Recommend me a classic novel please?

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I fancy reading a classic novel but stuck for ideas. I've read and enjoyed all the Hardys, Austens, Gaskell and Brontë. I also really enjoyed A Tree Grows in Brooklyn which is a slightly later classic. I've read some Dickens but not sure if his style is what I'm after, and I like reading about women's stories which I'm not sure he specialises in, correct me if I'm wrong.

I really want a book I can get immersed in and feel sad when it ends, if you know what I mean!

Any suggestions?

Have you read I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith?

What about some short stories?
Somerset Maugham
Dorothy Parker
Chekhov
Katherine Mansfield

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar (don't know if you'd feel sad at the end though!)
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude or Love in the time of cholera

Jane Eyre
Lorna Doone

I like Anthony Trollope ‘The way we live now’ and Daphne du Maurier ‘The progress of Julius’ . Quite the city banking / family bubble failure, but so relevant

May I suggest both

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles

For those melancholy feels.

By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Wide Sargasso Sea

And as so may have said Middlemarch

apologies, realise you've read all Hardy

Balzac: Cousine Bette and Eugenie Grandet are my personal faves. But so many of his works are fantastic reads.

Saki's short stories.

A Dance to the Music of Time. Sequence of 12 novels by Anthony Powell.

Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth
The Wings of a Dove - Henry james
The Golden Bowl - Henry James
Simone de Beauvoir - She came to stay, The Mandarins
F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

Not classics but fantastic reads - anything by JG Farrell especially Troubles and The Siege of Krishnapur.

I have been buying a lot from Everyman's Library recently - www.everymanslibrary.co.uk/classics.aspx

Middlemarch?

Also, much later, buy the Cazalet Chronicles are well written...

@Latenightreader - if you don't mind me asking, where did you find the radio plays?

Saki for short stories

Editg Wharton and daphne Du Maurier write so well.

Tolstoy i also love but takes patience. Ivan denisovitch is excellent

Another vote for anne bronte, both novels.

Modern authors that grab me and pull me in are Jonathan Franzen, ann tyler, joyce Carol oates, rose Tremain, iain mckewan, Sarah waters....

Ilyich not denisovitch 😬

Yes, one of my recommendations earlier. The best in my view are:

The Open Window
Tobermory
Sredni Vashtar
Gabriel-Ernest

Contrasting, all masterpieces.

I bought the set in one of the £3 Audible sales (or possibly a deal of the day). If you search for Anthony Trollope on the site they are one of the first results. £30 something full price, so I’m pleased with my bargain!

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy.

Emma Brown by Charlotte Bronte and Clare Boylan. Charlotte B left behind the start of the novel in a short manuscript when she died, and it was used as the basis of this novel by Clare Boylan. I absolutely loved it.