Tuesday, February 2, 2021

Top Ten Tuesday: Oldies but Goodies

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This week's topic is...

Oldies but Goodies!
This week, we are talking about books older than we are. I elected to talk about some of those older works of literature I read, enjoyed, left an impression, and clock in near or over the age of fifty. Mostly what I have here are a lot of books I read in my youth, as I pretty much only read contemporary fiction these days and not even old contemporary fiction, but newer contemporary fiction. Here's my list of oldies but goodies. I tried to find the covers of the versions I read, but I wasn't successful with all. I know that R&J book I read was blue....

Favorite book older than you?
Let us know in the comments!

28 comments:

  1. I remember reading Lord of the Flies in school - crazy!

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    1. I actually read it twice. Once in 10th grade english and then again for a film elective. We read the book and watched the film (the old one). I thought it was a great book

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  2. THE PUG!
    I've only read Animal Farm and Romeo and Juliet from your list. I honestly don't remember much from Animal Farm...

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    1. He's cute, right? I remember thinking Animal Farm was brilliant, and I was like 14 when I read it. Orwell was a genius, in my opinion.

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  3. I've read most of these too! I remember really enjoying A Separate Peace. I have a cool version of Mixed-Up Files and want to re-read it soon.

    -Lauren
    www.shootingstarsmag.net

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    1. A Separate Peace was one of my freshman year books. Mostly everyone hated it, but I liked it. LOVED Mixed-Up Files. Obsessed with the movie, and then I got to revisit when my daughter was in grade school. She was so sad when we went to the Met and the bed was gone

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  4. I should have put Lord of the Flies and some of the others here on my list, too! I completely forgot about them. Ugh. My list is so boring. Yours is fun.

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    1. My list is almost all required reading. You didn't have to go as far back as me, because you're younger.

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  5. Animal Farm I read in school, I’ve never read it again instead I opted for 1984 instead.

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    1. I have not revisited any of these books since I first read them, but I don't re-read.

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  6. This is a great list. Even though I was never a big fan of required reads in school, your list definitely contains most of my favorites.

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    1. I don't really read any books 50 years or older, so I had to dig into my required reading. I liked a lot of the books I read in school, believe it or not.

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  7. I’ve read almost all of these! I need to reread Charlotte’s Web. I remember my 3rd grade teacher reading it to us, and I loved it.

    Aj @ Read All The Things!

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    1. That book made me cry. It was sad for my little kid self.

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  8. This list definitely brings back memories! I've read half of them. TKAM is my favorite book of all time. I also like A SEPARATE PEACE, which I just re-read last year.

    Happy TTT!

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    1. We read A Separate Peace when I was a freshman, and I was one of the few that liked it. Very under appreciated by my peers.

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  9. I read Romeo and Juliet in school, and I think I read the Judy Blume book while a young teenager. I definitely read some of her books. All of Agatha Christie's books are older than me, and I've read most of them. Rebecca is also one I can think of offhand that is older than me. I'm sure I've read others, but none are coming to mind this late at night, lol. :)

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    1. I definitely read Margaret as a pre-teen, because my sister (slightly older) and her friends were passing the book around, but I read a lot of her other books in my teens and grade school too. She wrote so many! Mostly, any old books I read were for school. That's why my TTT looks like a required reading list.

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  10. That cover of Are You There God It's Me Margaret instantly takes me back because that's the exact version I had. That book (and many other Blume books) were such a huge part of my childhood.

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    1. That is the one I read. It was passed from girl to girl on my street.

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  11. To Kill A Mockingbird one of the two of these I've read and it was the cover version you have here! :)


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    1. I couldn't remember what the cover looked like for that one. I was 14 when I read it, and I am very much not 14 now.

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  12. Oh, all of these are great! And I love your title. It's perfect! :)

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    1. Thanks! Mostly required reading stuff. That's what I get for obsessing about new releases.

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  13. I am ashamed to say that I haven't read any of these!

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    1. They are mostly required reading in American schools, so I can understand why you haven't

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  14. Some of these I'm going to have to add to my own tbr! Thanks for sharing. :)

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    1. I am surprised you haven't read them all already.

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