Welcome to another TTT! And happy February! I can’t believe we’re already a month into 2021, but also… how are we only a month into 2021? I dunno. What is time right now?
Anyway, this week I’m sharing books that aren’t new releases! I feel like, as book bloggers, many of us get caught up in all the new shiny books. We’re always going after ARCs and trying to be one of the first to read a highly anticipated novel. There’s blog tours and cover reveals and pre-order gifts and so much excitement surrounding these new books, but what about the older ones that maybe have gathered a little dust on the shelf? Let’s talk about those ones today. Actually, let’s talk about the books that pre-date us altogether. I was born in 1987, so I will be sharing books from my TBR that were written in 1986 or earlier. This should be fun, and will hopefully renew my excitement for these books that have been on my TBR for a while! Thank you to Davida Chazan at The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog for this fun topic idea. It’s time to dig deep!
The King of the Castle by Victoria Holt (1967)
The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon (1973)
Down a Dark Hall by Lois Duncan (1974)
Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors by Piers Paul Read (1974)
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813)
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers (1934)
The House Of The Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green (1910)
Stillwatch by Mary Higgins Clark (1984)
A Cry in the Night by Mary Higgins Clark (1982)
Have you read any of these?
What books would you like to read that were written before you were born?
I’ve read Alive and Gone with the Wind. I also had Pride and Prejudice on my list this week!
I love those old style covers. Alive and Gone With The Wind- those remind me of books around the house when I was growing up! ;)
Pride and Prejudice is a good one but Persuasion made it onto my list of favorite classics this week. I hope you enjoy these when you get to them!
As much as I like Mary Poppins, I haven’t ever read the book. I need to add that one to my classics TBR list!
You should definitely read Pride and Prejudice. Mary Poppins is also enjoyable, but she’s a much less … amiable nanny than the Disney movie makes her out to be.
I’ve read an loved “Pride and Prejudice”! It’s definitely my favourite Austen.
I grew up with the Disney version of Mary Poppins, and unfortunately it kinda ruined the book for me. It’s one of the rare situations where I prefer the movie to the book.
I’ve tried to read “Gone with the Wind” several times, but always got stuck about half-way through the second book :-/
You must read Sheldon, he’s written some of the best thrillers I’ve ever read.
Nice! This one was harder for me to do! Thankfully I read a lot of fairy tales!! Lol!
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I mentioned it on my list that I have fewer books to choose from than many. And here I see only four books that have been written before my time. Shows my age. But it’s fun nevertheless. Thanks again for a good challenge.
I didn’t know Mary Poppins was a book! Cool.
My post.
Gone With the Wind is one of my favorite books ever!
Wow! So many blasts from the past. I used to read a ton of Clark, Holt, and Duncan. GWTW is on my list today as well since I love that book. P&P is a great one, too, although I didn’t have room to include it on my list today.
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Susan
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It looks like you’re born the same year as me, 1983. Thanks for hosting!
Yes! I love Mary Higgins Clark! She has been a favorite of mine for so long! I was so sad to hear that she passed away recently.
I almost put Mary Poppins on my list, but never read the book until a few years ago, so didn’t add it. Great list Jana. Some of those books were published too late for my list. 😁📚🧓
I forced myself to use “new” books (old books I’ve read more recently) and stayed away from lifelong faves like GWTW and Mary Poppins! Great list!
This is a great list!
I love Pride and Prejudice! And I need to read Gone With The Wind sometime. Great list!
I remember reading The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon decades ago and really enjoying it!
Gone With e Wind would be my favorite here. I have read a few Higgins Clark, but not these. Nice list!
I adored the Mary Poppins books. And loved Lois Duncan as well, though her books are written after I was born. I read a lot of Sidney Sheldon off of my parents’ shelves when I was young. The Other Side of Midnight was a favorite.
Yay another 87 baby here too! I love that you included some Mary Higgins Clark on your list.
I’m hoping to read Gone With The Wind soon and I’m super excited!
Thanks for using my suggestion! It looks like lots of bloggers are pretty young, but many are reading really old books as well. That makes me happy!
Unfortunately, I need to go back quite a bit before 1986 to find books published before my birth. And, I’m not a classics kind of reader. When my daughter was in elementary school, I finally read Mary Poppins for the first time and was shocked that it was so different from the movie. I do recommend it.
I browsed my mum‘s copy of Gone with the Wind, but never read it properly.
Here is my post: https://cathysreadingbonanza.wordpress.com/2021/02/03/toptentuesday-top-ten-books-published-before-i-was-born/
Gotta love Mary Higgins Clark! One year a friend gave me a huge box of her novels and I went on a binge of just MHC for about a month, lol.
I’m an ’86 baby myself and I went through a whole Lois Duncan phase in high school. Not normally what I would read, but you know how it was back then.