Stacy Marie Christopher HoD was the forerunner of Apocalypse Now and there is another book “The Book of Strange New Things” by Michael Faber that’s in the same vein. Great books, all of them.
Crime and Punishment is also on my all-time favorites list! Along with The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and the great Russian short story authors like Turgenev, Gogol, Chekhov, Pushkin.
Laura Atwood I actually thought it was going to be boring. I find most classics are a challenge to read. But I attempted it anyway after hearing a lot of praise by fellow readers in my book club and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I took my time with it and I would read it again. Next on my list is Anna Karenina.
@Maheswari, I hope that you enjoy Anna, too. It’s so good! I’ve enjoyed most classics, and generally expected that I would, based on an assumption that they became classics for good reason.
Midnight’s Children Like Nectar From a Sieve The Sound and the Fury The Great Gatsby Love in the Time of Cholera One Hundred Years of Solitude A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Mrs Mike Ali and Nino Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Macbeth, etc. Far From the Madding Crowd ETC!
Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, One Hundred Years of Solitude, spent an entire (summer!) course trying to wade through Moby Dick. Pass on that one. Middlemarch. Most of Tolstoy, Nabokov, and Shakespeare. The Tao Te Ching. The Bell Jar. Animal Farm. 1984. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Mrs. Dalloway. OMG, STOP TYPING, DEBBIE!!! LOL
I love everything Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ray Bradbury ever wrote, love the Invisible Man, Dracula, Frankenstein, Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, every adult story by Roald Dahl, The Portrait or Dorian Gray, many many more! The classics are classic for a reason!
@Lora I still have the yellow box version of Little House, it’s a bit tattered now but I adore it, and re-read every couple of years, absolute classics and nothing like the tv show. 🙂
@Lisa my sisters and I are actually named after the Little House books but with Laura and Carrie spelt “Lora” and “Carri”.
I always cherished them but have given away almost all of my physical (paper) books now.
I travel all the time and have 3 small homes (an Aussie Apt, a USA townhouse and a tiny lake cottage) with absolutely no spare space allowed for more than the MOST sentimental keep sakes. I still have my tiny Roald Dahl collection and my own filled notebooks but all else is gifted and donated. It sounds lonely but between IPad and 2 iPhones I have hundreds of “books” traveling with me.
What constitutes a classic? I love many books and many of them are old but how old does it have to be to be considered a classic? By century? Era? Decade? So many books to name.
Most of them! That’s why they’re classics! Particularly though Don Quixote, Crime and Punishment, The Picture of Dorian Grey, and Huckleberry Finn. I only read parts of the Arabian Nights and the Decameron but I loved those as well!!
If they’re difficult to get into, start with the more modern classics (e.g. To Kill a Mockingbird / The Stranger / To the Lighthouse / The Sun Also Rises / Fahrenheit 451 / The Lord of the Flies / East of Eden / Brave New World) and then dive in the older ones (War and Peace / Pride and Prejudice / Persuasion / Anna Karenina / Treasure Island / Huckleberry Finn / Jane Eyre / Great Expectations / The Brothers Karamazov) – it’s definitely worth the effort 🙂
Most of Charles Dickens is great, I think Bleak House was my favourite of his. Lots of others, Wilkie Collins’ Woman in White, Jack London’s Burning Daylight, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Joseph Heller’s Catch 22…..there’s lots more, I guess they’re classics for a reason 🙂
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brönte Persuasion, by Jane Austen actually not a very Classics reader, have tried many other titles, but failed completing them
“Pride and Prejudice” and “Jane Eyre” first and foremost, but also “Sense and Sensibilty”, “Persuasion”, “The Count of Monte Cristo”, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “Anna Karenina”, “Madame Bovary”, “A Tree grows in Brooklyn” come to mind. I also still love children’s classics like “A Little Princess”, “Little Lord Fauntleroy”, “Anne of Green Gables” and “The Silver Skates”.
I don’t know why, but when I read your post it made me think of E Nesbit (Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet), a great classic children’s author 🙂
-Pelle The Conquerer by Martin Andersen Nexø -The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi De Lampedusa -The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins -The Count of Monte Christo & The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas -Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Woman in White and The Moonstone by Wilke Collins; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier; A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; I like the ones that have an aura of mystery throughout; A Christmas Carol was actually quite funny–much better than any adaptations I’ve seen.
And I forgot Daphne du Maurier, thank you Carol Roote for reminding me in the post above, such amazing stories, but I think my favourite has to be Jamaica Inn
I took a lit class and while I only remember one book from the class I loved taking that class. I need the help and discussion with literature for enjoyment and understanding ?The one book I remember as having quite the impact was Emile ZOLA’S GERMINAL. Its really very powerful. That was 40 years ago and I still remember the descriptions of the mines. I read one other of his after that, also great.
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier was the first classic that I enjoyed because it was, to me, a murder mystery. I was surprised by how much I liked A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving (almost everyone else in my class disliked it).
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Middlemarch by George Eliot, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Pere Goriot by Balzac, First Love by Ivan Turgenev, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, In the Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Strange Tales from the Make-Do Studio by Pu Songling.
Almost every one. I can’t think of one I didn’t, except maybe Moby Dick. Loved all Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Steinbeck…so many beauties.
So many childhood classics, too! I’m not so into some adult titles that are either daunting or put me to sleep? with many exceptions, but I devoured The Secret Garden, Heidi, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, all Louisa May Alcott, etc etc
Dickens, Twain, Hardy, Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, Melville, Poe, Greek drama, Homer-Classics can be accessible & your friend. I’d even stretch it to include Jules Verne & HG Wells. I find that I love a lot of the “required” reading I avoided in high school.
So many of the above plus Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; Mrs. Carey’s Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin; Daddy Longlegs and Dear Enemy, both by Jean Webster.
I have the book and the movie – watched about half hour of the movie the other now – it’s like watching paint dry or grass grow – so slow – I want to like it! ?
I love the classics. They are classics for a reason ? Favorites: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, 1984, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, The Picture of Dorian Grey.
Lots! Jane Eyre, all of Jane Austen, The Woman in White, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall–and many others already mentioned. I’m currently rereading Gone with the Wind, and it’s very readable.
Most of Jane Austen’s novels, except Sense and Sensibility which I find rather dreary. great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. f Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. CRanford by Mrs Gaskell. THe Black Tulip by Alexander Dumas. ARound the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. THree Men In A Boat by Jerome K. JErome is my favourite book, but I am not sure if it counts as a classic or not, since it is a humorous book. DAddy Long legs by Jean Webster might be a Classic, I am not sure. THe Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. OUr Village by Mary Russell Mitford, if that is a classic.
P&P, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Middlemarch, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Hobbit.
Started with Louisa May Alcott in elementary shool. I haven’t stopped reading classics since – lots of the ones already listed. Although I’m not a big fan of Dickens…
As I Lay Dying
Yes, one of my all-time favorites! (But not everyone’s cup of tea.)
I’m probably going to get negative feedback from this, but I still love Pride & Prejudice and Alias Grace.
I can also add The Outsiders to this list as well.
@Yuna…why ? I loved Pride and Prejudice ,I have read it severally
Is SE Hinton considered classics? Bc I read tons of hers when I was young.
I would consider it a classic personally, yes. I guess “classics” wasn’t really defined here.
But to me, all of what I mentioned were. ? They aged well.
Also, to answer your question Mwikali, I only said that because P&P isn’t very popular among my own peers. Kind of a habit to deflect disagreement. ?
P n P is my favorite and I’ve read it several times. ?
Many. Many.
The Good Earth, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pride and Prejudice
All of the Hemingway.
Of Mice and Men ?
The Grapes of Wrath
Yes, one of my all time favourites – great use of metaphor and imagery. One of my other favourites is “Heart of Darkness”.
@Helen, I haven’t read that one since high school. Time for a re-read. Thanks for mentioning it!
Stacy Marie Christopher HoD was the forerunner of Apocalypse Now and there is another book “The Book of Strange New Things” by Michael Faber that’s in the same vein. Great books, all of them.
Rebecca, The Scarlet Letter, To skill a Mockingbird
Around the world in 80 days (even had a crush on Mr. Fogg)
Jane Eyre (Also had a crush on Mr. Rochester)
The Old Man and the Sea – Hemingway
I was so surprised how much I enjoyed East of Eden.
Angle of Repose – Wallace Stegner
Persuasion by Jane Austen, Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky.
Crime and Punishment is also on my all-time favorites list! Along with The Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and the great Russian short story authors like Turgenev, Gogol, Chekhov, Pushkin.
Laura Atwood I actually thought it was going to be boring. I find most classics are a challenge to read. But I attempted it anyway after hearing a lot of praise by fellow readers in my book club and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I took my time with it and I would read it again. Next on my list is Anna Karenina.
@Maheswari, I hope that you enjoy Anna, too. It’s so good! I’ve enjoyed most classics, and generally expected that I would, based on an assumption that they became classics for good reason.
The Scarlet Letter. I read it in high school and couldn’t stand it but when I re-read it about 10 years ago it was wonderful
I loved the Scarlet Letter.
I like Dickens. I’ve read a lot of his work.
I ❤️ Dickens!
The Count of Monte Cristo
David Copperfield, some Shakespeare, Huckleberry Finn
Scarlett Letter
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Great Gatsby
Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Gatsby, Tom Sawyer
Sherlock Holmes … Jane Austen … Jack London
Of Mice and Men, to kill a mocking bird, pride and prejudice, Jane Eyre, leaves of grass,
Of Mice and Men is an interesting one to me. I read it in HS and remember liking the story but not the writing style.
Pride and prejudice made me laugh few times ?
To kill a mokingbird, Sherlock Holmes, not sure if 1984 counts but it was excellent
Midnight’s Children
Like Nectar From a Sieve
The Sound and the Fury
The Great Gatsby
Love in the Time of Cholera
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Mrs Mike
Ali and Nino
Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Macbeth, etc.
Far From the Madding Crowd
ETC!
Pride And Prejudice. I really love it!
Robinson Crusoe. Animal Farm
The Lady of the Lake, all of Shakespeare, all of Jane Austen, To Kill a Mockingbird, Beowulf
LOL, all except Hemingway and Moby Dick. ?
I am sitting here in my corner wondering ,wasn’t anyone obsessed with “gone with the wind “, the way I was.
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I have read many of Charles Dickens’ works, and I like them all so far. Great Expectations is my favorite
Anna Karenina.
All of Jane Austen. Wuthering Heights and Dracula.
A Tale of two cities, An invisible man and The Great Gatsby
Oliver twist
Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Jane Eyre is one of my favorites. It’s really beautiful.
So many.
Anna Karenina
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
Siddhartha
Much Ado about Nothing
Great Expectations
I could go on and on……
Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey, One Hundred Years of Solitude, spent an entire (summer!) course trying to wade through Moby Dick. Pass on that one. Middlemarch. Most of Tolstoy, Nabokov, and Shakespeare. The Tao Te Ching. The Bell Jar. Animal Farm. 1984. Their Eyes Were Watching God. Mrs. Dalloway. OMG, STOP TYPING, DEBBIE!!! LOL
Their Eyes Were Watching God! I forgot about that one.
I want to reread it now. I read it in a college class and remember loving it.
I want to reread it now. I read it in a college class and remember loving it.
Another that I consider a classic is A Confederacy of Dunces. Good grief – probably one of the best ever.
I’ve read nearly everything by Zora Neale Hurston. She’s one of my favorite writers.
Mine as well…right up there with James Baldwin.
BIG thumbs up on CoD! So funny!
I’m going to say just take the dive. It’s uncomfortable if you’re not use to reading them but the pay off is massive.
^ Exactly!
Vanity Fair.
Pride and Prejudice, Tale of Two Cities
Edith Wharton, especially Age of Innocence, and Middlemarch by George Eliot. That one is so long, but I loved every minute!
I love everything Charles Dickens, Edgar Allen Poe, and Ray Bradbury ever wrote, love the Invisible Man, Dracula, Frankenstein, Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, every adult story by Roald Dahl, The Portrait or Dorian Gray, many many more! The classics are classic for a reason!
As a tiny girl, the Little House series, The Little Peppers Series, The Secret Garden, Alice in Wonderland…
@Lora I still have the yellow box version of Little House, it’s a bit tattered now but I adore it, and re-read every couple of years, absolute classics and nothing like the tv show. 🙂
@Lisa my sisters and I are actually named after the Little House books but with Laura and Carrie spelt “Lora” and “Carri”.
I always cherished them but have given away almost all of my physical (paper) books now.
I travel all the time and have 3 small homes (an Aussie Apt, a USA townhouse and a tiny lake cottage) with absolutely no spare space allowed for more than the MOST sentimental keep sakes. I still have my tiny Roald Dahl collection and my own filled notebooks but all else is gifted and donated.
It sounds lonely but between IPad and 2 iPhones I have hundreds of “books” traveling with me.
The Golden Ass
Quite a few. Great Expectations, John Steinbeck and Far From the Madding Crowd are favorites of mine
All Jane Austin, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, Dracula, Wide Sergasso Sea, Rebecca, 1984, Animal Farm, Charlottes Web
To Kill a Mocking Bird; Jamaica Inn; Frankenstein.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
What constitutes a classic? I love many books and many of them are old but how old does it have to be to be considered a classic? By century? Era? Decade? So many books to name.
Most of them! That’s why they’re classics! Particularly though Don Quixote, Crime and Punishment, The Picture of Dorian Grey, and Huckleberry Finn. I only read parts of the Arabian Nights and the Decameron but I loved those as well!!
If they’re difficult to get into, start with the more modern classics (e.g. To Kill a Mockingbird / The Stranger / To the Lighthouse / The Sun Also Rises / Fahrenheit 451 / The Lord of the Flies / East of Eden / Brave New World) and then dive in the older ones (War and Peace / Pride and Prejudice / Persuasion / Anna Karenina / Treasure Island / Huckleberry Finn / Jane Eyre / Great Expectations / The Brothers Karamazov) – it’s definitely worth the effort 🙂
Oliver Twist, Tess of the D’urbervilles; Pride and Prejudice…
Anything by Thomas Hardy
I loved Jude The Obscure?
Anna Karenina
Oliver Twist
This Side of Paradise
Brave New World
1984
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (& Huck Finn)
Age of Innocence
Jane Eyre
Don Quixote
Most of them except Moby Dick. Particularly liked 1984 and To Kill a Mockingbird.
Most of Charles Dickens is great, I think Bleak House was my favourite of his. Lots of others, Wilkie Collins’ Woman in White, Jack London’s Burning Daylight, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Joseph Heller’s Catch 22…..there’s lots more, I guess they’re classics for a reason 🙂
Dracula
The Count of Monte Cristo
Tess of the Durbervilles, Wuthering Heights,Anna Karenina…
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brönte
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
actually not a very Classics reader, have tried many other titles, but failed completing them
Did you try Wuthering Heights? A great spooky read
“Pride and Prejudice” and “Jane Eyre” first and foremost, but also “Sense and Sensibilty”, “Persuasion”, “The Count of Monte Cristo”, “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, “Anna Karenina”, “Madame Bovary”, “A Tree grows in Brooklyn” come to mind. I also still love children’s classics like “A Little Princess”, “Little Lord Fauntleroy”, “Anne of Green Gables” and “The Silver Skates”.
I don’t know why, but when I read your post it made me think of E Nesbit (Five Children and It, The Phoenix and the Carpet), a great classic children’s author 🙂
@Lisa I’ve never read anything by her – I’ll have to check her out 🙂
You’re in for a treat, classic children’s literature 🙂
@Lisa Thanks for the recommendation! 🙂
Anything by W.S.Maugham, short stories by Anton Chekhov
-Pelle The Conquerer by Martin Andersen Nexø
-The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi De Lampedusa
-The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
-The Count of Monte Christo & The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
-Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
Little women, to kill a mocking bird, of mice and men, great expectations, much ado about nothing xx
Jane Eyre. A Separate Peace.
East of Eden, Wuthering heights
Ann of the green gables
It surprised me how much I loved David Copperfield. I didn’t know there were parts that were so funny.
1984
Most of them, but that’s me. In high school I was rarely without a thick paperback classic in my book bag.
The Woman in White and The Moonstone by Wilke Collins; Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte; Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier; A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; I like the ones that have an aura of mystery throughout; A Christmas Carol was actually quite funny–much better than any adaptations I’ve seen.
Forgot about The Moonstone, although I did remember Woman in White, great reads both of them 🙂
So many! Frankenstein, Count of Monte Cristo, all Dickens and Twain and Cather and Wharton (the original queen of snark). The list is too long.
And I forgot Daphne du Maurier, thank you Carol Roote for reminding me in the post above, such amazing stories, but I think my favourite has to be Jamaica Inn
Jane Eyre and Pride &Prejudice
Rebecca
I took a lit class and while I only remember one book from the class I loved taking that class. I need the help and discussion with literature for enjoyment and understanding ?The one book I remember as having quite the impact was Emile ZOLA’S GERMINAL. Its really very powerful. That was 40 years ago and I still remember the descriptions of the mines. I read one other of his after that, also great.
A tale of two cities by Charles dickens
I read 75% classics. My Fab Five:
1. Les Miserables
2. Frankenstein
3. Count of Monte Cristo
4. Anna Karinena
5. Jane Eyre
All of them
A tale of two cities by Charles dickens
Count of Monte Cristo
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Slaughter House 5
Wuthering Heights
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier was the first classic that I enjoyed because it was, to me, a murder mystery. I was surprised by how much I liked A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving (almost everyone else in my class disliked it).
I enjoyed both of those too!
To kill a mockingbird
A tale of two cities
Wuthering heights
Jane eyer
Most of all the waves. Only Virginia woolf can write something like that.
Grapes of Wrath, Jane Eyre, Sense & Sensibility, Frankenstein, Portrait of a Lady
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith and Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier.
The Barsetshire series, Anthony Trollope
virtually all of them
Call of the Wild, Tom Sawyer, Moby Dick, Little Women, Last of the Mohicans
All of them except To the Lighthouse.
Jane Eyre and Great Expectations.
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Good Earth, The Yearling, The Little Princess, Anne of Green Gables, gone With the Wind..to name a few
Many, many
Too many to remember.
The Good Earth. To Kill a Mockingbird.
Catcher in the rye
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Middlemarch by George Eliot, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, The Wall by Marlen Haushofer, Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy, Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse, All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, Pere Goriot by Balzac, First Love by Ivan Turgenev, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, In the Grove by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Strange Tales from the Make-Do Studio by Pu Songling.
Dracula, To Kill a Mockingbird.
To kill a mocking bird, Pride and prejudice, Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre
There are so many Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Anna Karenina to name a few.
Shakespeare
Fahrenheit 451
The Grapes of Wrath, 1984, Slaughterhouse Five, Fahrenheit 451, Les Meserables… the list goes on
Oh yeah, Grapes of Wrath!
Almost every one. I can’t think of one I didn’t, except maybe Moby Dick. Loved all Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Steinbeck…so many beauties.
Moll Flanders
So many childhood classics, too! I’m not so into some adult titles that are either daunting or put me to sleep? with many exceptions, but I devoured The Secret Garden, Heidi, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, all Louisa May Alcott, etc etc
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut 🙂
Brideshead revisited comes to mind.
Jane Eyre, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Ethan Frome, anything by Thomas Hardy, Wuthering Heights, lots and lots of them honestly
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Rebecca, and a whole bunch of others.
Dickens, Twain, Hardy, Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, Melville, Poe, Greek drama, Homer-Classics can be accessible & your friend. I’d even stretch it to include Jules Verne & HG Wells. I find that I love a lot of the “required” reading I avoided in high school.
Les Miserables, Pathfinder, Of Mice and Men
To kill a mockingbird, of mice and men, don quixote, dracula, house on a haunted hill, hill house and loved all of them
So many of the above plus Understood Betsy by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; Mrs. Carey’s Chickens by Kate Douglas Wiggin; Daddy Longlegs and Dear Enemy, both by Jean Webster.
An awful lot.
Of Mice and Men
Lady Chatterley’s Lover
1984
Brave New World
Johnny Got His Gun
Anne Of Green Gables
Lolita
To name a few.
Pride and Prejudice
East of Eden, my favorite book of all time, Grapes of Wrath right up there.
I have the book and the movie – watched about half hour of the movie the other now – it’s like watching paint dry or grass grow – so slow – I want to like it! ?
Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights
To Kill a Mockingbird and recently started The Alchemist and enjoying it so far.
Jane Eyre, East of Eden, The Good Earth, Pride and Prejudice… so many…
Frankenstein
Most classics are wonderful, that’s why they are classics…My Antonia, oh pioneers, Robinson Caruso
Lord of the Flies, Fahrenheit 451, Animal Farm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with The Wind, All Quiet on The Western Front.
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
What constitutes The Classics? Whose list do we follow? The Western Canon? The Harvard Classics?
Good question. I’m not sure what lists exist.
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Of Mice and Men, The Great Gatsby
The Count of Monte Christo.
Wuthering Heights, Old Yeller, Treasure Island, Tom Sawyer, The Good Earth, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Yearling…Idk…all of them?? ?
Treasure Island yes!
East of Eden, Pride and Prejudice, Alice Through the Looking Glass, To Kill a Mockingbird, How Green Was My Valley.
Great Expectations
I love the classics. They are classics for a reason ? Favorites: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, 1984, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, The Picture of Dorian Grey.
Lots! Jane Eyre, all of Jane Austen, The Woman in White, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall–and many others already mentioned. I’m currently rereading Gone with the Wind, and it’s very readable.
Jane Eyre and The Woman in White are also on my list.
Pride and Prejudice and Sense and sensability both Jane Austin
Most of Jane Austen’s novels, except Sense and Sensibility which I find rather dreary. great Expectations by Charles Dickens. Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. f Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. CRanford by Mrs Gaskell. THe Black Tulip by Alexander Dumas. ARound the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. THree Men In A Boat by Jerome K. JErome is my favourite book, but I am not sure if it counts as a classic or not, since it is a humorous book. DAddy Long legs by Jean Webster might be a Classic, I am not sure. THe Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. OUr Village by Mary Russell Mitford, if that is a classic.
Pride and Prejudice
The Iliad has been my favorite book for some years now.
To Kill a Mockingbird
Pride And Prejudice,Little Dorrit, Of Mice And Men.
Wuthering Heights.
Dickens, Twain, Bronte, Alcott, Poe, just to name a few.
P&P, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Middlemarch, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Hobbit.
The Count of Monte Cristo, P&P, Dandelion Wine
Love Dandelion Wine!
The Outsiders, does that count as a classic? The Scarlett Letter.
Wuthering heights and Jane eyre..❤️
1984, Brave New World, We, (Joseph Conrad)
Great Gatsby sort if
*of*
Crime and Punishment
A Tale of Two Cities.
To Kill A Mockingbird and In Cold Blood.
Started with Louisa May Alcott in elementary shool. I haven’t stopped reading classics since – lots of the ones already listed. Although I’m not a big fan of Dickens…
Rebecca
Rebecca is amazing!
Rebecca, Jane Eyre, anything by Jane Austen, The Count of Monte Cristo (so good).
Most Jane Austen, The Count of Monte Cristo, Jan Eyre, The Grapes of Wrath.
Reading The Color Purple and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Are those considered classics??
@Leann yes
I love all the classic novels like dracula, all of jane and tale of two cities and oliver twist so on
Northanger Abbey, Macbeth, Dracula
They are in our classics section
Jane Eyre.
Almost forgot Moby Dick.
I hated it-but good for you!
Almost forgot The Great Gasby, for Whom the Bell Tolls,The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men and East of @Eden.
The Travels of Jaimie McPheeter
I loved many of these also, and now I have some to add to my TBR list. Thanks for all the input!
Rebecca
Poe