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

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The Bee Sting
The Promise
Black Butterflies
Septology
The Essential June Jordan (Penguin Modern Classics)
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-century Women Writers
The Hemingway Stories
Forty-Ninth
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
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
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas LlosaThe War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas LlosaAunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas LlosaLa ciudad y los perros by Mario Vargas LlosaConversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Best Book by Mario Vargas Llosa
28 books — 52 voters

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe World According to Garp by John IrvingThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingA Widow for One Year by John IrvingThe Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Best of John Irving
27 books — 345 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
218 books — 219 voters

The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaA Hunger Artist by Franz KafkaThe Castle by Franz Kafka
The best of Franz Kafka
22 books — 64 voters
The Dante Club by Matthew PearlThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaPossession by A.S. ByattWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia  FurstenbergArthur & George by Julian Barnes
Authors in Historical Fiction
183 books — 100 voters


Harper Lee
…some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it…
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Sylvia Plath
In the infinitesimal glow of the stars, the trees and flowers were strewing their cool odos. There was no moon.
Sylvia Plath

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