What is a good classic book to read?

Question

What is a good classic book to read? Should be middle-high school level, with not too many different dialects or speech...Please give short plot analysis (but not the ending!!) too.

I should have mentioned this before...
I have read:

Gone With the Wind
Animal Farm
Lord of the Flies
Sherlock Holmes
Little Women
Pride and Prejudice
Princess Bride
Tom Sawyer
Huck Finn
and a few others...

Thanks for all your help!
I will be choosing a best answer within the next 3 days.

Answer 1

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. A brilliant study of the human condition during the depression. Steinbeck is descriptive but economical with his words. It is a story that will stay with you for years.

Answer 2

To Kill a Mockingbird -Harper Lee

told from the point of view of kids, a racist town and an unfair trial... with a couple people trying to do what's right, but told WELL (it's more than this, but anyway).

House of Stairs -William Sleator

a bit like Lord of the Flies, 5 teens are placed in a building that has only a machine that gives food, and a place with drinking water (note: this is a futuristic thing) they soon find the only way for them to get food is by doing specific things, ex. an elaborate "dance" that changes, and being cruel to each other.

The Foundation -Isaac Asimov

this is science fiction, a guy predicts that the universe as they know it will fall into another dark age (in 500 years) for 30,000 years and figures a way to shorten this time to about 1,000 years, but since the empire wouldn't ever dream of its end, this "foundation" to preserve human technology, and humankind must be made in secret, this is the first book, it only covers the first 175 or so years of the Foundation.

Answer 3

"The Old Man and the Sea," by Ernest Hemingway.

It's Cuba. It's after the war but before Castro. It's about an old man, a young boy, a boat, the ocean and a very big fish. It's Hemingway, and it doesn't get much better than that. It's relatively short.

On the one hand, it's dripping with symbolism. On the other, here's one of Hemingway's most famous quotes and, in fact, one of the most famous author quotes in American literature: "There isn’t any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is sht. What goes beyond is what you see beyond when you know." Enjoy!

Answer 4

the following is a itemizing of my top 6: a million. Bleak living house by technique of Charles Dickens 2. David Copperfield by technique of Charles Dickens 3. journey to the middle of the Earth by technique of Jules Verne 4. 20,000 Leagues less than the sea by technique of Jules Verne 5. An attempt of Dr. Ox (also noted as, Dr. Ox's attempt) by technique of Jules Verne 6. The Chronicles of Narnia by technique of C. S. Lewis (a semi-classic) some authors i might want to recommend might want to be: a million. Charles Dickens 2. Jules Verne 3. Robert Louis Stevenson 4. C. S. Lewis 5. Sir Walter Scott

Answer 5

To Kill a Mockingbird
The great gatsby
Wuthering Heights
The razors edge
Of Mice and Men
Frankenstine
war and peace
dracula
dantes infurno
paradise lost
the crusible

Answer 6

my favorite book ever is The Great Gatsby.
Its narrated by a man looking in on the rich and pwerful elite of 1920s New York. It doesnt sound very good but honestly, it was amazing. By the end, I was hooked.

Answer 7

Animal Farm by George Orwell
To Kill a Mockingbird

Answer 8

Little Women by Louisa Mae Alcott. It is a story about 4 sisters and their family and friends. It is set in Boston in the 1900's and is a good read.

Answer 9

Herman Melville - Benito Cereno

captain Delano is too blinded by own racial prejudices to realize the slave ship is under control of Babo.

classic high school novella

good luck

Answer 10

Pride & Prejudice, To Kill A Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies

Those were some of my favorites that I read in that time frame of school.