I am currently in a reading mood where I’m really enjoying classic books. Such as I’ve read A Clockwork Orange recently and am now currently reading To Kill A Mockingbird and have got A Study In Scarlet to read. What other classic books should I read? I want a list so I know what to look out for at the library and bookshops ☺️ TIA 😊
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Candide by Voltaire
Are you looking to have read the most influential books and essentially be “well read”? Or the most enjoyable classics?
For most influential I’d say to [just use a list like this one](https://thegreatestbooks.org/)
For some personal favorites:
East of Eden
100 Years of Solitude
Flowers for Algernon
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Mother Night
All Quiet on the Western Front
Lonesome Dove (unsure if this counts as a classic but it won a Pulitzer)
1984.
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Huckleberry Finn, The Iliad and the Odyssey, everything Dostoevsky, Moby Dick.
Dracula
Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers
The picture of Dorian Gray
‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde is a book I suggest for its exploration of morality and the pursuit of pleasure. Wilde’s only novel is a brilliant blend of gothic horror and Victorian decadence, with a sharp commentary on society’s superficiality.
– One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
– East of Eden by John Steinbeck
– Beloved by Toni Morrison
– The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
– The Color Purple by Alice Walker
All 20th century but all classics and must reads.
Anything by HG Wells.
Les Miserables is a bit extra but I’d call it a must read.
*The Grapes of Wrath* – easily one of the best books I’ve ever read. I’ve heard *East of Eden* is also excellent, but haven’t read that one yet.
Pride and Prejudice
Emma
Persuasion
Rebecca
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Great Gatsby
1984
Animal Farm
Of Mice & Men
The Color Purple
Beloved
Invisible Man
Some are more contemporary classics as opposed to Classics but all are brilliant