"Classic" book recommendations!

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<p>Wuthering Heights is superb. The plot and characters are truly captivating, however it is very dark. Also, Jane Eyre is wonderful and easy to read. Right now, I am reading Les Miserables and it is quite good as well although very long!</p>

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<p>Forget Austen or Bronte, read Milton's "Paradise Lost". Or Canterbury Tales.</p>

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<p>Catch-22 is brilliant.</p>

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<p>Why has no one mentioned The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? Even Ernest Hemingway has said that it is the greatest american novel ever written.</p>

<p>People should also read The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men.</p>

<p>And finally, everyone should read some Dickens.</p>

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<p>To Kill a Mockingbird. A Tale of Two Cities. Lord of the Flies. Catcher in the Rye. The Odyssey, Don Quixote, Brave New World. The list goes on and on.</p>

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<p>catcher in the rye= cliche overdone hs book that everyone thinks is so good the first time they read it, but actually is not. JD. Sallinger is garbage.</p>

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<p>The Count of Monte Cristo</p>

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<p>...but don't get the Enriched Classics version!</p>

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<p>1984 is definitely up there.</p>

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<p>Picture of Dorian Gray is amazing.</p>

<p>I'm currently reading Madame Bovary which I really love.
I need to back up Pride & Prejudice though...so good.
Paradise Lost I've heard is really good.
A Room with a View...I had a hard time getting into that one.</p>

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<p>I love To Kill a Mockingbird</p>

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<p>Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is totally spectacular!</p>

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<p>The Red Badge of Courage is superlative as well if you favor Civil War History. Persuasion by Jane Austen is good. I have heard that Catcher in the Rye is over rated. Oedipus Rex is short but interesting. Golly, I like books, especially classics.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the suggestions ! ;)</p>

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<p>To kill a mocking bird
gone with the wind
pride and prejudice</p>

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<p>Conrad's Heart of Darkness</p>

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<p>Hell no to Dickens (unless you are reading Tale of Two Cities)...I tend not to read too much, although some would call me outright crazy for loving A Midsummer Night's Dream (which does nto fit as it is a play). Therefore I would recommend Beowulf.</p>

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catcher in the rye= cliche overdone hs book that everyone thinks is so good the first time they read it, but actually is not.

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<p>I agree, but it would still be considered an American classic.</p>

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<p>Anna Karenina. Or One Hundred Years of Solitude.</p>

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<p>One Hundred Years of Solitude</p>

<p>It's very magical...</p>