A Short List of Classic Books

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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

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