Looking for best list of must read classics. There are so many lists out there!
Looking for best list of must read classics. There are so many lists out there!
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Looking for best list of must read classics. There are so many lists out there!
That is a tough list, because it really is a matter of taste. I personally think that these lists should be focused on authors, rather than books.
The Great Gatsby
the giver
I like http://thegreatestbook.org/ – they compile multiple list to make one list.
Thank you ?
Oliver Twist
Jane Eyre, Count of Monte Cristo, David Copperfield, Great Expectations. Arabian Nights too maybe.
Crime & Punishment, Animal Farm
Animal Farm, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and anything by Poe or Shakespeare.
Lolita. The subject matter aside, one of the must read novels. Beautiful prose, humour and a mastery of the English language.
Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers, Sense & Sensibility, Great Expectations are some that I can think of on the fly. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley should be close to the top of any list. I read it for the first time about 3 years ago and was so enthralled with it. I was also angry that the movies made the creation the monster and it should not have been that way.
Frankenstein is one of my favourite classics too
I recently bought a new Penguin Classics copy and on the back it states that this year is the bicentennial of the novel. So, Penguin “has published for the first time the original 1818 text which preserves the hard-hitting and politically charged aspects of Shelley’s original writing…”
@Donna that’s really cool, I didn’t know this, I actually don’t own a copy if it, I borrowed it from my library but will need to get my own copy soon.
I ordered it online through Barnes & Noble and then went and picked it up at the store. I’m looking forward to reading it again, with this new copy.
Here is a picture of the cover.
@Donna that’s a nice edition ?
Yeah, I lucked out. 🙂
Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington. The ending was empowering.
My favourite genre:
Read the classic horrors; Frankenstein, Dorian gray and Dracula.
Classic dystopians too: 1984, Fahrenheit 451 and a brave new world.
Du Mauriers work is great especially Rebecca.
Pretty much all of Shakespeares work and Conan Doyle’s too.
Kafka , Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy are great too.
Gatsby, to kill a mockingbird and of mice and men too and I will stop.