The Classics discussion

In order to cut down on the two weeks it usually takes us to decide on a book I've taken a page from the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book Club. They've set up a Master Book List where anyone can suggest a book. Two weeks before the beginning of the month I'll select by random number generation, about four to five books that we can then vote on. That way everyone gets one week to acquire said book before we start discussion.

Okay so from here I'll take book suggestions and combine them into one giant list on here. For months with holidays like October we could do a themed list to vote on or add a few themed books to vote from.

*Important: If you have a book suggestion please include the title and author. I'll be organizing them on here in alphabetical order. Thanks.

Updated June 30/10

1 Little Men - Louisa May Alcott
2 Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
3 Emma - Jane Austen
4 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
5 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
6 Lorna Doone - Richard Blackmoore
7 Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
8 Lady Audley's Secret - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
9 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
10 The Professor - Charlotte Bronte
11 Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
12 Evelina - Fanny Burney
13 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
14 Death Comes for the Arch Bishop - Willa Cather
15 The Canterbury Tales - Geoffery Chaucer
16 The Awakening - Kate Chopin
17 Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
18 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
19 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
20 Hard Times - Charles Dickens
21 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
22 Notes from Underground- Fyodor Dostoevsky
23 Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
24 Middlemarch - George Eliot
25 The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot
26 Silas Marner - George Eliot
27 Absalom, Absalom!-William Faulkner
28 The Hamlet-William Faulkner
29 The Sound and the Fury-William Faulkner
30 Uncle Silas - J.S. Le Fanu
31 The Good Soldier - Ford Madox Ford
32 A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
33 The Magus - John Fowles
34 Cranford - Elizabeth Gaskell
35 Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
36 Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell
37 Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
38 Dead Souls-Nikolai Gogol
39 The End of the Affair - Graham Greene
40 The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
41 The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy
42 Tess of the d'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy
43 The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
44 House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
45 The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
46 A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
47 The Sun also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
48 The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
49 Ulysses - James Joyce
50 Les Liaisons Dangereuses - Pierre Choderlox de Laclos
51 The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux
52 The Golden Notebook-Doris Lessing
53 Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowry
54 Bel Ami - Guy de Maupassant
55 Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained - John Milton
56 Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
57 Utopia - Thomas Moore
58 Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov
59 Pnin - Vladimir Nabokov
60 Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
61 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge - RM Rilke
62 Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
63 Franny and Zooey - J.D. Salinger
64 Merchant of Venice - Shakespeare
65 Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
66 East of Eden - John Steinbeck
67 The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck
68 Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde - R.L. Stevenson
69 War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy
70 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
71 Candide - Voltaire
72 The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
73 The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
74 House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
75 The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
76 The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
77 East Lynn - Ellen Wood
78 The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann D. Wyss

That sounds good to me.

Works for me!

Sounds good.

David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
Death Comes for the Arch Bishop - Willa Cather
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
The Time Machine - H.G. Wells
The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot

Silas Marner - George Eliot
A Room with a View - E.M. Forster
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
The Phantom of the Opera - Gaston Leroux

There are so many listed already that get me all giddy at the prospect of opening up and entering their world I smile just knowing that it will happen. Here are a few more that I have on my list I thought would be good additions for the list :)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The Canterbury Tales by Ceoffery Chaucer
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The Nun by Denis Diderot
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Hi Cathaleen. Thanks for the book suggestions! I didn't include Diderot's "The Nun" as that was our September book. If you missed our discussion on it you can find the topic here. http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

Hello!! I'm a newbie here..
Is there anyway can you include A Separate Peace by John Knowles...
If you'd choosen a book please inform me so I could get it then read it.
Thanks you guys!!!
My warm regads and happy reading.. ^_^

Hi jzhunagev. Welcome to the Classics group!

We're currently reading "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift. You can find the discussion topics here. http://www.goodreads.com/topic/group_...

Any future books that we discuss will be under the month coming up in the topic section.

OK!!
Good I haven't read jonathan swift yet... only watched it..
OK see you there..

Cool! I love the books that you've already mentioned, and I'd like to get my hands on the ones I haven't read yet! Anyway, here are some books that I enjoyed (that aren't on the list yet)

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Hi Erika. Welcome to the group and thanks for the suggestions!

Hi there, I am a newbie too. Most of the books I really want to read or have read and want to disucss are up there already but I would like to add:

Mary Barton - Elizabeth Gaskell
Ruth - Elizabeth Gaskell
Lorna Doone - Blackmoore
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
Villetee - Charlotte Bronte

Thank you for the suggestions Boof. Did you by any chance edit the Master List to add your books?

Hi again. No I didn't - was I supposed to? (sorry for being dumb if I was).

No, but your selections showed up in the list so I assumed you had. No worries. Voting for our March book is up so feel free to head to the poll section.

How about Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee, The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkein... sorry if any of these are repeats I'm new :)

Hey I'm a newbie as well! And I loved A Separate Peace. I thought it was a great depiction of what jealousy can do to friendships. Phineas is a great character.

I'm reading Wuthering Heights right now for the first time and I'm LOVING it! Except I can't decide whether or not I like Heathcliff. Yes, granted he is a masochistic sadist who thrives on others downfalls...BUT! his love for Catherine, because it's so great, seems to cancel that out.

If you like Wuthering Heights then you might enjoy the Olivier movie version.

Hi I'm new here...here are my two cents...

"Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James
"Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained" by John Milton
"Anna Karenina" by Leo Tolstoy

Hi, I'm new to the group. Can I add:
Uncle Silas by J.S. Le Fanu
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol
The Magus by John Fowles
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde by R.L. Stevenson
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Believe it or not, I didn't read any of this in high school.

Best, Melissa

Melissa,

Neither have I.
Too many books, too little time to read them.

Selina

Done! Thanks for the suggestions Melissa.

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Utopia by Thomas More
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders (Wordsworth Classics) by Daniel Defoe
The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann D. Wyss

Hi! I'm new here! But I would love to read Shakespeare. I'm not sure if that qualifies as a "classic" but I am currently reading Romeo and Juliet and I love it! I agree with a lot of the things you have up there, especially some Jane Austen. I would really like to read Pride and Prejustice. I like romance!!

Thanks for the group!!

Hey, sorry if I missed this elsewhere, but have we settled on a book for March yet?

Hi Alex

The poll for March is going up as we speak.

Bouvard and Pecuchet - Gustave Flaubert
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan

Hey, I just joined this group. I'm not sure if you're still taking suggestions, but here are a few classics I've been wanting to read (I hope I'm not repeating any):

Notes from Underground-Dostoevsky
Under the Volcano-Malcolm Lowry
Rebecca-Daphne du Maurier
The Sound and the Fury-William Faulkner
Absalom, Absalom!-William Faulkner
The Hamlet-William Faulkner
Dead Souls-Nikolai Gogol

Hi Kayla

Welcome to the group!

We've actually done du Maurier's "Rebecca" but I've added all your other suggestions to the list. Thanks!

Hello! I'm new to the group and I would like to suggest some classics that I would love to read:

The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge-Rilke
The Golden Notebook-Doris Lessing
Les Liaisons Dangereuses-Pierre Choderlox de Laclos
War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy
Gravity's Rainbow-Thomas Pynchon
Ulysses-James Joyce
The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle-Vladimir Nabokov
Pnin-Vladimir Nabokov

Some cool suggestions, Barbara and Kayla!

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant

What about all the great books by Thomas Hardy. Have all those been read here? I haven't been a member all that long to know.

Tess of the d'Ubervilles
Jude the Obscure
The Return of the Native
The Woodlanders
The Mayor of Casterbridge