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
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Alchemist
The Little Prince
Fahrenheit 451
Lord of the Flies
The Metamorphosis
The Catcher in the Rye
The Kite Runner
Wuthering Heights
The Stranger
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Romeo and Juliet
The Outsiders
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Holes (Holes, #1)
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
The Help
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
White Nights
Jane Eyre
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
The Bell Jar
The Old Man and the Sea
Crime and Punishment
Dracula
Memoirs of a Geisha
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Secret Garden
It
Hamlet
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Slaughterhouse-Five
Life of Pi
East of Eden
The Giving Tree
The Count of Monte Cristo
Sense and Sensibility
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
The Road
Emma
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Siddhartha
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A Christmas Carol
The Grapes of Wrath
Lolita
Anna Karenina
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Virgin Suicides
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Persuasion
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Great Expectations
Meditations
A Tale of Two Cities
The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
Notes from Underground
A Clockwork Orange
Carmilla
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1)
Les Misérables
The Color Purple
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
The BFG
The Brothers Karamazov
The Crucible
Gone With the Wind
Catch-22
Chess Story
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Remains of the Day
Othello
Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
The Sun Also Rises
Where the Red Fern Grows
Madonna in a Fur Coat
Treasure Island
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
The Silence of the Lambs  (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
Beowulf

E.M. Forster
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

Zora Neale Hurston
Some people could look at a mud puddle and see an ocean with ships.
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

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