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Most Read This Week Tagged "Modern Classics"

The Bee Sting
The Promise
Black Butterflies
Septology
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
The Hemingway Stories
Without MAlice
The Essential June Jordan (Penguin Modern Classics)
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-century Women Writers
Forty-Ninth
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season

Modern Classics Books

1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The Handmaid's Tale
The Bell Jar
Fahrenheit 451
Lord of the Flies
Lolita
Of Mice and Men
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Clockwork Orange
The Stranger
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. HeinleinStarship Troopers by Robert A. HeinleinTime Enough for Love by Robert A. HeinleinHave Space Suit—Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
Your Favorite Heinlein Novel
48 books — 311 voters
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John IrvingThe World According to Garp by John IrvingThe Cider House Rules by John IrvingA Widow for One Year by John IrvingThe Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
Best of John Irving
27 books — 345 voters

The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas LlosaConversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas LlosaThe War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas LlosaAunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas LlosaLa ciudad y los perros by Mario Vargas Llosa
All about Vargas Llosa
29 books — 35 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe House of the Spirits by Isabel AllendeLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García MárquezLike Water for Chocolate by Laura EsquivelFicciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Latin American Fiction
866 books — 1,161 voters

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsTatiana and Alexander by Paullina SimonsOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Summer Garden by Paullina SimonsGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
War/Romance novels
517 books — 675 voters
Final Exam by Lou PuglieseThe Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana FranklinA Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis Peters
Best historical-fiction mysteries
367 books — 169 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Modern Classics”

Donna Tartt
“ I prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter. ”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History
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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
“ Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge. ”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams
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