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?
@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. ?
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
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.
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!
“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. 🙂
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
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!
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.?
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,…
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 .)
Wuthering Heights!
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?
@Jennifer I’ve gone a little less time not reading it myself. I dont know why. Maybe I’ll try it some day.
@Jennifer I think I am going to re-read it!
Rebecca!
?? just finished Rebecca for the first time and it was so good.
@Jennifer there is a sequel as well. Not as great but a fun read!
Oooo I had no idea! Thanks!
@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. ?
@Jennifer not written by Du Maurier – it’s called Mrs DeWinter
Persuasion by Jane Austen, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, and East of Eden by Steinbeck.
?Yes! East of Eden is my favorite book!
Little Women is one of my all time faves.
oh yeah! Seconded!
I read it every few years. It’s lovely!
Frankenstein ❤️
Just read that recently. Totally not what I expected. But not in a bad way.
The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Tolstoy
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
YES!! I reread that one this past year and I loved it more now as a wife. 🙂
Pride and Prejudice & Gatsby
I did read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Does that count? ?
@Jennifer, I HATED that book! But I’ll count it for you!
sylvia plath the bell jar
Brave New World, 1984, The Awakening
Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, A Tree Grows In Brooklyn, Little Women, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Grapes of Wrath
Picture of Dorian Gray.
Jane Eyre
Arsenic and Old Lace
Beautiful and the Damned
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
American? Western? Eastern? British? Century?
Tess of the D’Ubervilles, The Age of Innocence, 1984,The Picture of Dorian Grey, A Tale of Two Cities
I enjoyed Grapes of Wrath
Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary
My Antonia by Willa Cather, but to be fair, it’s part of a trilogy with O Pioneers! and The Song if the Lark.
Other that I didn’t see mentioned: the Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, An American Tragedy
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.
Wuthering Heights
Anything by Edith Wharton
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!
Watership Down
Ooh ooh ooh I read this one! In middle school though—I probably should reread it. LOL ?
Scarlet letter, grapes of wrath… two of my favs.
Wuthering Heights!
@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
Check out the 100 Great American Reads by PBS. Great list and place to start.
Great Gatsby, Fountainhead, Gone with The Wind, The Sun Also Rises
Pride and Prejudice, the Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye, Macbeth are all favorites.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, excellent and suspenseful read, a favorite.
Jane Austen for sure
The Old Man and the Sea, house of the Spirit, Jane eyre, their eyes were watching god, the color purple, beloved
“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. 🙂
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
The Great Gatsby, East of Eden, The Crucible, Fences, Lord of the Flies
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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!
@Lecel yesssss!
Is it classic? My always favorite is @Rebecca
Catcher in the Rye, Emma, all Sherlock Holmes….
Bleak House by Dickens, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.
Anything by Charles Dickens or Edgar Alan @Diana. My 2 favorites
Jane Eyre, Rebecca, Ethan Frome, All Quiet on the Western Front, A Separate Peace, Tess of the D’urbervilles, and King Lear.
1984 and Brave New World are 2 of my faves. Also, Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre.
Not very well known, The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
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
I really loved The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck
Persuasion by Jane Austen. It’s my favorite book by her. Little Women, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and The Once and Future King.
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!
The Bell Jar or The Count of Monte Cristo
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.?
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,…
Following
The Razor’s Edge
Portrait of a Lady, anything by Edith Wharton, A Moveable Feast
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 .)
Franny and Zooey
Dracula. Frankenstein. The Woman in White. The Turn of the Screw.
Anything by Steinbeck
Canterbury Tales
Frankenstein
Tale of Two Cities and most anything by Dickens. EVerything by Jane Austen.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn