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message 1: by Chloe (new)

Chloe Louise | 1 comments I just read of mice and men by John Steinbeck and really enjoyed it! Does anyone else have any classic books that they could recommend?
Thank you
Louis x


message 2: by Patrick (new)

Patrick Brigham | 31 comments Catcher in the Rye - JD Salenger
Herzog - Saul Belov - Humbolt's Drift


message 3: by Bill (new)

Bill | 2770 comments To Kill A Mockingbird, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn


message 4: by C. (new)

C. (cbarata) If you enjoyed John Steinbeck try "The Grapes of Warth" :)


message 5: by C. (new)

C. (cbarata) Wrath*


message 6: by Ian, Former Moderator (new)

Ian (pepecan) | 5057 comments Mod
Looks like pre 20th century Classics will win our poll for September's Genre Challenge category. Keep an eye on that thread when it is opened....prob tomorrow - to see what people are reading.


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message 8: by Robert (new)

Robert (bobhe) | 742 comments Not clear on my screen. OF HUMAN BONDAGE


message 9: by Adriano (new)

Adriano Bulla (adriano_bulla) | 81 comments It depends, there are so many! I find Wuthering Heights though tends to be a very popular classic.


message 10: by Deanne (new)

Deanne | 649 comments So many classics, so many to choose from, some of my favourites include, The return of the native- Thomas Hardy, War and peace- Leo Tolstoy, The master and Margarita- Mikhail Bulgakov, Les Miserables- Victor Hugo, The hound of the Baskerville- Conan-Doyle, Terminal- Emile Zola, The Moonstone- Willie Collins, Daniel Deronda- George Eliot, plus there's Charles Sickens and I have a love of Dostoevsky and Solzhenitsyn.
I've been reading books from the 1001 books you must read before you die list, lots of ideas for classics.


message 11: by Sioned (new)

Sioned Raybould (thisizwar) | 2 comments Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the night, the great Gatsby, the beautiful and damned, this side of paradise, all the sad young men, tales of the jazz age

Anything Dickens :)

Of Mice and men, How green was my valley, border country, The cone gatherers

There's so many I can't even think but those are a few to be getting on with :)


message 12: by [deleted user] (new)

I am rereading Gone with the Wind and loving it. I read it six times as a teen ager and haven't read it since. It's actually pretty clever--and funny.


message 13: by A.L. (new)

A.L. Butcher (alb2012) | 252 comments Count of Monte Christo
Les Miserables
Phantom of the Opera
Dracula
Frankenstein
Wuthering Heights
Tess of the D'Urbevilles
Tender is the Night
Shakespeare
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Hound of the Baskevilles


message 14: by Jim (new)

Jim Vuksic Little Women/Little Men/Short Stories by Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Volumes 1 & 2) Edited by W.G. Clark & Aldis Wright
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Note: listed in alphabetical order by author, not by preference.


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