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A Dickens order

I'm in a Chinese poetry binge of Red Pine translations, and I'm reading a Star Trek novel, and a Joan Halifax book.

u/HutVader suggests this Order for Dickenson on r/charlesdickens

My recommended order (not entirely as I would rank his works, but this worked for me. More of ranked by order of essential reading). Oh and I recommend watching Dickensian the show as well, perhaps first.

Great Expectations

A Tale of Two Cities

Oliver Twist

David Copperfield

Bleak House

Hard Times

Little Dorrit

Nicholas Nickleby

The Christmas Stories

Edwin Drood

Our Mutual Friend

Old Curiosity Shop

Pickwick Papers

Dombey and Son

Martin Chuzzlewit

Barnaby Rudge

Sketches by Boz

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I've read Barnaby Rudge and Pickwick Papers. I fell asleep listening to David Copperfield. Same with A Christmas Carol. I think I only listen to 40% at most, and sleep through most of it. I think I should stick to Moby Dick as my fall asleep book. One Hundred Years of Solitude was too exciting for me to fall asleep. Ditto for Sally Rooney.

Think I need to take the leap and really try working down this list. I was thinking about chronological order, but this makes sense. If you flounder, you've hit the important ones.

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