Wherein We Elect Our Favourite Novels of… the 1850's, pt.2 (1856-1859)

I’ve been reading through the 19th century year by year—1859 is where I’m at now

Fevered has an interesting concept—a father raising a son in an experimental system. Of course the son rebels. I lost some interest along the way though.

Did you start at 1800? If so, holy moley that's impressive.

Nice going! I've been curious to read a book by George Meredith for the somewhat silly reason that I have the book "The True History of Mrs. Meredith and Other Lesser Lives" by Diane Johnson on my bookshelf, but feel like I should read something by George Meredith first.

xpost yeah, six years ago. It seemed like 90% of the novels published between 1810 and 1830 were written by Sir Walter Scott.

In the mid twentieth century replace Scott with Simenon.

Do you read anything else, or do you go all 19th century all the time?

I mostly just read children's books to my son now, and comic books

But I used to read mainly new books, so this project is a bit of a corrective