I was never big on classics when I was younger but now I understand the appeal. I am currently reading Crime and Punishment and quite enjoying it. Previously I have read – Frankenstien, Little Woman, The Lost World and The Invisible Man, Flowers for Algernon. The list is not exhaustive but I have observed that I have enjoyed these books, Frankenstien being an absolute favourite of mine.
What other books would you recommend someone who is just dipping their toes into the vast world of classics? TIA😇
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Love In A Time of Cholera.
And I just read The Godfather, even if you’ve seen the movie, it’s incredible.
Pick a Brontë, any Brontë.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Pride and Prejudice
To Kill a Mockingbird
Anne of Green Gables
Yellow Wallpaper by Gilman
The Possessed by Dostoyevsky
Iliad and Odyssey by Homer
Muitny on the bounty,
1984
Animal farm.
Shogun
The kazamarow brothers
The idiot
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
the count of monte cristo
Crime and pushiment
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton.
If you haven’t read To Kill A Mockingbird, you really should.
Im currently reading (almost finished with) Uncle Tom’s Cabin, and it’s actually really good.
The Giver (which is actually a quartet, and they’re all good).
Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell. The Scarlet Letter by Nathanial Hawthorne.
Emma
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
hard to believe nobody has added mark twain. tom sawyer and huckleberry finn are classic american lit.
Catcher in the rye.
Stoner
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
The Time Machine or War of the World’s both by H.G. Wells
– Dracula
– Three Men In A Boat
– Catcher In The Rye
Jane Eyre. A Tale of Two Cities. Pride & Prejudice.
Wuthering Heights
Here’s my list of classics that get reread every so often:
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orczy
The Phantom of The Opera – Gaston Leroux
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
Don Quixote!
Pride and Prejudice
Gone with the wind, my favourite of the greats
Anything by George Eliot
Any Jane Austen. Persuasion is my favorite but you can’t go wrong with any of them.
Wuthering Heights
A Tale of Two Cities
The Age of Innocence
The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness an Icelandic novelsit. He won the Nobel Prize back in the fifties but has been largely forgotten.
Jane Austen
The Book Thief!!
East of Eden, A Tale of Two Cities, Dracula, Pride and Prejudice,