Will you recommend to me one of your favorite "old" novels?

I find, now that I am an adult, that I wish I would have read more as a kid. I read several books a month now and am bored with the Dean Koontz, Tess Gerritsen crowd. I want more substance. I've started to really like biographies/autobiographies and find I'm interested in the "older" great works of literature that I never read. I'd like to hear your suggestions of great autobiographies or the classics that you felt were fantastic. I have A Tree Grows in Brooklyn now and plan on starting that tomorrow but will want another one for next week. I've also read A Million Little Pieces and that was OK.............any other suggestions???Will you recommend to me one of your favorite "old" novels?
Some of my favorite older novels/classics are



Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickons

Jane Erye, Charlotte Bronte

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

Les Misrables, Victor Hugo

Count of Monte Christo, I forget.

Of Mice and Men, John Stienback or Hemingway, I forget.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.



Not just for kidsWill you recommend to me one of your favorite "old" novels?
the celestine prophecy
the good earth by pearl s. buckWill you recommend to me one of your favorite "old" novels?
i love the book a milion little pieces



some of my other fav's are girl, interupted

the virgin suicides and paper dolls



yes i kno some of those are movies now but if you enjoy reading the books are good



haha i recently read the book confession's of heiress %26amp; the diaries of tinkerbell hilton only cause i love paris hah
Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follet.

Its the only book of its kind that he wrote, and is absolutely amazing, cover to cover. Ive read it atleast a dozen times in the last 4 years.
Forget the modern garbage and pick up one of the following:



'Antigone' by Sophocles

'Wilderness: the Lost Poems of Jim Morrision' by Jim Morrison

'Anna Karenina' by Tolstoy

'Brothers Karamazov' by Dostoevsky

'Crime and Punishment' by Dostoevsky

'All Quiet on the Western Front' by Erich Maria Remarque

'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte

'Macbeth' by Shakespeare

'A Year in the Life of Shakespeare' by ???
"Jane Eyre" - Charlotte Bronte

"The Good Earth" - Pearl S. Buck
the chronicles of narnia are very good I know they are for childrens but is easy to start , and I love all the jane austen novels, and Edgar allan poe.... also Dickens isa must and the bronte sister



but my best advice jane austin's pride%26amp;prejudice a clasic of english literature
I would suggest "1984" and "Animal Farm," by George Orwell.



Then, I'd suggest "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand.



You are going to be be surprised how you will start to look at things around you differently after reading those four classics!
Sherwood Anderson-Winesburg, Ohio-It's not really a novel, it's a short story collection. However, "it made the world safe" for Dreiser, Hemingway, Fitzgerald et al.
Read "Catcher in the Rye." Fascinating book.

Author is J.D. Salinger.

Anything by Emily or Charlotte Bronte.

This one is not really old, but fairly old. Read "To Kill a Mockingbird."

Read some of Dickens works.

Go on line and hunt for classic books.
The Thorn Birds, Mutiny on the Bounty, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Not Without My Daughter, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Bounty, Serpent in Paradise, Unity of the Heart, Child of the Dark, Brazilian Women Speak. I love historical fiction and historical pieces, but I really am quite a nerd and love to read alot. These are all great titles and you can learn many things from reading each one. These may not be the old classics, but these novel/books are just a good. However, Ramona, based on the Ramona pagent, is one of my all time favorite classic novels.
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Any or all of "Charles Dickens" classics are good, however for a good read on a continent dark then read "Wilbur Smith" his novels are so descriptive as to make you think you might actually be there, they are all good but i especially liked "The leapord hunts in darkness" ENJOY
Try Exodus by Leon Uris and The source by James Michener
Forever Amber - about a courtesan during the great plague in europe...one of my favorites



The Grapes of Wrath....A must read for everybody..so good



To Kill a Mockingbird...excellent



The Valley of the Dolls..Racy , but entertaining



The Thorn Birds...Terrific



If you like books about women who rise above the worst life has to offer, try anything by Catherine Cookson...start with the Dwelling Place....orphans who live in a cave to survive



Not an "old" novel, but all the Harry Potter books are great.



Little Women



A new book but really great is The Glass Castle a memoir by Jeannette Walls..makes you feel better about your childhood cause it can't be as bad as hers.
The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
TRY Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen or Northanger Abbey, also by her. You can also try Charles Dickens' Tale of Two Cities or Barnaby Rudge. But most of all, i would recommend J.R.R. TOlkien's The Lord of The Rings series for complete entertainment
Great Expectations
" Burr" and "1876" by Gore Vidal. Well written %26amp; arguably more historically accurate than 90% of the American history you're taught in school.
anything by Daphne DuMaurier, Gene Stratton Porter, J.R.R. Tolkien, Robert Louis Stephenson, L.M.Montegomery, or Louisa May Alcott.



I really enjoyed A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and hope you do, too. The movie is also excellent. To Kill a Mockingbird, both the book and movie, is also something you'd probably love.
Try anything by these 'H' authors and I think you will enjoy yourself with the reading of these novels: H. Rider Haggard, H. Beam Piper, H. G. Wells. All great writers and all have great reads.

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