of my favorites! I’ve been meaning to get to Jane Eyre for years. I hope you get to these!

  4. Great list! I love Little Women, it’s one of my favorite classics. I Am The Chosen King looks really interesting, I should look into it. I hope you’ll love these books when you read them 🙂

    If you’d like to visit, here’s my TTT: https://thebooklorefairy.blogspot.com/2024/11/top-ten-tuesday-oldest-books-on-my-tbr.html

  5. I’m not much for classics, but I do love PRIDE AND PREJUDICE, JANE EYRE, and LITTLE WOMEN. I’ve been meaning to read 1984 for forever and still haven’t gotten to it. One of these days!

    Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!

    Susan
    http://www.blogginboutbooks.com