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Hey guys! I’m just curious… What’s your favorite classic novel (if you have one)?

Hey guys! I’m just curious… What’s your favorite classic novel (if you have one)?

Skylar #recommend #classics

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Consuella

I am not sure if it’s a classic but I love The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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Tammy

Very much a classic.

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Happy

and then there were none by Agatha Christie

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Consuella

I have that but I have not read it yet. I enjoyed the movie, the original.

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Happy

try reading the book.. it’s great!

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Andrea

Frankenstein!

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Christian

Drácula, and The Lord of The Rings

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Lyssa

Wuthering Heights

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Tara

The Great Expectation

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Misty

Frankenstein or Dracula

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Robert

A Tale Of Two Cities.

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Aimee

Jane Eyre

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Kasey

Dracula

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Germaine

Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Rebecca

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Iris

I consider Kurt Vonnegut’s booksa classic. Not Kurt Vonnegut Jr but Kurt Vonnegut the first. He was a righteous old man that saw the world exactly as it was. No sugar coating needed. He was so bad ass!

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Kharina

Way too many to list! XD But if I had to pick one, then it’s probably be A Christmas Carol.

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Linda

Wuthering Heights.

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Ver

Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights

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Alane

les miserables, The Scarlet letter

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Ruwi

Pride and Prejudice! I can’t remember the number of times I’ve read it

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Rashaud

Stranger in a Strange Land &/or The Fountainhead

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Leah

Wuthering Heights

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Fay

The Time Machine, Brave New World, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Dracula, Lord of the Rings.

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Kat

Les Miserables!

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Christopher

The Odyssey

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Sheldon

The Three Musketeers.

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Supriya

And The count of Monte Christo

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Supriya

*cristo

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SkylarQuestion author

@Supriya I just finished that one! I like Wuthering Heights but now the Count of Monte Cristo has surpassed Bronte

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Sheldon

I got my Dumas novels confused. I actually like The Count of Monte Cristo better.

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Supriya

@Skylar ??

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Amanda

Canterbury Tales

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Jaymie

The Count of Monte Cristo

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Maneeshi

Wuthering Heights

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Virginia

Bleak House by Dickens.

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Lu

The Count of Monte Cristo

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Cheyenne

Secret Garden

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Jenn

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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Kathryn

Sense and Sensibility and Scarlet Letter

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Daphne

Catcher in the rye

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Becky

of mice and men

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Marianne

Gone with the Wind.

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Betsy

The Count of Monte Cristo

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Gina

Gone with the Wind.

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Cecilia

Of Mice and Men

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Sarah

Persuasion. Jane Eyre.

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Maggie

Toss up between The Secret Garden and The Waterbabies

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Monique

Jane Eyre and Anne Frank: a Diary of a Young Girl, if that’s considered a classic.

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Heather

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Ethan Frome

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Stacie

East Of Eden and Gone With The Wind and Les Miserables

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Catherine

The count of Monte Cristo

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Christle

I don’t really read classics…I get too bored with them…but I love The Scarlet Pimpernel, and my favorite classic…actually one of my favorite books, period…is Les Miserables.

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Neelma

The Lord of the Rings

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Melissa

Gone With the Wind, Dune, Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

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Stacey

Little Women

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Cindy

All of the above?? 😛

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Dan

At The Back Of The North Wind, Robert Falconer, Great Expectations, I could go on for days

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Raul

Great expectations by Charles Dickens

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Anna

Jane Eyre

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Louise

Frankenstein

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Val

It’s a toss up between Pride and Prejudice and Black Beauty also loved Little Women

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Ivan

The Bell Jar by S. Plath

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LaVonne

Anne of Green Gables

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Tammy

Don Quixote!

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Sally

The mayor of casterbridge

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Laus

Pride and prejudice or far from the madding crowd

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Tracey

Jane Eyre, Three Men in a Boat

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Meet

To kill a mockingbird

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Seth

The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

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Tammy

I really wish I could have read that without knowing how it ends.

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Seth

@Tammy I was still entertained by it. It’s very well written obviously

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Tammy

@Seth I was definitely entertained and have reread it a few times, but I still feel a little robbed of one of history’s greatest plot twists.

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Seth

@Tammy true

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Amanda

Swedish Emmigrant series by Vilhelm Moberg.

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Paula

To Kill a Mockingbird, Lolita

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Jonathan

Jane Eyre

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Paul

To Kill a Mockingbird, because it’s the only classic I’ve read.

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Kashif

Great Gatby

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Trish

Jane Eyre

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Abigail

A Liitle Princess

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Jennifer

Jane Eyre?

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Zahira

Wuthering Heights

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Suzanne

Little Women

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Emma

Northanger Abbey

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Marianne

The Iliad.
The Count of monte Christo is up there too ?

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Roxanne

Little women

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Kait

Gone with the wind

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Tucker

The Count of Monte Cristo

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Jennifer

Jane Eyre

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Ed

Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance .

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Olivia

Les Mis, the majority of Jane Austin and a bit newer but I feel classics gone with the wind, mists of avalon

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Essraa

I usually don’t do classics but I’ll choose “to kill a mockingbird” then “1984”

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David

1984…..

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Julie

War and Peace

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Christy

Cross Creek by Marjorie Rawlings saved a part of Florida for all

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Andrea

The Great Gatsby

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Rao

Amazing book ?

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Jill

WAR AND PEACE?

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Rao

I just started reading it today. Wish me luck I make it to the end ???

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Deborah

Tale of Two Cities

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Glynn

Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

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Dua

There are too many, Catcher In The Rye, Little Women, Wuthering Heights, The Great Gatsby, Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, etc. Basically, I love all the classics…

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Misty

Gone with the wind

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Amanda

The Count of Monte Cristo. It’s fantastic!

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Robert

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Dorothy

The Adventures/Memoirs/Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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Katrina

So far, Fahrenheit 451, The Time Machine, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Secret Garden and To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Sharon

Wuthering Heights, and Dracula <3

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Amanda

Wuthering Heights

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Arielle

East of Eden! It also happens to be my all-time favorite novel

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Tracey

So many…but I going to pick: “I Capture the Castle” by Dodie Smith

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Ann

The Great Gatsby, Age if Innocence, The Awakening to begin with.

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Siri

The Three Musketeers ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Brenna

Les Miserables!

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Lorena

David Copperfield

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Robin

Moby Dick

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Sabrina

Wuthering Heights

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Hazel

My favourites have always been TKAMB, animal farm and 1984 but I’ve just recently read Wuthering Heights for the first time and absolutely loved it. I just can’t choose ?‍♀️

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Ricky

Possibly Villette. Or Mansfield Park. Or Armadale. There are so many.

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Barter

Canadian- Rockbound, Internationally–tie between Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights.

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George

Does “To Kill a Mockingbird” count as a classic novel for you ????

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Hazel

Definitely for me, probably a modern classic?

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Hazel

Post WW1 and 2

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Mary

Anything by Jane Austen.

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Antoinette

Gone with the wind and also Roots

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Kirsten

Harry Potter and the Sorcerers Stone

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Ania

I totally agree!!

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Lorena

It’s not a classic novel though.

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Antoinette

But it probably will be

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Kirsten

It’s a classic novel in my house

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Becca

Jane Eyre

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Nilen

Old man and the sea

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Katrin

All quiet at the western front by Remarque

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Leah

Oooh, such a good one!

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Ania

Emma by Jane Austen

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Fanny

A Christmas Carol

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Bee

Anna Karenina

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Jacqueline

just for fun , (in middle school years , the late 1990’s ) i read pride and prejudice .

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Elise

Madame Bovary.

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Holly

East of Eden

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Audrey

A Tale of Two cities tied with The Count of Monte Cristo

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Susan

The Tale of Two Cities.

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Supriya

Ben -hur
Quo-vadis
Gone with the wind

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Leslie

Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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Lesley

Tale of two cities.

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Jillian

Jane Eyre

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