What are some good classics?

Question

I'm 16 ,and i would love to read some classics...can you suggest anything?

It can be any genre ...

thanks XD

Answer 1

You mean like:

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights

those two are some of my favs.

Answer 2

Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton

Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry

The War Of The Worlds by H.G. Wells

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Answer 3

Some great classics are:

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Catcher and the Rye by JD Salinger

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen....and many others by Jane Austen

Enjoy!

Answer 4

The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

Slaughter House 5 by Kurt Vonnegut

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

and anything by Jane Austen.

More will be added as I think of them.

EDIT - Thus Spoke Zarathustra, and Innocents Abroad

Answer 5

Considering that you're 16, I'd recommend Jack Kerouak's "On The Road"

Answer 6

this is a real classics i read it in 1960, tobacco road by erskine caldwell,wheni was in georgia a fue years ago someone show me the road he wrote about,

Answer 7

Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

Answer 8

Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"

Answer 9

The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende

Frida by Hayden Herrera ( excellent biography)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

The Good Earth by Pearl Buck

Answer 10

1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell, he has a very clear style of writing

The Day of the Triffids and The Midwich Cuckoos (made into a film called The Village of the Damned) by John Wyndham

The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

Answer 11

I love Captain Corellis mandolin - the film is nothing like the book!  

Answer 12

last of the mohicans/the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne

any thomas hardy

Answer 13

Hmm, I'm eighteen and when I was sixteen some of my fave "classics" were:

Frenchman's Creek (Daphne Du Maurier) - set in Cornwall, young woman sick of social expectations and her life, falls in love with French pirate who she finds using her holiday home, commandeers a ship and lives a small period of adventure. Absolutely brilliant.

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) - you've probably seen the films, yes, but the book is very subtle and very funny so worth a look. (And it's, personally, the easiest JA to read.)

Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons) - you know Hardy (Tess of D'Ubervilles etc) this is a parody. Young, sensible, fashionable girl from London heads down to civilise and tidy up messy lives of her quite wild, quite mad family in Sussex. Very silly, very funny.

Vile Bodies (Evelyn Waugh) - very disjointed, sort of echoing T.S. Eliot but is again a parody of the social lives of the "bright young things" of 1930's England. It follows an author, Adam, who keeps coming into money and then losing it again, his fiance/ex-fiance/fiance again/ex-fiance Nina, and his other mad socialite friends. They get drunk on lots of champagne, they have parties, they cause scandal.

The film Bright Young Things is based on it. Again very funny and I love it.

Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh again) - much more serious. Charles Rider befriends the eccentric Lord Sebastian Flyte (who carries around a teddy bear named Aloysius) at Oxford University, Sebastian teaches him a slightly more extravagant, wilder side of life. The closer friends they become, the more anxious Sebastian is to keep him away from his seemingly charming family, but Charles can't stay away.

It deals with the destructive powers of religion, drink, love, obession and curiousity.

DON'T be tempted to watch the up and coming film untill you've read the book as they've "edited" it somewhat. Haha, just kidding but it is such a compelling read I can't recommend it enough it's probably one of my favourite books ever.

Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie) - sounds like a kids' book I know but what is missed in all the adaptations is the sinister side of Pan, eternal youth and of Neverland. Reminds you of being young again and of the compelling cruelties of children... as well as playing out your wildest fantasies of never growing up, running away to a magical land and playing pirates forever.

Oh and a book that will be a classic and that I should everyone of our generation should read is Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses if you haven't already. Don't bother with the sequels I personally think they're dire but it's a matter of opinion :)

Have fun reading!  

Answer 14

Try some of these

Classics

Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence

Great Gatsby - Scot Fitzgerald

1984 and Animal Farm - GeorgeOorwell

Mrs Dalloway - Virgina Wolfe

I Claudius - Robert Graves

Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier

Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh

Women in Love - D H Lawrence

Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad

A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man - James Joyce

Goodbye to all That - Robert Graves

Shirley - Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

Brave New World - Aldais Huxley

Anna Karnina - Tolstoy

The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

Lolita - Vladimer Naborkov

Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson

Burning Bright - John Steinbeck

Travels with my Aunt - Graham Greene

The Pearl - John Steinbeck

A Room With a View - E M Forster

Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo

Les Miseriables - Victor Hugo

Lorna Doon - R D Blackmore

Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe

Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh

War and Peace - Tolstoy

Anything by Jane Austin

Answer 15

All of Charles Dickens books, start with Oliver Twist.