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Fiction

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts) Sat Dec 12, 2015, 08:30 AM Dec 2015

Need recommendation on your favorite Classic [View all]

I hated reading in high school - then grew to love it.

I want to go back and read some of the best classics I don't remember reading

First on my list - A Tale of Two Cities.

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Need recommendation on your favorite Classic [View all] Laura PourMeADrink Dec 2015 OP

Oliver Twist japple Dec 2015 #1

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky TexasProgresive Dec 2015 #2

Anything Jane Austen Staph Dec 2015 #3

Huckleberry Finn! lastlib Dec 2015 #4

+1 getting old in mke Dec 2015 #7

War and Peace pscot Dec 2015 #5

Uncle Tom's Cabin. SheilaT Dec 2015 #6

"Catcher in the Rye". Modern classic but one of my favorite books of all time. bif Dec 2015 #8

Anything at all by Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, or Mark Twain. FSogol Jan 2016 #9

East of Eden Conch Jan 2016 #10

Silas Marner. SheilaT Jan 2016 #11

thanks Sheila. I agree - can honestly say I never read a single Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2016 #12

I'm sure it's almost purely psychological. SheilaT Feb 2016 #13

Thanks ! Putting UTC on my list. My first book that opened Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2016 #14

Nice. SheilaT Feb 2016 #15

There are too many books. Just go to Barnes and Noble. It must be Laura PourMeADrink Feb 2016 #16