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A list of Classics
- Thread starter Fi Skirata
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The Kama Sutra is the top download and might not be appropriate for a 14 year old.
Still, it did help me to remember some of my favorite classics.You've read many of the books I would have suggested. A few other great choices would be:
A Tale of Two Cities
The Prince (also see The Art of War and The Book of the Five Rings)
Gulliver's Travels (also read A Modest Proposal)
Walden Two (possibly a positive version of Brave New World)
The Crucible (it may be a play, but I thought it was great)
Slaughterhouse Five (it might not be a classic yet, but it will be)
Siddharta
A Confederacy of Dunces (definitely not a classic, but it should be one day)
Fi Skirata
New member
Thanks for the suggestions guys, I just finished The Prince and the Pauper (for school) and am halfway through Don Quixote (it is surprisingly long).
Tornado
Fan Fiction Prompt Master
Anything (or better yet everything) by Robert E. Howard.
The greatest story teller to ever spin a yarn.
The father of sword & sorcery but he wrote tales for many genres including westerns, historical, boxing, Oriental, and even Cthullu (he was friends with H.P. Lovecraft).
Amazing writer able to deliver gripping descriptions with few words. He was also a great poet.
The greatest story teller to ever spin a yarn.
The father of sword & sorcery but he wrote tales for many genres including westerns, historical, boxing, Oriental, and even Cthullu (he was friends with H.P. Lovecraft).
Amazing writer able to deliver gripping descriptions with few words. He was also a great poet.
ParaGoomba Slayer
I got "Oh Come on" 'ed
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell.
All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.
All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.
braveheart101
Needs Reassurance
Here are my suggestions:
The Brothers Karamzov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It's long and dense, but ultimately worth it.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Many people recommend 1984 , but I find BNW to be much more applicable to the course of modern society.
The Great Gatsby, by F.Scott Fitzgerald. This is possibly my favorite book-it is beautiful, nostalgic and full of amazing insights into life.
For Whom the Bell Tolls/The Old Man and the Sea/A Farewell to Arms, all by Ernest Hemingway. These are all breathtaking works of literature, and Hemingway's clipped, masculine prose only makes them better.
The Grapes of Wrath/The Red Pony, both by Steinbeck. These are both very sad and poignant books, and are well worth reading.
To the Lighthouse, by Virgina Woolf. This is the most accessible introduction to modernist, stream-of-consciousness literature ever written. Plus, it is very moving.
Dubliners, by James Joyce. This is a collection of 15 hort stories; the final story, The Dead, is magnificent.
These are just a sampling of the books I consider worth reading. There are many more that I could name, but the above is a good starting point.
Have fun!
~Bravey
The Brothers Karamzov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. It's long and dense, but ultimately worth it.
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Many people recommend 1984 , but I find BNW to be much more applicable to the course of modern society.
The Great Gatsby, by F.Scott Fitzgerald. This is possibly my favorite book-it is beautiful, nostalgic and full of amazing insights into life.
For Whom the Bell Tolls/The Old Man and the Sea/A Farewell to Arms, all by Ernest Hemingway. These are all breathtaking works of literature, and Hemingway's clipped, masculine prose only makes them better.
The Grapes of Wrath/The Red Pony, both by Steinbeck. These are both very sad and poignant books, and are well worth reading.
To the Lighthouse, by Virgina Woolf. This is the most accessible introduction to modernist, stream-of-consciousness literature ever written. Plus, it is very moving.
Dubliners, by James Joyce. This is a collection of 15 hort stories; the final story, The Dead, is magnificent.
These are just a sampling of the books I consider worth reading. There are many more that I could name, but the above is a good starting point.
Have fun!
~Bravey
braveheart101
Needs Reassurance
I read both. I liked both, but I consider BNW the best of the two.
~Bravey
ParaGoomba Slayer
I got "Oh Come on" 'ed
I read both. I liked both, but I consider BNW the best of the two.
~Bravey
I didn't care for any of the characters in Brave New World like I did for Winston and Julia.
braveheart101
Needs Reassurance
I read both. I liked both, but I consider BNW the best of the two.
~Bravey
I didn't care for any of the characters in Brave New World like I did for Winston and Julia.
Oh, that's very true. Orwell manages to really let you get attached to the characters, whereas you can only pity or despise the characters in BNW. Still, I prefer it simply because Huxely did such a magnificent job of painting a frighteningly real picture of the future. Until the Soviet Union fell, 1984 held that place, but I really think the future from BNW is the most apposite to modern times.
~Bravey
EternalThanos86
Has A Ticket To Ride
How about:
The Twilight series
The Hunger Games
50 Shades of Grey
and my personal favorite, Justin Bieber: The Unauthorized Biography
The Twilight series
The Hunger Games
50 Shades of Grey
and my personal favorite, Justin Bieber: The Unauthorized Biography
braveheart101
Needs Reassurance
Awesome!A few books I recommend, which I believe have not yet been suggested...
Les Miserable This is quite lengthy, as I've heard it's the longest stand-alone piece of literature ever written [could be wrong though.] It took me a fair amount of time to get read, and parts of it were pretty dry and didn't seem to have a lot to with the storyline itself, but I definitely think it's worth the read.
Chronicles of Narnia (One should not go through life without having read these).
Ivanhoe
The Iliad
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women. This book by a George Macdonald is a curious work, about a man who ends up in fairy land. This was a major inspiration to CS Lewis. So if you enjoy his works (and I recommend all of them) this is a must.
Les Miserable This is quite lengthy, as I've heard it's the longest stand-alone piece of literature ever written [could be wrong though.] It took me a fair amount of time to get read, and parts of it were pretty dry and didn't seem to have a lot to with the storyline itself, but I definitely think it's worth the read.
Chronicles of Narnia (One should not go through life without having read these).
Ivanhoe
The Iliad
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women. This book by a George Macdonald is a curious work, about a man who ends up in fairy land. This was a major inspiration to CS Lewis. So if you enjoy his works (and I recommend all of them) this is a must.
KnobleSavage
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Tarzan of the Apes
Strange_Love
Girl (Super)Power!
My favorite author is Jane Austin. So any of her books make the top list of classics for me. My all time favorite being Pride and Prejudice.
I also enjoy the sequels to the classics. (most recently read Darcy's Temptation) Often they are written by other authors but take up where the story left off. Some of them do not keep with the style but others are great. This also means I enjoyed Jo's Boys and Little Men which were sequels to Little Women. But both Little Men and Jo's Boys were written by Louisa May Alcott the original author of Little Women.
Also A Wrinkle in Time is a great read. I read it when I was in 5th grade. It is a sci-fi book everyone should read.
Robinson Crusoe is also a great one.And of course The Adventures of Huck Fin and Tom Sawyer....Looking at my bookshelf I could go on and on.
I also enjoy the sequels to the classics. (most recently read Darcy's Temptation) Often they are written by other authors but take up where the story left off. Some of them do not keep with the style but others are great. This also means I enjoyed Jo's Boys and Little Men which were sequels to Little Women. But both Little Men and Jo's Boys were written by Louisa May Alcott the original author of Little Women.
Also A Wrinkle in Time is a great read. I read it when I was in 5th grade. It is a sci-fi book everyone should read.
Robinson Crusoe is also a great one.And of course The Adventures of Huck Fin and Tom Sawyer....Looking at my bookshelf I could go on and on.