Feel free to leave a link in the comments, or else just talk about your favorite(s) in 2016 below. Let your fellow clubbers know what really stood out for you, and why. 🙂
Or, tell us about what you can’t wait to read in 2017! #ccdiscussions
Discussion: Anyone want to share your favorite read(s) in 2016?
The Classics Club 
I loved reading Villette by Charlotte Bronte – Here’s a link to my review (https://desaideshna.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/villette-by-charlotte-bronte/)
Some of my other favourite reads were Jane Eyre and Sense and Sensibility.
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Here is my list of my favourite books for 2016. Only one classic made it into the list. The absolutely best was a non-fiction: The Sleepwalkers – How Europe Went to Was in 1914 by Christopher Clark. Will definitely be a classic on the subject. Here is the whole list: http://thecontentreader.blogspot.be/2017/01/best-books-read-in-2016.html
I see that you all read some interesting classics. I read more than usual, and according to my statistics I read 14% classics! I hope to achieve more or less the same for 2017!
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The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner. A tough read but worth it.
https://headfullofbooks.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-big-rock-candy-mountain-by-wallace.html
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I’m a little late for this discussion, but I reread Crime and Punishment and loved it even more the second time around. Also loved The Sympathizer, The Orphan Master’s Son, and Mary Oliver’s essays Upstream. And over the summer I reread Swann’s Way: now I just have to read the rest of Proust’s long, long, long novel….
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You asked me what Wallace Stegner I thought you’d like best to start with. I recommend either Angle of Repose or Crossing to Safety.
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Ethan Frome!
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I really loved discovering the poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar. And for nonfiction, Testament of Youth was really great.
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Here are my top 12 favorites of 2016. One classic made it! Can you guess which one? The solution is here: https://wordsandpeace.com/2016/12/31/year-of-reading-2016-my-top-12/
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My favorite of 2016 – The Count of Monte Cristo, but it was a reread that I knew I’d love. Favorite that was not a reread – Atlas Shrugged. My 2016 reading wrap up here:http://100greatestnovelsofalltimequest.blogspot.com/2016/12/2016-reading-year-in-review.html
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My favorite Classic reads were:
-The Yearling by Rawling
-West With the Night by Markham
and
-A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories by O’Connor
It was a good year for classic books.
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Yesterday, I chose my Top 10 books that I read in 2016 and my post will be up tomorrow. Two classics made it on to the list: The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle and Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell 🙂
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I cannot say enough good things about J.B. Priestley’s “Benighted.” It was mind-bogglingly good. My second favorite was probably “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.” I’d meant to read that for years, and it was even more entertaining than I could have expected.
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Here is my list of favorite classics that I read this year. Anne of Green Gables tops my classic list this year!
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I didn’t read very much for Classics Club this year, but I did really enjoy reading the original Winnie the Pooh books by A.A. Milne. Looking forward to more children’s classics in 2017!
https://bucklingbookshelves.blogspot.com/2016/05/reading-winnie-pooh-as-adult.html
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My favourite Classic reads so far include:
a. Persuasion by Jane Austen
b. Secret Garden by Frances Burnett
c. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
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I love Persuasion and The Secret Garden 🙂
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We are book twining at the moment. Yeahh :).
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I’m still compiling my list for books of the year but some of my Woolf reads are serious contenders including Night and Day which I think I like even more in retrospect.
I also loved Death Comes For the Archbishop by Willa Cather recently.
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As a newbie, I’ve only read four from my list so far, but have thoroughly enjoyed Passing by Nella Larson and The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White – the book that the film The Lady Vanishes was based on.
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PS Thanks, moderators, for all the work you do, and Merry Christmas!
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I’ve just posted my favourite reads of the year, a list that features plenty of 20th-century classics: novels by Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Jean Rhys, Elizabeth Bowen, Christopher Isherwood and many more. There’s a link here:
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I also loved ‘Voyage in the Dark’ and ‘Bonjour Tristesse’, although I did not read them last year. ‘The Go-Between’ I have heard so much about, and will read it this year. It is on my TBR shelves and just waiting.
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