Hey everyone!
Anyone have any good classic recs? I’m a big reader and have been venturing over to the classics side and would love some suggestions! I do own a few classics like The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, Wuthering Heights, The Count of Monte Cristo, Pride and Prejudice, etc. So far I’ve read 1984, The Great Gatsby, The Metamorphosis, The Handmaids Tale.
I would love some great classic recs!!
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* *Frankenstein* by Mary Shelley
* *Candide* by Voltaire
* *East of Eden* by John Steinbeck
* *Of Mice and Men* by John Steinbeck
* *Slaughterhouse-Five* by Kurt Vonnegut
* *Cat’s Cradle* by Kurt Vonnegut
* *The Sirens of Titan* by Kurt Vonnegut
* *Catch-22* by Joseph Heller
* *The Stranger* by Albert Camus
* *The Master and Margarita* by Mikhail Bulgakov
* *Brave New World* by Aldous Huxley
* *Lord of the Flies* by William Golding
* *Animal Farm* by George Orwell
* *Fahrenheit 451* by Ray Bradbury
* *Flowers for Algernon* by Daniel Keyes
These are some classics I’ve read and would recommend. I’m also reading *The Count of Monte Cristo* right now and it’s excellent, so far! I’m only 13% into it though, according to my Kindle.
Oliver Twist is one of my favorite classics. Dickens has a beautiful sense of subtle humor.
I would also recommend Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, and Tom Sawyer / Huck Finn by Mark Twain
Start with what you’ve got! Maybe skip right back in time with Pride and Prejudice and then go from there.
– The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
– East of Eden by John Steinbeck
– The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
– Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
– The Stranger by Albert Camus
– The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
– Beloved by Toni Morrison
– Frankenstein: 1818 Text by Mary Shelley
– The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
– Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson
– The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
– Catcher in thrle Rye by JD Salinger
– Franny and Zooey by JD Salinger
– The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
– The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O’Connor
– Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
– I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
– The Awakening by Kate Chopin
– The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
– Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
– Ordinary People by Judith Guest
– A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
– Herzog – Saul Bellow
– Winter in the Blood by James Welch
– Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Dracula
Treasure Island
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Brothers Karamazov
The Call of Cthulhu
Stoner by John Williams is really good but I don’t think it would have left as big an impression on me if I had read it when I was younger.
Flowers for Algernon is probably my favorite book of all-time, or at least one of them.