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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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Modern Classics"

The Bee Sting
The Promise
Black Butterflies
Septology
Det tredje ljuset / Små ting som dessa
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
The Hemingway Stories
The Essential June Jordan (Penguin Modern Classics)
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-century Women Writers
Without MAlice
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
Forty-Ninth

Modern Classics Books

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
Of Mice and Men
Lolita
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Clockwork Orange
The Stranger
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Lists

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
388 books — 201 voters
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
13 books — 36 voters

The Cosmic Experience of One by Jasun EtherThe Field by Lynne McTaggartThe Divine Matrix by Gregg BradenTaoTuning by Adrian EmeryThe Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life by Drunvalo Melchizedek
Mysticism books
275 books — 478 voters
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Best of Hemingway
28 books — 171 voters

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer102 Minutes by Jim DwyerThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFedeThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
9/11 Related
277 books — 250 voters
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayGoodbye to All That by Robert GravesThree Day Road by Joseph Boyden
The Great War in Fiction and Non-Fiction
210 books — 84 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Modern Classics”

Donna Tartt
“ I prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter. ”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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Harper Lee
“ …some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it… ”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Groups Tagged "Modern Classics"

OE Original Book Club Est. 2012 Join Tracy Bailey at Oxford Exchange on the second Tuesday of every month to discuss o…more
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Ci sfidiamo a leggere 10 classici in 6 mesi. Si tratta di una selezione di 10 romanzi fondamenta…more
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our little book club 💌 hey amicis. welcome to our little bookclub where we read a book each month and talk about it wit…more
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