What are some of your favourite classic novels?

Question

I've been into the classics lately and I was just wondering which ones people found to be their favourites, I could use some good reccommendations.

Answer 1

Fahrenheit 451-Ray Bradbury

who the heck gave me a thumbs down, I guess some do not understand good lit. when they read.

Answer 2

Oh I have many ...

On the Road- Jack Kerouac
Franny and Zooey- J. D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye- J. D. Salinger
Nine Stories- J. D. Salinger
David Copperfield- Charles Dickens
This Side of Paradise- F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov
A Farewell to Arms- Ernest Hemingway
The Fountainedhead- Any Rand
Player Piano- Kurt Vonnegut
Slaughterhouse Five- Kurt Vonnegut
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
For Whom the Bells Toll- Ernest Hemingway
Seymour, An Introduction- J. D. Salinger
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn- Mark Twain
The Best Short Stories- O. Henry
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gone with the Wind- Margaret Mitchell
Lilttle Women- Louisa May Alcott
Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison
Moby Dick- Herman Melville
Wuthering Heights- Emily Brontë
The Professor- Charolette Bronte
Villette- Charolette Bronte
The Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
The Scarlette Letter- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Answer 3

Lord of the Flies, 1984, Animal Farm, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Last of the Mohicans, The Call of the Wild, Gullivers Travels and don't forget the children's classics, The Secret Garden, Black Beauty, The Arabian Nights, Box of Delights, Beowulf and the Chronicles of Narnia, (all are worth a read but The Silver Chair and The Lion, the Witch and the wardrobe are my favourites!)

Happy reading, although you may need tissues to get through some of them!!

Answer 4

Catch 22- Joseph Heller
Love in the time of Cholera- Marquez
The Grapes of Wrath- Steinbeck
Crime and Punishment- Dostoevsky
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas- Hunter S Thompson
To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee
Anything by Franz Kafka
Anything by Hemingway

Answer 5

Look up the Harvard Classics and their list of titles. Go through the references (most of the works are available as ebooks (free). This will give you a base. Next go the Classics Comic Book series and do the same with their titles not duplicated.

When read you should be another Plato maybe.

Answer 6

To Kill a Mockingbird, Gone with the Wind, Wuthering Heights, The Scarlett Letter

Answer 7

a million. Lord of the Flies by way of William Golding the image of Dorian gray by way of Oscar Wilde large expectancies by way of Charles Dickens Animal Farm by way of George Orwell Alice's adventure's In Wonderland / interior the process the looking Glass And What Alice got here upon There by way of Lewis Carroll 2. My regular author is often changing, merely like my regular books. proper now my regular could would desire to be Neil Gaiman. He writes and tells thoughts so brilliantly. he's so unique and resourceful. 3. i like a sort, yet there some that i'm greater interested in than others. style: myth, incredibly the fairytale variety, is maximum easily my regular. The belongings you frequently see in Gaiman's books and Golding's The Princess Bride. something magical, like Harry Potter, i like. term: undecided if i individually have a call right here. i think I fairly like older settings by means of fact i like historic previous a lot, yet something's high-quality. present day settings are high-quality too. i'm not too keen on futuristic settings actual, nevertheless there are some novels like that that i've got liked, eg The Supernaturalist by way of Eoin Colfer. topic: that's in all risk the toughest for me to respond to. in many circumstances i'm into the common sturdy as against evil element, i think. i individually like books with deeper meaning too, like the totalitarianism in Lord of the Flies and 1984, or issues like the witch looking / Communism interior the Crucible.

Answer 8

Moby Dick, Captains Courageous, Two Years Before the Mast, The Education of Little Tree. These will keep you busy for a while.

Answer 9

Tale of Two Cities
The Scarlet Pimpernel
1984
LOTR trilogy

Answer 10

Now it depends on what you mean by "classic." Classical literature usually refers to ancient Greco-Roman (and some Persian and Chinese) works. If that is what you seek, my favorites would be as follows:
Iliad by Homer
Odyssey by "
Theban Plays (aka The Oedipus Cycle) by Sophocles
The Aeneid by Virgil
Fables by Aesop
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam
The Tao-te Ching by Lao-tzu
And various other works by Herodutus, Thucydides, Hippocrates, Euripides, and Aristotle.

The term "classic" seems to have expanded to include any novel or influential piece of literature. Under that definition I would include:
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises by "
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Ulysses by James Joyce
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by "
Anna Karenina by "
Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Heart of Darkness by Joseh Conrad
Les Miserable by Victor Hugo
Utopia by Sir Thomas Moore
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

...I could carry on like this for quite some time, but I think you have enough to get started.

Cheers
-B♥

***To PinkFloyd, the work by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is titled "Cien Anos de Soledad," which translates to "One Hundred Years of Solitude" - not lonliness.

Answer 11

I'm reading Gone with the Wind right now, and it is amazing. I thought the movie was good, but now that I've started reading the book, it's so much better! It really is "America's Most Beloved Epic Novel." Good luck choosing. There are so many good ones!