What are some good classics to read? I've read Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee but that's about it.

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Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Villette, Emma, Northanger Abby, Crime & Punishment, The Great Gatsby, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations.

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Amanda

My absolute favorite is Pride and Prejudice!

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Emilie

Of Mice and Men, Anne of Green Gables, A Room With a View

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Lysa

Yes, Anne of Green Gables is an amazing read. Loved all the books in the series.

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Lysa I read the book series when I was younger, loved it!

Malinda

I genuinely like Pride and Prejudice and The Great Gatsby. I’m not normally one for classics.

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Abby

The Great Gatsby is one of my favorites but it’s pretty much the only classic I’ve liked so far. But I’m currently reading Gulliver’s Travels and it’s pretty good. LOTR is good as well but it’s very slow.

Abby

Also Jane Eyre is very good!!

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Already read and reread LOTR – it’s my favorite.

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Abby thanks!!

Abby

I couldn’t finish it the last time I tried to read it, but I’m planning on starting it again since I have all three books?

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Abby have you read The Hobbit?

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Abby

YES OMG I loooooooved The Hobbit!! I almost forgot about it!! I read it a few years ago but I need to read it again!!

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Abby it’s one of my favorite reads ever! Gandalf is my favorite character!

Abby

I love Gandalf too but I absolutely adore Fili and Kili, in the movies and in the book

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Abby Kili yess!!

Abby

I cried so hard when he died I was heartbroken?

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Abby I know, I did too! ? And then Fili died along with Thorin, I couldn’t handle it.

Abby

Me either??

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Abby the book and the movie both made me cry.?

Abby

Me too? I thought Kili and Tauriel were so good together in the movie though!

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Abby Same! I was hoping they were going to be a couple, but then he died! And Tauriel was so heartbroken! ?

Abby

I know it killed me??

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Abby same ??

Shannon

Dracula is an amazing read ?

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Richard

Because of Winn-Dixie.

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Michael

English literature? Or does it matter. My favorite are Brothers Karamazov, Heart of Darkness, and East of Eden.

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It doesn’t matter, any classic counts. Thank you!

Heart of Darkness was wonderful 🙂

Jeanette

Of mice and men,
Pride and prejudice,
Tess of the D’urbevilles,
Little women,
I capture the castle,
Jane eyre,
The great gatsby,
The merchant of Venice,
Wuthering heights,
Letter from Peking,
I’m currently reading ‘my cousin Rachel’ and enjoying that too

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Michael

I’ve reading classics for a long time so I can be accomodating to what kind of genres you enjoy.

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I enjoy multiple genres, but lately have been interested in the adventure type. But anything really!

Michael

Mark Twain is definitely a great start. Jonathan Swift’s Gullliver’s Travel is good too. If you want a bit more of a serious read I’ll suggest the White Whale by Herman Melville

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Michael thank you, that’s definitely a good start!

Madison

The Great Gatsby is my favorite classic.

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It’s one of my favorites as well!

Vanessa

The picture of doria gray, Jane Eyre, The old man and the sea, animal farm

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Thank you! Ernest Hemingway is a great author!

Erin

I loved reading The Great Gatsby , Frankenstein , and And Then There Were None especially in high school

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This year in high school (was 11th grade) didn’t have us read any novel – which didn’t make sense because it was a college level class.

Sandra

Anything from John Steinbeck, Pearl S. Buck, The Good Earth.

Karyn

The woman in white is terrific.

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Jaz

Ferinheight 451 is defiantly a good read, the great Gatsby for sure. And of mice and men.

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Fahrenheit 451 is on my list!!

Brandi

Passing by Nella Larson; Ceremony by Leslie Silko; Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

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Kimberly

Around the World in 80 Days is a favorite of mine that I haven’t seen mentioned yet.

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Gone With The Wind

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Lizanne

I just finished The Outsiders and that one was surprisingly good!

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I have that on my list, good to know you enjoyed it!!

Dana

Les Miserables is my FAVE! Followed by the Count of Monte Cristo

I also enjoyed “the alchemist” and on those days I’m feeling like a kid I sometimes read “the secret garden”

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I loved the Secret Garden!! Thank you!

Christine

Jane Eyre

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Salma

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Around the World In 80 days by Jules Verne.
Both Authors have other amazing books but these are my favourite!

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Salma

Since these two were mentioned, you could also try reading Robinson Crusoe, The Swiss Family Robinson, Heidi, Catcher in the Rye and Gulliver’s travels 😀
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Salma I’ve always wanted to read Robinson Crusoe !!

Salma

It’s Amazing! And try to read the original because the Simplified version sucks!

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Salma I will definitely try!!

Evelyn

Narcissus and Goldmund, by Herman Hesse

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Med

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Med

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Elsebeth

Slaughterhouse five and fahrenheit 451

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Natasha

Tess of the durbervilles & Rebecca are two good ones!! Deffo worth the read ?

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Natasha

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Beth

Little women

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Brittany

The catcher in the rye was really good!

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Corissa

Jane Eyre is my favorite.

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Susana

Fine and punishment from fyodor Dostoevsky and the count of mount Christ from Alexander Dumas… Alert: they are really long and complex but great

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Alexys

Mice and men

Lord of the flies

My mother the cheerleader

Fahrenheit 451

The little prince

1984

The great gatsby

Merchant of venice

Who needs a road?

The secret garden

Alice and wonderland

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Baleigh

Gone with the Wind is my favorite classic, but Jane Eyre is a close second. There’s also little women.

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Nora

Great Expectations is my favorite Dickens, and Persuasion is my favorite of Austen’s.

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Robbi

The Great Gatsby

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Kathy

the grapes of wrath.

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Stephen

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Anna Karenina & War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dochevsky

These are my personal favorites 🙂 🙂 🙂
Hope you enjoy them too

Cheryl

You have made some excellent choices!

Stephen

Classics are actually my favorite type of books. I find their content rather appealing than boring (coming from a 17 year old).

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Stephen Thank you so much for the recommendations! I do enjoy classics as well, as I am 17 as well. Aha.

Jenny

Old Man and the Sea , Dickens (anything), Twain

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Mary

Gone With The Wind, Green Gables

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Alicia

Anything Sherlock Holmes, The Illiad, The Odyssey, Le Mort D’Arthur & Arabian Nights are all some of my favorites.

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Nardjes

These are some very good books ❤

Mary

Wished I could think of more!

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It’s the thought that counts! ?

Mary

Jeff

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck are two of my favorites. They are quick reads that pack a powerful punch

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Cheryl

Jane Eyre

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Addy

Haven’t seen anyone mention it. A Clockwork Orange. One of my favorites although it is strange and trippy (also a bit hard to read because of the language, luckily there’s an audio of someone reading it on youtube)

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Tarzan of the Apes, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea, Peter Pan, Conan the Barbarian, Frankenstein, Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, The Time Machine, Heart of Darkness, King Solomon’s Mines, The Call of the Wild, The Secret Garden, Black Beauty…..

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Corrissa Sure 🙂 I hope you like some of them. Sherlock Holmes, The Old Man and the Sea, The Odyssey and The Iliad are also good

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I hope so too! 🙂 and thank you again !

Any time! Let us know how you go, comparatively few people read and enjoy the classics these days so it’s always nice to find people that enjoy them.

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Cj I’ve always been drawn to classics since I was younger, my grandmother has many of them. I will be sure to let you know!

Mary

Babbit-Sinclair Lewis is very good-and The Jungle by Upton Sinclair is excellent

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Mary

Oh-and I forgot-The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck

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Mary

Watership Down. Count of Monte Cristo. Oliver Twist. Robinson Crusoe. Love in the Time of Cholera. The Grimm Fairy Tales. Anything by Edgar Alan Poe, Jules Verne, Jane Austen, (most of Dickens), Sir Edgar Rice Burroughs, Aristotle, Shakespeare. These are some of my favorites.

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Mary

Let us know what you decide on.

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Mary I will!

Dara

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ?

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Hannah

The bell jar

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Mary

Yes, an excellent book.

Maha

Jane Eyre

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Mary

The Lottery, We Have Always Lived in the Castle and The Haunting of Hill House. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (not to be confused with THE Invisible Man by H.G. Wells but that, or any of his work would also be good reading).

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Malinda

Also – A Lost Lady is fantastic.

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Rashmim

Pride and prejudice by Jane Austen.
The scarlet pimpernel
Emma
Tale of two cities

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Elizabeth

Ivanhoe. Gatsby. The Notebook. Or was it The Notebook?

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Elizabeth

Oh, and The Scarlet Letter.

Susan

1984, Jane Eyre, Farenheit 451, and Lady Chatterley’s Lover are great! 🙂

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Valeria

Frankenstein. The picture of Dorian Gray. Jayne Eyre. The secret garden. ?

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Simant

The diary of a young girl by Anne Frank and Animal Farm by George Orwell

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Rim

Jane Austen wrote remarkable classics I am sure you’re going to love like Pride and Prejudice/ sense and sensibility…..

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Rim

I hope so to

Yash

Jane Austen’s all seven novels. 1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell. To The Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway , Orlando and The Room of One’s own by Virginia Woolf. Metamorphosis and The Trial by Franz Kafka. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy. Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Dracula by Bram Stoker.

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Bethany

Titus & Andronicus by Shakespeare

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Rafia

I am not sure whether “Rebbecca” by Daphne Du Maurier is a classic or not but you should probably read it.

Mary

Yes it is a classic!

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Rafia

“Emma” by Jane Austen

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Vero

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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Vero

You will ABSOLUTELY love it, and you will wish to have a Mr Darcy in your life 🙂

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Vero I hope so! 🙂

Deedra

Ethan Frome, Sense and Sensibility, Flannery O’Connor stories

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Deedra

And Kate Chopin!

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Chrissy

Pride & Prejudice! That’s my all time fav next to Emma.

Also, Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte.

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Mary

Jane Eyre.

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Jennifer

Pride and Prejudice, Catcher in the Rye, 1984

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Jennifer

Corrissa You’re welcome. Enjoy! I should probably read some of the suggestions you’ve received. They sound good!

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Jennifer They sound amazing! I’m putting together a list right now.

Saima

Frankenstein

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Meggan

Dracula is my favourite!

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Susan

Anything by John Steinbeck!

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Nenah

Totally agree with this statement, East of Eden is soooo good. I also suggest Hemingway?

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Nenah I love Hemingway!

Jane

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

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Missy

The Count of Monte Cristo. It’s long but exciting and never boring.

Alicia

Really anything by Dumas. He essentially wrote soap operas cleverly disguised as classic French literature.

Missy

Alicia Great description!

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Alicia He sounds very interesting!

AbdEl-Rahman

The sound and the fury – William faulkner

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Samantha

Brave New World by Adouls Huxley

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Samantha

It’s really good! I mean it’s super weird but it’s a great read!!

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Samantha I love super weird!

Amy

Lord of the flies!!! It’s one of my all time favourites

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I read that last year! I enjoyed it immensely.

Nair

Anne of green gables is sweet and funny, if you like murder mysteries I would recommend Agatha Christie, Tolkien for the fantasy genre, Austen as mentioned before if you like romance and Dickens

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Agatha Chritie is amazing!

Nair

Corrissa yes! one of my favorite authors

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Nair I enjoy her works !

Laura

The Great Gatsby

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Love that novel!

Keri

A time to kill

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Dominique

Lord of the flies by William Golden. Or actually no, A Brave New World BY Alduous Huxley.

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I’ve read Lord of the Flies, loved it! The other is at the top of my list now!

Dominique

Cool! It shows how maybe monogomy is an out dated and under evolved concept.

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Dominique That’s a very interesting way to look at it!

Rebecca

Shakespeare’s Hamlet

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Hamlet is one of my favorite tragedies by Shakespeare!

Rebecca

Mine too.

Josie

The Count of Monte Cristo

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Josie

you’re welcome!

Susana

one of my favourite

Josie

mine too!

David

Count of Monte Cristo is and will always be awesome!

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Mary

So agree!

Lillian

Three Musketeers is good

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Gabriele

The Count of Monte Cristo, North & South, Jane Austen’s novels, Sherlock Holmes, Grimm brothers, The Secret Garden, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland

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Rebecca

Brave New world if you like dystopian, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest if you like weirder stuff or great gasby if you want to fall in and out of love

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I love everything you mentioned!

Gianna

Crime and punishment

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Julie

If you don’t mind long reads, any of Dickens’ books are fun–great characters.

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Jeanann

White Fang, Call of the Wild, or The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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What are some good classics to read? I’ve read Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee but that’s about it.

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