Most Read This Week In Classics

A classic stands the test of time. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period in which it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work is not a classic.

A classic has a certain universal appeal. Great works of literature touch us to our very core beings--partly because they integrate themes that are understood by readers from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience. Themes of love, hate, death, life, and faith touch upon some of our most basic emotional responses.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Classics"

1984
The Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights
The Diary of a Young Girl
Fahrenheit 451
The Little Prince
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
Lord of the Flies
The Catcher in the Rye
The Metamorphosis
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Kite Runner
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Romeo and Juliet
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Stranger
The Outsiders
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
The Help
Jane Eyre
White Nights
The Old Man and the Sea
The Bell Jar
Crime and Punishment
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Hamlet
Dracula
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
The Secret Garden
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Holes (Holes, #1)
Life of Pi
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Giving Tree
One Hundred Years of Solitude
A Christmas Carol
The Road
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Sense and Sensibility
The Count of Monte Cristo
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Emma
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Siddhartha
Lolita
Anna Karenina
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Yellow Wall-Paper
Persuasion
East of Eden
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Lord of the Rings
Great Expectations
A Clockwork Orange
The Magician’s Nephew
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
The Color Purple
The Death of Ivan Ilych
Notes from Underground
The Crucible
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
Les Misérables
The BFG
Carmilla
The Brothers Karamazov
Gone With the Wind
Treasure Island
The Virgin Suicides
The Haunting of Hill House
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Othello
Catch-22
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
Beowulf
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Where the Red Fern Grows
Madame Bovary
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
No Country for Old Men
The Sun Also Rises
Chess Story
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Plague
The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
The Remains of the Day
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
The Silmarillion
The Witches
Mrs. Dalloway

F. Scott Fitzgerald
No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Emily Brontë
If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I would be your slave.
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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