To suggest me a book. We’re going to dinner & B&N afterwards. I just finished Of Mice & Men. I do a lot of audible for fantasy & sci fi (Becky Chambers, Matt Dinniman, Rick Riordan, Andy Weir, Suzanne Collins, etc.) but I physically read as well and am currently looking for maybe some American Classics that are must reads, books that you couldn’t put down, best suggestions. Lit fiction, thriller/mystery (but not too much realistic death/gore), fantasy/sci fi.
Already have Flowers for Algernon & Demon Copperhead on the list. Just not sure I want to go to them after Of Mice & Men. Thaaaaaank you!
by drucella0620
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i think Piranesi by Susanna Clarke is an excellent book for people who like classics, lit fic, and fantasy
And Then There Were None by Christie
The Great Gatsby for a classic
or maybe All Systems Red by Martha Wells for your sci fi
Mark Twain’s Letters from the Earth and CS Lewis The Screwtape Letters. I realize the latter author is from the UK.
F Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Jim Butcher the Dresdens Files, first book Storm Front urban fantasy
Ilona Andrews The Inheritance and really anything of theirs but this one was a nail biter for me. Some of their stuff is print on demand only so this one may not be in BN.
Though I’m not American, I really love the Library of America series of classics. Try Mark Twain’s Mississippi Writings.
Middlegame by Seanan McGuire
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings—Maya Angelou
*Station Eleven* by Emily St John Mandel
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair.
True Grit by Charles Portis
English teacher here wondering if you’ve read these popular classic/classic adjacent works: Catcher in the Rye (JD Salinger), Kindred (Octavia Butler), Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), Things Fall Apart (Achebe), To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), Rebecca (du Maurier) and my students’ fave The Things They Carried (Tim O’Brien)
The Remains of the Day
Stoner
Atonement
Educated (non fiction)
Thousand Splendid Suns
Rebecca
My Friends, Fredrik Backman
11/22/63
Dark Matter and Recursion (Blake Crouch)
Into Thin Air (non fiction)
Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor or her short story collection
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley