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Re: Recommendations of Classic Books
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Gone With The Wind
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Great Expectations - Dickens
~~I did not like a Tale of Two Cities - I felt it was painful
Wuthering Heights - Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Animal Farm - George Orwell
~All Shakespeare
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut --- that is my favorite but all of his are amazing
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Anthem - Ayn Rand
We the Living - Ayn Rand
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
My Theodosia - Anya Seton
- Some of my favorites from my favorites list - some might not consider some to be Classic but I think they either should be or will one day
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But my other favourite Classics are:
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
(I also recommend watching the movie after!)
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Sherlock Holmes short stories and other novels by - Arthur Conan O'Doyle
The Scarlet Pimpernel - Emma Orczy
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
I think everyone else has mentioned most of the other ones I would recommend.
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East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The Glass Bead Game, by Hermann Hesse (and also Steppenwolf)
The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver
Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
Wind, Sand and Stars, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
and of course the Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis and the Lord of the Rings trilogy by JRR Tolkien
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I agree completly - I just love all his books & as you say Moonstone is superb. A much underappreciated author IMHOoywiththepoodlz wrote:One of my classic favorites is the Moonstone by Wilkie Collins. It has that beautiful feel of a 19th century novel in its characterizations and dialogue, but it has a mystery that rivals some of the best thrillers being published today. I didn't expect to be surprised by this book, but definitely did not see some twists coming! A very engaging story and gorgeous prose makes for a classic that everyone should read!
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I agree Pride aand Prejudice is amazing! Its one of the greatest classics ever written.salberson 10 wrote:Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen - amazing
Great Expectations - Dickens
~~I did not like a Tale of Two Cities - I felt it was painful
Wuthering Heights - Bronte
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Animal Farm - George Orwell
~All Shakespeare
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut --- that is my favorite but all of his are amazing
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
The Crucible - Arthur Miller
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Anthem - Ayn Rand
We the Living - Ayn Rand
The Silence of the Lambs - Thomas Harris
My Theodosia - Anya Seton
- Some of my favorites from my favorites list - some might not consider some to be Classic but I think they either should be or will one day