Recommend a classic

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I love reading but never read a classic (I don't think) what would you recommend?

Depends on your definition of classic really. If you mean "on the GCSE syllabus":

To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
Great expectations
Pride and prejudice

All good reads

Many people class Rebecca as a classic - that's fabulous

Anna Karenina

Pride and Prejudice. Obviously.

The Woman In White - a complex and immensely satisfying read incorporating romance, mystery and sleuthing told by several narrators. Perfect to lose yourself to for a week in winter.

Vanity Fair - a huge riotous beast of a book with a great cast of characters including the most engaging anti-heroine ever.

Wuthering Heights - one of a kind. It's almost like a dark twisted poem that will draw you into a place you didn't know existed from which you will definitely emerge shaken.

Wonderful thank you. Will have a look on amazon to try and pick some of these cheaply.

Pride and prejudice is my favourite book ever lost count how many times I've read it and I've read a LOT of books.

For the time of year - wuthering heights, a Christmas carol, Oliver Twist, little women, the lion the witch and the wardrobe, Hercules poirots Christmas, the moonstone, the sittaford mystery (another Agatha Christie can you tell I love crime fiction? )

A Christmas carol! If you like the muppet version you'll be shocked at how accurate it is to the book. Or maybe save that one until December....

Oh I have read to.kill a mockingbird at school.

Perhaps not a true classic but "Out of Africa" is beautiful. I've read it several times and am instantly transported by the opening lines.

Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Bleak House

Our Mutual Friend

Another vote for Woman in White

The dark is rising. Was Harry Potter belfry Harry Potter and is seasonal if you start it now

Or else Wuthering Heights or Jayne Eyre...

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Eyre

Rebecca

The Count of Monte Cristo

Daniel Deronda

A Passage to India

And some classics in the making
Austerlitz ~ Sebald
Lanark ~ Gray
Confederacy of Dunces ~ Toole
This Thing of Darkness ~ Thompson

Ok I've ordered wuthering heights and pride and prejudice
Excited! Are they easy to get into as I do give up on books that u don't get into straightaway.

Yes very easy to get into - I'm the same crap attention span! I'm the type to have several books on the go at once.

I second Our Mutual Friend.