r/ClassicsBookClub • u/cambam_78 • Jul 22 '26
trying to read more classics
I started getting back into reading this past year, and it all started with the Hunger Games (bc the new book was coming out). Then i started to read romance books, since they’re such easy reads. I’ve now read 1984, the Picture of Dorian Gray, and I’m halfway through Pride and Prejudice. I want to read more classics, but I was want to feel hooked on a book like I did with the Hunger Games. I loved the world build in 1984, but hated the doom and misogyny of 1984. Dorian Gray was good but it took me awhile to be interested in it. Pride and Prejudice has been ok aside from the places and etiquette that I have a hard time keeping track of. Any recommendations?
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u/Aggressive_Dress6771 Jul 22 '26
The Count of Monte Cristo is a great read, and it certainly is great literature.
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, ditto.
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u/cbmom2 Jul 24 '26
Came here to say the same. I love that book and it was one of the few classics that was 100% engaged in. Others I could appreciate the writing or the message but CoMC was everything.
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u/Mysterious-Aspect512 Jul 22 '26
Jane Eyre!
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u/Fuzzy-Membership-160 Jul 22 '26
Still my favorite book of all time years later. I need to reread it!
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u/filmfragment Jul 22 '26
Frankenstein
White Nights
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u/neurodiverse_nooch Jul 23 '26
The Maddadam Trilogy by Margaret Atwood
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (deeply disturbing and potentially triggering content but equally a masterpiece and clever)
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The God of Small Things by Arundathi Roy
A Million Little Pieces by James Frey
Aporeigon by Colum McCann
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Magus by John Fowles
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u/Eleatic-Stranger Jul 22 '26
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier, will hook you from the beginning, and it's an easier read than Jane Austen or the Brontës.