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
- Jane Eyre- Charolette Bronte
- War and the Worlds- H.G Wells
- The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
- The Color Purple- Alice Walker
- The Giver (series)- Lois Lowry
- The Ear, the Eye and the Arm- Nancy Farmer
- Diary of Anne Frank- Anne Frank
- To Kill a Mockingbird- Harper Lee
- Jurassic Park- Micheal Crichton
- Animal Farm- George Orwell
- Macbeth- Shakespeare
- Romeo and Juliet- Shakespeare
- Dogsong- Gary Paulsen
- Hatchet (series)- Gary Paulsen
- Chronicles of Narnia (series)- C.S. Lewis
- The Secret Garden- Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Their Eyes Were Watching God- Zora Neale Hurston
- Around the World in 80 days- Jules Verne
- Black Beauty-Anna Sewell
- Heidi- Johanna Spyri
- Treasure Island- Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz- L. Frank Baum
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi- Rudyard Kipling
- Toomai of the Elephants- Rudyard Kipling
- Pygmalion- George Bernard Shaw
- Anne of Green Gables- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Before Anne of Green Gables- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- The Velveteen Rabbit- Margery Williams
- The Little Red Hen- (folk story)
- The Wild Swans- Hans Christian Andersen
- Peter Pan- J. M. Barrie
- The Raven- Edgar Allan Poe
- The Cay- Theodore Taylor
- Hound of Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Odyssey- Homer
- Les Miserables-Victor Hugo
- Twelve Years A Slave-Solomon Northup
- Romeo and Juliet- William Shakespeare
- The Borrower Series- Mary Norton
- Antigone- Sophocles
- Things Fall Apart- Chinua Achebe
- Othello- William Shakespeare
- In Cold Blood- Truman Capote
- The Crucible- Arthur Miller
- The Man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales- Oliver Sacks
- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow- Washington Irving
- Burning of our House- Anne Bradstreet
- The Author to Her Book- Anne Bradstreet
- The Minister's Black Veil- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Fall of the House of Usher- Edgar Allen Poe
- The Devil and Tom Walker- Washington Irving
- Nature- Emerson
- Self-Reliance -Emerson
- Concord Hymn- Emerson
- Snow Storm- Emerson
- Civil Disobedience- Thoreau
- A Streetcar named Desire- Tennesse Williams
- A Merchant of Venice- William Shakespeare
- The Mayor of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy
- Anna Karenina- Leo Tosltoy
- The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus- Christopher Marlowe
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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