OK - I want new things to read. Please can you list two books- one classic, one modern- you think everyone shoulf read.

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I'll start. Pride and Prejudice and The Kite Runner, by Khalid Hosseini.

Marge Piercy's Braided Lives also very, very good indeed (her subsequent books aren't, are they)

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this morning I have been reading
WAtchmen (modern graphic novel)
and
Wish for a pony, monica edwards (classic)

hows that for eclectic

Grapes of Wrath

His Dark Materials

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse n.5. Is it a classic or modern?

Which reminds me that Chaim Potok Davita's harp is fab.

Classic: any PG Wodehouse.

Wuthering Heights and A Thousand Suns by Khalid Hosseini.

classic:

The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

modern:

"The History Of Love", by Nicole Krauss -
(because i have just read it and it was wonderful.)

modern: Engleby by Sebastian Faulks

classic: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Decline & Fall by Evelyn Waugh because it's so bloody funnt.

Or The Picture of Dorian Gray, if only for the description of the garden at the start. The whole story is brilliant.

And modern - I loved Making History by Stephen Fry. Very clever.

Madame Bovary
The Line of Beauty

I did not like Kite Runner, but Loved 1000 Suns, give it ago

ooh good choices myeye!

would love to have the time/energy/commitment to read the Dance To The Music of Time series by Anthony Powell

Dr Faustus (does that count?) and Closely Observed Trains. And The Picture of Dorian Gray.

to kill a mockingbird
women on the edge of time (delighted that this has already got a mention)

Talking of Robert Graves. Anyone read (and become temporarily obsessed with) The White Goddess? Fascinating book.Read it at college many years ago. But it seems noew that much of it was actually written by his girlfriend

1984 (changed my view of the world)

The Blind Assassin (Perfection...IMHO!)

candide
atonement
though alot easier to think of many classics not so for contempory

Was going to say The Kite Runner as well.

OK then, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, and Jane Eyre.

Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

Awesome (in the real sense of the word)....

Les Miserables -Victor Hugo
The House of Spirits- Isabel Allende

Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving

Pride and Prejudice and To Kill a Mockingbird (unless that counts as a classic too).

The first one that popped into my head was A Town Like Alice but arguably it could be classic and modern?
Whatever it is, I always loved it.