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WANTED: Classic Literature Suggestions

Jennifer #recommend #classics

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Sandra

Wuthering Heights!

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JenniferQuestion author

I hate to admit that, at age 45, I have never read To Kill a Mockinbird. I just reserved it at the library. What other classics should I have read by now?

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Heather

@Jennifer I’ve gone a little less time not reading it myself. I dont know why. Maybe I’ll try it some day.

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Andie

@Jennifer I think I am going to re-read it!

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Amanda

Rebecca!

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Jennifer

?? just finished Rebecca for the first time and it was so good.

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Amanda

@Jennifer there is a sequel as well. Not as great but a fun read!

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Jennifer

Oooo I had no idea! Thanks!

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Karen

@Amanda sequel to Rebecca? By Daphne Du Maurier? What’s it called? I’ve read a number of her books but I don’t recall one that was a sequel. Rebecca is amazing. It’s due a remake of the film though the film is pretty good too. Actually I think they are remaking it with Armie Hammer as Max. ?

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Amanda

@Jennifer not written by Du Maurier – it’s called Mrs DeWinter

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Heather

Persuasion by Jane Austen, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, and East of Eden by Steinbeck.

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Beth

?Yes! East of Eden is my favorite book!

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Stephani

Little Women is one of my all time faves.

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Heather

oh yeah! Seconded!

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Merrill

I read it every few years. It’s lovely!

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Mar

Frankenstein ❤️

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Michelle

Just read that recently. Totally not what I expected. But not in a bad way.

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Siobhan

The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Tolstoy

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Siobhan

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

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Andie

YES!! I reread that one this past year and I loved it more now as a wife. 🙂

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Courtney

Pride and Prejudice & Gatsby

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JenniferQuestion author

I did read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Does that count? ?

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Courtney

@Jennifer, I HATED that book! But I’ll count it for you!

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Lora

sylvia plath the bell jar

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Kara

Brave New World, 1984, The Awakening

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Melissa

Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Little Women, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath

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Erin

Picture of Dorian Gray.

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Phyllis

Jane Eyre

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Jennifer

Arsenic and Old Lace

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Denise

Beautiful and the Damned

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Melissa

1984, Animal Farm, A Brave New World, The Little Prince, The Secret Garden, anything Shakespeare, The Outsiders (one of my all-time faves), Anna Karenina

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Rose

American? Western? Eastern? British? Century?

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Hayley

Tess of the D’Ubervilles, The Age of Innocence, 1984,The Picture of Dorian Grey, A Tale of Two Cities

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Keri

I enjoyed Grapes of Wrath

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Ginny

Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary

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Stephanie

My Antonia by Willa Cather, but to be fair, it’s part of a trilogy with O Pioneers! and The Song if the Lark.

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Karen

Other that I didn’t see mentioned: the Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, An American Tragedy

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Michele

The classics are my favorites. Lots of good choices listed already. I would add Rebecca and The Count of Monte Cristo and the already listed Pride and Prejudice to these. My favorite three classics.

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Stephanie

Wuthering Heights

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Mar

Anything by Edith Wharton

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Kristen

Oh my goodness, where to begin to recommend (it’s my genre!!)
Pride & Prejudice
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice & Men
Gone with the Wind
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Scarlet Letter
Persuasion
Meet Me in St. Louis
Three Musketeers
The Great Gatsby…
I could keep going but I’ll stop there!

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Erika

Watership Down

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JenniferQuestion author

Ooh ooh ooh I read this one! In middle school though—I probably should reread it. LOL ?

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Susan

Scarlet letter, grapes of wrath… two of my favs.

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Laura

Wuthering Heights!

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Liz

@Laura my favorite! This was the first book that I had to read in high school that I actually liked. I read it in a week

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Jennie

Check out the 100 Great American Reads by PBS. Great list and place to start.

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Bonnie

Great Gatsby, Fountainhead, Gone with The Wind, The Sun Also Rises

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Jennifer

Pride and Prejudice, the Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Macbeth are all favorites.

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Heather

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, excellent and suspenseful read, a favorite.

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Erina

Jane Austen for sure

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Carole

The Old Man and the Sea, house of the Spirit, Jane eyre, their eyes were watching god, the color purple, beloved

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Kristie

“Wuthering Heights” and “Pride and Prejudice” are my favorite classics. “George Orwells 1984” is a good SyFy type classic. I am currently reading “The Great Gatsby” which is good, so far. 🙂

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Barbara

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.

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Lauren

The Great Gatsby, East of Eden, The Crucible, Fences, Lord of the Flies

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Carla

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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Lecel

I don’t know if it is considered a classic, but A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving is one of my favorite books!

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Grace

@Lecel yesssss!

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Charlene

Is it classic? My always favorite is @Rebecca

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Donna

Catcher in the Rye, Emma, all Sherlock Holmes….

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Maheswari

Bleak House by Dickens, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.

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Carol

Anything by Charles Dickens or Edgar Alan @Diana. My 2 favorites

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Tyra

Jane Eyre, Rebecca, Ethan Frome, All Quiet on the Western Front, A Separate Peace, Tess of the D’urbervilles, and King Lear.

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Denise

1984 and Brave New World are 2 of my faves. Also, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre.

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Brenna

Not very well known, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham

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Danielle

So so many good ones listed! A few others to consider: Jane Eyre, In Cold Blood, The Godfather, Flowers for Algernon, Anne of Green Gables Series, Animal Farm

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Susan

I really loved The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck

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Mary

Persuasion by Jane Austen. It’s my favorite book by her. Little Women, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and The Once and Future King.

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Jessica

I read through all of the comments before commenting myself. It seems we all love many of the same classics, however a terrific one is missing from the list. My fave (and each time I read I discover a new detail) Frankenstein, by Mrs. Shelley. Written when she was 20ish. What a terrific immagination she had. Still relevant today, and no one has gotten the movie right; yet!

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Joan

The Bell Jar or The Count of Monte Cristo

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Nikki

Dracula, Phantom of the Opera, Wuthering Heights, Little Women, Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Rebecca, Emma, Pride & Prejudice (ok, anything Austen) & of course as mentioned above, Frankenstein.?

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Agatha

Jane Eyre, Rebecca, The Haunting of Hill House, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Moonstone, Silas Marner, Fahrenheit 451, The Book Thief, Maurice, Edgar Allen Poe Short Stories, O Henry Short Stories,…

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Tracy

Following

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Denise

The Razor’s Edge

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Denise

Portrait of a Lady, anything by Edith Wharton, A Moveable Feast

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Randi

A Moveable Feast, Measure for Measure, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Revenger’s Tragedy, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Spenser’s The Fairie Queene, The Odyssey, The Aeneid (I teach college literature classes, so let me know if you want more, or specific edition information .)

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Tracy

Franny and Zooey

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Jeannine

Dracula. Frankenstein. The Woman in White. The Turn of the Screw.

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Merla

Anything by Steinbeck

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Jennifer

Canterbury Tales

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Cindy

Frankenstein

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Susan

Tale of Two Cities and most anything by Dickens. EVerything by Jane Austen.

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Wendy

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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