BOOKS for my mom???

Question

My mom just started reading again and she likes to read classics that she felt that she missed out on, so that is basically every classic. She just read To Kill a Mocking Bird and Fahrenheit 451 (my suggestion) and loved them both. Any other ideas??? This would be a christmas present.

Answer 1

It isn't a classic - yet. But I highly recommend Water for Elephants. It is such a beautifully written book and I bet your Mom would love it. It would make a wonderful read for a snowy winter day.

As for Classics she missed out on, Dickens is also a wintery kind of read. Oliver Twist, Great Expectations.

----
They're, Their, There - Three Different Words.

Careful or you may wind up in my next novel.

Pax - C

Answer 2

My Antonia by Willa Cather
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies, The Grapes of Wrath...
Actually, a very good resource would be the Modern Library which contains works from everyone from The Buddha to Mark Twain. Their top 100 (http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html) has a lot of the great novels on it.

Answer 3

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradly
The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

Answer 4

i have recently started reading the classics again, all the books i loved and all the books i missed.

most authors have a "complete works". for christmas i have asked for:

The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde
The Complete Works of Charles Dickens

i have the Complete Works Of Ernese Hemingway, ...... Edgar Allen Poe, and Leo Tolstoy Collected Works.

Maybe she would enjoy something like this.

Answer 5

Any of the following should be good

- Wuthering Heights
- The old man and the sea
- Crime and Punishment
- Dr Jekyl and Mr Hyde

Answer 6

I would highly reccomend fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop cafe by fannie flagg ,also redbird christmas by fannie flagg , I am probably about your moms age so these I found fascinating books . good luck and god bless.

Answer 7

Catcher in the Rye.

Answer 8

"Outlander" by Diana Gabaldon

Answer 9

ADVENTURE Classics
1. Burroughs, Edgar Rice - Tarzan of the apes
2. Cervantes, Miguel de - Don Quixote
3. Cooper, James Fenimore - Last of the Mohicans, The
4. Defoe, Daniel - Robinson Crusoe
5. Dumas, Alexandre - Three musketeers, The
6. Haggard, H. Rider - King Solomon's mines
7. Haggard, H. Rider - She
8. Homer - Odyssey
9. Hope, Anthony - Prisoner of Zenda, The
10. Kipling, Rudyard - Kim
11. Mason, A. E. W. - Four feathers, The
12. McCulley, Johnston - Mark of Zorro, The
13. Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
14. Nordhoff, Charles Bernard - Mutiny on the Bounty
15. Orczy, Emmuska Orczy - Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel
16. Sabatini, Rafael - Captain Blood
17. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Black arrow, The
18. Stevenson, Robert Louis - Treasure Island
19. Verne, Jules - Around the world in eighty days
20. Wren, Percival Christopher - Beau Geste
FOR DESCRIPTIONS SEE...
http://novelst4.epnet.com/NovApp/novelist/results.aspx?sid=AB4FE1BC-D2CC-4186-8CCF-7CC3BBFC25E0%40sessionmgr7&control=tr&pid=419108&level=1&title=Classics

FANTASY Classics
1. Adams, Richard - Watership Down
2. Anderson, Poul - Broken sword, The
3. Beagle, Peter S. - Last unicorn, The
4. Chant, Joy - Red moon and black mountain
5. Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett - King of Elfland's daughter, The
6. Eddison, Eric Rucker - Worm ouroboros, The
7. Howard, Robert Ervin - The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian
8. Kurtz, Katherine - Deryni rising
9. Lee, Tanith - Birthgrave, The
10. Moorcock, Michael - Stormbringer
11. Moore, C. L. - Jirel of Joiry
12. Norton, Andre - Witch world
13. Peake, Mervyn Laurence - Titus Groan
14. Swift, Jonathan - Gulliver's travels
15. Tolkien, J. R. R. - Fellowship of the ring, The
16. Tolkien, J. R. R. - Hobbit, The
17. Twain, Mark - A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
18. Vance, Jack - Suldrun's garden
19. White, T. H. - Once and future king, The
20. Wiesel, Elie - Golem, The
FOR DESCRIPTIONS SEE...
http://novelst4.epnet.com/NovApp/novelist/results.aspx?sid=AB4FE1BC-D2CC-4186-8CCF-7CC3BBFC25E0%40sessionmgr7&control=tr&pid=425696&level=1&title=Classics

HISTORICAL FICTION Classics
1. Cooper, James Fenimore - Deerslayer, The
2. Crane, Stephen - Red badge of courage, The
3. Dickens, Charles - Tale of two cities, A
4. Dumas, Alexandre - Three musketeers, The
5. Edmonds, Walter Dumaux - Drums along the Mohawk
6. Fast, Howard - Spartacus
7. Forester, C. S. - Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
8. Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Scarlet letter, The
9. Homer - Odyssey
10. Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton - Last days of Pompeii, The
11. Nordhoff, Charles Bernard - Mutiny on the Bounty
12. Orczy, Emmuska Orczy - Scarlet Pimpernel, The
13. Scott, Walter - Ivanhoe
14. Scott, Walter - Waverley
15. Steinbeck, John - Cup of gold
16. Tolstoy, Leo - War and peace
17. Wallace, Lewis - Ben-Hur
18. Wilder, Thornton - Bridge of San Luis Rey, The
FOR DESCRIPTIONS SEE...
http://novelst4.epnet.com/NovApp/novelist/results.aspx?sid=AB4FE1BC-D2CC-4186-8CCF-7CC3BBFC25E0%40sessionmgr7&control=tr&pid=426787&level=1&title=Classics

HORROR Classics
1. Rod Serling's Night gallery reader
2. Blatty, William Peter - Exorcist, The
3. Bloch, Robert - Psycho
4. Bradbury, Ray - Something wicked this way comes
5. Du Maurier, Daphne - Rebecca
6. Jackson, Shirley - Lottery, The
7. James, Henry - Turn of the screw, The
8. King, Stephen - Shining, The
9. Leroux, Gaston - Phantom of the opera, The
10. Levin, Ira - Rosemary's baby
11. Lovecraft, H. P. - The Call of Cthulhu and other weird stories
12. Matheson, Richard - I am legend
13. Meyrink, Gustav - Golem., The
14. Poe, Edgar Allan - The Collected tales and poems of Edgar Allan Poe
15. Seltzer, David - Omen, The
16. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft - Frankenstein
17. Stevenson, Robert Louis - The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
18. Stoker, Bram - Dracula
19. Strieber, Whitley - Wolfen, The
20. Wells, H. G. - Island of Dr. Moreau, The
21. Wilde, Oscar - Picture of Dorian Gray, The
FOR DESCRIPTIONS SEE...
http://novelst4.epnet.com/NovApp/novelist/results.aspx?sid=AB4FE1BC-D2CC-4186-8CCF-7CC3BBFC25E0%40sessionmgr7&control=tr&pid=418927&level=1&title=Classics

Classic Mysteries
1. Allingham, Margery - Black Dudley murder, The
2. Carr, John Dickson - Dark of the moon
3. Chandler, Raymond - Big sleep, The
4. Chesterton, G. K. - Man who knew too much, The
5. Christie, Agatha - And then there were none
6. Collins, Wilkie - Moonstone, The
7. Dickens, Charles - Mystery of Edwin Drood, The
8. Doyle, Arthur Conan - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The
9. Eco, Umberto - Name of the rose, The
10. Hammett, Dashiell - Maltese falcon, The
11. Highsmith, Patricia - Strangers on a train
12. James, P. D. - Original sin
13. Marsh, Ngaio - Man lay dead, A
14. Milne, A. A. - Red house mystery, The
15. Moyes, Patricia - Down among the dead men
16. Peters, Ellis - Death and the joyful woman
17. Poe, Edgar Allan - Murders in the Rue Morgue, The
18. Rinehart, Mary Roberts - Circular staircase, The
19. Sayers, Dorothy L. - Whose body?
20. Stout, Rex - Too many cooks
21. Woolrich, Cornell - Bride wore black, The
FOR DESCRIPTIONS SEE...
http://novelst4.epnet.com/NovApp/novelist/results.aspx?sid=AB4FE1BC-D2CC-4186-8CCF-7CC3BBFC25E0%40sessionmgr7&control=tr&pid=419437&level=1&title=Classic%20Mysteries

Classic Romances
1. Austen, Jane - Pride and prejudice
2. Bronte, Charlotte - Jane Eyre
3. Bronte, Emily - Wuthering Heights
4. Du Maurier, Daphne - House on the strand, The
5. Du Maurier, Daphne - Jamaica Inn
6. Dumas, Alexandre - Camille
7. Forster, E. M. - Room with a view, A
8. Hardy, Thomas - Under the greenwood tree
9. Hartley, L. P. - Go-between, The
10. Hawthorne, Nathaniel - Blithedale romance, The
11. Hemingway, Ernest - Farewell to arms, A
12. Hudson, W. H. - Green mansions
13. Hull, Edith M. - Sheik, The
14. James, Henry - Portrait of a lady, The
15. Kaye, M. M. - Far pavilions, The
16. Lawrence, D. H. - Lady Chatterley's lover
17. Lewis, Matthew G. - Ambrosio
18. McCullough, Colleen - Ladies of Missalonghi, The
19. McCullough, Colleen - Thorn birds, The
20. Mitchell, Margaret - Gone with the wind
21. Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
22. Wharton, Edith - Summer
FOR DESCRIPTIONS SEE...
http://novelst4.epnet.com/NovApp/novelist/results.aspx?sid=AB4FE1BC-D2CC-4186-8CCF-7CC3BBFC25E0%40sessionmgr7&control=tr&pid=419767&level=1&title=Classic%20Romances

SCIENCE FICTION Classics
1. Adams, Douglas - Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, The
2. Asimov, Isaac - I, robot
3. Boulle, Pierre - Planet of the apes
4. Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451
5. Burgess, Anthony - Clockwork orange, A
6. Burroughs, Edgar Rice - Princess of Mars, A
7. Clarke, Arthur Charles - 2001
8. Dick, Philip K - Do androids dream of electric sheep?
9. Finney, Jack - Invasion of the body snatchers
10. Harrison, Harry - Make room! Make room!
11. Heinlein, Robert A. - Stranger in a strange land
12. Henderson, Zenna - Ingathering
13. Herbert, Frank - Dune
14. Huxley, Aldous - Brave new world
15. Le Guin, Ursula K. - Dispossessed, The
16. Lewis, C. S. - Out of the silent planet
17. Miller, Walter M. - Canticle for Leibowitz, A
18. Niven, Larry - Mote in God's eye, The
19. Orwell, George - Nineteen eighty-four
20. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft - Frankenstein
21. Smith, E. E. - Triplanetary
22. Van Vogt, A. E. - Slan
23. Verne, Jules - Journey to the center of the earth
24. Vinge, Joan D. - Snow queen, The
25. Wells, H. G. - War of the worlds, The
26. Wyndham, John - Day of the triffids, The
FOR DESCRIPTIONS SEE...
http://novelst4.epnet.com/NovApp/novelist/results.aspx?sid=AB4FE1BC-D2CC-4186-8CCF-7CC3BBFC25E0%40sessionmgr7&control=tr&pid=425769&level=1&title=Classics

WESTERN Classics
1. Brand, Max - Destry rides again
2. Cather, Willa - My Antonia
3. Clark, Walter Van Tilburg - Ox-bow incident, The
4. Flynn, T. T. - Rawhide
5. Grey, Zane - Riders of the purple sage
6. Guthrie, A. B., Jr. - Big sky, The
7. Guthrie, A. B., Jr. - Way West, The
8. James, Will - Cow country
9. Johnson, Dorothy M. - Man who shot Liberty Valance ;, The
10. L'Amour, Louis - High lonesome
11. Le May, Alan - Searchers, The
12. Leonard, Elmore - The Complete Western stories of Elmore Leonard.
13. McMurtry, Larry - Lonesome dove
14. Michener, James A. - Texas
15. Portis, Charles - True grit
16. Schaefer, Jack - Shane
17. Short, Luke - Ride the man down
18. Swarthout, Glendon - Shootist, The
19. Traven, B. - Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The
20. Wister, Owen - Virginian, The
FOR DESCRIPTIONS SEE...
http://novelst4.epnet.com/NovApp/novelist/results.aspx?sid=AB4FE1BC-D2CC-4186-8CCF-7CC3BBFC25E0%40sessionmgr7&control=tr&pid=419323&level=1&title=Classics