Some good classics to read? Anyone ....?

Question

I need a list of some good classics to read .... I guess, they don't even have to be classics .... :-D Dunno. I'm really bored. I'm making a list of books to read eventually. It probably won't get finished until summer, when I have more time, but still. Help :-D

Answer 1

Brave New World, 1984, Animal Farm, Naked Lunch, On The Road, The Gun Seller, Ulysses, Catch-22, Catcher in the Rye, Gravity's Rainbow.

Answer 2

The Bible, Seabiscuit, Gone With the Wind, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, So Big, (by Edna Ferber) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Treasure Island, Oliver Twist, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Ben-Hur, Silas Marner... uh, that's all I can think of at the moment. Happy reading!

Answer 3

I've read, and really enjoyed, these classics:

Rebecca ~ Daphne Du Maurier
Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Bronte


And I just finished reading (and really liked) these non-classic books:

Die a Little ~ Megan Abbott
Like a Hole in the Head ~ Jen Banbury

Answer 4

I'd also go with The Stand by Stephen King - not a 'classic' but big questions of good and evil, and the morality of science and invention in a great story that's quite different from his usual approach.
Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is a great thought-provoking read.
Enjoy!

Answer 5

Any/all of Jane Austen's books, I recommend starting with Pride and Prejudice

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (or anything by Dickens)

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien

Anne of Green Gables series by L.M. Montgomery

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Answer 6

The Sun Also Rises and The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway are good
On the Road by Jack Kerouac's pretty interesting
1984 by George Orwell is good as well

Answer 7

Bronte's Wuthering Heights in case you want an truly good love tale besides as crying your eyes out and desirous to throw the e book for the time of the room once you're finished because there's no section 2 :) Bronte's Jane Eyre for the creep component on my own. Frankenstein is surprising highly in case you learn it at a school factor--the justifications make the tale more effective bright. that is extraordinarily unhappy. Jonathan quick's A Modest idea --completely loopy. something interior the Rougon-Maquart sequence by technique of Emile Zola (Nana, L'Assomoir, L'Ouevre), Homer's Iliad (good conflict stroy). The Trial by technique of Franz Kafka--all about the criminal gadget and the nightmare of being trapped in it (!). Euripides Medea (psycho mom!) Uncle Tom's Cabin is somewhat good too once you spot what human beings might want to correctly be decreased to. undesirable. that could want to save you busy for slightly :)

Answer 8

1. The Bible

2. Plato's "Symposium"

3. Plato's "Republic"

4. "Wuthering Heights" Emily Bronte

5. "The Scarlet Letter" Nathaniel Hawthrone

6. "Moby Dick" Herman Melville

7. "Billy Bud - Sailor" Heman Melville

8. "Robinson Crusoe" Daniel Defoe

9. "Oliver Twist" Charles Dickens

10. "Pickwick Papers" Charles Dickens

Answer 9

The Iliad by Homer
The Aeneid by Virgil
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
Tunnel in the Sky by Robert Heinlein

Answer 10

I wish when people asked these broad questions, we were told what kind of books they like to read! ;)

For adventure: Counte of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
For deep literature: Brothers Karamazov (Dostoyevski)
For Sci-Fi: Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein)
For British Lit: Tom Jones (Fielding)
For American Lit: East of Eden (Steinbeck)
For Judaica: The Chosen (Potek)
For Asian themed novel: The Good Earth (Buck)
For Hispanic/Latino themed novel: 100 Years of Solitude (Garcia Marques)
For African/Black themed novel: Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry (Taylor)

Okay, the list could go on, but since I'm at work, perhaps I should stop there. . .:)