10 Essential Penguin Classics Redux

The results of the votation for the new top ten of Essential Penguin Classics Redux  have just been released:

Your votes have been tallied! We're pleased to announce the new list of the ten essential Penguin Classics, as voted on by you.
You may remember that last year, we compiled a list of our top ten essential Penguin Classics we thought every person should read.
From Hamlet to Of Mice and Men to Walden, we thought our list was complete.
Obviously, we were wrong.
You wrote in about the books we left off our list. Where was The Canterbury Tales? Wuthering Heights? Little Women?
So we created a new list edited by you.
What do you think about the new list? What's still missing? Discuss, argue, and persuade others here.

And on the new top ten, no less than two Brontës: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is number 5

A novel of intense power and intrigue, Jane Eyre has dazzled generations of readers with its depiction of a woman's quest for freedom. With a heroine full of yearning, the dangerous secrets she encounters, and the choices she finally makes, Charlotte Brontë's innovative and enduring romantic novel continues to engage and provoke readers.

and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is number 9.

Published a year before her death at the age of thirty, Emily Brontë's only novel is set in the wild, bleak Yorkshire Moors. Depicting the relationship of Cathy and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights creates a world of its own, conceived with an instinct for poetry and for the dark depths of human psychology.

Categories: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights