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

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

Sylvia Plath
In the infinitesimal glow of the stars, the trees and flowers were strewing their cool odos. There was no moon.
Sylvia Plath

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