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
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
248 books — 221 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 — 674 voters

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Best of Hemingway
26 books — 168 voters

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupéryThe Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoJonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard BachThe You Beyond You by Ramzi NajjarThe Ultimate Human Secrets - The Hidden Power in our Mysterio... by Ramzi Najjar
Mysticism books
203 books — 216 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
44 books — 210 voters


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

Franz Kafka
İşte bütün bunlar K.’ya kendisiyle bütün bağların koparıldığı, şimdi doğal olarak her zamankinden daha özgür olduğu ve ona başka zaman yasak olan bu yerde istediği kadar bekleyebileceği hissini verdi; sanki özgürlüğünü kimsenin yapamayacağı bir mücadeleyle elde etmişti ve kimse ona dokunamazdı, onu kovamazdı, hatta onunla konuşamazdı bile; ama bu inanç öylesine güçlüydü ki, sanki aynı zamanda bu özgürlükten, bu bekleyişten, bu dokunulmazlıktan daha anlamsız ve çaresiz bir şey yoktu.
Franz Kafka

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