Classic books you LOVED

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  • cdngrl81
    cdngrl81 Posts: 434 Member
    Recently started reading the "Classics" and so far I have loved:

    Gone with the Wind
    The Count of Monte Cristo
  • phillieschic
    phillieschic Posts: 615
    I majored in English...I loved them ALLLLLL!!!! :heart:
  • Sox90716
    Sox90716 Posts: 976 Member
    Les Miserables.
    To Kill A Mockingbird.
    Atlas Shrugged.
    Call Of The Wild
    Catch-22
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
    Sense and Sensibility
    The Wizard of Oz
    Gone with the Wind
  • occupyme
    occupyme Posts: 30 Member
    I have read and loved most of the books listed, so I'll just add Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.
  • rbn_held
    rbn_held Posts: 690 Member
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    The Diary of Anne Frank

    am reading A Tree Grow's in Brooklyn right now
  • ashedw425
    ashedw425 Posts: 17
    Pride and Prejudice - I've probably read it a thousand times.
  • twinmom14ek
    twinmom14ek Posts: 174 Member
    My Favorite is My side of the mountain

    I just bought this and Hatchet for my husband's step-brother. DH and I have been eyeing them ever since they were delivered...we may have to buy another copy. :happy:
  • geonbaeLeilee
    geonbaeLeilee Posts: 606 Member
    Red Badge of Courage (Crane)
    Orlando (Woolf)
    Aeneid (Virgil)
    Faerie Queen (Spenser)
    Canterbury Tales (Chaucer)
    Troilus and Criseyde (Chaucer)
    Edward the Second (Marlowe)
    Dr. Faustus (Marlowe)

    Anything by Christina Rossetti

    Many, many others!
  • _Wits_
    _Wits_ Posts: 1,286 Member
    Dracula
    Frankentstein

    These two stand out the most...

    I took a Gothic Lit class in college and we read sooo many books ♥
  • angusmike
    angusmike Posts: 97
    Starship Troopers -- Robert Heinlein
    Art of War -- Sun Tzu
  • emnk5308
    emnk5308 Posts: 736
    To Kill a Mockingbird <3 Seems to be on everyone's list! =)
    The Secret Garden, will always be a favorite.
    The Outsiders, made me cry a little.. =p
  • YungBuck
    YungBuck Posts: 50
    1984
    F-451
    Fountain Head
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Dante's Inferno
    The Odyssey
    The Stranger
    The Fall
    Moby ****
    and so, so many more
  • LeenaRuns
    LeenaRuns Posts: 1,309 Member
    The Great Gatsby
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Brave New World
    1984
    Fahrenheit 451
    Anthem
    Animal Farm
  • AddA2UDE
    AddA2UDE Posts: 382
    Think & Grow Rich

    I have read quite a few of the ones listed but this one is the only one I re-read once or twice per year. :)
  • cupcakes_
    cupcakes_ Posts: 274 Member
    Not sure if this is a classic, but I loved East of Eden
    Also love:
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Everything Falls Apart
    Shakespeare!
  • katrwal
    katrwal Posts: 336 Member
    Atlas Shrugged
    The Fountainhead
    Night
    Dracula
    Wuthering Heights
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (OK - anything by Mark Twain :happy: )

    will have to check the bookshelves when i get home... that's the start anyway.
  • chicagocubsfan23
    chicagocubsfan23 Posts: 186
    Does Gone With the Wind count? Love that book!
  • ohmariposa
    ohmariposa Posts: 372 Member
    Lord of The Flies and Farenheit 451
  • suemar74
    suemar74 Posts: 447 Member
    Ethan Frome
    Jane Eyre
    Hamlet -- I always imagined I could play a kick-*kitten* Ophelia.
  • emcupp
    emcupp Posts: 43
    Pride and Prejudice
    Little Women
    Sense and Sensibility
    Lord of The Rings - (Does that count?)
  • red1123
    red1123 Posts: 20 Member
    Jane Eyre
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    Pride and Prejudice
    As I Lay Dying
  • jjl0412
    jjl0412 Posts: 278 Member
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Martian Cronicles
    1984
    Logan's Run
    Something Wicked This Way Comes

    All Steven King's Novels!
  • waynekp1981
    waynekp1981 Posts: 6
    Treasure Island
    The Great Gatsby
    Around the World in 80 Days
    The Three Musketeers
  • walshn8
    walshn8 Posts: 4
    - 1984
    - Animal Farm
    - Pride and Prejudice
  • haleylovessoccer
    haleylovessoccer Posts: 10
    The Great Gatsby
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    Fahrenheit 451
  • JesterMFP
    JesterMFP Posts: 3,596 Member
    Jane Eyre
    Wuthering Heights
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Pride and Prejudice
    Great Expectations
    Little Women
  • ChaseAlder
    ChaseAlder Posts: 804 Member
    Jane Eyre
    I also loved working through the Beowulf translations.
  • JenniBaby85
    JenniBaby85 Posts: 855 Member
    The Scarlet Letter (classic, right?)
    Around the World in 80 days
    The Sea Wolf
    A Christmas Carol
    Narnia - the whole series
  • thedreamhazer
    thedreamhazer Posts: 1,156 Member
    Jane Eyre
    The Turn of the Screw
    Fahrenheit 451
    Atlas Shrugged
    Pride and Prejudice
    Persuasion
    The Lord of the Flies
    Night
    The Awakening
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles
    Dracula
    The Great Gatsby
    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    Jude the Obscure
    Passage to India

    ... I'm defining classic somewhat loosely because there are so many non-classic that I'm tempted to add. But I'll stop.

    Edited: I couldn't help myself. I have to add The Faerie Queene.

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