I feel like my I’ve missed out on some great literature. Which “Classic” books do you recommend reading? 170 answers
Would like to read a classic book, as never read one before and would defo like to broaden my interests. What do I recommend for my first read xx 65 answers
I would like to recommend an American classic to my book club this Thursday. Any recommendations? 45 answers
The Thorn Birds
I loved this book.
New Grub Street
Phantastes by George Macdonald
Robert Falconer, also by George MacDonald.
On The Beach or A Town Called Alice by Nevil Shute
The Monk by Mathew Gregory Lewis.
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Moll Flanders x
Limbo by Bernard Wolfe
The Dutchess of Malfi
It’s a play by John Webster
Or Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott
Indiana by George Sand
Jude The Obscure-Thomas Hardy.
The Man Who Was Thursday – C.K. Chesterton
And The Napoleon of Notting Hill, by the same author.
Independent People by Halldor Laxness
The Way Of All Flesh by Samuel Butler
following
jude the obscure by thomas hardy
Following also
Earthly Powers (Burgess)
The Collector (Fowles)
Hard Times, Charles Dickens. Almost poetic.
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Mucker & Return of The Mucker. Edgar Rice Burrows.
Watership Down
THE CRISIS
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Try Deluge by Henryk Sienkiewicz – epic historic fiction + Nobel prize
The Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, by James Hogg.