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

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
More modern classics books...

Lists

Confessions Of An Honest Man by Arthur RoschPresenting the Messiah by Brandon CarpenterThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoJonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Mysticism books
264 books — 388 voters
Of Mice and Men by John SteinbeckEast of Eden by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckCannery Row by John SteinbeckTortilla Flat by John Steinbeck
Steinbeck's Country
42 books — 35 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
531 books — 689 voters
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
1,012 books — 529 voters

An Angel in Los Angeles by A.M. SardarFinal Exam by Lou PuglieseThe Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Best historical-fiction mysteries
382 books — 218 voters
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas LlosaConversation in the Cathedral 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 Llosa
All about Vargas Llosa
29 books — 35 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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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”

Silent Fear (book trailer and associated film adaptation)
Silent Fear (book trailer and associated film adaptation)
SILENT FEAR (A novel inspired by true crimes) -- Book Trailer
SILENT FEAR (A novel inspired by true crimes) -- Book Trailer
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Groups Tagged "Modern Classics"

Casual Book Club Enjoy. (Still active as of June 2020)
19 members, last active 8 years ago
Torrey Honors Perpetual Members A group for graduates of the Torrey Honors College that want to expand their library of great bo…more
7 members, last active 2 years ago
a book club for book lovers✧･*✧･* a book club where we read a book per month, i will be accepting or declining invites but most pe…more
5 members, last active 3 years ago
Book club!
3 members, last active 2 years ago

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