What books are best for getting teenage girls interested in the classics?

Question: What books are best for getting teenage girls interested in the classics!?
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Start with something funny, like Very Good, Jeeves, by P!.G!. Wodehouse, or The Importance of Being Earnest, by Oscar Wilde!. Then move on to something classic and romantic like Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen or Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte!. After that, I'd suggest reading anything from this list:
The Catcher in the Rye - J!.D!. Salinger
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Cakes and Ale - W!. Somerset Maugham
Breakfast at Tiffany's - Truman Capote

I hope this helps! I'm a teenage girl myself and these are all some of my favorites!. Good luck :)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Im also a teenage girl and really love all of jane Austen's books and i also love Agatha Christie (whether you think her books are "classics" is up to you, but there still amazingly good!. 20, 000 thousand leagues under the sea, the original Jungle Book, heidi, treasure island!. even if u get her started on things like Han Andersens Fairy-Tales and Enid Blyten books, but it really all depends on what shes interested in!.
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By "classics" some people mean Shakespeare, Homer; others mean "Catcher in the Rye" and "To Kill a Mockingbird!."

The main predictor for success in school is love of reading!.

So, "Twilight" and "Harry Potter" are better than nothing, by far!.

If that's what they like to read, add similar, more literary books, like "Chronicles of Narnia," "A Wrinkle in Time," "Bridge to Terabithia;" if they aren't reading at all, "Harry Potter" may be the first books of choice!.

So, in summary: reading is good; if they aren't reading at all, try "HP!." If they're already at that "level," move on with "CN," "BT," "AWIT," etc!.

If your goal is Shakespeare level, there are some good British productions on DVD, from 1930s through 1960s!. (Quality after that is a bit diminished, imo!.) If your goal is "Catcher" or "Mockingbird," that's a small step from "CN," "BT," etc!.

Best way is likely: one "CN" or "BT," then one "CR" or "TKAM," then another "CN," etc!., alternating!.

Some modern works which are nearly "Catcher in the Rye"-type classics: "Hidden Camera," Zoran Zivkovic,
"West with the Night," Beryl Markham,
"The Overachievers," Alexandra Robbins, and
"Expecting Adam," Martha Beck

also worthwhile, imo: "Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians," Brandon Sanderson,
"Testimony of Light," Helen Greaves,
"Autobiography of a Yogi," Yogananda,
"To Live Within," Lizelle Reymond,
"And There Was Light," Jacques Lusseyran,
"Hope's Boy," Andrew Bridges,
"University of Destruction," David Wheaton,
"Freakonomics," S!. Levitt,
"The Master of Lucid Dreams," Dr!. Olga Kharitidi,
"Mindset," Dr!. Carol Dweck,
"The Reincarnation of Edgar Cayce!?", Free and Wilcock,
"Extraordinary Knowing," Dr!. Elizabeth Mayer,
"Emotions," Marilyn C!. Barrick, Ph!.D!.,
"The Neverending Story," Michael Ende,
"For Women Only," Shaunti Feldhahn,
"From Dawn to Decadence," Jacques Barzun,
"Red Cocaine," Dr!. Joseph Douglass,
"Liberal Fascism," Jonah Goldberg, and
"Babies Remember Birth," David Chamberlain, Ph!.D!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I'm a teenage girl, and I love Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte) and all of Jane Austen's books!. I also love the L!.M!. Montgomery books!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Louisa May Alcott and the Bronte sisters are great choices to beginWww@QuestionHome@Com

Pride and pregidousWww@QuestionHome@Com

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte :)Www@QuestionHome@Com