Your favorite classics

[lawyerlee]

What are your favorites of the classics you have read?

I loved:

Persuasion by Jane Austen

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

and Puddinhead Wilson by Mark Twain.

[kris97]

There are so many ...

This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

Every book written by Jane Austen

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

[camberne]

Wuthering Heights
Gone With The Wind
A Tale Of Two Cities (after skipping the first page)
Great Expectations (takes on a whole different dimension when you know someone just like Mrs. Haversham!!)
A Separate Peace
Lord of the Flies
Fahrenheit 451

I actually bought A Separate Peace and Lord of the Flies for my son to take to Long Island with him to read this summer. (Our summer house doesn't have TV, so he reads a lot.)

[ssstephanie]

Two of my all-time faves:

Catcher in the Rye- JD Salinger

The Fountainhead(is this considered a classic?)-Ayn Rand

[RobynScott]

A Tale of Two Cities - always loved it. (well, once I understood what was going on, *lol*)

[angelpalgt]

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Wow, that's actually kind of a range of books there... :)

[bookworm]

Absolutly Pride and Prejudice...it's on the once a year list.

If The Fountainhead is a classic, I'll say Atlas Shrugged is a favorite, although that became a very different book as I got older. When I first read it (at about 16-17), it was all about the Utopia. As I got older (and significantly more liberal), I still enjoyed it, but with a much more critical eye.

I'll have to reread A Separate Peace. I remember it being very moving, and I'm still a sucker for the coming-of-age novel. Or novella, as the case may be.

[LittleFredPunkinHead]

Definitely Pride and Prejudice
Um, Catcher in the Rye
Grendel
Flowers for Algernon
Fahrenheit 451
Ceremony
and Watership Down

[Rosebud]

I'm not sure how old we're talking, but I see some 29th century lit on these lists, so I'll include that in mine as well.

Just a little shout out for The Sun Also Rises, one of my very favorite books of all time.

Other favs:

The Catcher in the Rye
The Age of Innocence
Heart of Darkness
On the Road
A Tale of Two Cities
A Farewell to Arms

[JillianS]

Pride and Prejudice
and I have to watch the movie (the one with colin firth) about once a month :)

Anne of Green Gables series (and ditto on the movie)

[LeslieandPaul]

Gone With the Wind
Little Women
and I have to agree with JillianS on Anne of Green Gables (the books and the movie)

[AusMarchBride]

Lord of The Rings (I haven't and won't see the movies because I've been reading these since I was 11, and I worry that the movie will destroy how I "see" the characters in the books)

Pride & Prejudice
Little Women

[JillianS]

UGH.

I just got back from the movies.

One of the previews was for the up and coming "Pride and Prejudice" movie coming out, startin kiera Knightly.

I was so disgusted...it just made my skin crawl watching the preview.

The BBC miniseries/movie for P&P is my fave movie ever (the one with colin firth) and you should see this preview...oh they are going to RUIN it...not to mention that their Mr. Darcy is butt ugly..
ugh

and how do they expect to get that into a 2 hour movie?

shudder shudder shudder

ok I'm done.

[AusMarchBride]

UGH.

I just got back from the movies.

One of the previews was for the up and coming "Pride and Prejudice" movie coming out, startin kiera Knightly.

I was so disgusted...it just made my skin crawl watching the preview.

The BBC miniseries/movie for P&P is my fave movie ever (the one with colin firth) and you should see this preview...oh they are going to RUIN it...not to mention that their Mr. Darcy is butt ugly..
ugh

and how do they expect to get that into a 2 hour movie?

shudder shudder shudder

ok I'm done.

I hadn't heard they were even doing this. An ugly Mr Darcy?? That's just wrong on so many levels. Why would they try to do this when the BBC miniseries version was so good.

Thanks for the heads up Jillian.

[Asha]

wuthering heights by emily bronte

anna karenina by leo tolstoy

[chrisinluv]

Everything by the Bronte sisters except their poems.

Everything by Jane Austen. My very favorite might be Persuasion

Vanity Fair William Makpeace Thackeray

Main Street Sinclair Lewis

The Portrait of a Lady and Washington Square by Henry James

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

Old New York, Summer (novellas), The House of Mirth, The Buccaneers, and Age of Innocence Edith Wharton

Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure Thomas Hardy

everything by John Steinbeck but a good one to read if you have never read anything by him yet, would be Cannery Row

the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder

Catcher in the Rye depressed me for weeks.

I know there's more, but I can't think of anything else right now.

[wander_woman]

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
East of Eden by Steinbeck
Catcher in the Rye by Salinger
The Odyssey and The Iliad by Homer
Anne of Green Gables series

[MLA]

No one's said Catch-22 ???? I loved that book -- read it over and over again.

Others:
Sons and Lovers
Huckleberry Finn

[lawyerlee]

No one's said Catch-22 ???? I loved that book -- read it over and over again.
I have to admit that I've never read it! Another good one to add to my list. :)

[wendalah]

My faves:

East of Eden, Steinbeck (sooooooooo goooood. I like it so much better than Grapes of Wrath...I don't know why that one gets all the accolades!)

Catcher In The Rye, Salinger

Of Human Bondage, Maugham

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain

The Yearling, Rawlings

Brave New World, Huxley

A Clockwork Orange, Burgess

[1MegMeg]

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

I *love* this book! It is one of my most favorite books ever. I have read it a zillion times and will probably read it a zillion more. :)

Also:
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Plague - Albert Camus

[LittleStar]

All Quiet on the Western Front

[LittleFredPunkinHead]

A Clockwork Orange, Burgess
Oh, yeah! I totally forgot about "A Clockwork Orange." That's an excellent book.

[craftyT]

My favorites:

The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ethan Frome