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
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 Dante Club by Matthew PearlThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaMountains on Fire by Aram YardumianPossession by A.S. ByattWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia  Furstenberg
Authors in Historical Fiction
183 books — 110 voters
Final Exam by Lou PuglieseThe Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana FranklinA Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
Best historical-fiction mysteries
363 books — 165 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteHow to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby YoungNegative Space by Lilly DancygerJust Kids by Patti Smith
New York Eats Its Young
73 books — 59 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


Donna Tartt
I prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter.
Donna Tartt, The Secret History

Franz Kafka
İşte bütün bunlar K.’ya kendisiyle bütün bağların koparıldığı, şimdi doğal olarak her zamankinden daha özgür olduğu ve ona başka zaman yasak olan bu yerde istediği kadar bekleyebileceği hissini verdi; sanki özgürlüğünü kimsenin yapamayacağı bir mücadeleyle elde etmişti ve kimse ona dokunamazdı, onu kovamazdı, hatta onunla konuşamazdı bile; ama bu inanç öylesine güçlüydü ki, sanki aynı zamanda bu özgürlükten, bu bekleyişten, bu dokunulmazlıktan daha anlamsız ve çaresiz bir şey yoktu.
Franz Kafka

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