What classic you would recommend someone read first?
What classic you would recommend someone read first?
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Lord of the Flies, Call of the Wild
Jane Eyre
Great Expectations
Great Gatsby
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
The Grapes of Wrath
Dracula
Jane Eyre
@Martha second this
Frankenstein
I don’t think that what you read first is all that important. However, I would recommend getting some type of Cliff’s Notes or study guide for the particular book and using it to guide your reading. http://litlovers.com/ is a good resource and it is free!
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
Pride and Prejudice
@Mimi I wanted to start with this, but heard it could be challenging to get into
it is a bit of a challenge but take your time reading it. You’ll love it.
Start with something short so you don’t get overwhelmed (as much as I love Jane Eyre! ❤️). I just listened (audio) to the importance of being earnest and it was the funniest thing I’ve read in a while
Start with something short and written in a way you can understand. A young girl that I worked with said the way Wuthering Heights was written held her back from reading it. Same with Gone With The Wind. With Dickens start with Oliver Twist. Read Little Women or Lord of the Flies.
@Joan loved little women! I started with that one and it fueled me to read more. I just know it’s a bit big
@Joan . I always wanted to read Oliver Twist
@Dawna I really enjoyed it.
The Giving Tree
To kill a Mockingbird
Little Women
Sherlock Holmes
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984 and Animal Farm are on a lot of classics lists….
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is a great start.
No recommendations for Hawthorne lol
Lord of the Flies
Middlemarch by George Eliot.
A Tale of Two Cities, Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights.
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
@Yuki I second that.
@Stephanie I think I was in JH when I read it and loved it – figured it’s a good one to ease into the classics ☺️
@Yuki yes I agree.
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
Les Miserables
I would want to know something about their existing reading experiences to see what has interested them so far……huge difference between recommending say ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray” and ‘Pride & Prejudice’
Crime and punishment
@Rishi I loved this novel, but I’d throw a few softballs first! ?
Or Les miserables
Don Quixote
I try to tailor my recommendations to the individual…
Increase the odds of fully drawing them into the collective.
What do you like reading? It’s a very difficult question to answer otherwise. Give us some ideas of your favourite authors or genres and we’ll see what we can come up with.
@Helen . I like Hawthorne ,Irving and trying to appreciate Poe
Grab a Jane Austen novel. I consider Austen as a palate cleanser. Although her characters are complex in many sense of the term, at least you can expect some happy ending. ?
try all of the Bronte sisters’ writings
Anne’s preface to the second edition of her Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a good introduction to her as she, without revealing her identify, tells what she aims to do as a writer
Any of Jules Verne’s many fine novels
Emma – Jane Austen, I found it entertaining and funny in how it draws out social ironies.
Dawna ~ If you are not adverse to going further back in time, Tom Jones is a fun romp https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/99329.The_History_of_Tom_Jones_a_Foundling
Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Jane Eyre, Anne of Green Gables, Sir Gibbie…there’s something heartwarming about an orphan’s tale of finding family!
If you want to start with something short, choose any of Steinbeck’s shorter works…The Pearl, The Red Pony, Cannery Row………
Jane Eyre!