These are three of my all time favourites

Curious twists to all these tales really appeal to me

I am always ready to lose myself in the Classics

Jane Austen's heroines are all wonderful

How did those "nice" Bronte girls think up such grim tales of misery?

The style, the language, the social comment and the romance of bygone ages

Anna Karenin

Dorian Gray

Jean Valjean

Emma Bovary

Michael Henchard

Small lives and slow pace which masks a gentle irony

Pain, injustice and tragedy

this book will make you cry unashamedly

Epic fantasy

Myth mixed with detection

The futility of endurance

A quirky story about two misfits

Just how much do we accept?

Celie is  innocent and shrewd

The history and social comment are what interest me in these books

Different styles on a similar theme in the pursuit of good and evil in society

The ordinary strangeness of life

Family sagas written by  men make very interesting reading

An oddball tells very odd tales 

My brilliant career is a brilliant first novel from an Australian

   The getting of Wisdom was a prescribed bit of  Australiana which we all had to read at school

Forbidden reading in a Catholic girlhood during the sixties  Read them now and wonder why

Well it all has to do with the times does it not?

These ones look interesting - I will read them soon and see if I want to include them

 didn't sustain my interest

great idea did not translate into a good read 

a good read 

 loved it and all the ones that follow