Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy. It’s about a woman who begins an affair with a younger man in mid 1800’s Russia, who loses everything she has because of it. It’s a tragedy, and beautifully written.
We’ve been reading classics in my 19th century British Novel class this semester. Emma was really good, and Middlemarch isn’t half bad so far. I wouldn’t try Our Mutual Friend, though. Dickens really needed an editor for that one.
Pride and prejudice, the count of Monte Cristo, wuthering heights, the lord of the flies, of mice and men, Oliver Twist, to kill a mockingbird, the sound and the fury, catcher in the rye, are some of my favorites
Don Quixote The Brothers Karamazov Three Musketeers La Mserables Madam Bovary Moby Dick The Red and The Black Anna Karenina Father Goriot David Copperfield Treasure Island Robinson Cruso The lost world(Conan Doyle)
Shogun, James Clavel, couldn’t put it down. The Prince of Tides, Pat conroy, Beach Music, Pat Conroy, The Godfather, Mario Puzo, Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky.
Everybody rushes to judge this (and most Rand work) so swiftly, and so few have really experienced it (or any of them), so ultimately wind up trying to sound archly academic and just parrot what they’ve heard & read other saying . . . and that tarbrushing reference in “Dirty Dancing” certainly made it worse!
I’m reading Oliver Twist now. Others, Little Women, Christmas Carol, To Kill A Mocking Bird, Fahrenheit 451, Diary of A Young Girl, Animal Farm, 1984, Watership Downs, anything by Poe or Dickens……
I’ve read a vast amount of classics but my favorites have been Sherlock Holmes, just about anything by Jules Vern, and Mark Twain.
Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The portrait of Dorian Gray and Dracula are some of my favourites.
I bought Dorian Gray and Dracula earlier and im reading dorian gray. Thanks!
Dorian Gray is fantastic, but heavy going in places. Stick with it and it is worth it.
Oscar Wilde! Yes!❤
This is my Oscar Wilde book, and it’s gorgeous
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If you have a Barnes and Nobles, I suggest you visit that store they have a section of old classic books. Usually pretty cheap.
Steinbeck comes to mind first.
*les miserables- book about everything-love, hate, forgivness, self-sacrifice, betrayal…
*gone with the wind- historical about courgae,strength,weakness love
*The Count of Monte Cristo- love, REvange
Count of Monte Cristo is good. Pride and Prejudice is wonderful!
Think And Grow Rich..
Rich Dad Poor Dad
How to win and Influence Friends – those books are not classics Shobit Shobhit Mishra .
uh-huh.
No offence intended.
https://www.abebooks.com/books/features/50-classic-books.shtml
The Castle of Otranto (Gothic horror)
Three Men in A Boat (classic humor)
The Maltese Falcon (crime noir)
Anything by Jules Verne or Charles Dickens
The Thorn Birds
Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy. It’s about a woman who begins an affair with a younger man in mid 1800’s Russia, who loses everything she has because of it. It’s a tragedy, and beautifully written.
Bleak House by Charles Dickens.
Down and out by Eric Blair.
Rebecca
Great book
The 3 musketeers by A. Dumas and The earl of Monte Christo by A. Dumas
Don’t you mean the Count of Monte Christo?
We’ve been reading classics in my 19th century British Novel class this semester. Emma was really good, and Middlemarch isn’t half bad so far. I wouldn’t try Our Mutual Friend, though. Dickens really needed an editor for that one.
Anything by Mark Twain…:)
Frankenstein!! 🙂
Pride and prejudice, the count of Monte Cristo, wuthering heights, the lord of the flies, of mice and men, Oliver Twist, to kill a mockingbird, the sound and the fury, catcher in the rye, are some of my favorites
Grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
Frankenstein Dracula the mummy
To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield,
Don Quixote
The Brothers Karamazov
Three Musketeers
La Mserables
Madam Bovary
Moby Dick
The Red and The Black
Anna Karenina
Father Goriot
David Copperfield
Treasure Island
Robinson Cruso
The lost world(Conan Doyle)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, My Antonia by Willa Cather, A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Gary Paulsons
Jane Eyre the Iliad, Sherlock Holmes, Tarzan, King Solomon’s mines.
alexander dumas. count of monte cristo & lots of others
Hunchback of Notre Dam!!!!!!!!
Their Eyes were watching God
Wuthering heights and wives and daughters ♥
Dr Jekyll and me Hyde
To Kill A Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, Grapes of Wrath.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
To kill an mockingbird by Harper Lee
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Animal farm by George Orwell
All modern classics but well worth the read
A Clockwork Orange, Fahrenheit 451, In Cold Blood, Lolita, To Kill W Mockingbird, Ulysses
Shogun, James Clavel, couldn’t put it down. The Prince of Tides, Pat conroy, Beach Music, Pat Conroy, The Godfather, Mario Puzo, Crime and Punishment, Dostoyevsky.
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
War and Peace, Tolstoy
Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
YES! Still my fave!
Thank God. These days they’re banning it at school!
Everybody rushes to judge this (and most Rand work) so swiftly, and so few have really experienced it (or any of them), so ultimately wind up trying to sound archly academic and just parrot what they’ve heard & read other saying . . . and that tarbrushing reference in “Dirty Dancing” certainly made it worse!
Amen sista
@Maureen {brutha} . . .
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
Helter Skelter, Buguliousy
Wuthering heights and Jane Eyre
A tree grows in Brooklyn
Anthem, we had to read it for school, but I liked it. Any Catcher in the Rye
Is Anthem one of those books that’s a political tract thinly disguised as fiction?
… um its science fiction and is about rebelling against society’s standards Through love and knowledge
Native Son, Richard Wright
A Separate Peace
Call of the Wild
The Scarlett Letter
Lord of the Flies
A Wrinkle in Time
Cricket in Time Square
Wind in the Willows
1984
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Of Mice and Men
Christy by Catherine Marshall
Charlotte’s Web
Oliver Twist
Wuthering heights
That was then this is now
The outsiders
To Kill a mocking bird
Lord of the flies
To kill a mockingbird,Ulysses.
The Great Gatsby, Drakula
Google “100 book” for a selection of lists of top books by various authorities and interested parties.
The Count of Monte Cristo
Frankenstein, Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, Fahrenheit 451 and 1984.
Bram Stokers Dracula
The great gatsby
Old Man and the Sea
1984, George Orwell.
Little Women
Jane eyre, the picture of Dorian grey, Lolita, Alice through the looking glass, Madame bovary
The arabian knights the divine comedy grimms fairy tales. Dracula dr jekyl and mr hyde
Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
Very good book!
Edgar Allen Poe..it’s almost Halloween
I’m reading Oliver Twist now. Others, Little Women, Christmas Carol, To Kill A Mocking Bird, Fahrenheit 451, Diary of A Young Girl, Animal Farm, 1984, Watership Downs, anything by Poe or Dickens……
Considering the approach of Halloween, I’d recommend Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Stephen King. Which I already consider to be a classic.