10 classics that I should read

[Orangebadger]

I try to read the odd classic. For no other reason that there are some I just think I should read. It's usually only 1 or 2 a year, currently reading Wuthering Heights. Plan to read Dracula at some point to as well as re read Pride and Prejudice.

Give me your top 10 classics that you think we all should read.

Thanks @highlandcoo and @JaninaDuszejko - that sounds worth reading. I’m Welsh but interested to see the parallels in the marginalisation of rural life and language/ dialect.

Not forgetting Alan Bissett if we are staying on the Scottish theme 🤪

To Kill A Mockingbird

And Animal Farm actually!

I'd avoid Grapes Of Wrath unless you enjoy a story of a family struggling, hoping and at the end of the long journey is misery.

Don't bother with Romeo & Julie. You already know what happens. If you are already a fan of Shakespeare's wonder, go for Merchant Of Venice instead or Hamlet. Or even AMSND.

1984 is over-rated. People say "oh he predicted the future", "everything he said is happening now".

Well it's 2025 now. So he was out by 39 years.

I haven't read them but I don't imagine the Dickens books to be very entertaining.

There you go. I've saved you days of your life and a less furrowed brow. No need to thank me.