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Any must-read classic novels suggestion?

Any must-read classic novels suggestion? Thanks in advanced

Ana #recommend #classics

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Rosemary

Treasure Island

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Pamela

Pride and Prejudice

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Jennifer

Too many!!!!

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Jennifer

East of Eden. Screw Tape Letters. Jane Eyre…The Mill On The Floss… Crime And Punishment….

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Larry

Anything by Dickens.

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Alli

Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Lisa

Oh, this sounds familiar! Gonna have to find it. ?

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Barbara

Anything by Mark Twain

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Ashley

And Then There Were None

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Lois

A High Wind in Jamaica.

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Lois

Or Wuthering Heights. I love this book and read it several times

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Rosanne

So romantic!

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Muffy

Jane Eyre

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Rosanne

Jane Eyre. I’m reading it now and it is wonderful!

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Tammy

To Kill a Mockingbird. The Good Earth

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Beth

Jane Eyre is forever and always my favorite!

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Lisa

Pride and Prejudice

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Cindy

Rebecca

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Rebecca

Second this

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Mary

The good earth.
Pride and Prejudice.
Jane Eyre.
East of Eden.

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Kaye

To Kill a Mockingbird, And Then There Were None, Rebecca, East of Eden, The Illustrated Man, Lord of the Flies, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings trilogy, Watership Down, MacBeth, and Hamlet are some of my favorites that quickly came to mind. Too many books, so little time! ?

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Miz

yes to all these lovely friends

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Susan

I love to see an Agatha Christie in your list

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Miz

age of innocence

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Bill

Sons and Lovers

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Steven

Animal Farm, 1984, War And Peace, Anna Karenina, Don Quixote, Moby Dick, Crime And Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Trial, The Great Gatsby, In Cold Blood….oh, I can go on and on….

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Giovanni

Moby dick.
Anything from Asimov
Fahrenheit 451

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Wendy

To Kill a Mockingbird, Grapes of Wrath, Little Women, The Good Earth, Anne of Green Gables series

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Robert

The Moonstone, Rebecca, The Good Earth and Dragonseed by Buck, anything Sherlock Holmes, Dickens, Hemingway etc.

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Oscar

And quiet flows the Don by Mikhael Sholokov. A romantic novel set in revolutionary Russia.
Also its sequel, The Don flows home to the sea. Both enjoyable reads.

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Oscar

The Count of Monte Christo by Alexander Dumas

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Oscar

If it’s a laugh you’re looking for, then try Blandings Castle by PG Wodehouse. It consists of approximately 100 pages so you’re able to finish it in one sitting

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Suharman

Jane Austen’s novels, or Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Alexander Dumas, Victor Hugo….

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Adriana

I recommend little house on the prairie!

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Jeffrey

A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin

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Lila

This is a very interesting interpretation of a “classic”;-)

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Jeffrey

It is, but most people just mean old rather than classic. Mark Twain’s comments concerning classics as something that people want to say they’ve read, but don’t read is well founded in my opinion. https://www.google.com/search?q=define+classic&oq=define+classic&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0l5.2646j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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Rosemary

To Kill a MOckingbird!

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Adriana

I love that book!

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Rosemary

@Adriana No matter what the book-suggestion question, TKAM is my answer, lol.

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Imran

Portrait of a Lady

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Carol

Les Miserables

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Meaghan

The Count of Monte Cristo.

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Lila

I recently read Their Eyes Are Watching God and it is incredible. As a younger reader I was very into classics, and I loved Jane Eyre (reread this recently as an adult and was less enthralled by Mr. Rochester…), Middlemarch, Great Expectations, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, One Hundred Years of Solitude… really there are so many good ones, it’s hard to choose!!

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Jan

The Odd Woman or New Grub Street, both by George Gissing (friend of Dickens). The Odd Women change my entire outlook.

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AnaQuestion author

Thank you so much guys!

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Bonnie

My Antonia by Willa Cather and East of Eden by John Steinbeck

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