
A friend recently asked for some suggestions of classic books to read, so I came up with a selection of some that I enjoyed. I hope that some of these appeal to others! Take a quick look! One can never go wrong with classic literature.
- The Great Gatsby ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Franny and Zooey ~ JD Salinger
- The Importance of Being Earnest ~ Oscar Wilde
- Emma ~ Jane Austen
- Little Women ~ Louisa May Alcott
- The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ Oscar Wilde
- Jane Eyre ~ Charlotte Brontë
- Rebecca ~ Daphne Du Maurier
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ~ Mark Twain
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland ~ Lewis Carroll
- Lolita ~ Vladimir Nabokov
- Gone With The Wind ~ Margaret Mitchell
- The Scarlet Letter ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Of Mice and Men ~ John Steinbeck
- Waiting For Godot ~ Samuel Beckett
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz ~ Mordecai Richler
- Brave New World ~ Aldous Huxley
- The Old Man and The Sea ~ Ernest Hemingway
- A Streetcar Named Desire ~ Tennessee Williams
- The Outsiders ~ SE Hinton
- The Good Earth ~ Pearl S. Buck
- The Crucible ~ Arthur Miller
- Memoirs of a Geisha ~ Arthur Golden
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy ~ Douglas Adams
- The Metamorphosis ~ Frank Kafka
- The Bell Jar ~ Sylvia Plath
- The Woman In White ~ Wilkie Collins
- Vanity Fair ~ William Makepeace
- The Color Purple ~ Alice Walker
- Passing ~ Nella Larsen
- Their Eyes Were Watching God ~ Zora Neale Hurston
- Souls of Black Folks ~ WEB Du Bois
- The Maltese Falcon ~ Dashiell Hammett
- The Sun Also Rises ~ Ernest Hemmingway
- The Princess Bride ~ William Goldman
- Utopia ~ Thomas More
- Pygmalion (aka My Fair Lady) ~ George Bernard Shaw
- The Gift of the Magi ~ O. Henry
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s ~ Truman Capote
- The Cider House Rules ~ John Irving
- Heidi ~ Johanna Spyri
- Pollyanna ~ Eleanor H Porter
- A Room of One’s Own ~ Virginia Woolf
- The Yellow Wallpaper ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The Glass Menagerie ~ Tennessee Williams
- 12 Years A Slave ~ Solomon Northrup
- The World According To Garp ~ John Irving
- The Borrowers ~ Mary Norton