Hi So I’ve been trying to read more classics lately and it would be lovely if you suggest a classic you loved. Ty ?
Hi
So I’ve been trying to read more classics lately and it would be lovely if you suggest a classic you loved.
Ty ?
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Pride and prejudice
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (a more ‘recent’ classic)
Frankenstein. The Secret Garden. Pride and Prejudice.
Dracula by Bram Stoker. Seriously such an amazing read if you haven’t read it already.
The Scarlet Pimpernel! One of my ultimate favorites!
Crime and Punishment
A Clockwork Orange, Crime and Punishment
Count of Monte Cristo, Anne of Green Gables, The Little Princess
The great Gatsby
Far from the madding crowd ?
My Top 3:
Pride and Prejudice
Frankenstein
Great Expectations
Even tho I love classics. I couldn’t get into great expectations at all ?
@Breshna I know how you feel. When I read it in high school English class, I was one of the few students who actually enjoyed the book, but it still took awhile to get into the book itself. Everyone else in my class just read the Sparknotes or something similar
It was quiet a long while ago, sometimes think of giving it a try again cause I don’t like to dnf books at all ?
I feel a compulsion to finish them, it feels as if the books haunt me if I don’t ?
Anne of green gables ?
Little Women
Wuthering Heights
Lord of the Rings
Pride and Prejudice is my all time favorite
Frankenstein
Night and day by Virginia Woolf ♥️
Flowers For Algernon
Little Women
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Anything by Honorè de Balzac ?
Frankenstein
Pride and Prejudice
Sense & Sensibility ?
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Jane Eyre, Mansfield Park or The hound of the baskervilles
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Black Beauty
Sorry to ruin this thread but can you all give me tips on how to read classics? I find them really hard and confusing though I am an avid reader ? much love.
Try easier and smaller classics like Austen or Jane Eyre or Little Women first. What genre do you like to read?
Definitely start with a classic related to something you’re interested in (like a specific era or country, etc.) and I find it easier if I read a little bit about the story before starting. For example, just a quick read on the author and the time period they were writing in and about can help get your mind ready for a novel.
@Ipshita I read fiction , contemporary , humor, romance everything but not classics. And would love to honestly.
@H I will try do that. ?
I like to do extra research when reading classics. If there is something I really don’t get I might look at something like Schmoop. Books can be open to more than one interpretation so you may get something different out of it than others. Really just don’t hesitate to look at other sources ?
I meant what genre do you prefer so i can suggest classics in that genre.
@Makenzie thankyou so very much. I will try this ?
@Ipshita romance mostly
@Ipshita and a bit self help
If you like romance, you can start with everyone’s favourite, pride and prejudice or you can try romance mixed in with some thrill with Rebecca.
The secret garden
The Great Gatsby and To Kill a Mockingbird are two of my all-time favorite books. Rebecca and Jane Eyre are very good too
Fahrenheit 451. Slaughterhouse 5.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde ??
The picture of Dorian Gray, black beauty, into the wild
The Picture of Dorian Gray!
To Kill a Mockingbird is my favorite.
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Jane Eyre.
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Wuthering Heights, The Bell Jar, Their Eyes Were Watching God, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Anna Karenina
Lord of the Flies
The Count of Monte Cristo
I loved that book so much!!
also The Bell Jar I think counts as a classic – in my opinion
The count of monte Christo is honestly the best book of all time
Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, also Magnificient Ambersons
Jane Eyre
Dracula and Frankenstein
Little dorritt by Charles Dickens but whatever you do NOT The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre
just finished The Scarlet Pimpernel ?
The Great Gatsby
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Dracula
The Monk is a good one that doesn’t get much attention.
Frankenstein
Jane Eyre!
Jane Eyre
Sense and Sensibility
Picture of Dorian Gray
Far From the Madding Crowd
On The Road
Count of Monte Cristo ❤️
Jane Eyre