The book you like most discussion

I want to read a good classic - for so long.
I would be my first one, and I want to read something good. Could y'all please suggest some good classics to start with?

also, my friend's been suggesting me Rebecca, shall I give that a try?

I would recommend the following:

Epic of Gilgamesh
Odyssey by Homer
The Great Gatsby
Animal Farm
A Farewell to Arms
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451
The Color Purple
Night by Elie Wiesel
Namesake
Don Quixote
Count of Monte Cristo
The Metamorphosis
The Yellow Wallpaper
Lolita
The Canterbury Tales
Twelfth Night
Wuthering Heights
The Giver
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The Trial
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Atlas Struggled by Ayn Rand
1984
Slaughterhouse-Five

I hope this helps!

Animal Farm, it’s quite short and entertaining to read! Other than that I love The Handmaids Tale, 1984 or Fahrenheit 451🩷

You should check out Animal Farm, 1984, And then there were none.

Little Women
The Bell Jar
And Then There Were None
The Great Gatsby
Crime & Punishment (a bit of a chunky book but I loved it)
The Metamorphosis
Don Quixote
Tender is the Night
The Plague
The Death of King Arthur
To Kill a Mockingbird
Brave New World
The Catcher in the Rye
Catch 22
The Awakening
A Farewell to Arms
Memento Mori
The Haunting of Hill House
Frankenstein
Dracula
The Last of the Mohicans
As I Lay Dying
Cat's Cradle
The Scarlet Letter
A Christmas Carol
Siddhartha

African classics because noone asked:
•man of the people chinua Achebe
•The beautiful ones are not yet born Ayi kwei Armah
•petal of blood Ngūgi wa Thiong'o
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• James Baldwin books

I've been enjoying The Great Gatsby, personally. I'm far from finished, but it's beautifully descriptive... the only problem is a heavy dose of misogyny

Yes you should read Rebecca. It's a great story.

If you want some funny classics that are easy to read try these:

Our Man In Havana by Graham Greene

The Horse's Mouth by Joyce Cary

I think you will love Rebecca, it's an exciting well written novel.
My first classic was The Picture of Dorian Gray and I think it's brilliant

Giovanni’s Room - James Baldwin
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
The Sun Also Rises - Earnest Hemingway

I started reading The Mysteries of Paris by Eugène Sue late last night. It was written as a serial in the 1800s in France and everyone was addicted to it. Everyone would stop what they were doing to hear the latest chapter. It's very easy to read. It is an incredibly fat book. But I do recommend it.

I recommend the following as top 5:

Crime and Punishment
A Tale of Two Cities
The Art of War
The Possessed (The Devils): Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
The Sun Also Rises

The Phantom of the Opera for sure!

I recently fell in love with this Turkish classic "Madonna in a Fur Coat" — It's emotional, poetic, and surprisingly so easy to get into. Honestly didn’t expect it to haunt me the way it did.

those are really helpful.
update : my friend gave me Moby-Dick and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

as for now i might start one of these but i am surely adding aforementioned books in my tbr! guessing I'm quite interested in classics rn.

Anna karenina! I just finished it and it’s amazing, it’s long but so worth it and easy to get into

ʚ manvi°•✮•° wrote: "those are really helpful.
update : my friend gave me Moby-Dick and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

as for now i might start one of these but i am surely adding aforementioned books in my..."

Please...

Read, "The Pictures of Dorian Gray"...first.

If you start with "Moby Dick, The White Whale"...you most likely...will never read another classic. It is long and arduous and mind-punishingly boring/technical midway through. In my humble opinion, if and when you read Moby Dick...read the first 41 chapters, skip the next 69 and finish the last 25. Wish l would have done this...and truth be told...wouldn't feel bad about it in the least.

Have a list on here somewhere on recommended classics, read over 75, not bragging, just explaining and giving merit to my thoughts...there are much preferred choices out there for classic novel beginners.

All the best in your new reading endeavor!

The Bell Jar
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
The Stranger

Tracie wrote: "The Bell Jar
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
The Stranger"

Interesting choices, all have the common thread of mental illness.

All excellent reads.

The Picture of Dorian Gray is brill read.
I'm with Frankenstein by Mary Shelley atm.

Brian wrote: "ʚ manvi°•✮•° wrote: "those are really helpful.
update : my friend gave me Moby-Dick and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

as for now i might start one of these but i am surely adding afore..."

well understandable, plus i figured out today that the Moby Dick edition i borrowed is abridged, it just has 32 chapters. so well, i ain't reading that right now at least.

i am going to read "The Picture of Dorian Gray" first.

also, does anyone know about "Titus Andronicus" and "Cymbeline" by William Shakespeare? i bought them recently, idk anything about them (yk just experimented) and i have a feeling i may regret this decision..
Are they good? understandable?
i heard Titus Andronicus is a gory one and i don't want to read something like that..(at least for now). someone help pls.

Monika wrote: "The Picture of Dorian Gray is brill read.
I'm with Frankenstein by Mary Shelley atm."

Frankenstein was a very pleasant surprise...Shelly knocked it out of the park!

Toquio Express.

😅 That cracks me up. So, the abridged version is only 32 chapters. Funny, when l was writing my original post to you...my mind was screaming...first 15 and last 15 chapters...but thought...maybe l should give it a little bit more credit. Obvious, somebody else thought along the same lines as me...😂

haha happens. yeah it technically starts from chapter 14 of the original one "on the way to nantucket" and ends on "the hand of fate"

Classics are great to go through! I find it especially fun to see where tropes that are really common now got their start.

I'd recommend Jane Eyre; it's an early romantic gothic with one of my favorite love stories, Jane and Rochestor aren't perfect but they really shine around each other. Here's a link to a loving parody of the novel made by a favorite author of mine that might inspire you to read it: https://www.sarahreesbrennan.com/2011...

You also absolutely cannot go wrong with the classic Greek play Medea by Euripides. It is a super short read, and Medea is sympathetic, complex and surprisingly badass especially when you consider the time period this play was written in. There's a channel on youtube that goes through classics and history and they did a pretty cool summary of it if you'd like to check that out first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7WH3...

Hope you enjoy your trip through the classics!

both of these are great classics

https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/...

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I'm pretty hard on authors/books...so your opinions may differ.