I have started to read some of the ''true classics'' of literature.If you any ideas..

[FlockOfSeagulls]

of books or novels to read,please feel free to post them here. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[sole seeker]

My favorites:

Animal Farm
1984
Razor's Edge
Robinson Crusoe

 

[lk70]

Catch-22
Slaughterhouse Five
The Sun Also Rises
Catcher in the Rye
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
The Awakening
The Handmaid's Tale



ok I'll stop....

 

[Cosmo_ac]

hmm...

The three musketeers
The man in the Iron Mask
Count of Monty Cristo


hmm.... i'll tell you if i think of more.

 

[RobAce]

A few of mine....
The Old Man and the Sea
The Lord of the Flies
The Great Gatsby

Rob

 

[Shem the Penman]

John Dos Passos's U.S.A. trilogy.

 

[Mz Chaos]

My all time favorite... don't you dare laugh... is Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. It has a very poignant message and meaning between it's covers.
Also:
Watership Down by Richard Adams
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (have a box of kleenex handy)
Tailchaser's Song by Tad Williams

(Every one that Robace mentioned are great reading)

 

[Strider]

Notes From Underground - Dostoyevsky
The Divine Comeday (the bantam classics translation is my personal fav) - Dante
Dubliners and Portrait of the Artist... - Joyce
Darkness at Noon - Koestler

 

[isabeau]

you should narrow what type of true classic literature you mean.. there are so many different types to choose from, i would have a very hard time recommending something.

i would go with english lit myself

anything by charles dickens.. but especially oliver twist and david copperfield (which was rather a biography of charles himself sort of)

portrait of a lady by henry james who also wrote a classic haunting story, the turn of the screw

lady chatterley's lover and other novels by d.h. lawrence

or american authors try mark twain and john steinbeck.. i recommend the grapes of wrath but be warned not a great ending. but tells how those poor migrant workers were treated by our own country during the great depression

isabeau

 

[Goodieluver]

I will say this, stay away from trash like "perks of being a wallflower"

Heart of darkness by joseph conrad
Salems Lot or The long walk by Stephen King
Cant anybody play this game by Jimmy breslin(funny\sad story on the 62 mets)
The natural by malamud
twelfth night by shakespear
and if u have the time and motivation for hard reading, divine comedy by dante aligheri
fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury

 

[lk70]

My all time favorite... don't you dare laugh... is Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach. It has a very poignant message and meaning between it's covers.

No laughter here, ma'am. From Seagull to Stanger to the Ground, I'm a Richard Bach fan too.

 

[Moses25]

Don't forget children's literature from yesteryear. They are a wealth of "classical" satisfaction as well:

Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe (One of my fav's)
Cue for Treason
Watership Down (I believe already mentioned)
Alice in Wonderland
The Wind in the Willows
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn
Call of the Wild
Lost in the Barrens

Other Adult Classics:

To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
The Man who was Thursday (you'll read this one again and again)
Day of the Triffids
Brave New World

Hope this helps.

Cheers. 🙂

 

[chicago]

Crime and Punishment
The Aeneid
A Farewell To Arms
Wuthering Heights
My Antonia
Native Son



Great Gatsby sucked, though.

 

[Mastertank1]

okay

books that I've read more than once because there was so much there;

Stranger In a Strange Land
Dune
Gone With The Wind
The Iliad
The Source
Methuselah's Children
Dracula
And Quiet Flows The Don
Ivanhoe
Roderick Dhu
Mila 18
Exodus (NOT the one in the bible, the novel)

Mastertank1

We who play and dance are thought mad by they who hear no music.

 

[FlockOfSeagulls]

Thanks everyone

Many of the books listed will definately go on my to read list!

 

[Goodieluver]

Many of the books listed will definately go on my to read list!

Heh i hope you have time to read and enjoy these books. Unless yer gonna pull a constanza and either listen to em on tape\rent the movie

 

[lightninbug]

My suggestions:

A Farewell to Arms - Hemmingway
Grapes of Wrath AND Cannary Row - Steinbeck
Moby Dick - Melville
Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
1984 AND Animal Farm - Orwell
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain
Intruder in the Dust - Faulkner
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remaque?
and for practicing diction; The Collected Works of Wm. Shakespeare

Happy Reading
BUG

 

[Aragon]

The authors I suggest are:

Tolkien-the man was a genius
Leon Uris-The man, who was a Marine as I was, can set the psychology and settings perfectly in any of the sories he writes.
Robert Frost-yes a poet, but his poems are ispirational.
Marcus Aurelius for a stoic perspective.
Niezche for a nihilist aspect.

 

[ghost_host_999]

Just a few of my favorites:

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

[slacker2114]

1984 and Animal Farm from George Orwell
Anything from Edgar Allan Poe
Rime of the Ancient Mariner from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Letters from the Earth from Mark Twain (pretty much anything from Twain, really, though this book is incredible)
All the Sherlock Holmes stories from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
MacBeth from William Shakespeare
Call of the Wild from Jack London
Oliver Twist from Charles Dickens