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I love this list, Hannah! ♥️

I read this one a couple years ago, and I really liked it. Little Women is a favorite, but I didn’t enjoy Little Men.

Oh, my word you got a sweetheart of a deal on your HC 5-foot bookshelf! I am insanely jealous 😭. That being said, If you are on a journey to complete your classical education, may I recommend "Great Books of the Western World" and "The Great Ideas Program" put out by Encyclopedia Britannica? Mortimer Adler and Robert Hutchins were the editors and developed an entire curriculum to help adults gain a classical education all on their own. The program includes a syllabus, discussion questions, and suggestions for further study. Also, as a homeschooler I highly recommend "The Annals of America" book series (also by Encyclopedia Britannica) which is a 20-book set of first-hand accounts of American History from the 1500's through 2001; this set is criminally under-appreciated and can be found on places like eBay and AbeBooks for around $50.

Where did you get your narration notebooks? Do you write down each narration every day? Love your video! :)

Have you forgotten what the title of this post of yours is? Do you know that, at the time of my commenting here, you've spent all of the time so far talking about yourself instead of the Harvard Classics. In case you aren't aware of this, we aren't into studying you.

The Harvard Classics are also available in ebook format for the Kindle for next to nothing. That format gives you the ability to search as well as non-destructively highlight and make notes, and with one click look up words in the linked online dictionary. With all those pluses, I still prefer reading from a real book. You are very fortunate to have acquired a set for $25.

I adore North & South!!!!!! I reread (listened) to it this year, too. ♥️Victorian lit = death ☠️ 😂 The Common Rule sounds wonderful.

I enjoyed this video! Many interesting books here! L.M Montgomery has several endearing books besides Anne.

I’m fussy about my biographies as well. And I decided that I don’t want to read any biographical fiction. I just want to know what there is to know factually about a person without the imaginary details thrown in, which I think is misleading!

I have the what Jane Austen ate et cetera book, and I absolutely love it! Love the pink cover too 💕💕💕💕

I absolutely love Love and friendship!!! I think the film with Kate Beckinsale was absolutely superb. She and all the others look amazing, and the changes they made to it were sympathetic and brilliant, not to mention hilarious! It’s quite a shocking story!dear Jane!

I’m glad so many people appreciate persuasion and list it as their favourite! It was my first Jane Austen and remains firmly at the top, although actually it shares the accolade with about three other ones of her so…?? LOL 😂

The Lucy Worsley biography of Jane Austen is wonderful---also an audiobook

Have you read Hamerston Hall by Jane Eastbourne? It is somewhat similar to the Jane Austen novels.

I've heard so many good things about Gentle and Lowly. That and North and South are two I really want to get to. Some of my favorite books of the year so far are The Secret Diaries of Charlotte Bronte, The Extraordinary Deaths of Mrs. Kip, and I Am Hutterite.

Thanks for the shout out. 😊 I would like to get to "The Common Rule", I heard of a "course" by Tsh Oxenreider called "rule of life" - I wonder if it runs in the same vein.

So many great books! I’m reading through Wendell Berry’s Sabbath Poems and it includes a few poems about Jayber Crow so you’ve really inspired me to pick that up now. North and South also sounds like a great read. I enjoyed The Common Rule and The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry as well!

This was fabulous! I really agree with you on the ones I have read. Gentle and Lowly was exactly what I needed to read recently too! It took what I know about Christ but Satan wants me to forget before me in a way I also think about daily. ❤

Great choices (as always!), I am hoping to sit down and knock out a few videos today. I am out of practice!

Cuuuute Hair!!!

Love North and South!

I need to read The Story Girl! Especially with the cousinness. 😂😂

Adore you! You come across like a dear friend! Love your straight forward, kind, gentle approach!

Yay! I love booklists. I am just beginning my journey of pre-reading through some of AO. My kids are too young for Year 1, but I have been enjoying much of the reading for myself. :) Many of the lists you mentioned I har never heard of before. So I will have to take a look at some of those resources. I like your idea of drawing from a variety of lists to create your own favorite “master list” for what you think would best fit your own family.

I've read Charlotte's Web with my kids, but they're still getting used to chapter books so I haven't read the rest of E. B. White's books yet, but I'm really looking forward to them. And Imagination Station, those books look really good! If you're kids like puzzle stories (mysterious letters, messages written in code, etc.), I would recommend trying out Peggy Parish's Liza, Bill, and Jed Mysteries books if you can find them. I read Haunted House as a kid and absolutely loved it! I've also read The Clue in the Woods as an adult and it was really good too.

I have so many Boxcar Children books from my childhood!

Read Dana. It made me a reader

I have when Hitler stole pink rabbit on my tbr! Been wanting to read it!

Maggie’s door is the sequel to Nora Ryan’s song. I accidentally read them backwards! I think there’s a third book in the series. You made me wanna reread these

“but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.” ― Jane Austen

Hello! I hope you're doing well. I've been a regular viewer of your CZcams channel and I really enjoy your videos. They are incredibly informative and I've learned a lot from them. However, I've noticed a few issues in some of the videos

Wendell Berry fiction is always grief and hardship. I like his poetry more than his prose .

Glad you enjoyed Flavia. It didn’t hold up well for me after the first 3. But 1 is a good story. Her sisters and her father make Mama Bear come out in me.

North and South is such a great story. 🤗🥰

I have tried to CSL’s space trilogy many times and I am lost/bored every time!

I really enjoyed Out of the Silent Planet, but I agree it's very classic sci-fi so I very much understand why it's not for everyone. And one of these days, I will finally pick up North and South (she says, like she does about every other book she hasn't read yet 😅)

North and South is so good!!!

Book two of the C. S. Lewis Space Trilogy is about Ransom going to Venus and being the proverbial angel on the shoulder of Venus's Eve to convince her not to sin. Meanwhile, Weston is pretty much literally possessed by Satan to tempt her. Book three is nothing like one and two. It's set on Earth, Ransom is a fairly minor character, and it's mostly about a couple trying to keep their marriage from falling apart while the husband works for this organization that is working with aliens/demons to try and take over the world. There's also a severed, speaking head involved, if I remember right. Yeah. If you didn't like book one, you probably won't like the rest of the series. 😂😂😂

I've read a lot of C S Lewis but I've avoided that series for the same reasons! I know a lot of people love it, though.

Pocketful of Pinecones! Ohhhh, the nostalgia! I used the Charlotte Mason method in homeschooling my children, too. I had this book and loved reading it so much. I'd completely forgotten about it, so it was a treat to see it again. ❤

I have that biography of Austen! It's cool because it was written in the early twentieth century. It has a lot of info about the culture of the day as well as specifically about Austen's life. I am also reading Frankenstein in July.

Yay, I was so happy to see this video pop up in my notifications! And I loved hearing all of your answers. I haven't read The Count of Monte Cristo at all yet, so you're 591 pages ahead of me 😆 And I'm definitely going to check my library apps for The Shepherd of the Hills, or keep my eye out in the stores for it if it's not there.

Gandalf is very cool dude 😎

Tiffany did the same thing with Count of Monte Cristo! 😂

I picked up Shepherd of the Hills on my trip to TN! I don't know how far you are in Bradbury since recording this, but I want to let you in on the fact that even though a couple of the stories are odd and you may question why they are in there, all of them are wholesome and nothing is untoward.

Kinda nostalgic - but I’d love to invite Nancy Drew 😂

Take the unabridged count of monte Cristo to the deserted island 😂-you could re-read it😂