Suggest a classic

[PinotAndPlaydough]

I’m an avid reader, I usually just browse and choose whatever I fancy. I would really like to read some of the classics, I think in the past I’ve been put off because I think they’ll be hard to read or the language might be confusing.
However they are classics for a reason and I want to give it a go, what do you suggest?

Our man in Havana by Graham Greene

Cards of Identity

Cold Comfort Farm

The Nine Tailors

Anything by Elizabeth Gaskell
Wuthering Heights & Jane Eyre of course.
If you think classics are always serious & can’t be really funny read Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome.

A modern classic - The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver actually any of her books!

With Jane Austin - don’t just read P&P as I actually enjoyed her other books more.

Crime and Punishment

Dracula

The Moonstone

Sherlock Holmes

The Woman in White

Three Men in a Boat - this one is my absolute favourite book, it’s so very human. Likewise Three Men on the Bummel which is a touch less florid in its descriptions.

Madame Bovary- Gustav Flaubert

Take no notice of the Hardy haters! I reread at least one Hardy a year and love him just don't start with Jude.

My recommendations:

• Jane Eyre
• The Painted Veil
• The Woodlanders

Well I went against lots of advice and tried Frankenstein. I found it a slow starter but actually really enjoyed it. I’m trying the take of two cities next which looks far more intimidating!

good on you for going with Frankenstein!

Another great one to try at some point might be The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Orlando by Virginia Woolf, beautifully written.