I don't know if all of these are considered "classics" - but I'd like suggestions all the same. Since the end of May, I've finished Wuthering Heights, Pride and Prejudice, Catcher In the Rye, Jane Eyre, and I'm a fourth through East of Eden. I'm thinking about reading others, either similar or in a branching out sort of way. Ideas? Thanks.
2007-07-02 05:20:13 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Separate Peace
Tom Sawyer
Captains & The Kings
Tender is the Night
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Moby DIck
Gone With the Wind
2007-07-02 05:36:53 · answer #1 · answered by sparky 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Catcher in the Rye and East of Eden are excellent. I also suggest Albert Camus' The Stranger. It's a very short, easy to read novel that is simply brilliant.
2007-07-02 07:21:57 · answer #2 · answered by God_Lives_Underwater 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My personal favorites are The Color Purple by Alice Walker, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. All of these are "classics." I find them all very interesting and well worth reading.
2007-07-02 05:30:45 · answer #3 · answered by trueimage_libra09 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From the books you mentioned, they're written by great writers and of course they're categorized 'classics'. However, we'd soon learn which books are in the classics genre since I have two interesting web sites for you to visit, then find some familiar authors there to read and then, the real exploration in the name of reading begins.
George Orwell is always my favorite author, you might start with his "Animal Farm" or "1984".
2007-07-02 14:46:59 · answer #4 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an excellent list of Suggested Classics with short reviews at http://www.tolkien-online.com/classic-reading-suggestions.html.
I found the reviews helpful. There are so many "classics" out there that its hard to know where to begin. I would personally recommend anything by Leo Tolstoy (especially Anna Karenina) or Thomas Hardy (I loved Tess of the D'Urbervilles).
Good luck.
2007-07-02 08:00:42 · answer #5 · answered by commercial_ink 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try these:
To Kill A Mockingbird
A Separate Peace
Brave New World
Oliver Twist
2007-07-02 05:26:19 · answer #6 · answered by Maria b 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Clan of the Cave Bear
Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
2007-07-02 05:35:24 · answer #7 · answered by Meg...Out of Hybernation 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-28 22:06:52 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I highly recommend Les Miserables.
How about something a bit lighter like Catch 22? It is quite possibly my favorite book.
2007-07-02 05:50:35 · answer #9 · answered by Adoptive Father 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about The Great Gatsby?
2007-07-02 05:24:57 · answer #10 · answered by jose g 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋