your favorite classic novel.......

[Rozzie]

Now that I have officially done with school (well I think...), I want to get back to a vow I made in a journal when I was 12 that I would read a classic novel every year. Well now that I am approaching 30 (yikes!), I am ashamed to my list, my very short list of literature, I have read.
Maybe there are more important things on my life to do list, but maybe the former libearl arts major in me sneaks up. (Who would have known I would have jumped ship on the arts and become a nurse?)
Well I am about to begin Jane Eyre, always on my list. No more nursing journals! yeah!

My question is, what is your favorite classic? To date I love The Great Gatsby and 1984. Hoping to add to it....looking forward to all of your recommendations!


(from my spelling you see why I changed majors....LOL!)

 

[Tinks]

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

 

[Boo]

Wuthering Heights. Modern day soaps ain't got nothin' on Bronte.

 

[monarchsfan16]

I actually enjoyed Cry, the Beloved Country. It's really well written and a real eyeopener. It held my attention, which most classic novels do not. I don't even know how to describe it, it's just really good.

 

[nemo1987]

My favorite classics that we had to read last year are: A Farewell to Arms, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Prayer for Owen Meany(it is what the movie simon birch was based on), and The House of Mirth.
Right now i am reading I Know This Much is True and i just got done with Into the Wild. It was very intriguing(sp?)
**Sarah**

 

[capthooksmom]

Pride and Prejudice!!
I have to get reacquainted with Mr. Darcy about once a year.

 

[Galahad]

I like Gatsby too. Also Looking Backwards by Bellamy and The Man Who Would by King by Kipling. So many others actually...... Anything but Faulkner....

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

I was going to recommend Jane Eyre lol
Gone with the Wind
The Grapes of Wrath
East of Eden
Rebecca
Roots
Pride and Prejudice

 

[Jolie C]

"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas

 

[leighe]

Pride and Prejudice might be the best love story every written! Anything by Jane Austin is fabulous! Also . . .

Vanity Fair
The Palliser Novels by Anthony Trollope
Gone With the Wind
Ivanhoe

 

[TimeforMe]

I love anything by Willa Cather and/or F. Scott Fitzgerald. I also like John Steinback and Ayn Rand. Happy reading!

 

[grinningghost]

To Kill a Mockingbird and Roots

 

[Rozzie]

Originally posted by Jolie C
"The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas

Almost picked this one up today, family legend is that we (well dh) are related to Dumas. (same last name, and his family came from France around 1700....but after some research he did, we learned Dumas changed his name to hide out...oh well, still would like to read it....) It seems we are asked every week if we are related to him....more fun to say yes!!!!!!!lol....

 

[Jolie C]

Rozzie, after you read some of his work, you'll be happy to claim a relation to him. "The Three Musketeers" is also excellent.

 

[JetMom]

Lots of my favorites are already mentioned -- To Kill A Mockingbird, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca


Some not listed: Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Around the world in Eighty Days, Huckleberry Finn (reading it as an adult is so much different than reading it for high school), 1984, Farenheit 451,

I could go on and on and on......

 

[Octoberbeauty]

Little Women

 

[JetMom]

Originally posted by Octoberbeauty
Little Women

I am currently re-reading Little Women and I didn't think to list it!

 

[luvflorida]

Absolute all-time favorite- To Kill A Mockingbird

Also- Lord of the Flies
Catcher in the Rye

 

[Magix]

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller! I've read it twice and suspect I will read it many more times throughout my life.

 

[Teejay32]

Favorites: Anne of Green Gables or Little Men.

I'm reading Arthur Conan Doyle stuff now.