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Sarah K and Alice chat about how they feel about classics. They talk about some of their favourites and discuss what they had to read at school and whether they think classics are worth reading. The episode transcript should be accessible from within your podcasting app or directly from Buzzsprout.

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Books mentioned:
The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue
Amnesty by Aravind Adiga
The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
The Yield by Tara June Winch (discussed in episode 50!)
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harper
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
1984 by George Orwell
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Emma by Jane Austen
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman
Passing by Nella Larsen
The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osmon
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Girl Woman Other by Bernadine Evaristo
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
1984 by Goerge Orwell
The Code of the Woosters by PG Wodehouse
The Transit of Venus by Shirly Hazzard
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan
The Living Sea of Waking Dreams by Richard Flanagan
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

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