Basically Books! discussion

We're running two themes each month from now on. The themes are picked at random. Classics was number 13 in the list and was the first theme picked.

Please suggest any classics! For classics, if the book is available for free at The Gutenberg Project or for sale at 10€ (13 US dollars) or less on The Book Depository it will be in the running.

Keep in mind that we have already read three classics in group: Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights and Emma.

Over to you!

Love to see Jane Eyre included. Kindle is free at Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jane-Eyre-ebo...

Little Women or Wuthering Heights I have always wanted to read both of these, love Wuthuring Heights film & have owned the book for ages but not got round to reading it

I'll nominate The Woman in White and The Time Machine.

One of my favorite classics: A Christmas Carol

How about the The Scarlet Letter? I've got this in my reading pile at the moment.

Can I ask how you're defining 'classic'? Books over 100 years old or books pre-1945?

Of course, Ellie. Classics tend to be books that were published prior to 1945 and have stood the test of time. Though of course anything less than a hundred years old is probably still under copyright law.

I'm going to suggest Tess of the D'Urbervilles

I'd second A Tale of Two Cities. It's been on my list 'to read' for some time.

Ok, here are some classics from my to-read list, that I think many will agree to read!
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Hard Times
The Convenient Marriage
Animal Farm
1984

I'm excited about Classics MarchApril (oops!)!

I'd like to suggest Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. It was the best book I read in high school and I'd love to read it again.

I would say...man and superman and dante's inferno

Ouf Dante! Give us all a run for our money. :p

We're getting quite a few suggestions for classics. For the poll, I'll number them all in the order they are on here and use a random number generator to get 10 titles.

another suggestion: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

Thank you for your suggestions. We're now closing this topic. The poll will be up at the start of March.