I just started reading “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen and I was wondering if there are other classics you guys suggest. I went to a bookstore yesterday and bought Wuthering Heights, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Any other classic books you guys recommend?
by mviolet_666
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I always wondered why Great Expectations by Dickens was considered one of the best books ever written. Then I read it and I understood why. That’s my classic novel recommendation for you.
I would also recommend Dracula , metamorphosis, and anything written by Philip K Dick.
All of Austen’s stories are wonderful. It helps to understand that she is commentating on the enforced economic helplessness of the daughters of gentlemen, which she experienced keenly in her lifetime.
Emma is my fave Austen, definitely recommend that one.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a must read classic, as is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
If you’re okay with very long books, The Count of Monte Cristo.
If you’re okay with Japanese classics, Yukikaze.
Candide by Voltaire. Short as an old woman’s dance, but packed with sarcasm.
Jude the obscure and far from the madding crowd by Thomas Hardy.
Try Jane Eyre!
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy
Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Two words: Edith Wharton! I’ve loved everything I’ve read by her, but The Age of Innocence is her masterpiece. I’ve reread it several times. The Custom of the Country is my second favorite by her.
Two more words: Ernest Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises is in my top 5 of all time but start with A Farewell to Arms.
And if you have never read The Awakening by Kate Chopin…I’m jealous of you. My favorite book of all time and probably the novel that had the most influence on the person I became as an adult woman. I first read it in HS and I swear it changed my life.
Dracula is definetly a must 🙂 Wuthering heights – have read two times and it was OK ….
Persuasion by Jane Austen is incredible
A huge classic is Crime and Punishment by F. Dostoiévski, it’s incredible !