Classical Literature


The Odyssey
The Iliad
Pride and Prejudice
The Aeneid
Jane Eyre
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1984
Wuthering Heights
Crime and Punishment
The Great Gatsby
Metamorphoses
To Kill a Mockingbird
Romeo and Juliet
Animal Farm
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëJude the Obscure by Thomas HardySilas Marner by George EliotThe Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
Best Underrated/Overlooked Classics
183 books — 93 voters
The Divine Comedy by Dante AlighieriThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail BulgakovThe Three Musketeers by Alexandre DumasLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Complete Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Personal Best Classical Literature
27 books — 2 voters

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeStone Butch Blues by Leslie FeinbergCarmilla by J. Sheridan Le FanuMrs. Dalloway by Virginia WoolfMaurice by E.M. Forster
LGBTQ+ Classics
48 books — 31 voters

The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckJane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyAnna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The best classical books of all time
68 books — 6 voters
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAll Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria RemarqueThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThings Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Thug Notes
42 books — 6 voters

Peter J. Leithart
I do see Christ everywhere and in everything, as the One in Whom all things, including Western literature, consist. Shakespeare's plays are among the "all things" that Paul says are created "for Christ" (col. 1:16-17). If there is offense in taking Paul quite literally and pressing his global affirmation into crannies of the academy that would rather not hear from an apostle, it is an offense for which I cannot apologize. Pressing Paul's point is a straightforward and unavoidable demand of disci ...more
Peter J. Leithart, Heroes of the City of Man: A Christian Guide to Select Ancient Literature

G.K. Chesterton
-"And you that sit by the fire are young, And true love waits for you; But the king and I grow old, grow old, And hate alone is true." - Ballad of the White Horse: Book III. The Harp of Alfred ...more
G. K. Chesterton

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