I think Wuthering Heights is up there at the top of my favourites. I have read it so many times! I don’t think I have heard of Rebecca. Would you recommend?
Anna Karenina is a long book, but it is really worth reading ?. If you’re into dystopia, I would highly suggest 1984. Both that and Animal Farm are by George Orwell
I have Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth but I haven’t read them. I read Macbeth back in school, and I remember being really intrigued. But being older now i would love to give them a try.
I have read the Great Gatsby and didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Someone recently explained the book to me and I would be tempted to read it again with an open mind again.
The Lord of the Rings (but that’s probably too modern), as is Animal Farm.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Misérables, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (though Pride and Prejucide comes close), Great Expectations, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. I’m a huge Shakespeare buff and Hamlet is my favourite of his, though I’d also recommend 1 Henry IV, Richard III, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night.
I like Ana Karenina and An American Tragedy … although I can’t say that I’ve actuallly read them all the way through (one day one day haha), but it isn’t from a lack of interest in the stories they are just really long books haha
They don’t?? That’s really upsetting. Those two books along with Fahrenheit 451 are what really launched me into loving reading… And I would never have even heard of them if not for the fact they were required. Glad your daughter had the initiative to check them out herself!
I have three that I own in penguins classic cover ? , bram stokers Dracula ?♂️, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Oscar Wilde’s the picture of Dorian Gray
Which books includes in this kind of genre, cuz I don’t really
Know !
English/American/Irish Literature! ?
Okay thank You.
Great American short stories by Wallace and Mary Stegner.
Thank you!! ?
Frankenstein is rite up there for me
Ahhh! I think this will be my first book of 2018. Thanks ?
@Saoirse excellent. Glad I could help. Let me know what you think of it
Pride and prejudice
Austen’s work is so beautiful. I’ve read a few of hers one being Pride and Prejudice and fell in love with it. I love darker stuff though too.
I know right! Have you read Withering Heights or Rebecca?
I think Wuthering Heights is up there at the top of my favourites. I have read it so many times! I don’t think I have heard of Rebecca. Would you recommend?
Tbh I prefer Wuthering Heights to Rebecca. :p
@Samiha Ahh, Wuthering Heights takes the crown for me too. Lol
Have you read Little Women? Or I capture the castle? I love those two too!
Nope! But I’m loving you guys’ suggestions. I’m definitely making a reading list!
Do include these two! They are lovely
Thank you for your suggestions! ?
1984 and Animal Farm, but that would be considered as Modern Classics. Probably Anna Karenina ?
I’ve never heard of those ones before.. I shall check them out ?
Anna Karenina is a long book, but it is really worth reading ?. If you’re into dystopia, I would highly suggest 1984. Both that and Animal Farm are by George Orwell
Love dystopia themed books! Thank You for suggesting these ?
Animal farm is great ?
Have you read Hamlet by William Shakespeare ?
I have Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth but I haven’t read them. I read Macbeth back in school, and I remember being really intrigued. But
being older now i would love to give them a try.
The mill on floss
Jane Eyre
Loved Jane Eyre!
The Great Gatsby, Crime and Punishment, and The Scarlet Letter to name a few…
I have read the Great Gatsby and didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Someone recently explained the book to me and I would be tempted to read it again with an open mind again.
Pride and prejudice ❤️
Persuasion by Jane Austen.
This is on my list!
Jane Eyre or The Count of Monte Cristo! Also Pride and Prejudice.
Wuthering Heights
Les Miserables
Pride and Prejudice
The Fountainhead
The father Goriot (Honore de Balzac) my favorite writer.
Jane Eyre, Pride and prejudice and The picture of Dorian Gray
Jane Eyre or Rebecca
Jane Eyre, Pride & Prejudice, Tom Sawyer. Oh and Anne of Green Gables and To Kill a Mockingbird. Too many to choose from!
Rebecca
I hated that book lol because everyone in my senior English class always asked me how my “husband” was doing after we read the book in class lmao
II’m a bit too close to the character of Emma and it follows me around 🙂
@Emma-Dawn I got it when that country song Rebecca Lynn came out.. guess what my middle name is? Lol
Pickwick Papers, Treasure Island, The Three Musketeers.
Rebecca, The Old Curiosity Shop, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Silas Marner.
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
East of Eden
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The grapes of wrath
Beastly by Alex Flinn
To kill a mockingbird
Hawthorne and Poe. I don’t think I can choose an absolute favorite single work xD I want to reread/read more classics this coming year.
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling. It should be required reading along with Reiley’s Luck and Animal Farm…ESPECIALLY FOR BOYS!
Be still and know by Millie stamm
Jack London’s Call of the Wild
or…. Iron Hill
Pride and Prejudice
Little women x
The Sherlock Holmes stories, Oliver Twist, A Clockwork Orange
The Great Gatsby
Wuthering heights
Definitely Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery.❤??
A lot of people have recommended that! I watched the series on Netflix and loved it, I can imagine the books being even more brilliant!
Yeah absolutely. The books is so so much better, I swear. Netflix kind of changed some parts though. So I highly recommend the book. ☺?
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, All Sherlock stories, The Woman in White, Anne of Green Gables
King Solomon’s Mines
Les Misérables, The Crucible, To kill a mockingbird, Pride and prejudice, and Macbeth
Lord of the flies
One time someone asked this in a book club page I was a part of and someone answered Twilight.
The Great Gatsby and Great Expectations!! Haven’t read many classics but loved those two!
Finished Great Expectations last week and I loved it so much!
It’s such a great read ?
Animal Farm, The Crucible, Great Gatsby
Jane Eyre
1984
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Camille by Alexandre Dumas Fils, and little women.
Frankinstine
pride and prejudice:)
To Kill A Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice…the amount of copies I own is embarrassing!!!
The Lord of the Rings (but that’s probably too modern), as is Animal Farm.
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Les Misérables, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (though Pride and Prejucide comes close), Great Expectations, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories. I’m a huge Shakespeare buff and Hamlet is my favourite of his, though I’d also recommend 1 Henry IV, Richard III, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night.
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Pride And Prejudice
The Picture of Dorian Grey; Persuasion; Hard Times; Alice in Wonderland and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
I like Ana Karenina and An American Tragedy … although I can’t say that I’ve actuallly read them all the way through (one day one day haha), but it isn’t from a lack of interest in the stories they are just really long books haha
Jane Eyre
War and Peace
Animal farm
My 13 yo daughter just checked that and 1984 out at the library….they don’t require those at school anymore, unfortunately
They don’t?? That’s really upsetting. Those two books along with Fahrenheit 451 are what really launched me into loving reading… And I would never have even heard of them if not for the fact they were required. Glad your daughter had the initiative to check them out herself!
To kill a mockingbird and a Tale of two cities.
To Kill A Mockingbird
Pride and Prejudice <3
Jane Eyre and Rebecca.
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Eyre and Black Beauty
Seriously?! ???hmm…
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Tom Sawyer
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Great Expectations
Sherlock Holmes
Peter Pan
Rebecca — Daphne Du Maurier
Wuthering Heights — Emily Bronte
To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Definitely the Sherlock Holmes collection
Jane Eyre
Animal farm
Jane Eyre or To Kill a Mockingbird. I don’t know if TKAM is considered a “classic” or not, but it’s still a favorite.
Oh so many to choose from.
Jane Eyre
Catcher in the Rye
Heidi
Jane Eyre
Sense and Sensibility
The Little Prince, The Secret Garden
I have three that I own in penguins classic cover ? , bram stokers Dracula ?♂️, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Oscar Wilde’s the picture of Dorian Gray
I don’t know if The Outsiders counts but that or Black Beauty
You don’t have to die
If you die I will die too
As usual for me, The Grapes of Wrath
But Heidi is awesome, I haven’t read it for over 40 yrs, and I want to read it again. It’s so beautiful
Jane Eyre
The Great Gatsby
All the ones I have read!! And haven’t read yet
Misty of Chincoteague tie with Little House in the Big Woods
The great Gatsby
Tale of Two Cities.
Alice in Wonderland + Through the Looking Glass – so much so that I know collect different copies of them 😀
Tess of Dubervilles, Tale of two cities, Pride N Prejudice and many more.
To kill a mockingbird.
Gone With the Wind. Anne of Green Gables
The Great Gatsby
Frankenstein
The Great Gatsby
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Pride and Prejudice.. ?
Persuasion
Dracula
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is the only classic I’ve ever read but I liked it, even if the rest of my book club didn’t ??