40 Classic Books & Why You Should Read Them

Brighton Rock (1938) Graham Greene Well, what makes a classic book? My eight-year-old asked this very question after spending several days with her nose buried in Charlotte's Web. “Errr - I think it's a very good book liked by lots people that stands the test of time,”.

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  • Classic Fiction (in no particular order)

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  • Lord of the Flies (1954) by  William Golding 

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  • Lorna Doone (1869) by R.D. Blackmore

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  • Jamaica Inn (1936) by  Daphne du Maurier

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  • Kidnapped (1886) by  Robert Louis Stevenson  

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  • Treasure Island (1883) by  Robert Louis Stevenson  

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  • The Call of the Wild (1903) by  Jack London  

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  • Charlotte’s Web (1952) by E.B. White

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  • The Wind in the Willows (1908) by  Kenneth Grahame

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  • Moonfleet (1898)  by J. Meade Falkner  

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  • Oliver Twist (1838) by  Charles Dickens

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  • A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by  Charles Dickens

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  • Brideshead Revisited (1945) by  Evelyn Waugh

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  • The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) by  Thomas Hardy  

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  • Don Quixote (1605) by  Cervantes  

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  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by  Lewis Carroll  

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  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) by  Oscar Wilde  

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  • Nineteen–Eighty Four (1949) by  George Orwell  

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  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by  Harper Lee

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  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974) by  John le Carré

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  • Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell  

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  • Anne of Green Gables (1908) by  L.M. Montgomery

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  • Of Mice and Men (1937) by  John Steinbeck

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  • The Children of the New Forest (1847)  by Frederick Marryat

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  • Heidi (1880) by  Johanna Spyri  

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  • For Whom the Bell Tolls (1950) by  Ernest Hemingway  

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  • One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by  Ken Kesey  

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  • Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by  Ray Bradbury  

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  • The Illustrated Man (1951) by  Ray Bradbury  

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  • The Secret Garden (1911) by  Frances Hodgson Burnett  

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  • Brighton Rock (1938) by Graham Greene

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  • Classic Non-Fiction Books (again, in no particular order) 

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  • Cider with Rosie (1959) by  Laurie Lee  

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  • Goodbye to All That (1929) by  Robert Graves  

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  • In Cold Blood (1966) by  Truman Capote

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  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) by  T.E. Lawrence

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  • Bitter Lemons (1957) by  Lawrence Durrell  

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  • Never Cry Wolf (1963) by  Farley Mowat

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  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1971) Hunter S. Thompson

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  • Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879) by  Robert Louis Stevenson  

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  • Homage to Catalonia (1938) by  George Orwell

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  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (1970) by  Dee Brown  

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