Classics

[close] A fun place for the family to share what we are reading, recommend books, and inspire one another

[close] Welcome to Little Women 🌷 Thank you for joining us! We are an all gals book club online coming together to read great books and have great conversations about them! What you can find here: ∙Themed BOTMs ∙ Challenges & Readathons ∙ Open discussions ∙ Buddy reads ∙ Polls Feel free to introduce yourself in our bioblurb discussion!

[close] Our group reads vintage British mysteries from the Golden Age and beyond. In 2022 we have a Detection Club challenge, reading books by members of the famous mystery writers' club. Previous challenges have included Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L Sayers and PD James. We also read and discuss books by many other authors from the era, including a few from other countries.

[close] Here's a place to discuss out-of-print, forgotten, obscure, and beloved juvenile literature which you would like to see republished or digitized. There are so many forgotten works of quality that are extremely hard to come by on the secondhand market, and which are not yet available as e-books. A Renaissance is Required! Girls Gone By Publishers is one such small-scale operation trying to resurrect rare titles for today's market. As far as I know, they only do hardcopy (paperback), and stick mostly to 'girl's school stories', with the odd 'girl's adventure' thrown in. It's but a drop in the bucket... but a welcome one. And their success should encourage others! But what of the Boy's School and Adventure stories? And digitized versions for ebooks? What of authors such as Nicholas Stuart Gray? Meta Mayne Reid? Steven Mogridge? Or even more recent authors, like Penelope Lively and Lucy M. Boston, who may be better known, but whose excellent books are already sliding into obscurity? There are so many excellent, imaginative, timeless classics that have fallen by the wayside. It's tragic. This is a group to try to share these titles with other readers, in the hopes that publishers will take note and will reprint them for another generation All books discussed here should have been written and originally published well prior to the year 2000 (and preferrably well before that - pre-1980s especially!). Anything published in the USA in 1922, or 1962 in the UK, or earlier may already have lapsed copyrights and be available on Project Gutenberg. If it isn't but should be, feel free to discuss that title here!