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RECOMMENDATION REQUESTS > Classic recommendations please !!

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message 1: by Maryellen (new)

Maryellen | 1 comments Hi there ! Im trying to read more classic books and lit but im having a hard time deciding what I should read next. If I could please get some recommendations that would be super helpful thank you !!


message 2: by Pony (new)

Pony Xaviors (ponyxaviors) | 622 comments Hello, Maryellen! :)
I'll give you a list of some classics I've enjoyed.

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Haunting of Hill House
Anne of Green Gables
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Outsiders
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Hobbit

Also, I haven't read it yet, but my sister says Pride and Predujice is really good.


message 4: by Julia (new)

Julia Morris | 1 comments This is a list of what may or may not be considered classics. I read these ones in school and I haven’t stopped thinking about them.

Lord of The Flies - William Golding
Enders Game - Orson Scott Card
The Giver - Louis Lowry

An actual classic I enjoyed was:
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Sherlock Holmes - Sir Author Conan Doyle


message 5: by RJ - Slayer of Trolls (last edited May 18, 2024 01:26PM) (new)

RJ - Slayer of Trolls (hawk5391yahoocom) I'll give a thumbs-up to some of the nominations above:
The Haunting of Hill House
The Hobbit
The Call of the Wild
All Quiet on the Western Front
A Christmas Carol

And I'll add a few: (I'll say "Classic" is prior to the end of WWII for the sake of this list)
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Martin Eden by Jack London
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham

and some "Modern Classics" (after end of WWII)
Black Wings Has My Angel by Elliott Chaze
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West and The Road by Cormac McCarthy
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
In a Lonely Place by Dorothy B. Hughes
Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham
Beast In View by Margaret Millar
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
The Big Sky and The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Provinces of Night by William Gay
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson
The Terror by Dan Simmons
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

and some Science-Fiction and Fantasy choices:
Ubik, The Man in the High Castle and A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl and C.M. Kornbluth
Gateway by Frederik Pohl
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky and Boris Strugatsky
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings and A Storm of Swords by George R.R. Martin
Stardust and The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin


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