Classic books????????????

Question

what are some classic must-read books? i wanna touch up on the books that have influnenced people and become classics

Answer 1

-Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

-Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

-The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

-The Princess Bride by William Goldman

-The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

-Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen(anything by her)

-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

-Catcher in the Rye by Salinger

-Of Mice and Men by Steinbeck

-The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

And there are so many others...

Answer 2

Here's a good start fro ALL genres! Enjoy and rock on!!

Series:

Sprawl Trilogy by William Gibson

Riverworld series by Philip Jose Farmer

Lord of the Rings series by J.R.R Tolkien

His Dark Materials trilogy by Philip Pullman

The Chronicles of Narnia (7 books) by C.S. Lewis

The Xenogenesis series by Octavia E. Butler

Non Series:

Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells.

The Cider House Rules by John Irving

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Slaughter House Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The Counte of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Postman by David Brin

Cats Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Lizards Tail by Marc Brandel

Vision Quest by Terry Davis

Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card

Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

Parable of the Sower  by Octavia E. Butler

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. d**k

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Ubik by Philip K. d**k

Answer 3

Pride & Predjudice. WUTHERING HEIGHTS (personal favvv(:). Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Midsummer nights dream. Sense & sensibility. Jane Eyre.

and everything else by shakespears, and jane austen. Etc!(:

Answer 4

I notice when people answer questions about books, they mainly give American and British writers, but there are people from other countries who have written great books, classics.

Here is a site that you can go to that gives the greatest novels in chronological order from all countries and also a special emphasis on Canadian literature.

www.editoreric.com/greatlit/books

Answer 5

moby d**k

the bible

robin hood

the adventures of tom sawyer

anne frank

a christmas carol-charels dickens

emma

the odyssey-homer

the secret garden

treasure island

Answer 6

For sure everything Jane Austen. My favorite is Pride& Prejudice. Then Mark Twain. A tale of two cities. Charles Dickens.

Answer 7

oliver twist

Answer 8

Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Orwell, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Louis Stevenson, Hemmingway, Anne of Green Gables, the Great Gatsby, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, The Catcher in the Rye, Beowulf, Le Morte D'arthur, Moby d**k, Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, Dracula, Robin Hood, 20,000 Leagues under the sea, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Anna Karenina