- Laurie Colwin: Family Happiness
- Anne Perry: A Dangerous Mourning
- Toni Morrison: Jazz
- Pym: The Sweet Dove Died
- James Longenbach: Earthling
- R.C. Hutchinson: March the Ninth
- Yates: Cold Spring Harbor
- Yates: Young Hearts Crying
- Brookner: Family and Friends
- Vendler: The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar
- Sharp: Cluny Brown
- Shamsie: Home Fire
- Plumly: Against Sunset
- Logan; Night Battles
- Wharton: Summer
- Wharton: Bunner Sisters
- Wharton: The Pot Boiler
- James: The Spoils of Poynton
- Logan: Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasure
- Ann Patchett: Commonwealth
Those are some great books ❤
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You’re definition of classics seems very broad if you are including Shamsie or are you thinking this will be a modern classic for the future?
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I know….I did decide to mix up the list a bit with some titles that are not on my original list. Only 12 of these books are “classics” in any sense of the word. But it’s summer and I don’t like playing by the rules most of the time. The poets listed are not necessarily classics, although they may become so. Do you think I should change up the list? I have resisted reading Anne Perry for years but I have an excellent friend who is begging me to read her, which is why she’s on the list.
Number 20 is also not a “classic” but it might become one. Laurie Colwin is a “classic” in my opinion, and I would like to reread her. R.C. Hutchinson is a very neglected classic.
Thank you for looking at my list.
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I would love for you to get 15. I want to know what you think. Wharton both makes me mad and want to worship her. Summer is not well-known, but really tugged at my heart strings.
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