âWhy read the classics? A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.â These are a few recommendations, books everyone should read. Donât let yourself be convinced they are good: read and decide for yourself!
(no particular order intended)
Don Quixote -Â Miguel de Cervantes
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
The Karamazov Brothers - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Wuthering Heights - Emily BrontĂŤ
The Waves - Virginia Woolf
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Richard II - William Shakespeare
Little Women - Louisa Alcott
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Anna Karenina - Liev TolstĂłi
Jane Eyre - Charlotte BrontÍ
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Age of Innocence - Edith WhartonÂ
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Lord of The Flies - William Golding
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel GarcĂa MĂĄrquez
War and Peace - Liev TolstĂłi
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
The Metamorphosis - Franz KafkaÂ
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
King Lear - William Shakespeare
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Jean Barois - Roger Martin du Gard
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky