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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)

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  

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