Richard Davies

40 Classic Books & Why You Should Read Them

classic books

• Classic Fiction (in no particular order)

• Lord of the Flies (1954) by  William Golding 

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

• Jamaica Inn (1936) by  Daphne du Maurier

• Kidnapped (1886) by  Robert Louis Stevenson  

• Treasure Island (1883) by  Robert Louis Stevenson  

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

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

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

• Moonfleet (1898)  by J. Meade Falkner  

• Oliver Twist (1838) by  Charles Dickens

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

• Brideshead Revisited (1945) by  Evelyn Waugh

• The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) by  Thomas Hardy  

• Don Quixote (1605) by  Cervantes  

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

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

• Nineteen–Eighty Four (1949) by  George Orwell  

• To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by  Harper Lee

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

• Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell  

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

• Of Mice and Men (1937) by  John Steinbeck

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

• Heidi (1880) by  Johanna Spyri  

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

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

• Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by  Ray Bradbury  

• The Illustrated Man (1951) by  Ray Bradbury  

• The Secret Garden (1911) by  Frances Hodgson Burnett  

• Brighton Rock (1938) by Graham Greene

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

• Cider with Rosie (1959) by  Laurie Lee  

• Goodbye to All That (1929) by  Robert Graves  

• In Cold Blood (1966) by  Truman Capote

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

• Bitter Lemons (1957) by  Lawrence Durrell  

• Never Cry Wolf (1963) by  Farley Mowat

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

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

• Homage to Catalonia (1938) by  George Orwell

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