Every October I join a readathon called Victober. This is an event held on YouTube each year to celebrate Victorian literature. Four BookTubers (Kate, Katie, Marissa and Ross) organise this event. All you have to do to join is: read a book that was written in the Victorian period.
Victorian Literature: books written between 1837 and 1901 in the UK and Ireland.
This year, I thought we could read my victober TBR together! It's the fourth year I'm joining, and this year I decided to make a reading journal on The Storygraph for Milena's Bookshop. You can read my thoughts on the books while reading and leave comments if you are reading the book as well.
The books I want to read
Elizabeth Gaskell is better known today for her pioneering social novels such as Mary Barton (1848) but she also wrote some fascinating tales of the supernatural and the macabre, which are collected here in this volume.
An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question: am I evil, or insane? When the letters from Italian servant to his wife in London suddenly cease, she is convinced he has been murdered. In the darkened bedroom of a mouldering palazzo by the Grand Canal, an English lord sickens and suddenly dies. (read more...)
Who would have thought a comedy of manners written more than a hundred years ago would still be so apt and so funny? Oscar Wilde was a genius of play-writing, and his deftness, wit and sharp eye for social satire keep audiences in thrall to this day. Alongside Earnest, discover a biblical tragedy retold (read more...)
Want to listen to the audiobook versions?
Bookish Goodies for Victober
The video in which I discuss the books I want to read a bit further
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