Favorite Old Classics

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Newer bestsellers these days tend to make us forget about the old classics. But not me.

When I was in school until 1999, I remember reading lots of books in middle school as part of English class. Some of those books I've since reread at home. One of those books we read in school is one of my favorites even today.

Currently, my favorite books are "Underground to Canada" by Barbara Smucker and "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor, both of which I highly recommend! When I read them again, I'll post a thread about them in the Absolute Write Book Club forum.
 

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does anyone else want to share their favorite old classics?
 

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Pretty much the standard canon for me, particularly Shakespeare, Austen, Nabokov, Dante, the Greeks and Latins, and Dickens.
 

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I'm not sure if The Bluest Eye is considered a classic (it was published in 1970), but I love that book.

To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men and Catcher in the Rye are also favorites of mine.
 

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i have several that i enjoy going back and reading every year or so: animal farm, huckleberry finn, lord of the flies, the old man and the sea, the stranger...
 

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A Tale of Two Cities, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, and Turn of the Screw immediately come to mind.
 

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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Ethan Frome

And I'll take a cue from escritora and say White Noise as well.
 

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My favorite is Count of Monte Cristo. I couldn't read that enough..

Beat me to it. Monte Cristo is right at the top of my list. Others (pre-1960):

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
Lord Jim and Victory (Conrad)
The Time Machine and The Invisible Man (Wells)
The Trial (Kafka)
The Man Who Laughs (Hugo)
Ethan Frome (Wharton)
The Snopes Trilogy (Faulkner)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway)
Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors (Golding)
We (Zamyatin)
Journey to the End of the Night (Celine)
Mildred Pierce (Cain)
The Ox-Bow Incident (Clark)
The Stranger (Camus)

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... the ones I'd have mentioned have already been listed :rant:

So I'll spout out some YA titles I dig:

Island of the Blue Dophins / Scott O'Dell
Vulpes the Red Fox
& My Side of the Mountain / Jean Craighead George

Hope that suffices.
(They date back 50+ years and defintely would be considered classics.)
 

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Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre
Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Bronte is shamefully neglected)
Woman in White
Moonstone
Armadale
Dracula
Frankenstein
Tess

Lots more.

I'm pretty much a 19th century lit junkie.
 

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Wow, middle school reading. I remember, The Cay, To Kill A Mockingbird, Lolita, The Old Man and the Sea, Red Badge of Courage.
 
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