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
The Promise
Black Butterflies
Septology
Det tredje ljuset / Små ting som dessa
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
The Hemingway Stories
The Essential June Jordan (Penguin Modern Classics)
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
Forty-Ninth
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-century Women Writers
Without MAlice
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
An Angel in Los Angeles by A.M. SardarFinal Exam by Lou PuglieseThe Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin
Best historical-fiction mysteries
382 books — 218 voters
The Magus by John FowlesThe Collector by John FowlesThe French Lieutenant’s Woman by John FowlesA Maggot by John FowlesThe Ebony Tower by John Fowles
Top Books of John Fowles
12 books — 35 voters

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer102 Minutes by Jim  DwyerThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFedeThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
9/11 Related
267 books — 239 voters
Nuestra parte de noche by Mariana EnriquezTemporada de huracanes by Fernanda MelchorLa casa de los espíritus by Isabel AllendeDistancia de rescate by Samanta SchweblinCadáver exquisito by Agustina Bazterrica
Novelas en español escritas por mujeres
225 books — 113 voters

East of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckCannery Row by John SteinbeckThe Pearl by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
46 books — 212 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
892 books — 1,196 voters


George Orwell
Bütün düşünce iklimi değişmiş olacak. Aslına bakarsan şu an anladığımız anlamıyla düşünce diye bir şey olmayacak. Ortodoksluk düşünmemek demektir- düşünmeye ihtiyaç duymamaktır. Ortodoksluk bilinçsizliktir.
George Orwell, 1984

Harper Lee
…some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it…
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

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