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S3, Chapter 1: "Beginner" Classics Based on Your Favorite Genre

Stephany Yoder and Julia Dagen Season 3 Episode 1

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In today's show, Julia and Stephany are recommending easy-reading classics for readers of historical fiction, romance, mystery, fantasy, science fiction, horror, and literary/general fiction.  They also share movies or series that may enhance the reading experience.  Classics rule the day!

Books Mentioned In This Episode

  • Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice
  • The Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
  • Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker by Gregory Maguire
  • Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling, narrated by Stephen Fry
  • Don Quixote  by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  • The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
  • The Hobbit by J. R. Tolkien
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 
  • The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
  • Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  • James by Percival Everett
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  • Jane Austen
  • Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  • The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
  • Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
  • Summer by Edith Wharton
  • The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
  • A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Episodes Mentioned In This Episode


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