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What classics are a must read?

Lynn #recommend #classics

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Lynette

Wuthering Heights is my favorite

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Hannah

Mine too!

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Danielle

To kill a mocking bird

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LynnQuestion author

Read it

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Danielle

O

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Quentin

Catcher in the rye. J.d. salinger

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Charlotte

Rebecca
Little Women

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Aizl

Crime & punishment

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Gyöngyi

Absolutely

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Quentin

Of mice and men. John Steinbeck

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Gyöngyi

And East of Eden

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Susan

The Canterbury Tales
The Scarlet Letter
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Anne of Green Gables
Little Women

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Susan

I forgot this one. I loved this book!!

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Ronda

1984

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Jennifer

Madame Bovary is one of my favorite books.

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Lily

Catch-22
Catcher in the Rye
Lord of the Flies
1984
The Little Prince (if this counts as a classic)

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Arya

Jane Austin’s, Charles Dickens and of course Shakespeare

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Quentin

Oliver twist

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Gyöngyi

Yes

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Kayla

Depends on who you are and what you like. My personal favorites are the Grimm Brothers and Edgar Allen Poe’s tales.

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Emma

To kill a mockingbird
Little women
The hobbit

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Beth

Pride and Prejudice
Little Women

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Jane

LOLITA

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Alicia

The little princess
Secret garden

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Timothy

Great Expectations

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Cristine

Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

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Angel

The Handmaids Tale, Fahrenheit 451, The Bell Jar, Catcher in the Rye, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Animal Farm, Confederacy of Dunces

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Marvin

The Count of Monte Cristo, To Kill a Mockingbird, Huckleberry Finn, Anything by Edgar Allen Poe, Lord of the Rings, Of Mice and Men, Lord of the Flies, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. The Great Gatsby.

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Cristine

All Jane Austen and Bronte sisters ?

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Shannan

Jane Eyre, Little Women, pride and prejudice, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Anne of Green Gables, Wuthering Heights, Christmas Carol

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Chicki

Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, The Scarlet Letter, Little Women

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Urooba

If you add pride and prejudice to his list, this will become the most kickass comment of this post lol

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Samira

To kill a mockingbird

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Mackenzie

Little Women

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Angel

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Tamara

To kill a mockingbird
Anne of green gables

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Caitlyn

Other people have suggested it, but I also HIGHLY recommend The Count of Monte Cristo. It’s my all time favorite.

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Tiffany

Brave New World!

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James

Sherlock Holmes

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Aleah

The Sherlock Holmes stories are still my favorites!!!

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James

Yes! Lol the gif is perfect too. Holmes is my favorite, old and new stories

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Aleah

I 100% agree!!

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James

Right now I am reading the Sherlock Holmes the devils promise :3

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Aleah

I’m in the middle of re-reading “The Red-Headed League” Story for the third time ? I love them all!

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James

That one is amazing! I love when Holmes laughs and covers his mouth XD he’s like “oh crap”

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Aleah

i absolutely love it!!

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James

Whenever people say Holmes is cold and doesn’t laugh or smile I show them the red headed league and Jeremy Brett XD

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Aleah

yes!! He is quite hilarious sometimes ??

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James

I actually tested it and in a lot of Jeremy Brett episodes his lines are word for word from the book. It is quite amazing.

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Aleah

thats wonderful!!

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James

My favorite Brett has to be Musgrave ritual lol

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Aleah

i will definitely be checking it out!!

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James

Lol he is visiting a college friend and gets high, he is a giggling mess and it is fantastic lol

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Jennifer

Wuthering Heights

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Suharman

Jane Austen’s books

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Dina

To Kill a Mockingbird, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby

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Shawna

1984
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Gone with the Wind
The catcher in the rye
Anything by C.S. Lewis

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Bea

Ken Follet’s books

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Valeria

he’s a modern author, no classical

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Kaya

The Outsiders
The Little Princess
The Secret Garden
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
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Geno

Ooo yeah! The outsiders is my favorite! I just read it last week ?

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Janine

East of Eden John Steinbeck

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Janine

Gone with the Wind
Pride and Prejuidice
The Great Gatsby

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Danielle

Alexander Dumas’ books are good: The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers. I always thought the books were better than the various movies. Personal favorites: A Tale of Two Cities, Shakespeare, especially Hamlet and Macbeth, The Scarlett Letter, and The Crucible (which is a play but reads decently as a novel). Not a fan of Poe at all, but everyone else seems to like him.

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Gyöngyi

Agreed

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Asma

i highly recommend Jane Eyre the great gatsby , Emma , Sense and sensibility , Jane Austen’s novels are absolutely worth reading !

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LynnQuestion author

Thanks everyone making a list

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Anisha

The great gatsby

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Alexa

Ff

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Vicki

No one has mentioned Of Mice and Men. Great read

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Brittany

The Count of Monte Cristo ❤❤❤ absolute favorite.
To Kill a Mockingbird. Tale of Two Cities. Frankenstein. Grapes of Wrath!

As I Lay Dying!!! It’s written in stream of consciousness, so some people find it hard to follow, but southern gothic is one of my favorite genres ❤

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Thobbing

Wonder if you read Absalom Absalom!! Any thoughts, plz

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Brittany

It’s on my list but i haven’t gotten to it yet ?

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Roy

Carmilla

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Aleah

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde!! I absolutely loved it!! ❤️ the Sherlock Holmes stories do stand as my all time favorites though!?

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Jeanette

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton!

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Aleah

I loved that one! Totally had a crush on dallas?

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Syed

Anne of Green Gables ?

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Azalia

Pride and prejudice

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Aliece

A Tale of Two Cities

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Valerie

Fahrenheit 451
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The Awakening
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Sun Also Rises

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Jaseena

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
The Catcher In The Rye
A Farewell To Arms
Pride And Prejudice

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Phillip

The Grapes of Wrath.
Wuthering Heights.
Pride and Prejudice.
The Lord of the Flies.
A Little Princess.

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Theresa

East of Eden by John Steinbeck, Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote,Sherlock Holmes especially The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett

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Brynn

I personally adore The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Tell Tale Heart, The Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre…the real answer is everything that you can learn from is worth reading!

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Maia

A Little Princess and A Secret Garden both by Frances Hodgson Burnett. If you never read any other classics, then read these two. This woman was a GENIUS. ❤

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Claire

For me it’s got to be Dickens and Bram Stoker and Victor Hugo

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Adrianna

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronté
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Summer by Edith Wharton

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Shivani

Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights

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Fay

Lord of the Rings
Brave New World
1984
The Time Machine
Gone With the Wind

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Gyöngyi

Yess!

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Jo

In addition to the fore mentioned:

Treasure island
Black beauty
The hobbit
Chronicles of Narnia
Wuthering heights
The Iliad
Ulysses

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Madison

To kill a mockingbird

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Terry

crime and punishment david copperfield and also the radio play under milk wood to be read by candle light

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Terry

also the wasteland by t s elliot

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Abu

gone with the wind

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Renuka

Black beauty

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Faisalmuny

Today buy shop thing village ghalwan pakistan

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Sean

to kill a mockingbird

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Elektra

harry potter, if u wanna call that a clssic

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Helen

love Harry Potter

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Thobbing

Animal Farm, 1984 by G. Orwell, All C.Dickens works, J.Austen, Native Son, by R. Wright, T.S. Eliot. Poe, the Raven, Oscar Wilde, The Catcher in the Raye, The War of The Worlds, the invisible man, Around the world in eighty days…etc

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Caron

Jane Eyre!

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I.E.

The Pearl by Syeinbeck

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Charles

Just read that not too long ago…amazing

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I.E.

Every human should read it….

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Tamarra

Tess of the durbervilles Thomas Hardy
The French Lueitenant’s Woman John Fowles

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Leigh

Pride and prejudice

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Danielle

Just finishing Fahrenheit 451. Its a definite must read! It’s quite layered and deep. I an missing so much just trying to absorb it all. I’ll need to to go back and reread it.

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Christine

Jane Eyre, ATale of Two Cities, ATree Grows in Brooklyn, To Kill a Mockingbird, East of Eden,

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Jillian

The interview with the vampire series by Anne rice

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Charles

All quiet on the western front….you will never read anything more intense as this war story, about a young German who buys into the propaganda and joins the army to fight in ww1…and all the horrors he faces there…..if you want to know what war is like without actually going, this is it

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