Most Read This Week In Classics

A classic stands the test of time. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period in which it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work is not a classic.

A classic has a certain universal appeal. Great works of literature touch us to our very core beings--partly because they integrate themes that are understood by readers from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience. Themes of love, hate, death, life, and faith touch upon some of our most basic emotional responses.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Classics"

1984
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
Pride and Prejudice
The Diary of a Young Girl
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
The Little Prince
Fahrenheit 451
The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
Lord of the Flies
The Kite Runner
Romeo and Juliet
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
Little Women (Little Women, #1)
Wuthering Heights
The Outsiders
The Stranger
Brave New World
The Help
Jane Eyre
Dracula
The Bell Jar
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
The Old Man and the Sea
Crime and Punishment
White Nights
Hamlet
Holes (Holes, #1)
The Giving Tree
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Life of Pi
Memoirs of a Geisha
Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
Slaughterhouse-Five
Sense and Sensibility
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Emma
Lolita
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
Persuasion
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Grapes of Wrath
Carmilla
Anna Karenina
The Lord of the Rings
The Yellow Wall-Paper
The Haunting of Hill House
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
해리 포터와 마법사의 돌 1 (Harry Potter #1, part 1 of 2)
East of Eden
The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
The Crucible
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
Les Misérables
The Color Purple
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
A Clockwork Orange
Gone With the Wind
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
The BFG
Notes from Underground
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Treasure Island
Catch-22
Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
Beowulf
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Northanger Abbey
The Time Machine
The Brothers Karamazov
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Witches
Othello
Stoner
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
The Sun Also Rises
The Virgin Suicides
The Plague
Goodnight Moon
Children of Dune (Dune #3)
Where the Red Fern Grows
Madame Bovary
The Holy Bible: King James Version
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)

William Makepeace Thackeray
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
And so it goes...
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

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