My Favourite Books of Victobers Past

I'd also really recommend a burglary by Amy Dillwin. I love Amy Dillwin and this is a really fantastic novel by her.

I really enjoyed rereading a Shroptshire lad. I had read them before, but I listened to them, I believe, in 2021 and really enjoyed that.

I also loved A Struggle for Fame by Charlotte Redell, which is a fascinating book about two Irish writers who come over to London in order to try and make it on the literary scene and we follow their lives and it's just a really like fascinating takedown of the Victorian publishing industry. I loved that book so much.

A Woman of No Importance is one of my favorite Victorian plays, probably my favorite Victorian play.

I would also highly recommend The Rebecca Rioter and Drama in Muslin, both of which are great.

I also loved Any Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trrollop, which is quite a different Anthony Trollop. It's much pacier and darker than some of his books, and it worked really, really well.

I love Armadale by Wilky Collins a lot. I had a really good reading experience of that.

I guess I would highly recommend Aurora Lee by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Really interesting buildings for a man told in verse.

I read Barry Lyndon by William Matey Tachary and Basil by Wilky Collins. not a great start to VTober. I don't really like either of those two books.

but I would also like to recommend Carmela by J Sharon and Lefanu and The Island of Dr. Morrow by HG Wells. Both of which are fantastic, too.

I'd also recommend the play Charlie's Aunt by Brandon Thomas, which is hilarious.

David Copperfield was a reread for me, but one I absolutely loved. and in fact, if I recall correctly, I had a really good reread of David Cobfield in 2016.

I think my favorite book from VTober 2019 is probably Dearbrook by Harriet Martin, which is a wonderful novel about two sisters moving to a new small town, about the gossip and scandal that ends up following them. and about their lives, and it's so richly developed and so fascinating.

Don and Sun is an all-time favorite of mine.

Dr. Wle School by Anthony Trrollop is a wonderful Anthony Trollup book. One of my favorites of his.

East Lynn by Ellen Wood is an incredible sensation novel.

I didn't love Flatland, but there we go. Fascinating, but not fun.

there were two rereads in there that I absolutely loved. Goblin Market and Other Poems by Christina Rosetti and The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trroll.

I think Isa's Angel is my favorite in terms of the sheer enjoyment I got out of that book. Like it's just so delightful. It's about two sisters and their romantic relationships and it's just like full of anti trollup joy as well as having lots of like unrequited love stories and class and money troubles and all the stuff you expect in an anti trollup novel.

I'd also very much recommend John Halifax Gentleman by Dynam Craig. which is a coming of age story, a sort of dual coming of age story about two friends, Phineas and John Halifax.

I also love Lady Anna by Anthony Trroll, which is a wonderful interesting sort of love triangle complex class dynamics story by Anthony Trroll.

I would highly recommend Michael Armstrong, a Factory Boy by Francis Trollup. really interesting industrial novel.

it's so horrible, but it's fantastic. I think it's a really impactful critique on the lack of power women had in 19th century society.

And then Wthering Heights, another favorite. and Little Dorret, both of which are favorite books of all time for me.

Love and Mr. Lucian by HG Wells is a fantastic really interesting book and one of HG Wells's realist works rather than his science fiction. I love it a lot.

this man and wife by Wilky Collins, which was a fantastic Wilky Collins book, like really, really top tier, so dramatic, so pacy, just an incredible book.

My Flirtations by Ella Hepworth Dixon, which is a really delightful like series of vignettes all about the narrator's various flirtations with various men and it's just great fun.

The Half Sisters, New Grub Street, and The Woodlanders are great favorites of mine.

I would really recommend Night and Morning by Edward Bulitten. Interesting buildings romance all about class and the Victorian obsession with legitimacy.

I also read Olive in 2018 and Olive remains a real favorite Victorian novel of mine. it is the coming of age story of a young girl who has scoliosis.

the last novel he finished before the mystery of Evan Drew was our mutual friend which is my favorite novel of all time

I think my favorite book from Vtober 2020 would probably have to be The Romance of a Shop, which is a really interesting sort of new woman novel about some sisters who open a photography shop in order to support themselves in the late Victorian period. And I just really love this book and find it historically fascinating.

I would also highly recommend The American Senator by Anthony Trrollop. Really interesting Anthony Trrollop novel. Lots of really interesting characters and complex love stories and exploration of class.

I would really highly recommend The Beetle by Richard Marsh, which is a really interesting late Victorian horror novel, which is fascinating. and one I've thought about a lot since and one that would be kind of fascinating to study.

another favorite from 2023 was the Beth book by Sarah Grand, which is just an amazing buildings romance. and an amazing critique of Victorian patriarchal society.

When it comes to my favorite book from VTober 2021, it would have to be either The House by the Churchyard by J. Sheron Lefanu, which is a interesting historical novel with sort of sensation elements and a lot of drama. or The Vicor of Bull Hampton by Anthony Trrollop, which is a wonderful, wonderful art troll book.

but I would also like to recommend Carmela by J Sharon and Lefanu and The Island of Dr. Morrow by HG Wells. Both of which are fantastic, too.

I read Barry Lyndon by William Matey Tachary and Basil by Wilky Collins. not a great start to VTober. I don't really like either of those two books.

I love The Moonstone by Billy Collins and The Mayor of Castbridge a lot. I think they're both fantastic books.

The Mill and the Floss by George Elliot, which is my least favorite book ever, probably.

I love The Moonstone by Billy Collins and The Mayor of Castbridge a lot. I think they're both fantastic books.

I also love The Picture of Dorian Gay so much.

I would also highly recommend The Rebecca Rioter and Drama in Muslin, both of which are great.

The Half Sisters, New Grub Street, and The Woodlanders are great favorites of mine.

If I had to pick one favorite from 2016, it would probably have to be The Half Sisters by Geraldine Jubbury, which is a incredible Victorian novel about two sisters. I have reread it since and I love it a lot.

I had forgotten just how amazing it was and rereading it last VTober was just like it was so amazing.

Probably The Odd Women by George Gissing, which is a wonderful proto feminist novel which looks really fascinatingly at the position of unmarried women in the late Victorian period.

I would also recommend The Perpetual Curet by Margaret Olphant. Really interesting novel. Lots of small town drama and church politics and discussion of scandal.

I think my favorite read from VTober 2022 has to be The Three Clarks by Anthony Trrollop, which I just really enjoyed. It's a really fun story about three Clarks in the civil service and the trouble they get into about money and love and one of them wants to be a novelist and it's just really fun and really delightful and has all the like trollup warmth that I love.

Actually, I hate The Two Destinies as well. this was a bad VTober.

The Vicor of Bull Hampton tells a story of a vicar and various things happening around him. there is a love triangle plot, there is a church politics plot, there is a crime plot. and there's just so much going on and it's great.

The Way We Live Now is one of my all-time favorite books.

I also would really highly recommend the play Tronnie of the Wells by Arthur Win Pinero, which is really fun. It's about an actress who is engaged to someone from outside of the acting world.

but I do really love Uncle Silus by J. Sherfanu, which is a really gripping gothic novel about a young girl called Maud and all of the strange things she goes through.

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gascal is again an all-time favorite of mine. so that was definitely one of my favorite things I read that Vtober.

I really enjoyed Mrs. Seall's Adventures in Many Lands. which is just a really interesting memoir.

There's obviously Weathering Heights, which was a reread for me and is one of my favorite books of all time.