I want to read, any great classic books you recommend?

Question: I want to read, any great classic books you recommend!?

I mean like Charles Dickens or any other author that is considered a classic!. also new authors wouldn't hurt but I prefer more the classics!.
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I hardly know where to start!

If you are happy to start with the classics, start with something fun (but great literature, nevertheless) like "Tom Jones" by Henry Fielding!.
Then you could dip into Charles Dickens - I suggest starting with "Great Expectations" and "A Christmas Carol"!.
If you are going to read any Brontes, there is of course Emily Bronte's masterpiece, "Wuthering Heights", but don't forget Anne Bronte's only novel, "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall"!. Stunning!.
Then you could read something a little more satirical such as William Makepeace Thackeray's "Vanity Fair"!.

In more modern times, there are still great classics to be had:

JRR Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy,
JD Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye"
John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"
Maya Angelou's "I know why the caged bird sings"

are a few that spring to mind!.

But the great thing about reading is discovering great literature for yourself - you will no doubt disagree with my choices and have favourites of your own!. Enjoy!!
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My favourite classic author is Jane Austen!. 'Pride and Prejudice' is her most popular book, and would probably be a good one to start with!.

'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huckleberry Finn' by Mark Twain are great classic novels which I would recommend highly!. Although they are linked by setting and characters, they are very different in tone!. 'Tom Sawyer' is mostly pure fun, whereas 'Huckleberry Finn' has a more serious and adult theme!. If you haven't read either I would recommend reading 'Tom Sawyer' first!.

The Brontes are very popular classical authors!. 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte, and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte are the two most famous and popular of their books, both are good stories!.

Thomas hardy is an author whose books are much admired, though I must admit most of his are too depressing for my own taste!. I like 'Far From the Madding Crowd' very much though!.

Henry james is another good classic author!. 'The Portrait of a Lady' is probably his most famous book, though my personal favourite is 'What Masie Knew' which is a remarkable story about a girl coping with divorced parents and the subsequent complications that this brings into her life!. Although it was written over a hundred years ago, the theme is quite a modern one!.

If you enjoy historical adventures, Alexander Dumas wrote some very exciting period stories, 'The Three musketeers' is probably his most famous book, and is great fun!. 'The Count of Monte Cristo' is another good one, but it is VERY long!.

Jules Verne is another author who wrote exciting adventure stories 'Around the World in 80 Days' is probably his most popular novel, and I think the most fun to read!.

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Try these:
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Frankenstien by Mary Shelley
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- A Tale of Two Cities by C!.D
- Our Mutual Friend by C!.D
- Oliver Twist by C!.D
- Hard Times by C!.D
- Bleak House by C!.D
- David Copperfield by C!.D
- Nicholas Nickleby by C!.D
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Crime and Punishment by F!.D
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Alice's Adventures of Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Love in the Time of Cholera by G!.G!.M
- Autumn of the Patriarch by G!.G!.M
- The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by E!.H
- To Have and Have Not by E!.H
- Farewell to Arms by E!.H
- The Sun also Rises by E!.H
- Treasure Island by Robert L!. Stevenson
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame by V!.H
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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My favourite classic novel is 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte!. It's a fantastic novel, it's dark, tragic and haunting and it's beautifully written!. It's protagonists - Cathy and Heathcliff - have some of the most heartrending and passionate speeches ever written in classical literature!.

I also recommend:
'Dracula' by Bram Stoker
'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde
'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte
'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' by Anne Bronte
'The Scarlet Letter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne
'The Last of the Mohicans' by J!. Fenimore Cooper
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The beautiful and the Damned by F!. Scott Fitzgerald
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Olive Twist by Charles Dickens
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Selected Stories by Alice Munro

New Authors:
Kite Runner and Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Eat, Pray, Love by Elisabeth Gilbert
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

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My favorites are Catch 22, the Catcher in the Rye, Dracula, and the Count of Monte Cristo!. also, if you don't mind post-modernist weirdness, I definately recommend Kurt Vonnegut!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I like;
The 'Tomorrow' series by John Marsden and;
The 'Cherub' series by Robert Muchamore and;
Clive Cussler's books, they're all goodWww@QuestionHome@Com

I suggest:
The Scarlett Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Catch-22 - Joseph HellerWww@QuestionHome@Com

I like:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Robinson Crusoe
The Lord of the Rings
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The Great Gatsby by F!. Scott FitzgeraldWww@QuestionHome@Com

a wrinkle in time-madelene l' engle
the odysee- homer
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White fang- jack london

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Oscar Wilde- the picture of Dorian Grey!.
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Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird!. It's one of those books you have to read at least once before you die!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

Have you read A Separate Peace by John Knowles!? It's one of my favorites!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

"Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns Www@QuestionHome@Com