Episode 29: What a classic!

Good Librations Podcast episode 29

What makes a classic book? Come along on a journey through the classics as we discover how a book becomes exalted above others - and whether they're still relevant today. Oh, and yeah, The Odyssey makes its episodic appearance.

Find it on Spotify, Apple or wherever you get your podcasts.

 

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Shelf-absorbed (books we reviewed)

Swept Away by Beth O’Leary

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Emma by Jane Austen

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Once there were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

Swept Away by Beth O'Leary  Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen  Emma by Jane Austen  Persuasion by Jane Austen  Once there were wolves by Charlotte McConaghy

Shelf-important (things we mentioned)

What makes a classic? - Pan Macmillan

What makes a classic - classic? : r/literature

Italo Calvino’s 14 Criteria for What Makes a Classic – The Marginalian

What makes a classic? | Books | The Guardian

What Makes A Classic A Classic? – The Book Habit

Understanding the Craft of Writing – Myers Fiction

“Intuition is Essential.” Writing Advice from Gabriel García Márquez ‹ Literary Hub

Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Books, Short Stories, Magical Realism, Nobel Prize, & Facts | Britannica

The 52 Best One Hundred Years of Solitude Quotes

The Magnanimity of Wuthering Heights – Celestial Timepiece

Language – Pride & Prejudice

10 Most Common Themes Across Classic Literature Books | Times Now

Little Women: Themes | SparkNotes

The Great Gatsby: Themes | SparkNotes

In Praise of the Long and Complicated Sentence ‹ Literary Hub

Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' and Civil Rights | TIME

Bridge to Terabithia: Themes | SparkNotes

The best children's books? Authors (and kids) on what makes a classic

https://lutherspeightscholarship.com/the-golden-age-of-childrens-literature-what-makes-a-classic/

Why I Dislike Required Reading And That’s Okay || A High Schooler’s Perspective – Hammock of Books

What is the Value of Reading Difficult Books? – Eustea Reads

https://medium.com/@realistkul/the-catcher-in-the-rye-by-j-d-salinger-an-odyssey-through-adolescence-d68d5aa4428a 

https://christianscholars.com/historicizing-the-scarlet-letter-and-covid-19/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jul/15/book-beach-wide-sargasso-sea-jean-rhys 

https://fass.open.ac.uk/sites/fass.open.ac.uk/files/files/new-voices-journal/issue10/bar.pdf 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5xWSmdPmVQ5f89tvd4PCjKm/why-lady-chatterleys-lover-is-about-much-more-than-just-sex 

https://www.rlf.org.uk/posts/there-is-always-the-other-side/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jun/12/the-big-idea-do-we-need-to-dismantle-the-literary-canon 

https://anarrativeoftheirown.substack.com/p/wide-sargasso-sea 

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10436929508580150 

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/lecture/ 

https://wr.english.fsu.edu/College-Composition/Our-Own-Words-The-James-M.-McCrimmon-Award/Our-Own-Words-2005-2006-Edition/The-Wizard-of-Oz-More-Than-Just-a-Children-s-Story-by-Lauren-Houlberg#:~:text=Earle%2C%208).-,Littlefield%20describes%20Dorothy%20as%20an%20everyday%20man%20to%20Baum%3B%20the,concerns%20of%20the%20American%20people. 

 

Authors/Creators:

  • Vincent Van Gogh
  • Toulouse Lautrec
  • Virginia Woolf
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Amy Winehouse
  • Joyce Carol Oates
  • Lord Byron
  • Victor Hugo
  • Boris Posternak

 

Books/written works:

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  • Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • Dash & Lily series by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan
  • The Perks of being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
  • The Goldfinch by Donna Tarrt
  • The Magicians by Lev Grossman
  • Into the Wild by John Krakauer
  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • Oresteia by Aeschylus
  • The Odyssey by Homer
  • Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Nawthorne
  • Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Beloved by Toni Morrison
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  • Wicked by Gregory Maguire
  • The Peter Rabbit series by Beatrix Botter
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • The Adventures of Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
  • Ulysses by James Joyce

 

Film/TV:

  • The Marx Brothers
  • Friends
  • Little Women
  • Bridge to Terabithia
  • Dead Poet’s Society
  • The Never-ending Story
  • Wicked
  • Clueless
  • Hamilton

I just can't help my-shelf

Books/authors:

  • The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge
  • The Shannara series by Terry Brooks
  • The Dragonriders of Pern series by Anne McCaffrey
  • The Discworld series by Terry Pratchett
  • Unreal by Paul Jennings
  • Tomorrow series by John Marsden
  • The Babysitters Club series by Ann M. Martin
  • The Babysitters Club graphic novels by Raina Telgemeier
  • Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
  • A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Shelf-obsessed (further reading and listening)

  • Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  • The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Middlemarch by George Eliot
  • The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  • Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  • The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  • Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami

  

 

 

 

 

 

   

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