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
The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
Septology
P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1: The Jeeves Collection
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
The Hemingway Stories
Forty-Ninth
The Essential June Jordan (Penguin Modern Classics)
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-century Women Writers
Poems 1962-2020
The Austen Girls
The Apprentice in the Master’s Shadow (Legends of the Order #2)
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
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
250 books — 224 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 Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerLight in August by William FaulknerGo Down, Moses by William Faulkner
Best of William Faulkner
85 books — 64 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 Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoSocialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! by Todor BombovThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryLiving Fearless by Jamie WinshipThe Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
Inspiring Books
4,683 books — 3,356 voters
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,508 books — 1,218 voters


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

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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