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Question: What are some really good classic novels that I can read!?
I want ones that everybody knows about and that are required reads for school!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
-The Oddessey (I can't spell!.)
-The Illiad
-The Outsiders
-To Kill a Mockingbird
-Anthem by Ayn Rand
-1984 by George Orwell
-Bless Me Ultima
-Tuesdays with Morrie
-Romeo and Juliet
-The Catcher in the Rye
-The Mists of Avalon
-The Once and Future King



Edit:
-Anything by Foyodor Dostoevsky
-Pride and Prejudice
-A Clockwork Orange
-Marie Antionette
-The Great Gastby

& These Are Reccomended for 9-12:

The Bible!. Old Testament and New Testament!.
Bolt, Robert!. A Man for All Seasons!.
Bront?, Charlotte!. Jane Eyre!.
Bront?, Emily!. Wuthering Heights!.
Buck, Pearl!. The Good Earth!.
Camus, Albert!. The Stranger!.
Cather, Willa!. My ántonia!.
Cervantes, Miguel de!. Don Quixote!.
Chaucer, Geoffrey!. The Canterbury Tales!.
Chekhov, Anton!. The Cherry Orchard!.
Collins, Wilkie!. The Moonstone!.
Conrad, Joseph!. Lord Jim!.
Crane, Stephen!. The Red Badge of Courage!.
Dante!. The Divine Comedy!.
Defoe, Daniel!. Moll Flanders!.
Dickens, Charles!. Great Expectations!.
Dickinson, Emily!. Poems!.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor!. Crime and Punishment!.
Dreiser, Theodore!. An American Tragedy!.
Eliot, George!. Silas Marner!.
Eliot, T!.S!. Murder in the Cathedral!.
Ellison, Ralph!. Invisible Man!.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo!. Essays!.
Faulkner, William!. The Sound and the Fury!.
Fielding, Henry!. Tom Jones!.
Fitzgerald, F!. Scott!. The Great Gatsby!.
Flaubert, Gustave!. Madame Bovary!.
Forster, E!.M!. A Passage to India!.
Franklin, Benjamin!. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin!.
Galsworthy, John!. The Forsythe Saga!.
Golding, William!. Lord of the Flies!.
Goldsmith, Oliver!. She Stoops to Conquer!.
Graves, Robert!. I, Claudius!.
Greene, Graham!. The Power and the Glory!.
Hardy, Thomas!. Tess of the D'Urbervilles!.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel!. The Scarlet Letter!.
Hemingway, Ernest!. For Whom the Bell Tolls!.
Henry, O!. Stories ("The Gift of the Magi," "The Ransom of Red Chief," etc!.)!.
Hesse, Hermann!. Steppenwolf!.
Homer!. The Iliad!.
---!. The Odyssey!.
Hughes, Langston!. Poems!.
Hugo, Victor!. Les Misérables!.
Hurston, Zora Neale!. Their Eyes Were Watching God!.
Huxley, Aldous!. Brave New World!.
Ibsen, Henrik!. A Doll's House!.
James, Henry!. The Turn of the Screw!.
Joyce, James!. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man!.
Kafka, Franz!. The Trial!.
Keats, John!. Poems!.
Kennedy, John F!. Profiles in Courage!.
Koestler, Arthur!. Darkness at Noon!.
Lawrence, D!.H!. Sons and Lovers!.
Lawrence, Jerome and Robert E!. Lee!. Inherit the Wind!.
Lee, Harper!. To Kill a Mockingbird!.
Lewis, Sinclair!. Babbitt!.
Llewellyn, Richard!. How Green Was My Valley!.
Mann, Thomas!. The Magic Mountain!.
Marlowe, Christopher!. Dr!. Faustus!.
Maugham, W!. Somerset!. Of Human Bondage!.
McCullers, Carson!. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter!.
Melville, Herman!. Moby-Dick!.
Miller, Arthur!. The Crucible!.
Monsarrat, Nicholas!. The Cruel Sea!.
O’Connor, Flannery!. Wise Blood!.
O'Neill, Eugene!. Long Day's Journey into Night!.
Orwell, George!. 1984!.
---!. A Collection of Essays!.
Pasternak, Boris!. Doctor Zhivago!.
Poe, Edgar Allan!. Short stories!.
Remarque, Erich Maria!. All Quiet on the Western Front!.
Rostand, Edmond!. Cyrano de Bergerac!.
Salinger, J!.D!. The Catcher in the Rye!.
Sandburg, Carl!. Abraham Lincoln!.
Sayers, Dorothy L!. The Nine Tailors!.
Shakespeare, William!. Hamlet!.
---!. King Lear!.
---!. Much Ado About Nothing!.
---!. Sonnets!.
Shaw, George Bernard!. Pygmalion!.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley!. The School for Scandal!.
Shute, Nevil!. A Town Like Alice!.
Sinclair, Upton!. The Jungle!.
Sophocles!. Oedipus Rex!.
Steinbeck, John!. Of Mice and Men!.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher!. Uncle Tom's Cabin!.
Swift, Jonathan!. Gulliver's Travels!.
Thackeray, William Makepeace!. Vanity Fair!.
Thoreau, Henry David!. Walden!.
Tolstoy, Leo!. Anna Karenina!.
Trollope, Anthony!. Barchester Towers!.
Turgenev, Ivan!. Fathers and Sons!.
Twain, Mark!. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn!.
Updike, John!. Rabbit Run!.
Virgil!. The Aeneid!.
Voltaire!. Candide!.
Warren, Robert Penn!. All the King's Men!.
Waugh, Evelyn!. A Handful of Dust!.
Wharton, Edith!. The Age of Innocence!.
White, T!.H!. The Once and Future King!.
Wiesel, Elie!. Night!.
Wilde, Oscar!. The Picture of Dorian Gray!.
Wilder, Thornton!. Our Town!.
Williams, Tennessee!. A Streetcar Named Desire!.
Wolfe, Thomas!. Look Homeward, Angel!.
Woolf, Virginia!. To the Lighthouse!.
Wouk, Herman!. The Caine Mutiny!.
Wright, Richard!. Native Son!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Shakespeare was a playwrite, not a novelist!. That's not to say I don't recommend reading his work; I do, wholeheartedly!.

Read anything by Jack London, JRR Tolkien, Michael Moorecock, Robert Heinlein, O!. Henry, F!. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain -- too many others to list!.

At least you're wanting to read!. Kudos for that!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (long, but really GOOD!)
-also makes for good discussion especially in an AP Literature class!.!.!.(I used this book on my AP test last May)Www@QuestionHome@Com

Jerome K Jerome's 'Three men in a boat', and as luck would have it this is an out-of-copyright novel you can download free from Project Gutenberg!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Anything by Jane Austen, a Bronte Sister (Emily, Charlotte, Anne) Kate Chopin or ShakespeareWww@QuestionHome@Com

Dracula by Bram Stoker
Jane Eyre by Charlotte(!?) Bronte
Shakespeare
Frankenstein by Mary ShelleyWww@QuestionHome@Com

To Kill a Mocking Bird
Of Mice and Men
Animal FarmWww@QuestionHome@Com