Classic books you LOVED

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

    Gone with the Wind
    The Count of Monte Cristo
  • phillieschic
    phillieschic Posts: 615
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    I majored in English...I loved them ALLLLLL!!!! :heart:
  • Sox90716
    Sox90716 Posts: 976 Member
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    Les Miserables.
    To Kill A Mockingbird.
    Atlas Shrugged.
    Call Of The Wild
    Catch-22
  • Im_NotPerfect
    Im_NotPerfect Posts: 2,181 Member
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    Sense and Sensibility
    The Wizard of Oz
    Gone with the Wind
  • occupyme
    occupyme Posts: 30 Member
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    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: 682 Member
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    To Kill a Mockingbird
    The Diary of Anne Frank

    am reading A Tree Grow's in Brooklyn right now
  • ashedw425
    ashedw425 Posts: 17
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    Pride and Prejudice - I've probably read it a thousand times.
  • twinmom14ek
    twinmom14ek Posts: 174 Member
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    Starship Troopers -- Robert Heinlein
    Art of War -- Sun Tzu
  • emnk5308
    emnk5308 Posts: 736
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    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
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    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
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    The Great Gatsby
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    Brave New World
    1984
    Fahrenheit 451
    Anthem
    Animal Farm
  • AddA2UDE
    AddA2UDE Posts: 382
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    Does Gone With the Wind count? Love that book!
  • ohmariposa
    ohmariposa Posts: 372 Member
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    Lord of The Flies and Farenheit 451
  • suemar74
    suemar74 Posts: 447 Member
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    Ethan Frome
    Jane Eyre
    Hamlet -- I always imagined I could play a kick-*kitten* Ophelia.

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