Classics List

Here is a list of some classic novels to give you something to read in your spare time (if you're one of the lucky sort who has some free time):

  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
  • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
  • The Adventures of Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
  • The Aenied by Virgil
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
  • Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne
  • Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
  • The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
  • A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
  • The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
  • David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
  • The Divine Comedy - Dante
  • Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  • Dracula - Brahm Stoker
  • Emma - Jane Austin
  • Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
  • The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  • Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
  • The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
  • The Illiad - Homer
  • The Importance of Being Ernest - Oscar Wilde
  • Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
  • Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
  • Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Last of the Mohicans - James Fenimore Cooper
  • Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
  • Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
  • Lord of the Flies - William Golding
  • Moby Dick - Herman Melville
  • The Odyssey - Homer
  • Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
  • Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
  • The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
  • Peter Pan - J.M. Barrie
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  • Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
  • The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
  • Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
  • The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne 
  • The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
  • The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • The Stranger - Albert Camus
  • A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
  • The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
  • To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  • Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
*Please note that I have not read all of these books, so I cannot vouch for what is in them.
**If you have any other classics that you'd like to have me add to the list leave a comment.  

2 comments:

  1. I'm a Humanities major so I'd also add The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer, The Aeneid by Virgil and The Divine Comedy by Dante.

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  2. Thank you Lauren. I love the Odyssey! I have added your suggestions to the list.

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