What are some classic books that you highly recommend everyone to read?
What are some classic books that you highly recommend everyone to read?
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What are some classic books that you highly recommend everyone to read?
Lord of the rings
It’s about what?
You’re kidding right? It’s one of the greatest stories ever told. Check out the movies
The Road, A Christmas Carol, Woman in Black, 1984, Catch 22, Of Mice and Men, Shawshank Redemption ….
The Godfather, The Great Gatsby, Gone With The Wind.
Yes, I did find the movie to be an overall faithful, if quite splashy, adaptation of the book. But if you really want to read it, you should. Like with any adaptation, things were left out of the movie. And it’s worth reading alone for how perfectly F. Scott Fitzgerald captured America during the 1920s.
Flowers for Algernon. Brave New World. Books of Dianne Wynne Jones. Lord of the Flies
The Bell Jar
I’ve been looking for that but it’s always checked out of the library.
Oh my word, what a great book. Perfectly captures depression.
Crime and punishment, Dostoyevski. Every book of Dostoyevski is worth reading!! In my opinion. ?
I agree! He is one of my favorite classic authors
“Lord of the Rings” by JRR Tolkien (obviously) and
“I Am Legend” by Richard Matheson
ALL THE BOOKS!
*ahem*
I quite enjoyed Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography, his insights and experiences continue to linger in my mind. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn -especially Huckleberry Finn- are likewise excellent. Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, Diary of Anne Frank, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Giver…
ALL THE BOOKS!!!
They are considered classics for a reason! I really like Frankenstein, Little Women, Of Human Bondage, The Outsiders and Jane Eyre.
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Heidi, Black Beauty, 1984, Gone with the Wind, and, my fave, The Grapes of Wrath
1984 and To Kill A Mockingbird
The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1984, Jane Eyre, Anna Karenina, Of Mice and Men, The Emperor of Portugallia, Frankenstein, The Dwarf, I, Robot.
A tale of two cities, Frankenstein, and The Scarlet Letter
LOTRs, War and Peace, All of Dickens, Austen, V.S Naipal, Jules Verne, T.E Laurence, The Pillars of Wisdom, The Mahabharata, Lewis Carrol, Tale of Genji…Into the West, Wizard of Oz…
The Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison
Persuasion, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Anna Karenina and War and Peace.
David Copperfield because it’s my favorite classic! It’s just that amazing. Well anything by Dickens really. He is just truly a master at the art of storytelling.
Moby Dick is another one of my all time favorite classics. Every time I see a new version of the book I die a little inside cause they’re all really beautiful lol I own like maybe 4 copies of it. Love it!
Pride and Prejudice. Wuthering Heights. Lord of the Rings. Catcher in the Rye. East of Eden. Grapes of Wrath!!
I do the same with A Tale of Two Cities – buy a copy almost every time I see it.
Les miserable
the Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas
All of the above they’re all great.
As for recommendations: Uncle Tom’s Cabin & Frankenstein
Wuthering Heigjts, Jane Eyre, Rebecca, The Scapegoat, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Woman in White, The Moonstone
To Kill a Mockingbird … 1984 … Woman in Black … The Woman in White … The Road … Northanger Abbey
Withering Heights , Mill on the Floss, The Razor’s Edge, Rebecca
Wuthering *
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
You are the first person who’ve I’ve ever seen mentioned this book. I loved it! I didn’t think I would but I did. When people ask for a recommendation. This is my go to book to recommend
Grapes of wrath. Catcher in the rye
Not sure you’d call these classics but they are old and must read. Thomasina, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, and Love of Seven Dolls all by Paul Gallico. Mister God This is Anna by Fynn.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Tess of the d’urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Yellow Wall-Paper, Animal Farm and The Fall of the House of Usher.
Tale of Two Cities, The Count of Monte Cristo. Of Human Bondage
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Catcher in the Rye, Animal Farm, The Great Gatsby, Little Women. and more.
I would recommend everyone to read the novel, Sinuhe, the egyptian, written by Mika Waltari, a finish author.
Too many to list.
Jude the Obscure too. It’s excellent, but a heartbreaker.
W.SOMERSET Maugham- — Of human bondage
Sherlock Holmes stories
YAAAAAASSSS!!!♡♡♡
Gone with the wind, little women, emma are few of my favourites
All of the Little women, good wives series is brilliant. Plus the King’s General by Daphne du Maurier.
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Emma by Jane Austen (It gets passed over for p&p a lot but I prefer it ?), Far from the Maddening Crowd, the Bell Jar, Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, Rebecca and Frankenstien. (I’m aware some of these are more “modern classics”)
Also for younger readers (and old alike) Robin Hood and his Merrie Men, Peter Pan and Winnie the Pooh
Wuthering Heights!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤?
Jane Eyre, Red Badge of Courage, Tale of Two Cities, Treasure Island, Vanity Fair, Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Picture of Dorian Grey. The list is not exhaustive but they are books that I read as a young man and found inspiring. Yes, a young man reading Jane Eyre and Vanity Fair.
To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Of Mice and Men
Little Women and Dracula.
The Great Gatsby
To kill a Mockingbird, pride and prejudice, the great gatsby, lord of the rings, little women, gone with the wind, Dracula
Dickens always, Poe, Twain, George MacDonald, Charles Williams, LOTR, P.G. Wodehouse(funny, but also a master of the language) Dracula, Frankenstein, Bronte, Dorothy Parker, A.E. Houseman. sooooo many more.
Having spent part of my growing up years in Hannibal, Twain has always been a favorite. I reread Life on the Mississippi and Roughing It every few years. Some of his essays and short stories are also great reads. Finally, “The War Prayer” is definitely worth a read.
Jeeves!
@Pamela and the Empress of Blandings too
@Stephen so much good stuff. I have the running press 2 volume leather
@Dan, that’s a true collectors treasure.
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Oh yes! The best of the Bronte novels.
@Sandra oh it is! I absolutely loved it!
Catcher in the rye….the fountainhead
Thanks to the above (and, no doubt following) posters. You all have hit just about everything I, as a lifelong reader, would consider a classic.
Catcher in the Rye
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1984 by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley…….
Some more modern classics; Watership Down By Richard Adams, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt, I know why the Caged bird sings by Maya Angelou, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, for a few more
I loved Midnight, finally read it last year
And I want to re-read Watership Down
@Pamela it’s been a while for me as well. I might add it to my TBR pile. I remember loving it and when my daughter got old enough she read and enjoyed it as well. I love finally having someone in my family to share reading with.
@Wendy thanks for reminding me of it !
The fault in our Stars
Jane Austen in my favorite “classic” author
Here are mine (including some that are a bit newer, but I still highly recommend):
The Wind in the Willows, Charlotte’s Web, 1984, Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, Don Quixote, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Secret Garden, Frankenstein, Dracula, The Scarlet Letter, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Three Musketeers, Oliver Twist, The Grapes of Wrath, Shogun… I could go on and on!
And that’s one of the many wonderful aspects of being a reader: we can go on and on.
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Jane Eyre; Pride and Prejudice; Wuthering Heights; Rebecca and Jamaica Inn; Anna Karenina…those are the first ones I’m thinking of.
Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte’s Web, To Kill a Mockingbird
Great Expectations, Wind in the Willows, Winnie The Pooh, Charlotte’s Web, Pride and Prejudice, Pilgrims Progress, C.S. Lewis’s Narnia series, Pippi Longstocking, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Oliver Twist, Sherlock Holmes, The Hobbit, Animal Farm, The Black Arrow, Moby Dick, Around the World in 80 Days, Journey To The Center of the Earth, 20,0000 Leagues Under The Sea, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Green Mile, The Call of the Wild, Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Adventures of Tom Sawyer *gasps for air*
The Jungle Books; The Call of the Wild; White Fang; The Phantom of the Opera; Journey to the Center of the Earth; Les Miserables; Jane Eyre; Persuasion
Call of the Wild is a must read
Yup! ?
Robin Hood.
To Kill a Mockingbird. If you don’t get why racism/prejudice is wrong, read it. <3
Dickens and Tolkien
The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy.
1984, Fahrenheit 451, A Tale of Two Cities (the only Dickens I enjoyed), War of the Worlds and The Time Machine, The Jungle Books (Kipling). You might notice a bit of a science fiction theme and you’d be right. 🙂
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