“A Classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”--Italo Calvino. We are two moms that love the classics and we believe they are relevant and still have so much to still say to us today–perhaps even more than ever! We want to invite you to read along with us (or maybe just watch the movie) and hope that you will find our discussions fun and accessible and that you will find that there is so much to learn from and love about these transcendent books!
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Seeking Persephone by Sarah Eden The Reading List by Sarah Nisha Adams The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart
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Books mentioned in this episode: Leading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nasifi The Midnight Library by Matt Haig Long Bright River by Liz Moore The Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery Novels by Lynn Messina The Quit List by Katie Bailey When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano The Eddie Flynn Series by Steve Cavanag…
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Books Mentioned in this Episode: Pixels and Paint by Kristi Ann Hunter The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen The Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mystery Novels by Lynn Messina Queen Charlotte by Julia Quinn The Duke and I b \y Julia Quinn
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Part 4 (Ch 32-43)
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Books mentioned in this episode: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe James by Percival Everett There Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Stolen Focus by Johann Hari
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Part 3 (Ch 22-31)
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Magic Treehouse Series by Mary Pope Osborne Killing the Witches by Bill O'Reilly Up Next (in 2 Weeks): Persuasion by Jane Austen
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Part 2 (Ch 13-21)
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Books mentioned in this episode: I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time by Laura Vanderkam The Little Village of Book Lovers by Nina George Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmin
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Part 1 (Ch 1-12)
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Lost Letter by Mimi Matthews Killing the Witches by Bill O'Reilly
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde John Eyre by Mimi Matthews Me Before You by Jojo Moyes Villette by Charlotte Bronte The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Weyward by Emilia Hart Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling The Wild Robot by Peter Brown The Heartwood Hotel Series by Kallie…
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Books mentioned in this episode: Weyward by Emilia Hart Real Americans by Rachel Khong Forever and Ever, Amen by Randy Travis
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Books mentioned in this episode: Transforming the Difficult Child by Jennfer Easley Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline by Becky A. Bailey The Wild Robot by Peter Brown The Millie Molly Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Women by Kristin Hannah
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Books mentioned in this episode: The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen Words on Fire by Jennifer A. Nielsen A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
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Books mentioned in this episode: Hidden Potential by Adam Grant Grit by Angela Duckworth
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Books mentioned in this episode: How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by Ken Ludwig The Shakespeare Stories by Andrew Matthews Shakespeare Can Be Fun! Series by Lois Burdett The Usborne Complete Shakespeare: Sotries From All The Plays by Anna Milbourne A Stage Full of Shakespeare Stories by Angela McAllister Shakespeare's Stories by Khoa Lee The …
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Lost Queen by Signe Pike The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
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Books mentioned in this episode: William Shakespeare: Playwright and Poet by Pamela Hill Nettleton The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware The Affair by Gill Paul
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Anne of Green Gables - Part 4 (Ch 31-38)
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Books mentioned in this episode: Marilla of Green Gables by Sarah McCoy The Grace of Wild Things of Heather Fawcett Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink The Landing of the Pilgrims by James Daugherty The Millie Molly Mandy Storybook by Joyce Lankester Brisley Jane in Love by Rachel Givney…
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Anne of Green Gables - Part 3 (Ch 21-30)
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Land I Lost: Adventures of a Boy in Vietnam by Quang Nhuong Huynh The Lost Ticket by Freya Sampson
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Anne of Green Gables - Part 2 (Ch 11-20)
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
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Anne of Green Gables - Part 1 (Ch 1-10)
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Last Love Note by Emma Grey
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Part 4 (Ch 22-31)
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Kindred by Octavia Butler Mudbound by Hilary Jordan The Help by Kathryn Stockett The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe The Art of War by Sun Tzu The Book of Five Rings of Miyamoto Musashi The Book of Co…
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To Kill a Mockingbird Part 3 (Ch 15-21)
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We had no books to share this week. Stay tuned next week to hear what we are reading!
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Part 2 (Ch 9-14)
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Night Diary by Veera Hiranandani The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young The Rent Collector by Camron Wright The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright https://therefinedschoolhouse.org/blog/f/out-of-the-best-books
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To Kill a Mockingbird - Part 1 (Ch 1-8)
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Orphan Keeper by Camron Wright Pocahontas by Joseph Bruchac
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Books Mentioned in this Episode: All of a Kind Family of Sidney Taylor The Willoughbys by Lois Lowry The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place by Maryrose Wood The Vanderbeeker's of 141st St of Karina Yan Glaser Pippi Longstocking by Inger Nilsson Amelia Bedelia Books by Peggy Parish Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes Pinky Pye by Eleanor Estes My Father'…
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn Killing the Witches by Bill O'Reilly Mother-Daughter Murder Night by Nina Simon
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes Ginger Pye by Eleanor Estes Pinky Pye by Eleanor Estes The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn Later on We'll Conspire by Kortney Keisel Faking Christmas by Cindy Steel
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Moffats (January) by Elearnor Estes All of a Kind Family by Sidney Taylor To Kill a Mocking Bird (Feb) by Harper Lee Ann of Green Gables (March) by L.M. Montgomery Much Ado About Nothing (April) by William Shakespear Jane Eyre (May) by Charlotte Bronte Huckleberry Finn (July) by Mark Twain Persuasion (Aug) by Ja…
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba Go As a River by Shelley Read Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepytys The Fountains of Silence by Ru…
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Books mentioned in this episode: Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis Pedro's Journal by Pam Conrad \The Many Lives of Mama Love by Lara Love Hardin
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Books mentioned in this episode: Hello Stranger by Katherine Center Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse Red, White, and Whole by Rajani LaRocca
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Books mentioned in this episode: Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
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Books mentioned in this episode: Outlander by Diana Gabaldon Children of the Longhouse by Joseph Bruchac The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by William Kamkwamba Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
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All of a Kind Family - Part 2 (Ch 8-15)
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Chosen by Chaim Potock Little House on the Prarie Series by Laura ingalls Wilder Cheaper By the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey The Moffits by Eleanor Estes Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsall Little Britches by Ralph Moody The Hired…
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All of a Kind Family - Part 1 (Ch 1-7)
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Hired Girl by Laura Amy Schlitz Finders Keepers by Natalie Barelli Tom Lake by Ann Patchet The Dutch House by Ann Patchet
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"Some" of the books mentioned in this episode: Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls The Secret Garden by Fances Hodgson Burnett Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy A Quiet Little Woman by Louisa May Alcott The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Island of …
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Books mentioned in this episode: Dracula by Bram Stoker Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte It by Stephen King 11-22-63 by Stephen King Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Marier The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson We Captured the Castle by Dodie Smith The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson Crime and P…
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Book mentioned in this episode: The Paris Daughter by Kristen Harmel The Book of Lost Names by Kristen Harmel The Sand Castle Girls by Chris Bojahlian Hour of the Witch by Christ Bojahlian
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Books mentioned in this episode: The Sand Castle Girls by Chris Bojahlian Hour of the Witch by Chris Bojahlian The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
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Frankenstein - Part 1 (Preface - Ch 4)
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Books mentioned in this episode: Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar The Red Tent by Anita Diamant Next Week: Frankenstein Ch 5-10
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The Wheel on the School - Part 2 (Ch 9-15)
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Books Mentioned in the Episode: The House of Sixty Fathers by Meindert Dejong The Singing Hill by Meindert Dejong Journey from Peppermint Street by Meindert Dejong Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson The Jewels of Hals…
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The Wheel on the School - Part 1 (Ch1-8)
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Books mentioned in this episdoe: The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See Snowflower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry Becoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan Henry The Body Keeps the Score by Sean Pratt
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Pride and Prejudice - Part 6 (Ch 53-61)
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Books mentioned in this episode: Longbourn by Jo Baker Lord of the Flies by William Golding Sylvester by Georgette Heyer North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Death Comes to Pemberley by Rosalyn Landor Austenland by Shannon Hale Ayesha at Last by Uzma Jalaluddin The Murder of Mr. Whickham by Claudia Gray Miss Elizabeth …
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Pride and Prejudice - Part 5 (Ch 43-52)
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Books mentioned in this episode: What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon The Quiet Tenant by Clémence Michallon Room by Emma Donoghue The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland Night by Elie Wiesel
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Pride and Prejudice - Part 4 (Ch 34-42)
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Books Mentioned in this episode: Killing England by Bill O'Reilley Confidence Man by Maggie Haberman Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli The Second Ending by Michelle Hoffman
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Pride and Prejudice - Part 3 (Ch 24-33)
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Books Mentioned in this Episode: Finlay Donovan is Killing It by Elle Cosimano The Mostly True Story of Tanner and Louise by Colleen Oakley Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
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Pride and Prejudice - Part 2 (Ch 13-23)
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Books mentioned in this episode: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi The Things We Leave Unfinished by Rebecca Yarros The Bodyguard by Katherine Center The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins Rembarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt The One in a Million Boy by Monica Wood…
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Pride and Prejudice - Part 1 ( Ch 1-12)
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Book Mentioned in this Episode: Longbourn by Jo Baker An American Beauty by Shana Abe Beecoming Mrs. Lewis by Patti Callahan Henry Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan Henry The Rose Code by Kate Quinn The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn Own Your Past Change Your Future by Dr. John Deloney Love Comes Softly by Janette Oke…
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Jane Austen and Introduction to Pride and Prejudice
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Books mentioned in this episode:Anne of Green Gables by L. M. MontgomeryA Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'EngleThe Chronicles of Narnia Series by C.S. LewisLittle House Series by Laura Ingalls WilderTo Kill a Mcking Bird by Harper LeeThe Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinleyWhere the Red Fern Grows by Wilson RawlsSense and Sensibility by Jane AustenA…
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Island of the Blue Dolphins - Part 3 (Ch 19-29)
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Books mentioned in this episode: My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Hatchet by Gary Paulsen A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck The Incredible Journey by Sheila Burnford Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss The Sign of the Beaver by Elizabeth Ge…
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