Recommendations for classics?

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The atrocity that is high school gets over in less than a month. I've made up my mind to read thirteen classics by the end of the year because I need street cred. I mean, a bookworm needs to have a few Catcher In The Rye's in her repertoire right?

I kid, people. I just want a break from YA. It's TOO MUCH ANGST.

I've read the popular pre requisites, David Copperfield, Great a Expectations, Oliver Twist, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice (which Lyra convinced me to read, bless her) and the like.

Currently, my list is this-

Crime and Punishment
Anne of Green Gables
Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22
Of Mice and Men

Add to it? Your niceness is appreciated.

The Young Codger. · Accepted Answer

The Brothers Karamazov
Heart of Darkness.
Tess of the D'Urbervilles.
Moby Dick.
Don.Quixote
One by Zola  maybe Germinal.
100 years of solitude.
Madame Bovary.
Faulkner ---The Snopes Trilogy.
Murakami   maybe The Wind up Bird.
Salman Rushdie.  Midnight's children.
Naipaul. A house for Mr Biswas.
Bulgakov----Master and Margarita.

Illiad, Odessy and Aeneid.

Harry · Answer

From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
anything by Thorne Smith    not a classic, quick and will round out your reading, besides it's funny
anything by P.G. Wodehouse    Wooster & Jeeves  same as above.
Ben Hur by Lew Wallace    who was governor of New Mexico at the time
The Prince of Foxes by Samuel Shellabacher
Atlas Shrugged and/or The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
something by H. G Wells
The Tontine by Thomas B. Costain    a very long two books, but it's not unpleasant.

mikah_smiles · Answer

To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Gatsby
The Count of Monte Cristo 
Frankenstein
1984
Fahrenheit 451
Animal Farm
Watership Down
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Jane Eyre (though watch out for the ANGST!!!! in this book)
Anna Karenina (ditto)
Gone With The Wind (again)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Breakfast at Tiffany's

? · Answer

The War of the Worlds
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird

Also, I suggest you read some short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. They're creepy, but sooo good!! :)

The Postulator · Answer

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo 
Lilith by George MacDonald (haven't read yet but the summary intrigues me like you have no idea)
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes

Rose D · Answer

I tend to like action, adventure and horror, so these fall into one of those categories:

The Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
Sherlock Holmes (pick any of them)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Treasure Island
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
The War of the Worlds
Dracula

Marli · Answer

The Great Gadsby (or any other work by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Ivanhoe (or any other work by Walter Scott)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Little Women
War and Peace or Anna Karenina
Les Miserables
A Tale of Two Cities (or any other work by Charles Dickens)
The Woman in White (by Wilkie Collins)
The Lost World (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.  It's not Sherlock Holmes, but it was Doyle's favourite.)
Any other works by Jane Austen or Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Jane Eyre (by Charlotte Bronte - I think.  I get the sisters mixed up) 
Wuthering Heights (Charlote or Anne or I don't know who, but a Bronte sister)

Dermutoid · Answer

The naked lunch
On the road
The sheltering sky
Miss Lonelyheart
Moira (Julien Greene)
The heart is a lonely hunter
In cold blood (or Capote's short stories, great!)
Short stories by Raymond Carver
A brave new world or point-counter point
1984, Animal farm or Down and Out in Paris and London
Short stories by Charles Bukowski
The loneliness of couples by Dorothy Parker
As I lay dying
The metamorphosis
Short stories by Anton Chejov
The vicar of Wakefield

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