I find, now that I am an adult, that I wish I would have read more as a kid. I read several books a month now and am bored with the Dean Koontz, Tess Gerritsen crowd. I want more substance. I've started to really like biographies/autobiographies and find I'm interested in the "older" great works of literature that I never read. I'd like to hear your suggestions of great autobiographies or the classics that you felt were fantastic. I have A Tree Grows in Brooklyn now and plan on starting that tomorrow but will want another one for next week. I've also read A Million Little Pieces and that was OK.............any other suggestions???
2006-10-08 17:45:25 · 24 answers · asked by D W 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Some of my favorite older novels/classics are
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickons
Jane Erye, Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
Les Misrables, Victor Hugo
Count of Monte Christo, I forget.
Of Mice and Men, John Stienback or Hemingway, I forget.
2006-10-08 18:19:35 · answer #1 · answered by mury902 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Thorn Birds, Mutiny on the Bounty, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Not Without My Daughter, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Bounty, Serpent in Paradise, Unity of the Heart, Child of the Dark, Brazilian Women Speak. I love historical fiction and historical pieces, but I really am quite a nerd and love to read alot. These are all great titles and you can learn many things from reading each one. These may not be the old classics, but these novel/books are just a good. However, Ramona, based on the Ramona pagent, is one of my all time favorite classic novels.
2006-10-08 17:58:23 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forever Amber - about a courtesan during the great plague in europe...one of my favorites
The Grapes of Wrath....A must read for everybody..so good
To Kill a Mockingbird...excellent
The Valley of the Dolls..Racy , but entertaining
The Thorn Birds...Terrific
If you like books about women who rise above the worst life has to offer, try anything by Catherine Cookson...start with the Dwelling Place....orphans who live in a cave to survive
Not an "old" novel, but all the Harry Potter books are great.
Little Women
A new book but really great is The Glass Castle a memoir by Jeannette Walls..makes you feel better about your childhood cause it can't be as bad as hers.
2006-10-08 18:00:28 · answer #3 · answered by nesmith52 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
anything by Daphne DuMaurier, Gene Stratton Porter, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Louis Stephenson, L.M.Montegomery, or Louisa May Alcott.
I really enjoyed A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and hope you do, too. The movie is also excellent. To Kill a Mockingbird, both the book and movie, is also something you'd probably love.
2006-10-09 10:30:59 · answer #4 · answered by Puff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read "Catcher in the Rye." Fascinating book.
Author is J.D. Salinger.
Anything by Emily or Charlotte Bronte.
This one is not really old, but fairly old. Read "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Read some of Dickens works.
Go on line and hunt for classic books.
2006-10-08 17:52:46 · answer #5 · answered by makeitright 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Forget the modern garbage and pick up one of the following:
'Antigone' by Sophocles
'Wilderness: the Lost Poems of Jim Morrision' by Jim Morrison
'Anna Karenina' by Tolstoy
'Brothers Karamazov' by Dostoevsky
'Crime and Punishment' by Dostoevsky
'All Quiet on the Western Front' by Erich Maria Remarque
'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte
'Macbeth' by Shakespeare
'A Year in the Life of Shakespeare' by ???
2006-10-08 17:49:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
2006-10-08 19:33:28 · answer #7 · answered by Bethany 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TRY Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen or Northanger Abbey, also by her. You can also try Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities or Barnaby Rudge. But most of all, i would recommend J.R.R. TOlkien's The Lord of The Rings series for complete entertainment
2006-10-08 19:52:45 · answer #8 · answered by nauts 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would suggest "1984" and "Animal Farm," by George Orwell.
Then, I'd suggest "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.
You are going to be be surprised how you will start to look at things around you differently after reading those four classics!
2006-10-08 17:50:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follet.
Its the only book of its kind that he wrote, and is absolutely amazing, cover to cover. Ive read it atleast a dozen times in the last 4 years.
2006-10-08 17:47:34 · answer #10 · answered by Topbosss 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋