Please recommend me a classic read?!

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I want a book to read, an old one, a classic!

I read catcher in the rye recently and enjoyed it. I remember reading Of mice and Men in school and enjoying that.

Not too shakespearian but I can only think of bronte, Dracula, don quiotix. Those kind or eras I’m keen on exploring.

Any recommendations? Not fussed on genre, just old classics.

Thanks!
.... PS!... I was shit at English lit in school so this is my way of catching up

Wuthering Heights.

Jude the obscure by Thomas Hardy
Ivan Denisovich by Solzhenitsyn
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

I Capture the castle shot into my mind and I see it is the first recommendation.
'Miss Petigrew lives for a day' is also a lovely classic book.

I came on to say Picture of Dorian Gray and 1984 too.

Also,
Dracula
Turn of the screw
The Crucible (a play)

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Pride and Prejudice is my favourite Austen
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
The Waves or Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Little Women
To Kill a Mockingbird

Happy reading!

Oh and Ivan Denesovich yes!

Ooh, lots of replies and suggestions thanks!!

I’ve read some of the suggestions... turn of the screw, life of pi, secret garden.

Thanks!

Thanks @TemporaryPermanent for the advice on the language. It would surely throw me

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell. Excellent book, and about to read it again .

@Leftiefterson my dh has brave new world stashed in the garage. I’ll dig it out tomorrow. Thanks.

My mum also has Jamaica Inn so I’ll grab that off her!

Thanks

If you've never read them before then I remember being hooked on these on the first read;
Jamaica inn
Rebecca
Frenchmen creek (all du Maurier)
Sense and sensibility (Austen)
1984 (Orwell)
I had a book of Oscar Wilde works that I seem to recall was good it can't remember titles at the moment.

I like the sound of Bleak House, thanks.

I was going to watch the Great Gatsby on Netflix, shall I hold off and read it instead?

Ooh yes North and South!

I think dh has 1984 somewhere too. He definately has a big red Orwell book somewhere!

Rebecca sounds popular too

Jane Eyre

Wuthering Heights? Takes a while to get going, but it's great. Even if Heathcliff is a questionable role model.
Emma? Very funny and beautifully re-done in the Clueless film.
Lady Chatterley's Lover? Actually a great read with sexy bits, though nothing by today's standards!
The Go Between? So lovely
On the Road? I actually didn't enjoy it but it's very quick and always useful to bandy about in a knowledgeable way!!

Jane Eyre. Bored by it as a child... re read it as an adult and it's actually really amazing...

I agree with PP about Rebecca, that is always worth a read. That's written a bit later than what you seem to be asking for though, I think it's from the late 40s

If you like scary classics then I reccomend 'we have always lived in the castle' by Shirley Jackson. Written a bit later too, maybe 50s?

Uncle Silas is worth a read. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Both from the era you are asking for.
I also love The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton which is written a tiny bit later but I think it's still an 'old classic'

If I had to pick one it would be Jane Eyre. I’ve read it about 3 times.

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

All of the above plus gone with the wind.

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh. Actually just about anything by Waugh.

I don't think we've had Cranford, which is lovely. I'd leave it to the right time of year, but A Christmas Carol is also a great classic.

In the run up to Christmas I’d recommend A Christmas Carol. It’s short, funny and heartwarming and you’ll be amazed at how faithful the Muppet adaptation is!

Dickens was a shit to his poor wife though

Ooh jinx @cwg1! Didn’t realise you’d literally just said that too