Classics that you love.

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Kurben

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I don't know if they count as classics but

Richard Adams Watership down An absolute masterpiece i can read agsain and again
Lord of the Rings
M.M. Kayes The Far Pavilions
Robert Graves I Claudius and Claudius the God
Ursula K. Leguin The Dispossessed, The Left Hand of Darkness
Selma Lagerlöf Many good books
August Strindberg Many good books
Frans G. Bengtsson Röde orm
The last three are some Great swedish authors. Lagerlöf actually won the Nobelprize in 1909
 

AnnaMarie

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In no particular order...

Any thing by Steinbeck, especially Of Mice and Men.
Anne of Green Gables
Jane Eyre
Gone With the Wind
Lord of the Flies
A Christmas Carol
1984 (Loved Animal Farm the first few times I read it, but the last time I just couldn't finish it)

I'm sure there are more.

Little Women
A Tale of Two Cities
 

SHEEMIEE

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Lists lists list -

The catcher in the rye meh
Finnegans wake - meh
Wuthering heights meh
White noise - meh
On the road - meh
Moby dick - meh
Passage to india - meh
Great gatsby - meh
Jonathan livingston seagul - meh

I just wanted to add some titles ass well .

TBH
Never read any of them, gave up on catcher in the rye after yawning my way through the narration.

Stole the list from here -http://flavorwire.com/293260/10-epidemically-overrated-books
 
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