Since I teach English Lit, and my mother was a high school literature teacher, there’s no escape…. I love the classics. My students often ask me for my list….and several of the Shadow Mountain Book Club members have asked, too…..want to share yours or add to mine?
My Top 25 classic novels:
1. Tale of Two Cities
2. East of Eden
3. To Kill a Mockingbird
4. Wuthering Heights
5. Diary of Anne Frank
6. Les Miserables
7. Moby Dick
8. The Scarlet Letter
9. The Good Earth
10. The Thorn Birds
11. Gone with the Wind
12. Abraham Lincoln 1,2,3 (Sandburg)
13. Huckleberry Finn
14. The Little Prince
15. Exodus
16. The Grapes of Wrath
17. The Pearl
18. The Screwtape Letters
19. Tess of the D'Urbervilles
20. Far From the Madding Crowd
21. Of Mice and Men
22. Jane Eyre
23. My Antonia
24. Silas Marner
25. Macbeth
* I know, #10 isn't 'classic' but I love it, and as you can see, I lean toward the romantics...
anything by Hemingway, Steinbeck, or Twain are winners.
1 comment:
I am so glad to see your list because I need something new to read! I'm also thrilled that you love To Kill a Mockingbird almost as much as I do! I think I'm going to check out The Thorn Birds next. I'm up for a little priest-y romance.
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