I want to start reading Classics… But I haven’t read any classic yet so any suggestions where to start? TIA.
I want to start reading Classics… But I haven’t read any classic yet so any suggestions where to start?
TIA.
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Following for listsss ?
Pride and prejudice or The picture of Dorian Gray ?
Or Fahrenheit 451!
Wuthering Heights was my first classic!
Jane Eyre, Persuasion, Woman in White, The Last of the Mohicans
Pride and prejudice! The pilgrims progress! 🙂
Same here. Never read classics. Recently started with pride and prejudice, I’m liking it so far.
Grape of wrath
What books do you normally read? Types of stories? I would start with what you like, or even a retelling of a classic, and move on from there.
I normally read mystery/thriller
@Sakshi Any of Agatha Christie’s novels, Sherlock Holmes, Frankenstein, Dracula, or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde would be a great place to start, then!
@Sakshi Edgar Allen Poe’s works too!
Thanks a lot for all your help ?
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiel Hammet or The Big Chill are good classic mysteries also Agatha Christie
Start with the easier ones which will not turn you off of classics which is the case with the majority of people due to the difficulty in reading them.
Start with the ones you are interested in and are modified for children where the language is simpler and then graduate to others.
Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Macbeth, Mrs. Dalloway, Sons and lovers, Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Great Expectation, Oliver Twist.
Wuthering Heights, Gone with the Wind, Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice.
Lord of the Flies.
2001.
Pride and Prejudice
You could start with short ones: A Christmas Carol, Around the World in 80 Days, The Time Machine. They’re all really great.
Of mice and men. 1 of the shortest classic
What is your favorite Genre? SciFi martian Chronicles or I Robot; romance anything by Jane Austin or the bronte sisters fantasy the hobbit followed By the Lord of the Rings; Childrens The Chronicles of Narnia or one of the Redwall series. King Arthur Once & Future King; mystery/detective: Sherlock Holmes; Plays: Shakespeare; short stories Decameron or Arabian Nights.
Master and Margarita
Wuthering Heights
Phantom of the opera
Scarlette letter
Wuthering heights
Pride and prejudice
Picture of Dorian grey
Dr jakle and Mr hyde
Rebecca, To kill a mockingbird
Oedipus rex, Macbeth, Pride and Prejudice, To kill a mocking bird
Jane eyre and wuthering heights.
Little Women, Black Beauty
What is a classic book according to you @Sakshi ?
I think any book which is relevant in today’s world inspite of the year/decade they were written in. Something that has staying power… I guess.
Good
I would recommend you The Alchemist and Gone with the Wind
What’s your favourite genre??
Classics have a huge range of different genres, it would help to start with a more modern one and within your preferred genre.
I like Mystery/thriller more
Perhaps have a look through this list
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2014/11/09/classic-mysteries-agatha-christie-sherlock-holmes/18244783/
Great Expectations and Pride and Prejudice are two of the best IMO.
Jane eyre ♥️♥️
i read Austens books as my first intro to classic novels. though now im into swashbuckling adventure. current finished with the Scarlet Pimpernel series (its great and entertaining) im now reading Scaramouche (so far so good)
Pride and prejudice and wuthering heights
Wuthering heights is just and all time favorite!!
@Jeremy will forever be my favourite book ❤️️
@Maddi. Catherine ghost at the window, begging to be let in…
Its such a beautiful pure love rooted in such “fuckedupness” ???
@Jeremy The only book I sob my way through ??
Because it shows the real meaning of why “love is pain”
@Jeremy absolutely
@Maddi ..finally ?
Tales of two cities.
I’m reading The Count of Monte Cristo. I’m almost finished. I’m actually listening to the audible book. It’s really long, but really good.
Portrait of Dorian Gray.
Rebecca.
Jane Eyre
Second this one, but also will suggest Frankenstein.
Huckleberry Finn, Sherlock Holmes, great gatsby
Yes! Great Gatsby ❤️
You can start with children’s classics like Anne of Green Gables.
My “classics” are different from everyone else’s. I have a degree in Political Science. I think anything by Plato and Aristotle would be excellent, especially Plato’s Republic. The trinity of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau. Jean-Paul Sartre, Kirkregarde, Schopenhauer, John Stuart Mill, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Those are my starters for the classical thinkers of the world.
war and peace Leo Tolstoy.
Good but not as a starter. Same with Dante’s Infirno and a few others.
Can’t see why not though… Too big?
Dante’s inferno is fine for a starter. It’s a brutally visceral tale. You just need a good translation and footnotes.
Pride & Prejudice
Definitely Pride and Prejudice
Jane eyre
Dracula.. northanger Abbey.. Jane Eyre and Rebecca
Is Watership Down a classic?
Wuthering Heights
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
This is great list and they aren’t all from American authors. There is a good variety of old and newer classics. There are some videos of authors and celebrities discussing their favorites…
https://www.pbs.org/the-great-american-read/books/#/
This is a great post!
Count of Monte Cristo… one of my all-time favs
Yes, Dickens.
Thackery ?
Little Women
Great minds think alike. I was typing Little Women when your comment popped up. Lol/
This is one of the few books I reread at least once a year
Little Women is a great start. Doesn’t “feel” like a classic in the “Classical” sense, if you’ll forgive the pun. Also The Old Man and the Sea by Hemmingway, A Christmas Carol by Dickens, Much Ado about Nothing by Shakespeare
Jane Eyre
Frankenstein. Dracula
Jane Austin
Edgar Allen Poe
I really have a very good tbr pile now… Thankyou everyone ?
I hope I’ll enjoy these books as much you all do
Little women
To be honest, it really depends on your reading interests:
1. Adventure – Jules Verne
2. Horror – Frankenstein, Dracula
3. Romance – Austen
4. Drama – To Kill a Mockingbird, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Dickens
5. Sci-Fi – Asimov, HG Wells, Douglas Adams
6. Mystery – Agatha Christie, Daphne du Maurier
7. Noir – Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett
So many more categories and books I would recommend, but that is just because I am a huge classics junkie.
Thank you for your comment
could you name some good books of daphne du maurier
@Adnan Rebecca is the classic one that most people would start with – with one of the best first lines in any book. Jamaica Inn is good and they just made a movie out of Cousin Rachel.
thank you so much. I appreciate the recommendations
Man, there’s so many good ones. I think everyone here gave you good recommendations. If you ever want someone to talk to classic books about or you have confusion about some part, I’m your girl!
Thanks
Oh… Thx a lot ?
I really enjoyed Phantom o the Opera. It was short, easy to follow and not too old englishy 😀
I’m currently reading To Kill A Mockingbird as my first classic (i’ve tried others before but couldn’t finish them because it was a big switch from my usual YA) and I think it’s grand !!! I’d definitely recommend this one because it’s easier to read than most classics in terms of language.
The Scarlet Pimpernel! One of my favorites! Also Little Woman is a great one!
Treasure Island!!
Jane Eyre
Phantom of the Opera, hands down!
The library ?
Lord of the Flies. In reading it for the first time now.
Wuthering Heights
Some classics were written at a time when things were a lot different and are a bit hard to fallow so Cliff Notes are a great resource for helping to understand
Great expectations. Much enjoyed ?
Frankenstein
Love in the Time of Cholera
Dracula
WUTHERING HEIGHTS! by Emily Brontë
A Tale of Two Cities and Three Musketeers are my favorite classics.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Scarlet Letter
Man in the iron mask by Alexandre Dumas
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
David Copperfield
To Kill a Mockingbird