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

[Jesca]

To start off, mine is Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen!

[Siddharth]

I love Pride and Prejudice! Since that's taken, I'll go with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott.

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Watership Down Richard Adams

[shayla]

sense and sensibility by jane austen!

[LiteraryCryptid]

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte - the first classic I fell in love with way back in elementary school.

[♥︎ Heather ⚔ (New House-Hiatus)]

oh, I have many-

Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
To Kill a Mocking Bird- Harper Lee
Dracula- Bram Stoker
Great Expectations- Charles Dickens
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Beautiful and the Damned/Gatsby- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

[Mansi V]

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier is one of my favourites! I'm also a sucker for anything by F Scott Fitzgerald! Toni Morrison and James Baldwin are great too.

[Jennifer]

my personal favorites are (I don't have just one lol too many to choose from)

The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Sense And Sensibility by Jane Austen
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

and basically anything by Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie!

Hope this helps!! (:

[Janine]

Probably either A Room with a View or The Great Gatsby.

[Christine]

"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, Thackeray as well.
I couldn't get into Jules Verne.

Is Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck meanwhile considered classic or is it still contemporary?
I can highly recommend Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast" about his years in the 1920's in Paris with his young family. And John Steinbeck's "Travels with Charley" was such a pleasure to read (about the time when John F. Kennedy was president elect if I'm not mistaken).

Agatha Christie is a great choice, Jennifer!

And nothing beats Daphne DuMaurier's "Rebecca", but don't forget her most romantic novel "Frenchman's Creek".
Unfortunately most women read only "Rebecca", but she wrote several good novels. For instance a time slip novel called "The House on the Strand".
And more about the history of Rebecca's Manderley aka Menabilly can be found out in "The King's General" based on a true story.

[Len]

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, or Bleak House by Dickens. Then perhaps Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, and to lighten my mood The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne and The Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith.

[Jesca]

Thank you, guys! :)

[Sam]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen and Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

[Jennifer]

Thanks, Christine!

And I've always thought both Hemingway and Steinbeck are classics lol

and you're welcome, Jesca! (:

[Christine]

Jennifer wrote: "Thanks, Christine!

And I've always thought both Hemingway and Steinbeck are classics lol

and you're welcome, Jesca! (:"


Oh, good! :)
I was not sure.

[Gilda]

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[ali]

i would probably say the lord of the rings by j.r.r Tolkien :)

[Kindle Jenner]

The Crucible and Wuthering Heights

[Emma]

Emma by Jane Austen!

[Ptera]

It's a toss-up between The House of Seven Gables (Hawthorn), The Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy), and Candide (Voltaire). It all depends on my mood.

[Deborah]

I think that I’ve read everything listed, sooooo, it’s the season for
“A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens

[karissa m]

Jane Eyre
Farinhieght 451
To Kill a Mockingbird

[Nigella [Semi-Hiatus]]

Persuasion by Jane Austen!!!

[Kayla]

Pride and Prejudice

[Lala]

1984 for sure

[Alex]

Rebecca by du Maurier

[Cecilia]

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Novels of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I read lots of classics as I grew up. I cannot pick just one.

[كوثر]

Little Women / Louisa May Alcott

[Tanja]

I love Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle and also Agatha Christie's books, especially Poirot❤
Another favourite is The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

[Jennifer]

No worries, Christine!! (:

[Defenestration]

anything austen is spectacular, lord of the rings, jane eyre

[Gina]

Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

[Nita]

There are quite a few I really love, but my all-time favorite is Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. I am currently reading it for the third time.

[Shannon]

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, followed by Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

[Jeannie]

I agree. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is amazing but I think my all time favorite was Emma by Jane Austen.

[Hermione]

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (unlike anything I've read before, spectacular prose)
East of Eden - John Steinbeck (my 1# favourite of all time, super accessible and engaging)
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (what can I say, it's Dickens, if you like historical fiction and romance it's perfect)
1984 - George Orwell (again what can I say, a masterpiece)

Also I'd add Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov but it can be extremely triggering and disturbing so proceed with caution. I'd 10000% advice you to read it though if you're ready to challenge yourself, it's considered one of the best books of all time for a reason.

[Ramona]

the picture of dorian gray by oscar wilde!

[Heaven]

Definitely seconding 1984, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Lolita. Throw in And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie as well!

[Michael]

William Gibson. Neuromancer.

[Lucy]

Little Women by Luisa May Alcott, that book is a masterpiece and so is the 2019 movie adaptation <3

[Shawna]

To Kill a Mockingbird

[Athena]

My all time favorite is anything Edgar Allen Poe which is followed very closely by The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne & To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

[Neusa]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen <33

[Katie]

Pride and Prejudice or Persuasion both by Jane Austen

[Sam]

Pride and Prejudice & Emma by Jane Austen, Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

[Dave]

If you haven't read Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, you should.

[Tim]

Watership Down by Richard Adams

[Avery]

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is my easiest pick here, it’s so good. Also Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, but be prepared to possibly cry.

[Sally]

Carmilla
The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland
The Secret Garden
Romeo & Juliet

[Clau]

Little Women is awesome!