Hello, Bookworms, I’m not a huge classics reader, but I do enjoy them from time to time. Perhaps the one thing school was good for was forcing me to read Classics(I probably would have never read them otherwise..I still don’t forgive you for Shakespeare, though…).
Here is a little list of:
- Classics I’ve read
- Classics I NEED to read!
- Classics I probably won’t ever read
- Must-read Classics (tested by yours truly)
Classics I’ve Read
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
- A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
- Othello by William Shakespeare
- The Yellow-Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Beowulf
Classics I need to read!
- East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
- Earthsea by Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
- The Shining by Stephen King
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- The Secret History by
- Dracula by Bram Stocker
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Perfume by Patrick Suskind
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
- Emma by Jane Austen
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Don Quioxote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinback
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- The Odyssey by Homer
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- The Iliad by Homer
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Lover by Marguerite Duras
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
Classics I probably won’t ever read
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand,Leonard Peikoff
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
Must-Read Classics
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde
- And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The Second Sex (have yet to read) by Simone de Beauvoir
- The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan (also need to read this one)
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
And that’s it from me! Of course, this list is subject to change throughout the years, but for now, these are my opinions on some classics! Classics have always been quite intimidating to me, with the difference in language and the “classic” label attached to them. So, along with having lots of coursework to do, it can be hard to make time to read these books, but it’s one of my goals for this year(and probably all the years to come).
Reading On A Star 
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