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

The Bee Sting
Inseparable
The Promise
Black Butterflies
The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
Septology (Septologien, #1-7)
The Hemingway Stories
The Austen Girls
The Essential June Jordan (Penguin Modern Classics)
Poems 1962-2020
Forty-Ninth
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
A Different Sound: Stories by Mid-century Women Writers
P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1: The Jeeves Collection
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
Lolita
Of Mice and Men
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Clockwork Orange
The Stranger
The Dante Club by Matthew PearlThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaPossession by A.S. ByattArthur & George by Julian BarnesThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Authors in Historical Fiction
181 books — 94 voters
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerLight in August by William FaulknerSanctuary by William Faulkner
Best of William Faulkner
85 books — 64 voters

The Feast of the Goat 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 LlosaConversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Best Book by Mario Vargas Llosa
27 books — 50 voters
The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Ultimate Human Secrets by Ramzi NajjarMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklUnlock Your Deliverance by Kathryn KrickThe Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren
Life Transformation Books
3,522 books — 2,186 voters

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
73 books — 59 voters


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

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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