what is the easiest book to read and understand out of my list of books?

Question

# Chinua Achebe: Things Fall Apart, No Longer At Ease
# Bronte sisters: Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights
# Albert Camus: The Plague
# Willa Cather: My Antonia, O Pioneers!
# Miguel Cervantes: Don Quixote
# Stephen Crane: The Red Badge of Courage
# Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
# Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, The Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Bleak House, Oliver Twist
# Annie Dillard: An American Childhood (A Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, The Living)
# Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov (The Idiot, Notes from Underground)
# Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
# George Eliot: Silas Marner, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch (Adam Bede)
# William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
# F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
# Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
# E. M. Forster: A Room with a View
# William Golding: Lord of the Flies
# Thomas Hardy: Far From the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native,

# The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D'urbervilles
# Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
# Ernest Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, The Old Man and the Sea
# Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
# Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
# Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
# James Joyce: The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
# Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird
# Herman Melville: Moby Dick
# George Orwell: Animal Farm, 1984 (Burmese Days, Shooting an Elephant)
# Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle, Cancer Ward
# John Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, The Red Pony
# Stendhal, The Red and the Black
# Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
# Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
# J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
# Leo Tolstoy: Anna Karenina, War and Peace (Childhood)
# Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
# Edith Wharton: Ethan Frome
# Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Answer 1

I have read most of these books here are my opinions on some of them.
I think that these three would be the easiest books in your list to read:
Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, Brave New World

I liked these but the tend to be a bit long:
A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Les Miserables, the Grapes of Wrath

I found these to be extremely boring:
War and Peace, A Christmas Carol, Moby Dick

Answer 2

If you're looking for quick and straight forward, I would recommend The Great Gatsby, Lord of the Flies, The Scarlet Letter, 1984, Their Eyes Were Watching God, or Huckleberry Fin. You can find short synopsis on each of these at sparknotes.com to decide which one you'd like best, as they're all written in very different styles and address very different topics. My personal favorite of these is Their Eyes Were Watching God, but that's just my own personal preference. Keep in mind that there are a lot of other great books on this list, some of which are classics. You might decide that they are worth the effort.

Answer 3

i kinda feel proud that I read almost all of them other than the Red Badge of Courage.

I think the easiest of these are

- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Lord of the flies, William Golding
- Oliver twist by Charles Dickens.

Answer 4

I would vote for either My Antonia, by Willa Cather, or Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton. They're both pretty straightforward without a lot of hidden meanings. Ethan Frome is really pretty short, but people tend to expect a lot of in depth analysis since it's so short-- that's why I would read My Antonia. Both are really good, though. Happy Reading!

Answer 5

Animal Farm
The Old Man and the Sea
To Kill a Mockingbird
Huckleberry Finn

Answer 6

Ernest Hemmingway The Old Man and the Sea. It's a book I read easily in one day, one sitting for school because it's very short for a book. I thought it was very easy to read, but pissed me off. Another easy one for me is A Tale of Two Cites by Charles Dickens. Some I WOULD NOT read is Lord of the Rings, it's waaaaay to long. I wouldn't read anything too old because the language is hard to read. Another you SHOULD NOT read is Grapes of Wrath. I wouldn't read it if someone paid me. It was one of hardest books I've ever read.

Answer 7

There will no doubt be a storm before the day ends for Dr. Jekyll has turned into Mr. Hyde.

Susan from Rilla of Ingleside ( now that is a good book worth reading)

Answer 8

The fastest paced novels, in my opinion, are Of Mice and Men, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Lord of the Flies, and all are pretty straightforward stories when you are reading them...but they are still meaty enough literature to pick apart later.

Answer 9

The shortest is probably Dicken's Christmas Carol, and you've no doubt seen a version of it or two, so you KNOW what will happen.

Some of these are very complex, some are simple. Where's this list from?

Answer 10

None.
Books are not writtten to be easy to read.
They're supposed to challenge you, to make you think!

Try "The red badge of courage" stay away from " Lord of the flies"