Classics






Most people don't read classic books anymore. The timeless love story of Jane Eyre to the stupidity of extreme teenage angst of Romeo and Juliet to the future syfyness of The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm. This is where all the books, movies, and TV shows you read  and watch now come from; without these books the authors might not have been inspired to write their own books themselves one day. Also, these books include great lessons for life. So I'm going to bring back the love for classic books by including my running tab of classics I've read (this is only a estimate as I clearly have not remembered every classic book I have ever read). Maybe you should read them too; you never know you may like it.
~Chanté


  1. Jane Eyre- Charolette Bronte
  2. War and the Worlds- H.G Wells
  3. The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
  4. The Color Purple- Alice Walker
  5. The Giver (series)- Lois Lowry
  6. The Ear, the Eye and the Arm- Nancy Farmer
  7. Diary of Anne Frank- Anne Frank
  8. To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
  9. Jurassic Park- Micheal Crichton
  10. Animal Farm- George Orwell
  11. Macbeth- Shakespeare
  12. Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
  13. Dogsong- Gary Paulsen
  14. Hatchet (series)- Gary Paulsen
  15. Chronicles of Narnia (series)- C.S. Lewis
  16. The Secret Garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett
  17. Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston
  18. Around the World in 80 days- Jules Verne 
  19. Black Beauty-Anna Sewell
  20. HeidiJohanna Spyri
  21. Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson
  22. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz- L. Frank Baum
  23. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi- Rudyard Kipling 
  24.  Toomai of the Elephants- Rudyard Kipling 
  25. Pygmalion- George Bernard Shaw
  26. Anne of Green Gables- Lucy Maud Montgomery
  27. Before Anne of Green Gables- Lucy Maud Montgomery
  28. The Velveteen Rabbit- Margery Williams
  29. The Little Red Hen-  (folk story)
  30. The Wild Swans- Hans Christian Andersen
  31. Peter Pan-  J. M. Barrie
  32. The RavenEdgar Allan Poe
  33. The CayTheodore Taylor
  34. Hound of BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle
  35. The Odyssey- Homer
  36. Les Miserables-Victor Hugo
  37. Twelve Years A Slave-Solomon Northup
  38. Romeo and Juliet- William Shakespeare
  39. The Borrower Series- Mary Norton
  40. Antigone- Sophocles
  41. Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
  42. Othello- William Shakespeare
  43. In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
  44. The Crucible- Arthur Miller
  45. The Man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales- Oliver Sacks
  46. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- Washington Irving
  47. Burning of our House- Anne Bradstreet
  48. The Author to Her Book- Anne Bradstreet
  49. The Minister's Black Veil- Nathaniel Hawthorne
  50. Fall of the House of Usher- Edgar Allen Poe
  51. The Devil and Tom Walker- Washington Irving
  52. Nature- Emerson
  53. Self-Reliance -Emerson
  54. Concord Hymn- Emerson
  55. Snow Storm- Emerson
  56. Civil Disobedience- Thoreau
  57. A Streetcar named Desire- Tennesse Williams
  58. A Merchant of Venice- William Shakespeare
  59. The Mayor of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy
  60. Anna Karenina- Leo Tosltoy
  61. The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus- Christopher Marlowe
P.S. This list will continue to be updated.
P.P.S. Please excuse me if my meaning of classics is different from yours. I define a classic as a book that can be read years down the line and still have relevance.




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