Ep 141: 6 Classic Novels You Should Read (with guest Colleen Powell)

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Unknown, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2021

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

This episode is for anyone who misses being a student. I have a running list of classic novels that I want to re-read as an adult or read for the first time because I missed them in high school English class. And so once a year or so, I force myself to pick up those novels that end up on All Time Best lists like this one. Or this one. Or even this one. If you have the same literary burden, this episode is meant to help you choose a classic that won't be a total bore. I'm joined by my friend and Patreon producer Colleen Powell, a former teacher and current audio editor outside of Chicago. Colleen helps me with the Secret Stuff Book Club, and this winter we're reading a few classic novels starting this November with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Join the Secret Stuff Book Club HERE. In our conversations, Colleen and I are sharing both the best contemporary books we've read lately AND the best classic novels we'd recommend to anyone. FULL SHOW NOTES HERE Best Books We've Read Lately: The Guncle by Stephen Rowley A Swim in a Pond in the Rain by George Saunders The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout 6 Classics You Should Read: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Catcher in the Rye by J.D.Salinger The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough Native Son by Richard Wright Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Little Women by Louisa May Alcott SPONSORS: Noom. Go to Noom.com/10Things to sign up for your trial AcornTV. Go to Acorn.tv and use promo code you (all lowercase) to try it free for 30 days. Ritual. Go to Ritual.com/10things for 10% off your first 3 months Other books mentioned: Mrs. Dalloway by Virgina Woolf Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole In Cold Blood by Truman Capote Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout This spoiler-free (well, except for Jane Eyre) reading conversation has a ton of information and opinions. Enjoy! * Thank you for listening to 10 Things To Tell You! Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on IG Follow @10ThingsToTellYou on FB Follow @laura.tremaine on IG Follow @mslauratremaine on FB Sign Up for episode emails Join the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group Listen to the SECRET STUFF Buy Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the I'm Laura Tremaine and I have 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell.
0:28.0	This show is about connection with each other and with ourselves.
0:33.0	And the hope is that the things we talk about here
0:35.3	will be fuel for better conversations
0:37.8	and a personal awareness.
0:40.3	This is an interactive podcast.
0:43.0	Each episode has a prompt and a topic that I want you to take to your journal,
0:48.0	text to your best friend, or answer on social media using the hashtag 10 things to tell you.
0:55.2	This is a show about digging deeper and sharing our stuff. I'll go first.
1:02.1	Hello my friends welcome back to 10 things to tell you and to yet another
1:08.2	episode one of my very favorite subjects of all time,
1:13.4	books and reading.
1:15.1	This is not just any episode about books and reading.
1:18.2	We are going to focus on classic books today. Books that you should have read, books that are worth a reread, is
1:29.2	like the classics that maybe you touched on them in high school,
1:34.1	maybe you read the cliff notes of them in high school.
1:38.2	But now it is time as an adults evolved reader
1:42.3	that you are, it is time to either take a second look at these books or pick them up for the first time because the books that we are going to share today are really worthy. They have been vetted because as you know a lot of classic books are maybe a big fat chore. These books are really going to like enhance your reading life. I believe it.
2:07.1	With me today is my friend Colleen Powell. I'm so excited she's here.
2:15.4	Colleen and I started working together
2:17.2	about a year ago.
2:19.7	I hired her as an editor on this show and to help me with the secret tapes before the book launched and all of this.
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