I've read George Orwell, Jane Austen, Ray Bradbury amongst others, and I'm looking for something new. That y'all think is actually good not just something that people say is good because it's a classic and quote "all classics are good purely because they're classics". Preferably want General Fiction and Science Fiction.
by rabid_raccoon690
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Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston is phenomenal
East of Eden by John Steinbeck blew my mind.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain.
Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
Odd John by Olaf Stapledon
The Count of Monte Cristo
Vonnegut. Cats Cradle, slaughterhouse 5, all of them.
Darkness at Noon. Crime and Punishment. The Brothers Karamazov.
Of Mice and Men
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin
Shogun by James Clavell
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry
Any famous Russian writers: Dostoevsky (Crime and Punishment, Idiot), Bulgakov (Master and Margarita), Gogol (Dead Souls), Tolstoy (Anna Karenina or War and Peace), etc
The Count of Monte Cristo, Atlas Shrugged, Pride and Prejudice, Gone with the Wind.
Have you read Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. It’s so good. After you read it you can go on and enjoy the various movie versions. I remember enjoying the Ethan Hawke/Gwennyth/DeNiro version.
Have you read Daphne DuMaurier’s Rebecca? Fantastic.
Most of Gulliver’s Travels holds up very well. The third section drags a little, but the rest is really entertaining.
The Master and Margarita is a fun read. It’s a little weird. It’s a little bit timeless, but also very much of its time and place. It’s historically significant both as a look behind the iron curtain and because it managed to be published at all.