Classic reads

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I have tasked myself with reading at least 1 classic per month. So many classic reads that I have never undertaken.

Am starting with Frankenstein.

What else would you suggest?

Great suggestions on here, some repeats from me here, but...

David Copperfield,
Great Expectations,
The moonstone
Dracula
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Tess of the Durbervilles
Les Miserables
Don Quixote

Also The Call of the Wild and Gulliver's Travels!

I found Anna Karenina very easy to read and l also found out of all of Austen, Pride and Prejudice the easiest to read. I think so much happens with it.

Other classics - Great Expectations, Tess of the Durbevilles.

Loved Gone with the Wind. If it counts as a classic.

Also To Kill a Mockingbird.

Animal Farm This is my all time favourite book. I studied it at school, and the history behind it. I must have read it 3 or 4 times. I love it.

Have you also read 1984 if you love Animal Farm? That was one of my favourites too.

I thinklst of these have been mentioned but my recommendations:
-Jane Eyre (my favourite Brontë, but I also like the lesser known Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë)

• Pride and Prejudice/Persuasion are my favourites by Jane Austen

-The Go-between

• 1984
• The Great Gatsby
• David Copperfield is the most readable Dickens, IMO.

Emma Many moons ago I think I tried to read it. Perhaps worth another shot!

I am currently reading Jungle Book and cannot for the love of all that is sacred get "I wanna be like you-hoo-hoo" out of my head from the Disney film

I think most

1984, A street car named Desire, Animal Farm

I love The Jungle Book! And Just So Stories.
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
1984
All Sherlock Holmes stories
I Capture the Castle
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Lord of the Rings
The Color Purple

The next one I want to read is Mrs Dalloway - I didn’t appreciate Virginia Woolf at uni but fully expect to get on with it much better now!

Me too explodingkitten, I hated everyone in Wuthering Heights with a passion but there are some truly astonishing bits of writing

Jayne Eyre
Wuthering heights
Little women
Pride and prejudice

I hated Steinbeck.

Emma
Brighton Rock
brideshead revisited
Middlemarch

Brideshead Revisited
Manon Lescaut
Jamaica Inn
To Sir With Love
Tale of Two Cities
To A God Unknown - not a well-known Steinbeck epic but has a beauty
Wild Swans - modern classic IMO