Recently started reading classic, so what are your favorite classic books?
Recently started reading classic, so what are your favorite classic books?
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Recently started reading classic, so what are your favorite classic books?
The Outsiders!!
Brave New World, Wuthering Heights
You have good taste.
dracula and wuthering heights!!
And you have good taste.
Wuthering Heights, David Copperfield and Pride and Prejudice.
Love Dickens
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Yes!
❤️❤️
The Good Earth
I agree with this!
Pride and Prejudice
Gone with the Wind
To Kill a Mocking Bird
The Great Gatsby
The Bell Jar
Yes. The Bell Jar.
The other ones too ?
The Secret Garden by FH Burnett
Fahrenheit 451, Connecticut in King Arthur’s Court, Last of the Mohicans
Anna Karenina
Great Expectations, Jude The Obscure, Huck Finn.
Jane Eyre, Dracula, East of Eden,( actually, anything Steinbeck),The Good Earth, To Kill a Mockingbird, Tom Sawyer, Rebecca… okay I’ll stop now.
The Good Earth….then on to more Pearl S Buck. And anything Steinbeck.
The Secret Garden and Peter Pan
Oh so many! Madame Bovary, Jane Eyre, Persuasion, beautiful & the damned, Vanity Fair, Tess of the D’Urbevilles, etc..
To Kill a Mockingbird, A Tale of Two Cities, Les Miserables
Ok, that’s awesome.
If we’re not already Goodreads friends, we should be! ?
I love it. It keeps me motivated to read when I see what everyone else is reading!
Great Expectations, Wuthering Heights, and Dracula.
Jude the Obscure. I cannot imagine there ever being a more harrowing book regardless of the age or setting.
I’ve had this book for years and haven’t gotten around to it. Thanks for the nudge.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, David Copperfield, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Les Miserables, Rebecca, The Good Earth
Oh! And We, the Living by Ayn Rand
Ethan Frome, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights
Loved Ethan Frome
Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park. I never tire of them. Every reread is like visiting a dear friend.
Frankenstein
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin. And probably anything by Edith Wharton.
David Copperfield
Jane Eyre and anything by Mark Twain
A Christmas Carol, and Ethan Frome.
Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Lord of the Flies, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, The Bell Jar, Anne of Green Gables, Ender’s Game, Mildred Pierce, One Flew Over the Cukoo’s Nest, & Native Son
What do you define as “classic”?
Jane Eyre is forever and always my favorite
Grapes of Wrath, Tale of Two Cities, Of Human Bondage, The Trial, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice, Sons and Lovers, Far From the Madding Crowd, Crime and Punishment, A Room of One’s Own, You Can’t Go Home Again.
Dante’s Inferno
The Awakening by Kate Chopin. It’s a short novella, but stunningly beautiful and sad. One of my all time favorite books
“The Ox-Bow Incident” and “Lord of the Flies”
Grapes of Wrath and then everything Steinbeck, Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein.
Oh forgot Anna Karenina – one Tolstoy in a lifetime may be enough.
3 Musketeers, Phantom of the Opera
Dumas❤️
Count of Monte Crisco!
Pride and Prejudice….I love Jane Austen. And A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. Now for contemporary classics: I Know Why the caged by Sings by Maya Angelou, and 1984 by George Orwell
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Scarlet Letter
Pride and prejudice
Adventures of Huckleberry fin
Wuthering Heights and The Brothers Karamazov. Also Robinson Crusoe.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
I was astonished how many of Wilde’s best lines appeared in Dorian Gray!
All of Jane Austen, Three Musketeers, Crime and Punishment, War and Peace
Chekhov’s short story sleepy. Everything Vonnegut. Master and Margarita.
Gone with the wind! My favorite book of all time.
Scarlett was so much more dimensional in the book than she was portrayed in film. The book was great!
I love this book so much that I can’t bring myself to watch the film. Haha
I’ve seen the movie many times and love it for what it is. I’m lucky I saw the film before I read the book though. I prefer it that way so it doesn’t ruin the film for me. I read GWTW when I was 18, I’m now 50.
all of vonnegut … all of ann tyler ….
Middlemarch, Our Mutual Friend, Bleak House, War and Peace, To Kill a Mockingbird
Oh, I forgot Washington Square and Portrait of a Lady (Henry James), Dracula, Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden.
Anything Steinbeck!
Possession, Rebecca, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Midnight’s Children, Remains of the Day, Watership Down, Sound and the Fury
Ethan Frome, Sons and Lovers, all of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Austen.
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
Loved that book
I’m surprised no one has mentioned Les Miserables! My all time favorite.
Oops, I see some early resonates did.
Read that many times over ❤
Hee hee, I hate my auto correct.
Gone with the wind!!!
East of Eden
I thought this book was good. I was SO underwhelmed by the ending though. Still a great read.
I think I feel this way too and so I must think it’s mostly about the story and the characters and not so much on endings maybe.
Portrait of Dorian grey
I’ve been halfheartedly working my way through the classics for a couple years now and the one that comes to mind first as one I genuinely enjoyed and couldn’t put down was Jane Eyre.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7190.The_Three_Musketeers?ac=1&from_search=true
Interesting – I don’t remember romance as being the focal point of The Three Musketeers. I remember how funny and exciting it is.
Lord of the Flies
Just found this in our neighborhood
Library box!!
Jane Eyre
Frankenstein
Jude the Obscure, All Quiet On the Western Front, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A Tale of Two Cities-so many-so good!!
Moby Dick
Good for you
In Cold Blood. (I assume that’s old enough to be a classic now? )
I love clasics: the Count of. monte cristo, les miserables, jane austen’s novel, the brontes’s, and others….
George Eliot
Of Mice and Men.
Jane Eyre
Faulkner!
Anything Jane Austin
Absolom! Absolom! by Faulkner.
Crime and Punishment
Withering Heights
I like Tolstoy.
The Good Earth & The Fountainhead. I’ve read each over 10 times!?
The Count of Monte Cristo & The Tale of Two Cities.
I’m not really into classics, but picked up David Copperfield one night and got sucked in. Unfortunately, I was trying to cure my insomnia. ?
David Copperfield is one of my favourite books of all time!
I just finished and have a major book hangover.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
To Kill a Mockingbird
Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope.
And Henry james
Wuthering Heights, Lord of the Flies, All Quiet on the Western Front, Their Eyes Were Watching God, anything by Steinbeck, As I Lay Dying (probably my very fave!!), anything by Hemingway.
As I Lay Dying!
My absolute fave!!
I haven’t read it in ages, but I mean to dig it out. One of my very faves, too.
I love it! Same here! I need to get it back out and re read it! ?
I am a fan of Dickens. I also like Jane Austen. In my younger years I remember liking Thomas Hardy but I need to re-read to see if that’s still so!
Gone with the wind
Also one of my favourites! ?
Pride and Prejudice, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, The Iliad, The Odyssey
Look Homeward Angel.
Vanity Fair, Our Mutual Friend
Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, all the Shakespeare comedies and tragedies (the histories, not so much), A Tale of Two Cities.
Edith Wharton (she’s brilliant at socially correct bitchiness), Willa Cather, Charles Dickens, Harper Lee… Don’t forget the children’s classics like Alice in Wonderland, A Little Princess, Secret Garden, and Harry Potter!
Pride and Prejudice
East of Eden; My Antonia are my very favorites.
I’m so in love with Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, and I definitely suggest you start with that! ❤ It was one of the first books I read when I started reading Classics 🙂
But I also suggest The Phantom of The Opera because it is such a unique story. I’ve never read anything like it, and I love the book very much. ❤
Tales of Two Cities.
Chekhov of course!
McTeague
Wuthering Heights.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/295.Treasure_Island
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24280.Les_Mis_rables
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/480204.The_Phantom_of_the_Opera
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33507.Twenty_Thousand_Leagues_Under_the_Sea
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/325085.Nicholas_Nickleby
Gone with the Wind and Forever Amber.
Pride and prejudice ?
“Ana Karenina”
The Woman in White by Willkie Collins
The Scarlette Letter
Pride and Predujice
A prayer for owen meaney
I reread Pride & Prejudice and Sense & Sensibility every few years, and A Tale of Two Cities but only for That Scene.
I read A Tale of Two Cities but can’t recall what scene you mean?
Glad someone else said this! My strongest memory is the knitting woman, being a knitter
@Susan The opening line? Maybe the execution?
Opening line very well known, but maybe doesn’t count as a scene?
Lol, I meant Sydney’s sacrifice.
A Song of Ice and Fire
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck) and Jack Kerouac’s, On the Road.
Lots of Pearl Buck, Taylor Caldwell, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, John Steinbeck….
The Great Gatsby, Angle of Repose, The Good Earth, A Christmas Carol, Pride and Prejudice, My Antonia.
my old bookclub read The Good Earth, My Antonia and Angle of Repose. The latter ended up destroying the club, as it was the absolute favorite of the guy who suggested it, but another guy hated it and wasn’t shy about saying so.
I thought it was a beautifully written book. I was reading an old paperback whose binding disintegrated part way through. I read the final 25% from a handful of loose pages in a binder clip .
Don Quixote
I pick it up, look inside and feel overwhelmed at how big this one is. I am determined to read it at some point! Maybe a 2018 goal!
@Melanie, listen to the audiobook, it’s fantastic. The book is very funny and the reader does a different voice for each character.
A friend once told me: “You read Don Quixote three times in your life. The first time it makes you laugh. The second time it makes you think. And the third time it makes you cry.”
Pride and Prejudice, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Jane Eyre
Love John Steinbeck short stories, and lots of Thomas Hardy, especially ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’
Dracula by bram stroker
O. Henry short stories (Gift of the Magi, Ransom of Red Chief)
Anna Karenina
A Tale of Two Cities, Crime and Punishment, and Pride and Prejudice
My absolute favorite!!! Hands-Down!!!!❤️?❤️
All Jane Austen. The more “obscure” of her works are real treasures.
Sherlock Holmes.
The original non-sugar coated Grimm’s fairytales…perfectly suited for Hallow’s Eve reading.
All George Eliot except Mill on the Floss
It took 100 pages for me to get into it, but then I could not put Mill on the Floss down.
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes.
Les Miserable, Count of Monte Cristo
I loved Les Miserables too!!❤️?❤️
Monte Cristo!
Brideshead Revisited
Loved the TV series. And Aloysius, the teddy bear!
@Sally the book is even better
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
All of Sinclair Lewis’s works; am just now finishing Dodsworth. Main Street and Elmer Gantry have been my favorites of his. His writing is timeless even though he wrote during the 1920s. The emotions, feelings, and dialog of his characters resonate now, even nearly a hundred years later.
He definitely deserves to be better known!
Great Expectations, Pride and Prejudice, Tom Sawyer, David Copperfield, A Secret Garden, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass. I am sure I can think of more.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Rabbit Run and others by John Updike, Most Charles Dickens, the Scarlett Letter, Mark Twain.
Jane Eyre, Black Beauty, Lassie Come Home, Anne of Green Gables, Charlotte’s Web, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and How Green Was My Valley, for starters.
Too many to mention. Before joining here I was ready to start a classics only book club. I’ll throw two out there that are underrated. The Way We Live Now and Orley Farm, both by Trollope
Good idea for a book club. What would the “classic” criteria look like?
I LOVE Trollope!
Little Women
Eight Cousins, Farenheit 451, Frankenstein
winesburg, ohio; to kill a mockingbird; almost any mark twain; almost any f. scott fitzgerald; agatha christie; a tree grows in brooklyn; moby dick; the stranger
& cannery row by john steinbeck
The Outsiders and Of Mice and Men
Two of my faves!
Animal Farm, Catch 22
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Cakes and Ale, To Kill a Mockingbird
Persuasion