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Help me out, classic books...?
Ok so I'm a teenage girl that hasn't exactly had the normal high school life and I want to improve my knowledge and vocabulary so I'm trying to read a bunch of classic books that you would normally have to read for school or that are just fun to read. Could any one recommend some books that are classics?
Books I've already read:
Rebecca by Daphne du maurier
The count of Monte cristo
Dracula
Pride and prejudice
The phantom of the opera
7 Answers
- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
my all time favorite is Wuthering Heights :)
some of the books i was assigned to read that i actually ended up enjoying :
Frankenstein
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Great Gatsby
you could also check out Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
are probably covered in every single high school
I've also had to read Odyssey
- 9 years ago
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë 1847
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 1869 (Grade 11 English)
Of Mice and Men (Had to read this for grade 8 English)
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott1868
Anne of Green Gables - LM Montegomery 1939
Animal Farm - George Orwell 1945 (Had to read this for grade 10 English)
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde 1895 (Grade 9 English)
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen 1879 (A play I read for grade 11 English)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 1960
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien 1937 (read for grade 10 English)
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 1850
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 1860
If you want to know more about each book you can look them up at
http://www.goodreads.com/genres
They give a synopsis and there are reviews from hundreds of readers.
- Anonymous9 years ago
What I did was go on spark notes and look through their booklist. I completely abused the site given its intended use :D
Some personal favorites include:
- The Picture of Dorian Grey
- The Scarlet and the Black
- David Copperfield
- Anything by Ernest Hemingway or F. Scott Fitzgerald :D
Source(s): sparknotes ;) - Anonymous9 years ago
This Side of Paradise
Great Expectations
Little Women
Robinson Crusoe
The adventures of Huckleberry Fin
I'm not too sure if it's considered a "classic" or not but 1984. I recommend it to everyone.
- ?Lv 59 years ago
To kill a mocking bird
scarlett letter
uncle tom's cabin
jane eyre
twilight (lollll, jkjk)
dracula
3 muskateers
hamlet
macbeth
sherlock holmes
around the world in 80 days
a midsummer's night dream
<3
- 9 years ago
Madame Bovary <- given what you've already read, this jumped to mind.
Other classic books that are highly worth reading:
Hedda Gabler
Iliad
Odyssey
Aeneid
Canterbury Tales
