Classics and Modern Classics I should read?

[KHoopMan]

I have to second Lori's pick: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is one my all-time favorite books. It's a quick read, but it will stay with you forever!

I just made a list of classics that I find it unacceptable that I have not read. I will read them all!

I am LOL'ing at El's comment "I wonder if Hemingway ever did or said anything I agree with."

[Becky]

carol (akittykat) wrote: "I think the man was drunk when he said all American literature came from one book . That was an asinine statement, and to have it down for posterity."

It is pretty silly to have said something like that. But at least he said "modern"... It makes a little bit of difference in interpretation.

[Brenda]

Becky: Here are some that I have enjoyed that I don't think have been mentioned:
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Good Earth
Wild Swans
The Mayor of Castorbridge
Tess of the D'Ubervilles
The Tin Drum
Fifth Business
The Bonfire of the Vanities

[Liesl]

I second Atlas Shrugged. Also Les Miserables and Hawaii.

[Lori Ann]

American Lit I'd have to suggest anything my all time favorite Edgar Allen Poe and William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying or The Sound and the Fury.

For Brit Lit I second all Austen and Dickens picks and would add any Wilkie Collins like Woman in White and The Moonstone.