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Give me some of your favorite classic books. I want to start reading the classics and build a library for when my kids get older.

Give me some of your favorite classic books. I want to start reading the classics and build a library for when my kids get older.

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Megan

Little Women, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre

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Clare

To Kill a Mockingbird, Wuthering Heights, The Catcher in the Rye

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Beth

To Kill A Mockingbird

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Sydney

To kill a mockingbird and gone with the wind

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Catherine

Little House on the Prairie books!

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Cinnamon

New classics— The Alchemist and The Help

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Summer

To Kill A Mocking Bird, The Bluest Eye, and Finding Forrester

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Rabbia

How did you like Toni Morrison’s work? What you like in his work? I am Considering reading The Bluest Eye.

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Summer

@Rabbia I love her work. I truly recommend reading The Bluest Eye. The way the story is told is captivating. I love how she builds her characters in all of her books. Her descriptions are vivid, the language of her characters are even descriptively superb. IMO her story telling is outstanding.

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Rabbia

@Summer thank you so much dear. I’ll surely borrow it from the library today( if I do not get enchanted by some other book) ??

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Beth

My Side of the Mountain

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Navile

Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, The Secret Garden, and A Little Princess.

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Nan

The Anne of Green Gables series.

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Laura

Jane Eyre, The Grapes of Wrath

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Joyce

The Secret Garden

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Elissa

East of Eden

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Piepie

The Wind in the Willows

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Cheryl

Steinbeck is a winner; my all time favorite is Rebecca, but start with children’s classics: Wind in the Willows, Anne of Green Gables, all Ronald Dahl, Charlotte’s Web, etc

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Cate

The Hobbit

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Carol

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Rebecca,

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Tamara

Anne of Green Gables, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Age of Innocence.

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Shawna

Some good older classics… Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Leo Tolstoy.

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Amy

Lord of the Flies, Peter Pan, The Giver Series

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Erin

Jane Eyre. The first couple of chapters are hard to get through, and then it gets better

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Marna

The Mill on the Floss

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Patti

Little Women

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Sally

Great Expectations is a great read for kids. I read it when I was a teenager.

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Becky

Madame Bovary, Gone With the Wind, Jane Austen’s, Jane Eyre, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, probably more I can’t think of off the top of my head… ?

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Amy

To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone With the Wind

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Pat

Catcher in the Rye… Nancy Drew Book Series…. Yada Yada sisterhood books

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Carla

Pride and Prejudice, The Count of Monte Cristo.

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Ann

Grapes of Wrath….My favorite book!

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Laura

The Great Gatsby

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Lori

The Storyteller and my sisters keeper, Picoult

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Jill

shorter classics or books with younger characters: Whipping Boy; Little Prince; Bridge to Terebithia; Wrinkle in Time; Of Mice and Men; Charlotte’s Web; Sarah Plain and Tall; Sounder.

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Catherine

What’s Whipping Boy? I’ve never heard of it.

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Alicia

Everything Laura ingalls wilder

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Pat

The Boy Called It

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Rose

Brave New World

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Dara

Amazon had the Alice in Wonderland series for free today.

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Dara

On the Kindle, that is.

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Nita

Jane Eyre.

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Judy

Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca,

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Judy

I think on the Kindle most of the classics are free actually, check it out

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Nicoletta

Charles Dickens !

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Anna

Anne Of Green Gables ???

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Mari

The Age of Innocence

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Mary

The Chronicles Of Narnia – a perfect read aloud

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Kris

The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men. I love short stories and there are many written by the greatest authors in Kindle’s Megapacks .

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Kris

Dr. Doolittle. A Wrinkle in Time. Nim’s Island. All good for younger readers.

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Amy

Gone With the Wind, Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, Rebecca, Beartown.

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Paula

Charles Dickens, Pride and Prejudice, Little Women, The Lord of the Rings, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Wrinkle in Time, A Christmas Carol.

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Alicia

@Paula
I just finished the Wrinkle in time series!! I took me 20+ years years to realize she had written more ?lovvve when that happens

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Paula

@Alicia

I’ve read two of her novels. The rest are on my reading list.

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Kimberly

David Copperfield is my all-time most favorite book.

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Savannah

Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs or anything by him!!
The Hobbit
Anne of Green Gables
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and the list goes on……….

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Karen

Anne of Green Gables, Great Expectations, Little Woman

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Alicia

CS Lewis anything….. little women
Wuthering Heights
Jayne Eyre
Dracula
The little Prince
The Hiding Place
The Giver series
Number The Stars

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Claire

Bleak House, war and Peace

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Dawn

To kill a mocking bird

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Paula

@Dawn

Did you read her sequel, Go Set a Watchman?

I didn’t enjoy it as much as her first novel.

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Roberta

old Nancy drew/cherry ames/Trixie beldens…give a fun time capsule of America past….

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Rabbia

Pride and Prejudice , The Great Gatsby..

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Rabbia

The happy prince and others- By Oscar Wilde. Its a collection of his short stories. Beautifully written. I love them. Read it in my earliest youth years when I was 14 or 15 and fell in love with them..

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Gwen

@Rabbia the happy prince is by Oscar Wilde

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Rabbia

@Gwen thanks for mentioning. I’ll correct it.

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Susan

A tree Grows in Brooklyn probably not a true classic but should be

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Gwen

The Great Gatsby, The Grapes of Wrath, Franny and Zooey, Jane Eyre, Lady Susan

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