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

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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

• S2, Chapter 1: What is Gothic Literature? (featuring Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë)

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