Nope not the Game of Thrones books, but let's revisit the classics. Which of these have your read? Looking to gift someone a present? You can't go wrong with a classic!
I began reading classic by the time I was in 4th grade, I loved Shakespeare (go figure). I loved going to my school library and devouring an entire book in a week, feeding my imagination. Now there are video games, but the knowledge, awakening that happens from reading is lacking in video games, and movies... so pick up a book this winter!
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - as much as Mark Twain is loved, as a girl, growing up in India, I couldn't identify much with Tom Sawyer, however I did dream of being a "lady" in the arms of Darcy in the old days when men were gentlemen and women were elegant... It's a must read for all young girls, whether they are a tomboy or girlie, it puts life into perspective.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes is always an amazing adventure and mystery. He teaches us to think in new ways. It's amazing what we can learn from his methods of deduction! Heck when I first read a Sherlock Holmes book, I had no idea what deduction meant, but it was so well written one could easily deduce what it meant! ;-)
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - my mother first made me read the Grimm's Fairy Tales, and well they weren't fairy tales, more like horror stories. Still highly recommended, interesting, intriguing!
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - this is an awesome witty story, much like a comedy of errors. It had me laughing.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville - When reading it for some reason, I took the whale's side. It was always about the whale. I really had no attachment to anyone, except the whale and all the other whale friends. It's interesting what goes through a child's mind when they read books for the first time.
Ulysses by James Joyce
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
The Republic by Plato
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens- One of my favorite classics this one, I don't know why I was so drawn into it. Maybe I was there, but Dickens works his magic through a political plot, to the most... Ok i can't say but its one heck of a book.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Dubliners by James Joyce- A spinet of life in Ireland. It's so cultural, and a different type of adventure, living in other people's shoes.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - the most amazing romantic- tragedy ever. I saw the play after reading the book, and it made me cry as students acted it out.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Emma by Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad- my most favorite book of all time. I have so many copies of it. I love this story for the darkness it so truly captures.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - I recently began reading the Horla and oh boy! Maupassant had a way with horror, so creepy, dark and macabre!
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe - With all the rave about the show the Following, one must pick up some Poe. The Raven, The tell-tale heart... More darkness and Macabre!
The Iliad by Homer
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll - Read this book and find out why Wonderland is really creepy and scary. It's like Stephen King's IT if not scarier. I had nightmares as a child.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - if that much Shakespeare is an overdose, my favorites are a Winter's Tale, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Macbeth (as a kid this gave me nightmares), The Tempest, As You Know It, A Twelfth Night or What you Will and of course the popular ones such as Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Othello...
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Call of the Wild by Jack London - this was another childhood favorite of mine. If you love dogs, the wilds, read this! Also great winter reading.
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - of all the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Homles' stories this was always my favorite because it involved dogs. It's a great mystery and a great ending, and a lovely trip to the dreary countryside in the bogs, and other lovely geography found only in England!
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop
Thus Spoke Zarathustra. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
The Odyssey by Homer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien- with the second installment of the movie based on this book coming out, it would be great to revisit the story. Mostly because how did they drag out a simple story into 4 movies?! It's a classic to read over and over again, and now we can watch it.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Slaughter House - Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Where the Red Ferns Grow by Wilson Rawls
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
White Fang by Jack London
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Time Machine by HG Wells
The Litttle Matchgirl by Hans Christian Anderson
The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - another period story of women in England, women who weren't nobility, and how they lived. It was a very important book in my life, and Tess is one of my favorite books, characters, and its so well written.
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - Another classic, and favorite. A book about cruelty to animals, however also teaches us about loving, living and treating animals. Although fantastical it was a wonderful book to read as a child.
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Hunchback of Notre- Dame by Victor Hugo
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Bhagavad Gita
The I Ching
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Medea by Euripides
The Mahabharata
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
Selected Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen - as much as Mark Twain is loved, as a girl, growing up in India, I couldn't identify much with Tom Sawyer, however I did dream of being a "lady" in the arms of Darcy in the old days when men were gentlemen and women were elegant... It's a must read for all young girls, whether they are a tomboy or girlie, it puts life into perspective.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes is always an amazing adventure and mystery. He teaches us to think in new ways. It's amazing what we can learn from his methods of deduction! Heck when I first read a Sherlock Holmes book, I had no idea what deduction meant, but it was so well written one could easily deduce what it meant! ;-)
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Grimms' Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm - my mother first made me read the Grimm's Fairy Tales, and well they weren't fairy tales, more like horror stories. Still highly recommended, interesting, intriguing!
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde - this is an awesome witty story, much like a comedy of errors. It had me laughing.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Divine Comedy by Dante
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville - When reading it for some reason, I took the whale's side. It was always about the whale. I really had no attachment to anyone, except the whale and all the other whale friends. It's interesting what goes through a child's mind when they read books for the first time.
Ulysses by James Joyce
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
The Republic by Plato
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens- One of my favorite classics this one, I don't know why I was so drawn into it. Maybe I was there, but Dickens works his magic through a political plot, to the most... Ok i can't say but its one heck of a book.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Dubliners by James Joyce- A spinet of life in Ireland. It's so cultural, and a different type of adventure, living in other people's shoes.
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë - the most amazing romantic- tragedy ever. I saw the play after reading the book, and it made me cry as students acted it out.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Emma by Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad- my most favorite book of all time. I have so many copies of it. I love this story for the darkness it so truly captures.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin
Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - I recently began reading the Horla and oh boy! Maupassant had a way with horror, so creepy, dark and macabre!
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe - With all the rave about the show the Following, one must pick up some Poe. The Raven, The tell-tale heart... More darkness and Macabre!
The Iliad by Homer
A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll - Read this book and find out why Wonderland is really creepy and scary. It's like Stephen King's IT if not scarier. I had nightmares as a child.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - if that much Shakespeare is an overdose, my favorites are a Winter's Tale, Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Macbeth (as a kid this gave me nightmares), The Tempest, As You Know It, A Twelfth Night or What you Will and of course the popular ones such as Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer Night's Dream, and Othello...
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Call of the Wild by Jack London - this was another childhood favorite of mine. If you love dogs, the wilds, read this! Also great winter reading.
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle - of all the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Homles' stories this was always my favorite because it involved dogs. It's a great mystery and a great ending, and a lovely trip to the dreary countryside in the bogs, and other lovely geography found only in England!
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Aesop's Fables; a new translation by Aesop
Thus Spoke Zarathustra. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
The Odyssey by Homer
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien- with the second installment of the movie based on this book coming out, it would be great to revisit the story. Mostly because how did they drag out a simple story into 4 movies?! It's a classic to read over and over again, and now we can watch it.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Slaughter House - Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Where the Red Ferns Grow by Wilson Rawls
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
White Fang by Jack London
The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry
The Time Machine by HG Wells
The Litttle Matchgirl by Hans Christian Anderson
The Mill on the Floss by George Elliot
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - another period story of women in England, women who weren't nobility, and how they lived. It was a very important book in my life, and Tess is one of my favorite books, characters, and its so well written.
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell - Another classic, and favorite. A book about cruelty to animals, however also teaches us about loving, living and treating animals. Although fantastical it was a wonderful book to read as a child.
Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
Heidi by Johanna Spyri
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Hunchback of Notre- Dame by Victor Hugo
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein
Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud
Paradise Lost by John Milton
The Bhagavad Gita
The I Ching
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
Medea by Euripides
The Mahabharata
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol
Selected Short Stories by Anton Chekhov
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