Hello everyone 🙂
I'm looking for some classic/literary canon books that are easy to read. It doesn't necessarily have to be short or have exceedingly simple language, just something that has an engaging story, and that I can read without a dictionary on hand.
Thanks in advance!
by theloaf_
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I highly recommend looking up shorter classic novels/novellas to start with!
Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451 & The Picture of Dorian Gray are great short classics
I’ve really enjoyed:
Call of the Wild
Lady Chatterly’s Lover
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Odyssey (but not The Iliad)
The Great Gatsby
Brave New World
Gulliver’s Travels
The Picture of Dorian Grey
Animal Farm and 1984
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
All of these are pretty straight forward language. Probably the most difficult would be Rebecca but that’s relative as it’s still language that is not too elevated.
Animal Farm! Easy read with huge depth.
Kurt Vonnegut is a bit of a “newer” author compared to a lot of the other “classics” which are known and celebrated, but I firmly believe his name deserves to be included here.
I just finished *Slaughterhouse-Five* and it was one of the best novels I’ve ever read. I immediately went to the bookstore after finishing it and bought more Vonnegut.
Despite its length, I found Dracula to be quite the page turner! I found it more accessible than I had imagined.
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Conrad’s *Heart of Darkness* (inspiration for the film *Apocalypse Now*) is a somewhat surprisingly easy book to read, and not overly long.
*A Tree Grows in Brooklyn* by Betty Smith
Oliver Twist – great characters and story.
I second the Dorian Grey recommendations.
*Rip Van Winkle* and *The Legend of Sleepy Hollow* by Washington Irving are good stories