Classics for Beginners discussion

I will make up my extensive lists gradually. Currently I am reading Indiana by George Sand.

Last week I completed North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Read:

1) The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
3. Emma by Jane Austen
4. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen by
5. Persuasion by Jane Austen
6. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
8. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
9. Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
10. Hard Times by Charles Dickens

That's the first ten!

Hi, just wondering what you thought to 'Uncle Silas', as I am thinking about reading it soon???
Thanks!

It is a relatively unknown classic and I think justifiably so. If you have read a lot of classics and want to try something a little off-beat, then it would be a great read. I can think of many books that are better, but many are worse. There are hints of the supernatural, but there are other ways to interpret the strange happenings. (I don't like to read books with a lot of supernatural happenings.) The heroine is passive and doesn't do enough to help herself. I kept on saying to her, "Get out now!" But she didn't listen!

Thanks for replying that's really helpful; I'm not generally too keen on the supernatural either! Let me know if you would like any opinions on the books that I have read :)

Finished Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy on 4/19/12.
Completed A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens on March 28, 2012.

Have read the following:
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
Light in August by William Faulkner
The Odd Women by George R. Gissing

Nice work there. I see some I have to read.

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell
Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
The Painted Veil by W. Somerset Maugham
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
The Plague by Albert Camus
Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
The Professor's House by Willa Cather
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton