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

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

The Name of the Rose by Umberto EcoRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo CalvinoThe Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Italy
992 books — 508 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
26 books — 169 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
12 books — 35 voters
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas LlosaAunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas LlosaThe War of the End of the World 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 — 53 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryPresenting the Messiah by Brandon CarpenterThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoJonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachThe You Beyond You by Ramzi Najjar
Mysticism books
235 books — 311 voters
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsTatiana and Alexander by Paullina SimonsOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Summer Garden by Paullina SimonsGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
War/Romance novels
522 books — 678 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Modern Classics”

Harper Lee
“ …some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it… ”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
“ Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge. ”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
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Videos Tagged “Modern Classics”

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Groups Tagged "Modern Classics"

Astronaut Penguin For people with varied reading tastes, who enjoy both classic and recently published books in a …more
7 members, last active 6 years ago
OE Original Book Club Est. 2012 Join Tracy Bailey at Oxford Exchange on the second Tuesday of every month to discuss o…more
8 members, last active 5 years ago
Penguin Modern Classics A group for anyone who wants to read and share their way through the Penguin Modern Classics col…more
6 members, last active 9 years ago
Underground Knowledge — A discussion group This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underrep…more
25,049 members, last active 8 hours ago

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