In order to cut down on the two weeks it usually takes us to decide on a book I've taken a page from the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club. They've set up a Master Book List where anyone can suggest a book. Two weeks before the beginning of the month I'll select by random number generation, about four to five books that we can then vote on. That way everyone gets one week to acquire said book before we start discussion.

Okay so from here I'll take book suggestions and combine them into one giant list on here. For months with holidays like October we could do a themed list to vote on or add a few themed books to vote from.

*Important: If you have a book suggestion please include the title and author. I'll be organizing them on here in alphabetical order. Thanks.

Updated October 8/09

Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
Emma - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Lorna Doone - Richard Blackmoore
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
The Professor - Charlotte Bronte
Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
Villette - Charlotte Bronte
The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Evelina - Fanny Burney
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
Death Comes for the Arch Bishop - Willa Cather
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffery Chaucer
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
Middlemarch - George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Uncle Silas - J.S. Le Fanu
The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
The Magus - John Fowles
Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained - John Milton
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Utopia - Thomas Moore
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde - R.L. Stevenson
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
20 000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Candide - Voltaire
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
East Lynn - Ellen Wood
The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann D. Wyss

That sounds good to me.

Works for me!

Sounds good.

I love this idea! Here are some suggestions:

Lady Audley's Secret, by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte
The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
Evelina, by Fanny Burney
The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
The Good Soldier, by Ford Madox Ford
The End of the Affair, by Graham Greene
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
East Lynn, by Ellen Wood

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Death Comes for the Arch Bishop - Willa Cather
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

Silas Marner - George Eliot
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux

There are so many listed already that get me all giddy at the prospect of opening up and entering their world I smile just knowing that it will happen. Here are a few more that I have on my list I thought would be good additions for the list :)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Canterbury Tales by Ceoffery Chaucer
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Nun by Denis Diderot
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Hi Cathaleen. Thanks for the book suggestions! I didn't include Diderot's "The Nun" as that was our September book. If you missed our discussion on it you can find the topic here. http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_fol...

Hello!! I'm a newbie here..
Is there anyway can you include A Separate Peace by John Knowles...
If you'd choosen a book please inform me so I could get it then read it.
Thanks you guys!!!
My warm regads and happy reading.. ^_^

Hi jzhunagev. Welcome to the Classics group!

We're currently reading "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift. You can find the discussion topics here. http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_fol...

Any future books that we discuss will be under the month coming up in the topic section.

OK!!
Good I haven't read jonathan swift yet... only watched it..
OK see you there..

Cool! I love the books that you've already mentioned, and I'd like to get my hands on the ones I haven't read yet! Anyway, here are some books that I enjoyed (that aren't on the list yet)

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Hey! I'm new to the group and trying to start reading classics. These are all great ideas to read. I have some more I would like to read at some point too:

Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The Moonstone - Wilkie Collins
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emmuska Orczy
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger

Hi Erika. Welcome to the group and thanks for the suggestions!

Hi. I just joined this group and would like to recommend:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

Hi there, I am a newbie too. Most of the books I really want to read or have read and want to disucss are up there already but I would like to add:

Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell
Lorna Doone - Blackmoore
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
Villetee - Charlotte Bronte

Thank you for the suggestions Boof. Did you by any chance edit the Master List to add your books?

Hi again. No I didn't - was I supposed to? (sorry for being dumb if I was).

No, but your selections showed up in the list so I assumed you had. No worries. Voting for our March book is up so feel free to head to the poll section.

How about Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein... sorry if any of these are repeats I'm new :)

Hey I'm a newbie as well! And I loved A Separate Peace. I thought it was a great depiction of what jealousy can do to friendships. Phineas is a great character.

I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now for the first time and I'm LOVING it! Except I can't decide whether or not I like Heathcliff. Yes, granted he is a masochistic sadist who thrives on others downfalls...BUT! his love for Catherine, because it's so great, seems to cancel that out.

If you like Wuthering Heights then you might enjoy the Olivier movie version.

Hey, newbie here, so I just thought I'd share some of the stuff on my reading list.

A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco

Also, great choice with A Separate Peace. Read it a couple of weeks ago and was impressed.

Hi I'm new here...here are my two cents...

"Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James
"Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained" by John Milton
"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

Hi, I'm new to the group. Can I add:
Uncle Silas by J.S. Le Fanu
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
The Magus by John Fowles
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R.L. Stevenson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Believe it or not, I didn't read any of this in high school.

Best, Melissa

Melissa,

Neither have I.
Too many books, too little time to read them.

Selina

Done! Thanks for the suggestions Melissa.

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Utopia by Thomas More
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders (Wordsworth Classics) by Daniel Defoe
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss