What is everyone’s favourite classic book? I need a good meaty New Years read…..;0)
What is everyone’s favourite classic book? I need a good meaty New Years read…..;0)
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What is everyone’s favourite classic book? I need a good meaty New Years read…..;0)
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.
The Kings General is very good…by DdM too ;0)
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.
Rebecca !
Exodus by Leon Uris or Gone with the Wind.
Frankenstein or to kill a mockingbird
I would have said Daniel Deronda but having just read A Tale of Two Cities
Sorry – I can’t decide
To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Bleak House. Or Jane Eyre. Or Ulysses. Yeah, Ulysses.
Rebecca or Jane Eyre 🙂
Stig of the Dump, The Borrowers and Edgar Allan Poe ?
Jude the Obscure
Vanity Fair!! but it’s a long one xx
The count of monte Christo – 1,000 pages of awesome 🙂
How about an Edith Wharton house of mirth,or age of innocence or if you like short stories tales of old new York. Each one a masterpiece.
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.
Dracula or woman in white. Both amazing books
Dracula by bram Stoker, a Christmas carol by Charles Dickens and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontee
Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities, riveting. In fact most Dickens are, and stand alone gems.
But I have recently discovered the Barchester Chronicles by Anthony Trollope and they are a real delight. Sagas of a community, one book after the other as we are introduced to new characters and old favourites reappear. I can’t recommend the series enough. Start with the Warden – all are good but my favourite was the final one in the series.
Middlemarch
It’s a tie — Little Women and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Both are wonderful books.
Wuthering Heights…can’t beat it x
To kill a mockingbird.
Great Expectations
@Mary, I love “to kill a mockingbird”, but I think, @Karen has made even a better choice.
Les Miserables. I read it a few times.
Lets face it – they are all classics for a reason – they are all sooooo good.
‘Grapes of Wrath,’ Steinbeck, Amazes me every time.
I have tea ‘Grapes’ several times and love it.
So Carrie – what’s it to be?
haha I like that it has to be ‘meaty’ 😛
probably The White Tiger from Adiga
I am with you on To Kill a Mockingbird and chimes with some of the latest killings of black men by white cops. Plus ca change.
Midnights Children by Salmon Rushdie; pure genius
Recently I’ve started “Things Fall Apart” by Chinua Achebe (I’m ashamed to say I haven’t finished it), and have finished “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad (tedious but so evocative) and “Pygmalion” by George Bernard Shaw (great, especially if you’re a grammar nerd like me!).
If you think “Heart of Darkness” is tedious steer well clear of Apocalypse Now, which turned a 100 page novel into a nearly 3 hour film…..
I like the story behind it (there’s a documentary)…but didn’t dig the film, besides of course Brando being his crazy self.
Oh yes – it was “cursed”, wasn’t it?
Does a “classic” have to be a certain age? Can modern literary fiction qualify, like Infinite Jest?
For our classic fiction book club we say nothing published after 1959 – that’s just a line in the sand though really and we would definitely let something through from the 60s if we wanted to read it. I think some time has to have passed before something can be called ‘classic’. How much time is open to interpretation.
Gone With the Wind or To Kill a Mockingbird. “Tale of Two Cities”
Crime and Punishment. Keeping up with everyone’s names is a challenge!
My top 3 books ever all classics thakereys vanity fair, george elliots middlemarch and less well known south riding winifred holtby. All meaty reads.
I loved A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens.
To Kill a Mockingbird is my favorite classic, and also The Diary of a Young Girl if that is considered one. 🙂
1984, George Orwell! The original dystopian novel, haha x