Some good classics?

[Gilda]

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronté and The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

[Orinoco Womble (tidy bag and all)]

Jules wrote: "Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Blown away by how dead on he was about the future. Disturbing and a definite read for readers!


I tutor Eng Lit and I have to re-read this for a student. We were discussing how Bradbury could see which way the wind was blowing and how prescient he was.

[Eddie]

I would recommend the Devine Comedy, it is a book that I return to often, I think it reflects life and puts faith in the leap you take to happiness.

[Marlene Silverman]

Jane Eyre, it is the book that I re-read every few years and always find something new to appreciate in the story.

[Jeanine]

Withering Heights, Frankenstein, are two of my favorites.

[Nancy]

I recently read On the Beach by Nevil Shute. It was written in the 50’s but is so applicable to todays world.

[Lilly]

Anything Jane Austen tbh. Pride and Prejudice for sure. Its a whole bunch of drama and girl talk, i love it.

[Carla]

Anything by Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, Dracula...

[Thomas]

The Count of Monte Cristo

[Jennifer]

I've just recently really been into classics and have been loving it! some of my favorites are

The Count Is Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Sense And Sensibility by Jane Austen
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Sherlock Holmes series by Arthur Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie too! (anything by her is good! xD)

[Dave]

My all-time favorite classic: Cannery Row by Steinbeck

Others that are awesome:
The Great Gatsby
Catch-22
The Iliad by Homer (translated by Fagles)
1984 and Animal Farm
etc.

[Storm]

I love East of Eden by John Steinbeck. I really like all the Steinbeck I have read though, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, Grapes of Wrath, The Moon is Down.

Also, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and Cider House Rules by John Irving.

[TimeFliesAway]

Patti wrote: "What makes a book a classic? When does a newer book become a classic?"

When a book passes "the test of time", i.e. it can be read and enjoyed in any time period.
Usually, but not necessarily, it's a book that everyone knows and has read it or at least heard of it.

Not sure, when something becomes a classic, but I guess it needs to be at least 20 years old or maybe even more. Can't really say it's timeless, when it's been published 10 years ago, which still is the same time era.

[TimeFliesAway]

Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen (en: Germany: A Winter Tale)

Der Struwwelpeter (Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures)

Where the Wild Things Are

The Little Ghost

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

the brother grimm's tales

[Dave]

Storm wrote: "I love East of Eden by John Steinbeck. I really like all the Steinbeck I have read though, Of Mice and Men, Cannery Row, Grapes of Wrath, The Moon is Down.

Also, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, ..."

Yeah, I agree. I really enjoyed every Steinbeck novel I've read, too. I'd have to put him right at the top of the list of my favorite authors. :-)

[Hannah]

A good classic author is Louisa May Alcott and my favorites from her are The Inheritance and Little Women!

[John]

I couldn't agree with you more.

[Miren]

Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Pride & Prejudice - Jane Austen
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

[Bibliophilic.girl]

My favourite are -
Pride and Prejudice
The picture of dorian gray
The strangers
Metamorphosis
The trail

[Sandra]

Any fans of Wuthering Heights or Siddhartha?

[John]

Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler
Pride and Prejudice
Moby Dick
Wuthering heights
Lord Of The Rings series.

[Nathali]

i absolutely agree with Jennifer Kohlstrom.
I'd just say almost every classics is good. Just pick anything, it'll be good

[Isaac]

Where The Red Fern Grows!!

[Kar]

agreed where the Red fern grows is great but there is abunch of other good classics

[Jane]

Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoevsky but any other 19th century Russian fiction.

[Nora (Grayson's version)]

the secret garden

[Natasha]

The LOTR trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Crime and Punishment Fyodr Dostoevsky
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
The Colour Purple Alice Walker
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Light in August/The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
The Pillars of the Earth (trilogy) Ken Follett
Great Expectations/A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
Song of Solomon Toni Morrison
Rebecca Daphne de Maurier
Dracula Bram Stoker
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot
....to name but a few of my favourites :)

[Ryebread]

The Secret Garden
Pride and Prejudice
Grimm brothers
Little Women

[karissa m]

Jane Eyre, To Kill A Mockingbird, Little Women, Where The Red Fern Grows, Devil in The White City, Harry Potter, and Pride and Prejudice are amazing

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Wuthering Heights👀👀👀😏

[Rayrumtum]

Daphne Du Maurier books are usually great

[Anjalijpk]

Anne of Green Gables
Animal Farm
Anna Karenina
Pride & Prejudice
Jane Eyre
Persuasion
The age of innocence
Dracula
Wuthering height
To kill a mockingbird
Great Expectations
One hundred years of solitude
Little women

[Penelope’s]

Little Women is my all-time favourite book!

[Joicy]

Pride and Prejudice

[Annika]

the importance of being earnest

[Alisha]

I liked the picture of Dorian grey, Frankenstein, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde,The Phantom of the Opera, Sherlock Holmes stories. I've been trying to read The Beautiful and the Damned but seem to read classics when on vacation.

[P.a.]

Les Miserables is my all time favorite classic!

[Beth]

Little Women
Anne of Green Gable series
Nancy Drew ( I have original books of this and of the Anne of Green Gables Series ❤)
Gone With The Wind

[Emma]

Anne of Green Gables, Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma!


Not the Scarlet Letter though. Never again.

[Tarynla☾]

The Metamorphosis
The Jungle
Of Mice and Men
Animal Farm
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Night by Elie Wiesel
The Great Gatsby
Iliad
Odyssey
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Emily Dickinson
William Shakespeare

[Kristina]

Too kill a mocking bird

[Sarah]

of mice and men
the secret garden

[Preeti]

the little women and pride and prejudice

[Mel]

pride and prejudice!! love this book sm and the movie, definitely 2005 version XD

[Nigella [Semi-Hiatus]]

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[Mathilde]

Jane Austen books!!

[Tanja]

Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
War and Peace and Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Hercule Poirot novels by Agatha Christie
Animal Farm by George Orwell

[Romy]

to kill a mockingbird bird, jane Eyre, brave new world

[Aminah]

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.