What is your most favorite classic novel and who wrote it? I need suggestions! ☺️

[Jessalyn]

wuthering heights by emily brontë is one of my faves!

[Ash]

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is beyond my favourite classic

[Rosanna]

Mine is Wuthering Heights, I've read it so many times..

[Sam]

I love "the stranger" by Albert Camus - its Philosophy but so good and deep

[Vanessa (semi-hiatus)]

Although not my very favorite I'll suggest by . My all-time favorites have been mentioned above (Fahrenheit 451 and Jane Eyre).

[Filo]

My cousin Rachel by Daphne Du Maurier
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
A hundred years of solitude by García Márquez
I'm happy just thinking about them, and I often think about them!

[Kimberly]

The Turn of the Screw is my absolute favorite classic! If you're not familiar with it, Henry James wrote the story in 1898. It's a short novella, but this ghost story scared me senseless for several weeks! I read the book, and watched the movie later. As I watched the movie, the story was in my head, magnifying the fright. I slept with the lights on forever!

[Tonya]

As much as I am a fan of Jane Austin, I Love Agatha Christie.

[Kate]

My favorite has always been To Kill a Mockingbird

I saw someone also mention East of Eden I will say, I picked it up late in December for some reason. It was 600 pages! But I literally couldn't put it down and finished it so quickly. Not because of action etc. but because the writing was so beautiful and I was swept away. Definitely epic.

[Emma]

Emma by Jane Austen!

[Molly-Sue]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is such a beautiful and dramatic book, easily in my top 5.

I also recommend Emma by Jane Austen, I find that it’s very interestingly written and her clever construction of her characters are so wonderful to read, even if you might not like all of them - her skill is very admirable.

Also, The Murder Of Roger Akroyd by Agatha Christie is easily my fav crime novel of all time (so far haha) - she is such a clever writer, and I admire her work and all of the detail she brings to her worlds based on ours. Love love love

[Claudia]

The Conte of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet. I read this in high school and it was nothing like anything I had read before. It’s kind of changed my personal preference on books and blew my mind with its ending. I still think about it and definitely need to reread it!

[Jenn]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Passing by Nella Larsen, Sula by Toni Morrison, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, there are so many great classics.

[Alecsandra]

Notes From Underground, F. M. Dostoievski

[Susan]

I agree with a lot of the previous comments...to me I loved Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, Dracula by Bram Stoker, The Count of Monte Cristo, Little Women, and The Annotated version of Alice of Wonderland just because the tidbits make it so much more interesting!...I know that I have read Wuthering Heights, Price and Prejudice, Great Expectations, and the Secret Garden but I honestly can't remember them enough to say I loved them. I know I saw them as movies eventually later. Is the Shining considered a classic? Or Pet Semetary? I loved those by Stephen King. If the Little House on the Prairie books were considered classics I loved those....they really showed you a lot of perspective on how people lived in that timeframe.

[Ella]

The picture of Dorian gray by Oscar Wilde

[Romy]

jane eyre by charlotte bronte <3

[T.]

My current favorite is Sula by Toni Morrison. She writes so beautifully about the darker parts of humanity. Lyrical and heartbreaking.

[[deleted user]]

Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[megs]

Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice! A room with a view is also such a good and underrated classic...

[cockatiel forger]

the catcher in the rye and 1984 are my favourite classics. I couldn't get into any others as they tend to be really wordy.

[Doris]

I agree with several posters. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. She was a teenager when she wrote it!

[Julie]

Hamlet and The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[Judith Speed]

To Kill a Mockingbird

[Nina]

The Great Gatsby is good and has LOTS of drama.

[Pratty]

haven't read many yet.. i have a few in my tbr but until now its Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ♡

[Brian]

A lot of great picks so far.

To many wonderful classis to pick one.

But, two that totally surprised my mind were. Great Expectation, Dickens (and it only surprised me, because l'd read Bleakhouse prior, and it was 1100 pages of misery and 100 of enjoyment). Frankenstein, Shelly (blew me away)

[Brian]

Christine wrote: ""The Three Musketeers" with both sequels and "The Count of Monte Christo" by Alexandre Dumas père were the most readable classic novels that I read in my life.
Charles Dickens was very hard to read..."

Good info, I'll have to invest in the recommendations by du Maurier (read Rebecca already).

[Kristina]

To kill a mocking bird. Harper Lee

[Jeannie]

I do agree with all who chose Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Of all the classics I've read I'd choose Les Misérables by Victor Hugo!

[Shona]

I agree To Kill a Mockingbird- amazing. Intelligent- stands up to time , still carries essential messages. Unforgettable characters and excellent story .

[Shona]

But for sheer joy and brilliance the LOTR!

[Gyan]

Of Human Bondage by W Somerset Maugham

[Thea's reading corner]

I loved Dracula by Bram Stoker

[♤Lizzy♤]

1984 ofc!!

[♤Lizzy♤]

So yeah, either 1984 or the girl with the dragon tattoo

[Alisha]

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and The Picture of Dorian Gray are above all my favorite classics but The Great Gatsby is also up there too

[Nana]

Mystery Island (La Isla misteriosa) Jules Verne

[Closed for self healing]

try daphnee du Maurier Rebecca
jamaica inn

[Sanaa]

little women by Louisa may alcot

[Sanaa]

Jane eyr

[Joy]

I'm inclined to rec authors Nabokov, Steinbeck, Sinclair Lewis, Twain. Some of my favorite classic books that haven't already been mentioned: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, The Talented Mr. Ripley (the entire series) by Patricia Highsmith.

[Ashby]

Is The Stranger by Camus a classic, because if so, that's my vote!

[E.K.]

1984

[Kaitlyn]

I love Little Women and Heidi

[Lee]

Alice in wonderland, Lewis Carroll. It’s on the young side, but still an amazing read.

[Nora (Grayson's version)]

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Christmas carol

[Judith Speed]

deleted user wrote: "Watership Down Richard Adams"

I lost months of my life to that book. None of the film/TV adaptations have done it justice.

[Judith Speed]

Sam wrote: "I love "the stranger" by Albert Camus - its Philosophy but so good and deep"

The Plague, by the same author is even better.

[becs]

prob Frankenstein ?? so basic but the story and themes of it are very profound and true