The book you like most discussion
What classic book should i read, I never read a classic in my life
Catcher In The Rye. Walking. From Here To Eternity. Watership Down.
It depends how you define a classic really ( had this debate at work), so these are the books I classify as a classic: We Have Always Lived in the Castle - really good short horror story - allusion to depression and metal health issues among characters
Frankenstein - Gothic horror
Murder on the Orient Express - Mystery
Nanny Mcphee: The Collected Tales of Nurse Matilda - young fantasy, absolutely love this one and have re-read many many times
Peter Pan - young fantasy
The Great Gatsby is fun, and short (I've always struggled with long classics myself)
The secret garden, it’s a children’s book but it might be good for a start in classics
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
1984 - George Orwell
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Pearl, The Once and Future King, anything Jane Austen…..
Wuthering heightsSons and lovers
Jane Eyre
The Mayor of Casterbridge
West With the Night by Beryl Markham. Her writing is beautiful and captivating. Even Hemingway admired her.
East of Eden by John Steinbeck is one of my favorites. It takes the biblical story of Cain and Abel and modernizes it.
The Old Man and the Sea - Earnest HemmingwayPride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
This isn't as old as some of the others on this list but The Giver by Lois Lowry (and yes I have read it three times because of school)
Kristi wrote: "East of Eden by John Steinbeck is one of my favorites. It takes the biblical story of Cain and Abel and modernizes it."It's a great book and a great movie with James Dean.
However, the movie is just the tip of the iceberg. The story in the novel starts much earlier.
I'm amazed that you were able to avoid reading the classics. It was a must at our high school. :(
@readandreaporg just finished "The Power of Now" and I must say Eckhart just sparked my 2024.
The next read is "The Art of Laziness" @readandreaporg
Classics I like are Little Women and Wuthering Heights. I’m reading the Canterville Ghost right now. It is pretty good.
George Orwell, so clever with his social commentary and was ahead of his time. Start with Animal Farm, it's a small book, then read 1984.
The picture of Dorian gray by Oscar Wilde
Rebecca Cecil I didn't realize TO SIR WITH LOVE is a book.....OMG I have to get it and read it now thank you . To Kill a Mocking Bird (true classic) Catcher in the Rye. Alice in Wonder land (quirky but good) Fahrenheit 451 is great read and Charles Dickens, Jane Austen books. so many to choose from. happy reading
1984… read this years ago and often think about it. There are so many things in life now that relate to the concepts in that book. Scary!
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
"Rebecca" by Daphne DuMaurier followed by "French Creek". You'll get hooked.
Gatsby is my personal favorite but I highly recommend Orwell’s 1984. Suuuch a good read and you can follow with his Animal Farm after. I also recommend Fahrenheit 451, similar to 1984 in the dystopian sense. And I think everyone needs to read Lord of the Flies once in their life. Mildly traumatized sophomore year me, but such a great commentary on the nature of humans and what we resort to in survival of the fittest.
Killua wrote: "this might sound stupid but are there any classics with mental health as topic"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Tremendous with the movie too exceeding expectations.
There are so many classic books read during your school years. I'm surprised you have not read any. However, if you were not born here it could be possible. Little Women, Withering Heights, The Railway Children, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Jane Eyre.I could go on.
I read Madame Bovary for school, it’s pretty good!! I really enjoyed it
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
I enjoyed "Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain.
Wuthering Heights!! But for starters I def reccomend Of Mice and Men or The death of Ivan Ilitch
Def Pride and Prejudice,Jane Eyre and The Prophet
Little Women is a great book. You should give it a try
Tom SawyerSwiss Family Robinson
Treasure Island
White Fang
Animal Farm
The Chosen
David Copperfieldthe Christmas Carol
Anne of green gables series
the secret garden
Daddy long legs
I think "Rebecca" is now considered a classic, it's by Daphne DuMaurier. I can also recommend her novel "Frenchman's Creek", a pirate love story.
Iz wrote: "The Great Gatsby is fun, and short (I've always struggled with long classics myself)"Agree, this is an enjoyable read and offers a mild degree of difficulty.
I've notice others recommending Wuthering Heights (and some other difficult and lenghty classics), which, with its triple narrative and complicated plot and numerous characters with names starting with "H"... it can be a handful for a beginner...in my humble opinion.
I believe, if my first classic would have been "One Hundred Years of Solitude"...l'd have never read another. Not because it was horrible, though it was an odd story, only because of the degree of difficulty...it was a mind bender.
The Three Musketeers by Dumas. Action adventure!
Oscar Wilde!! His plays are delightful and witty!
Bram Stoker's Dracula The Picture of Dorian Gray
if you're looking for a French classic, I would recommend "Les rêveries du promeneur solitaire" by Rousseau. It's a compilation of "promenades," which exposed all his thoughts and opinions on his contemporary world and more philophicaly about happiness and whether or not we can achieve it.
I second T.'s suggestion of Giovanni's Room. Baldwin is an amazing writer and treats this love affair with great beauty and realism.
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