Got a Kindle -- School me on what I should read

My favorite classic is the "The Scarlett Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Modern: "Unbreakable". Memoir about a man who was a Japanese prisoner.. really riveting and heart wrenching.

I can't find 'Unbreakable' remember the author?

I agree with you on Twilight and 50 shades, but I have to disagree, The Harry Potter series are one of the best things ever written. I read a lot and if you get a chance give the Harry Potter's a chance. But really I like Slaughterhouse Five, and Lord of the Flies was really good. I read a ton of Stephen King and I am about half way through The Stand it has been great so far. A Clockwork Orange was great.

Basically a lot of the classics are free because they're out of copyright.

Classics I liked that were free on amazon:
The mysterious island by jukes Verne (I think val Kilmer was in a movie version of it but please don't hold that against the book)
Moby **** by Herman Melville
Madame Bovary by gustave Flaubert
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (coming out as a movie soon so good time to read it)
Grimms Fairy Tales by the bothers Grimm was actually awesome, and very different from the versions I knew about
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Also a classic, but maybe not free is the Gormenghast Trilogy By Mervyn Peake, victorian gothic novel at its best.

And I agree, Game of Thrones might not be a classic yet but it will be!

Hope this helps!
Bec

Don't forget to check out the 40,000 free e-books at
http://www.gutenberg.org/
classics that are out of copyright, on the Canadian one I found sequels to some "traditional" fairy tales,
de la Mare, Walter
**** and the Beanstalk, same problem as Moby **** gets censored but...
many others depending on what you're looking for..
made for a good read and an untold story, to me at least, there's a few of them just get what you want.


http://gutenberg.ca/

And LOL at the last post prior to mine mentioning it as I was typing mine.

GAME OF THRONES! It's pretty freaking fantastic. Each book is an epic 800-1000 pages.

Oh and "Let's Pretend This Never Happened" by Jenni Lawson. Her blog is gut-busting hilarious so her book should be quite the romp.

The Great Gatsby is on my list... Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter started out really good and kind of flopped at the end for me, personally.

Don't forget to check out the 40,000 free e-books at
http://www.gutenberg.org/
classics that are out of copyright, on the Canadian one I found sequels to some "traditional" fairy tales,
de la Mare, Walter
**** and the Beanstalk, same problem as Moby **** gets censored but...
many others depending on what you're looking for..
made for a good read and an untold story, to me at least, there's a few of them just get what you want.


http://gutenberg.ca/

And LOL at the last post prior to mine mentioning it as I was typing mine.

And I've just discovered that you can download Gutenberg books in Kindle format (maybe everyone else knows that, but it was new to me!). I have the Kindle app on my iPhone and iPad and have read all kinds of good stuff.
But not Anna Karenina, I couldn't get past the first few chapters, it was just so tedious!

And have a look at ereaderlove.com - stacks of free e-books there.

Personally, i say read everything you can get your hands on. With the Nook there was some free books to download, see if the Kindle has it too.

To Kill A Mockingbird...one of my favorite books.

Oh & the collected works of Edgar Allen Poe...

"Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov, despite the taboo subject, is a really good, well-written book that is actually mentally stimulating. The man is a poet with the English language even though it was his second or third language learned.
If creepiness ain't your thing, try "Pale Fire" by the same author.
Nabokov is one of my favorite authors, despite falling out of my science fiction and real science bubble.

It's about a man having a sexual affair with his 12 year old stepdaughter. Definitely creepy and taboo.

On my Kindle I have all of Edgar Allan Poe's works, the entire Sherlock Holmes collection, and all of H.P. Lovecraft's works. Also, I'm into history, so I'm currently reading General William T. Sherman's memoirs, it's a good read and lends a very interesting perspective on history (I'm currently reading about his exploits in California during the gold rush.)

There's tons of free stuff to find, just wander the Kindle Store. I just downloaded a free textbook on Latin grammar.

The Jungle--can't remember the author

Upton Sinclair

Little Women
Tom Sawyer
Scarlet Letter
Alices adventure in wonderland.

All free, just google best free kindle books and amazon gives a huge list of them

The Game of Thrones books by George RR Martin are REALLY good. the Way of Shadows by Brent Weeks is very good too. Call of the Wild by Jack London is good too Life of Pii by Yann Martell is also so good :flowerforyou:

Happy reading!!!