The Fennel Book Collection

UPDATED: November 13, 2014

Yet another collection list.

This is one that Matt and I have been talking about for quite some time. I mean -- we have all heard of the classics. They are quite possibly the most beloved pieces of work of all time. Why not invest our money and own all the greatest?

Matt and I are IN LOVE with Frugal Bookstore -- a second hand bookstore on the west side of Madison. We are in there at least once every couple of weeks. Today - after going to the Farmer's Market -- we stopped by the bookstore to start our collection.

There are so many classics that I haven't even read. And now its about damn time I start.

Once Baby Fennel makes his or her way into this world -- (not saying it's anytime soon people!), I want to teach our child the love of reading. For so many reasons............ 

Five years down the road, I can see Matt and I reading to our little one every single night after dinner. And not just children's books -- but classics as well.

As always, this list is forever changing. Some are not classics (cough cough -- Twilight) and a lot of them are children's books (Everyone Poops).... but needless to say, we want them all. I will cross them off as we purchase.

If you can think of anymore classics or fabulous children books, shoot them my way and I'll add it to the list. 

• Ulysses
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• The Great Gatsby
• 1984
• War and Peace
• Invisible Man
• The Catcher in the Rye
• Gulliver's Travels
• The Grapes of Wrath
• Moby Dick
• The Portrait of a Lady
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
• Pride and Prejudice
• Emma
• To Kill a Mockingbird
• The Lord of the Rings
• Jane Eyre
• Wuthering Heights
• Lord of the Flies
• Gone with the Wind
• The Call of the Wild
• Animal Farm
• Frankenstein
• The Canterbury Tales
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Crime and Punishment
• Charlotte's Web
• The Scarlet Letter
• Hamlet
• Romeo and Juliet
• Vanity Fair
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• Great Expectations
• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
• Winnie the Pooh
• Little Women
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
• Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
• Of Mice and Men
• The Jungle
• The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
• The Harry Potter Series
• The Twilight Series
• The Hunger Games Series
• The Nancy Drew Collection
• The Chronicles of Narnia Series
• Mary Poppins
• The Giving Tree
• Where the Sidewalk Ends
• Falling Up
• A Light in the Attic
• Oh The Places You'll Go
• The Cat in the Hat
• Fox in Socks
• The Lorax
• The Foot Book
• Green Eggs and Ham
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• If I Ran the Circus
• Happy Birthday to You
• Horton Hears a Who
• Wizard of Oz
• Wicked
• Curious George
• Frog and Toad Series
• Harold and the Purple Crayon
• The Hobbit
• Holes
• Jumanji
• Madeline
• Matilda
• Mr. Popper's Penguins
• Rumplestilskin
• Silvia Long's Mother Goose
• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs
• Where the Wild Things Are
• The Little Engine That Could
• Pippi Longstocking
• Little House on the Prairie Series
• The Berenstain Bears Series
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Where the Red Fern Grows
• Llama Llama Red Pajama
• Down by the Bay
• The Tale of Peter Rabbit
• Everyone Poops
• The Polar Express
• On the Night you were Born
• Puff the Magic Dragon
• Alexander and the terrible, horrible, very bad day
• Love you Forever
• Brown bear, Brown bear, What do you See?
• Amber Brown is not a Crayon Series
• Children's Bible Stories - my copy from when I was little
• The Bible
• The Classic Disney Stories Collection (another collection in a collection)
• The Color Purple
• Black Like Me
• 12 Angry Men
• Water for Elephants
• The Help
• Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
• The Secret Garden
• Anne of Green Gables
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
• Life of Pi
• Les Miserables
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Eventually Matt and I will be driving to IKEA to buy a few bookshelves. But of course, it will take time to fill them. Out of 122 different titles, we currently own 11. Looks like we have some shopping to do!

Like the Disney movies, we will slowly be adding on to our list. If anyone has these books in their basement collecting dust, get in touch with me and I'll happily take them off your shoulders. What is your favorite book?