Most Read This Week In Classics

A classic stands the test of time. The work is usually considered to be a representation of the period in which it was written; and the work merits lasting recognition. In other words, if the book was published in the recent past, the work is not a classic.

A classic has a certain universal appeal. Great works of literature touch us to our very core beings--partly because they integrate themes that are understood by readers from a wide range of backgrounds and levels of experience. Themes of love, hate, death, life, and faith touch upon some of our most basic emotional responses.

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Most Read This Week Tagged "Classics"

1984
The Diary of a Young Girl
Fahrenheit 451
Romeo and Juliet
The Outsiders
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
Holes (Holes, #1)
Dracula
The Old Man and the Sea
Life of Pi
Tuesdays with Morrie
Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
Sense and Sensibility
Flowers for Algernon
The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Crucible
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
Othello
The Lord of the Rings (Middle Earth, #2-4)
In Cold Blood
Oliver Twist
Hatchet (Brian's Saga, #1)
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Silence of the Lambs  (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
Fausto / Werther
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
East of Eden
The Sun Also Rises
The Great Divorce
Gulliver’s Travels
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Northanger Abbey
The Witches
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
The Silmarillion
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (The Herdmans, #1)
War and Peace
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Canterbury Tales
Animal Farm / 1984
Death of a Salesman
The Lorax
The Remains of the Day
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
A Room of One’s Own
The Bluest Eye
Black Beauty
The Pearl
Like Water for Chocolate
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Phantom of the Opera
Inferno
A Streetcar Named Desire
Mere Christianity
The Communist Manifesto
The Things They Carried
Cat’s Cradle
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
The Prophet
The Wind in the Willows
The Lottery
Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
The Velveteen Rabbit
Mansfield Park
Waiting for Godot
A Little Princess
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The A.B.C. Murders (Hercule Poirot, #13)
The Holy Bible: King James Version
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Left Hand of Darkness
Little House on the Prairie (Little House, #3)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Tales of Terror
The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
Sophie’s World
Heidi
The Neverending Story
The Awakening
The Gambler
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)
Go Ask Alice
Letters to a Young Poet
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
The Martian Chronicles
J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
Something Wicked This Way Comes
A Separate Peace
As I Lay Dying
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

E.M. Forster
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
E.M. Forster, A Room with a View

Mark Twain
′Classic′ - a book which people praise and don't read. ...more
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