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    Classic books you LOVED

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

      Gone with the Wind
      The Count of Monte Cristo
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      I majored in English...I loved them ALLLLLL!!!! :heart:
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      Les Miserables.
      To Kill A Mockingbird.
      Atlas Shrugged.
      Call Of The Wild
      Catch-22
    • Posts: 2,181 Member
      Sense and Sensibility
      The Wizard of Oz
      Gone with the Wind
    • Posts: 30 Member
      I have read and loved most of the books listed, so I'll just add Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons.
    • Posts: 692 Member
      To Kill a Mockingbird
      The Diary of Anne Frank

      am reading A Tree Grow's in Brooklyn right now
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      Pride and Prejudice - I've probably read it a thousand times.
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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:
    • 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!
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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 ♥
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      Starship Troopers -- Robert Heinlein
      Art of War -- Sun Tzu
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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
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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
    • Posts: 1,309 Member
      The Great Gatsby
      The Count of Monte Cristo
      Brave New World
      1984
      Fahrenheit 451
      Anthem
      Animal Farm
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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. :)
    • 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!
    • 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.
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      Does Gone With the Wind count? Love that book!
    • Posts: 372 Member
      Lord of The Flies and Farenheit 451
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      Ethan Frome
      Jane Eyre
      Hamlet -- I always imagined I could play a kick-*kitten* Ophelia.
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      Pride and Prejudice
      Little Women
      Sense and Sensibility
      Lord of The Rings - (Does that count?)
    • Posts: 20 Member
      Jane Eyre
      A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
      Pride and Prejudice
      As I Lay Dying
    • Posts: 278 Member
      To Kill a Mockingbird
      Martian Cronicles
      1984
      Logan's Run
      Something Wicked This Way Comes

      All Steven King's Novels!
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      Treasure Island
      The Great Gatsby
      Around the World in 80 Days
      The Three Musketeers
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      - 1984
      - Animal Farm
      - Pride and Prejudice
    • Posts: 10
      The Great Gatsby
      A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
      Fahrenheit 451
    • Posts: 3,596 Member
      Jane Eyre
      Wuthering Heights
      To Kill a Mockingbird
      Pride and Prejudice
      Great Expectations
      Little Women
    • Posts: 804 Member
      Jane Eyre
      I also loved working through the Beowulf translations.
    • Posts: 855 Member
      The Scarlet Letter (classic, right?)
      Around the World in 80 days
      The Sea Wolf
      A Christmas Carol
      Narnia - the whole series
    • 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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