I'm an avid (fiction) reader but have grown tired of the same old novels.....Can someone recommend a short list of classics? I've already started with "To Kill a Mockingbird."
Thanks
2007-10-14 10:11:14 · 18 answers · asked by NakdWhtGuy 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
oliver twist, The once and future king, ishmael, moby dick, great expectations, things fall apart, the things they carried, siddhartha, the awakening, watchmen, paradise lost, sherlock holmes, animal farm, othello, notes from the underground, Don Juan, Gulliver's Travels. I hope this is a good start.
2007-10-14 10:20:38 · answer #1 · answered by avkedav 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Pere Goriot - Honore de Balzac
Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevski
Steppenwolf - Hermann Hesse
How Green Was My Valley - Richard Llewellyn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
The Human Comedy - William Saroyan
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
The Lost Weekend - Charles Jackson
Mr. Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow
On the Road - Jack Kerouac
A Fan's Notes - Frederick Exley
The Bonfire of the Vanities - Tom Wolfe
Lonesome Dove - Larry McMurtry
Burden of Proof - Scott Turow
2007-10-14 12:31:33 · answer #2 · answered by Ray 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (obscure but still a classic), The House of Mirth, Tender is the Night, Breakfast of Champions, The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand has some radical views and I do not necessarily agree with all of them, but it is an excellent book), A Prayer for Owen Meany (written in the 80's but already considered a classic. The most powerful book that I have ever read. Definitely changed my life for the better.), The Rabbit Quartet (Four classic novels which chronicle one mans life: Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest. The first was written in 1960 and the last in 1990. Excellent epic.). Those are some of my favorites that I don't think have been named yet.
2007-10-14 10:38:44 · answer #3 · answered by Kate v.7.0 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Time Enough For Drums by Ann Rinaldi
Torn Thread by Anne Isaacs
The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis
Light A Single Candle by Beverly Butler
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
The Work and the Glory by Gerald N. Lund
2007-10-14 10:20:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez
Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
Aunt Julia and The Script Writer by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
2007-10-14 10:28:28 · answer #5 · answered by zoomjet 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
House of the Seven Gables
Red Badge of Courage
Of Mice and Men
Great Gatsby
Catch-22
Call of the Wild
Tom Sawyer
Huck Finn
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Fall of the House of Usher
The Tell-tale Heart
This is just a start.
2007-10-14 10:34:00 · answer #6 · answered by flautumn_redhead 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1984 (good call Papa), The Metamorphosis, Anna Karenina, Ethan Frome, Catcher in the Rye, The Trial, The Castle and The Art of War.
Anything from JD Salinger or Franz Kafka won't be a disappointment.
2007-10-14 10:22:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Idiot, Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison), The Human Stain, A Confederacy of Dunces, 1984
2007-10-14 10:15:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
"To Kill a Mockingbird" is such an astonishing book. I loved it.
Let's see, a lot of good books already mentioned (but I have to reiterate "Crime and Punishment." It is long, but oh so brilliant).
I really dig the early 20th century writers.
Anything by Steinbeck, especially "Cannery Row" and "Tortilla Flats" or "Grapes of Wrath."
"Black like Me" is more of a non-fiction piece about a white man that disguises himself as black to see how he is treated differently.
Vonnegut is also brilliant. I think I started out with "Hocus Pocus." "Cat's Cradle" is also good.
There are just too many to list (I'm already rambling). Good luck; good reading!
2007-10-14 10:51:41 · answer #9 · answered by andy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Death of a salesman, Queenie, Of mice and men, The outsiders, the butcher of Lyon, Ordinary people, A brave new world ,The grapes of wrath, Where the red fern grows, Old yeller, Great expectations, Tom Sawyer. I could go on
2007-10-14 10:28:10 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋