Modern Classics

Classics must resonate with an audience and have continued readership. Modern classics are generally written after WWI. They are also popularly known as "contemporary classics." ...more

The Bee Sting
Inseparable
The Promise
Black Butterflies
Septology
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
The Austen Girls
The Hemingway Stories
Poems 1962-2020
P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1: The Jeeves Collection
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-century Women Writers
The Essential June Jordan (Penguin Modern Classics)
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
Without MAlice
1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The Handmaid's Tale
The Bell Jar
Fahrenheit 451
Lord of the Flies
Lolita
Of Mice and Men
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Clockwork Orange
The Stranger
The Magus by John FowlesThe Collector by John FowlesThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John FowlesA Maggot by John FowlesThe Ebony Tower by John Fowles
Top Books of John Fowles
12 books — 35 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonV. by Thomas PynchonMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonAgainst the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
10 books — 262 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieThe Darkest Child by Delores Phillips
Contemporary Black Women's Literature
569 books — 233 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckCannery Row by John SteinbeckThe Pearl by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
44 books — 209 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoJonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachThe You Beyond You by Ramzi NajjarThe Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterio... by Ramzi Najjar
Mysticism books
211 books — 223 voters
Nuestra parte de noche by Mariana EnriquezTemporada de huracanes by Fernanda MelchorLa casa de los espíritus by Isabel AllendeDistancia de rescate by Samanta SchweblinCadáver exquisito by Agustina Bazterrica
Novelas en español escritas por mujeres
215 books — 102 voters


Harper Lee
…some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it…
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