Modern Classics

Classics must resonate with an audience and have continued readership. Modern classics are generally written after WWI. They are also popularly known as "contemporary classics." ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Modern Classics"

The Bee Sting
The Promise
Black Butterflies
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
Question 7
The Austen Girls
The Essential June Jordan (Penguin Modern Classics)
Forty-Ninth
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
Without MAlice
The Apprentice in the Master’s Shadow (Legends of the Order #2)
1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The Bell Jar
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Lolita
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse-Five
A Clockwork Orange
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Darkest Child by Delores PhillipsAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Contemporary Black Women's Literature
375 books — 223 voters
The Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaThe Castle by Franz KafkaA Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
The best of Franz Kafka
22 books — 64 voters

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerA Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty  SmithBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Tales of New York City
1,485 books — 1,241 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckCannery Row by John SteinbeckThe Pearl by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
44 books — 212 voters

The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Ultimate Human Secrets by Ramzi NajjarMan’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklTao Te Ching by Lao TzuSoul Cure by Gregory Dickow
Life Transformation Books
3,212 books — 2,226 voters
The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupérySiddhartha by Hermann HesseTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV
Inspiring Books
4,226 books — 3,483 voters


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