Does Anyone Have Any Classic Book Recommendations?
We’re doing a book report project in my literature class and we’re to choose a book from the following list of classics:
Little Women – Louisa Alcott
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights – Charlotte Bronte
Alice’s Adventure’s in Wonderland – Lewis Caroll
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel DeFoe
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
Silas Marner – George Eliot
The Great Gatsby – Scott F. Fitzgerald
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Iliad – Homer
The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
Merry Adventures of Robin Hood – Howard Pyle
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights – Howard Pyle
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Nights Dream – William Shakespeare
Pygmalion – George Bernard Shaw
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
The Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
Yep…it’s THAT long. Haha, so I need to pick ONE. I also want to read some of these books during my free time but I need one for school. What do you recommend? You can recommend more than one so I have a smaller selection but I just want to know what everyone else thinks. Also, try to pick ones without boring beginnings because if they’re boring at first, it’ll be hard for me to move on. Thanks so much!
So many great ones to choose from, if I have to pick only one from this list it’s definitely The Count of Monte Cristo…it starts off action packed and doesn’t let up. I also love The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Gulliver’s Travels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Once and Future King, Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera, The Iliad, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (all are great reading).
Edit: Since you have to write a bio about the author, I suggest you pick a work by Shakespeare or Twain. You will probably be able to find more information about these authors than any of the others on your list.
pride and prejudice…
jane eyre
little women
the picture of dorian gray
silas marner
robinson crusoe
these are my faves
Jane Eyre! I don’t typically enjoy reading the classics, but I really enjoyed that one. It’s a very interesting story.
JANE EYRE!!! It is a lot similar to the authoress’ biography as well.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS!!!
I would recommend picking one of these:
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Dracula – Bram Stoker
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
These are all very good books (ones I have read anyway). I don’t know how good of a reader you are, but I read Dracula in the 4th grade, then agian I’m a pretty good reader. And Phantom of the Opera is amazing by the way (book and musical). I couldn’t stop reading Frankenstein…I could go on for a while… look up what each books about first to see which one interests you the most.
Pride & Prejudice is my favourite book, so Id definatly pick that one. It is amazing because it shows how people really react to pride and first impressions. The love story is great too, and I really like the old English society back then.
A Midsummer Nights Dream is certainly easier, I did that one in class, and it is a cool story, with 3 different plots, and it wont take you long to read. P&P took me about a month, sadly, MSND took bout a week.
Uncle Toms Cabin is one of those really educating racist slavery books, kind of deep and heavy.
The King Art and Knights would be pretty awesome, but I still recomend P&P.
I have read every one of these books except Treasure Island, so I cannot speak to that one. BUT, you ask for one that doesn’t start out slow, so I would recommend:
Alice’s Adventures
Merchant of Venice
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
However, I LOVE The Great Gatsby- and it’s something you should def read sometime. It does get really good as you read on through it.
I enjoyed Pride and Prejudice a lot. It’s a great love story, one of the best out there, actually! I actually watched the movie starring Keira Knightley before I read the book, so I understood the book better and I could visualize the scenes. It might be confusing to understand at times, but if you love reading romance, then I would definitely check out any Jane Austen or the Bronte sisters’ books (Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights). I haven’t read those two, but I know they are similar to Pride and Prejudice, but they’re written in a gothic manner, not humorous and light, like Jane Austen’s books.
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~Good luck and happy reading!
I’ve read the following:
Little Women
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Loved them all but would go with the first. Have heard of some others. Out of all that I’ve heard of and read combined, I’d say:
The Phantom of the Opera
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (<3 Shakespeare)
Farenheit 451!!!!!!!!!!!!! (GOTTA love this one)