Looking for books: Literature and classics to read?

I am a literature major, and I love them all. I am glad to hear that that is what you want to read and not gossip novels.

Anyway, definitely Jane Eyre, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, any Shakespeare, Ellison's Invisible Man, and Frankenstein (which is a wonderful book, and nothing like the movies).

There are so many more, but those are a good start.

Some of the classics I have enjoyed have been anything by John Steinbeck, Charles Dickens or Mark Twain. You might also try Earnest Hemingway,or the poetry of Emily Dickinson or Robert Frost.One particular book I have recommended to anyone who wants a good book to read is The Little Prince,by Antoine De Saint-Exupery.It's written as a childs book, but it has a huge message for adults. You might also try any of Toni Morrison's books; Beloved and The Bluest Eye are just two I can think of right now. Good luck and good reading!!!

I LOVE the classics so I will tell you some of my favorites and if you want to check them out, your local library will most likely have several copies.

Jane Eyre - Bronte

A Wrinkle in Time - L'Engle (this is the first in a GREAT series!)

All books by Mark Twain of fabulous

The Giver - Lois Lowry

Gathering Blue - Lois Lowry

The Hobbit - Tolkein

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (all her books are great too!)

East of Eden - Steinbeck

Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns

You can also go to the Summer Reading section in Books a Million or Barnes & Noble. They have MANY of the best classics there.

Hope that helps!

Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder (best into philosophy)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights by Charlotte Bronte

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Overcoat, The Nose and Other Short Stories by Nikolai Gogol

1984 and Animal Farm by George Orwell

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Atonement by Ian McEwan

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahaeme

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger

Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

The Scarlet Letter

The Good Earth

To Kill a Mockingbird

Les Miserables

A Tale of Two Cities

The Chosen

Silas Marner

Anything by Jane Austen

I usually don't have time to sit and read long works of literature (I prefer fairly technical non-fiction, related to my field), but I do like listening to unabridged classics on tape. Easy to find at your local library, or download from websites like audible.com. Good for roadtrips, and I can absorb language from 200+ years ago better by hearing a good reader, than reading words on a page. For classics, this is a particularly appropriate way to read--when most classics were written, literacy rates weren't very high, esp. among the working class. It was common for the illiterate to "read" by having books read to them--factories even hired readers, before industrialization made the machinery too loud.

When I do read fiction on the page, it's short stuff--Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, a few others.

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Try:

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Crime and Punishment by Dostoievsky

and last, but not least, a contemporary but already a classic:

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Count of Monte Cristo is a great classic, just make sure you get an abriged version or something because the full length is boring, tedius, and wordy. Also, Animal Farm is very enlightening.

Les Miserables-Victor Hugo

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame-Victor Hugo

Any plays by Moliere