Modern Classics

Classics must resonate with an audience and have continued readership. Modern classics are generally written after WWI. They are also popularly known as "contemporary classics." ...more

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The Bee Sting
Black Butterflies
The Promise
Det tredje ljuset / Små ting som dessa
The Hemingway Stories
Septology
The Essential June Jordan (Penguin Modern Classics)
Forty-Ninth
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-century Women Writers
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
Without MAlice
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
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
Of Mice and Men
Lolita
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Clockwork Orange
The Stranger
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteHow to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby YoungNegative Space by Lilly DancygerJust Kids by Patti Smith
New York Eats Its Young
74 books — 60 voters
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonV. by Thomas PynchonMason & Dixon by Thomas PynchonAgainst the Day by Thomas Pynchon
Ranking the works of Thomas Pynchon
11 books — 262 voters

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
47 books — 310 voters
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryFences by August WilsonDutchman & The Slave by Amiri BarakaPorgy and Bess Fantasy for Two Pianos by George GershwinFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake Shange
African American Plays
43 books — 34 voters



Donna Tartt
I prefer to think of it as redistribution of matter.
Donna Tartt, The Secret History

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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