That's Classic

I love to read. When I have the chance I can read a book a day. Most of the time life does not accommodate that however. When I am at home, working, trying to work out, blog and have time to sleep, the reading tends to wane a bit. However, I am always looking for new books to read and time to read them. Jess, one of the bloggers I follow, suggested Booksfree, where, like Netflix, you can get as many books as you want per month for a set fee. I personally usually just go to Goodwill and get the 50 cent paperbacks. I will read pretty much anything. When I travel I read whatever I can trade at the book exchanges, which are sometimes pretty slim pickings. To see some of the really bad books I have read over the last 6 months, you can go to my Goodreads page. I also just started using LibraryThing, which even lets you get free books to read as long as you do a thorough review.

What I really would like to do is try to read more classic books. Since I am traveling it has been really hard to get good books, or any books in English for that matter. Mr. Lovely bought a computer, so I decided to downloaded the Kindle for PC, which you can download to your computer (without having an actual Kindle) and then get FREE Classic (public domain) eBooks from Amazon which you can then read right on your computer. However, I have not really been doing it. It is a pain to open the computer just to read a book. I just haven’t done it.

In trying to find out what classics I should read, I found a list on the internet at the Cincinnati Library website to give me an idea of what I am missing and what I realized is I have actually read a few of these books, more than I thought I had. Out of the 40 odd books on this list, I think I have read 14.

Have you read any of these? What did you think? Do you have any you think should be added to this list? Which is your favorite? Do you have any book lovers tips?

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1884 by Mark Twain

All Quiet on the Western Front 1929 by Erich Maria Remarque

Beloved 1987 by Toni Morrison

The Best Short Stories 1945 by O. Henry

Brave New World 1932 by Aldous Huxley

The Call of the Wild 1903 by Jack London

Catch-22 1961 by Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye 1951 by J.D. Salinger

The Complete Sherlock Holmes 1936 by Arthur Conan Doyle

Crime and Punishment 1886 by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Cry, the Beloved Country 1948 by Alan Paton

Don Quixote 1612 by Miguel de Cervantes

Ethan Frome 1911 by Edith Wharton

Gone with the Wind 1936 by Margaret Mitchell

The Good Earth 1931 by Pearl S. Buck

The Grapes of Wrath 1939 by John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Heart of Darkness 1902 by Joseph Conrad

Invisible Man 1952 by Ralph Ellison

Jane Eyre 1847 by Charlotte Bronte

Lord of the Flies 1954 by William Golding

Moby Dick 1851 by Herman Melville

My Antonia 1918 by Willa Cather

Native Son 1940 by Richard Wright

Nineteen Eighty Four 1949 by George Orwell

Of Human Bondage 1915 by W. Somerset Maugham

Of Mice and Men 1937 by John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea 1952 by Ernest Hemingway

Pride and Prejudice 1813 by Jane Austen

The Red Badge of Courage 1895 by Stephen Crane

Robinson Crusoe 1719 by Daniel Defoe

The Scarlet Letter 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Separate Peace 1959 by John Knowles

Silas Marner 1861 by George Eliot

The Sound and the Fury 1929 by William Faulkner

The Stranger 1946 by Albert Camus

A Tale of Two Cities 1859 by Charles Dickens

Tales 1952 by Edgar Allan Poe

Tess of the D’Urbervilles 1891 by Thomas Hardy

Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937 by Zora Neale Hurston

To Kill a Mockingbird 1960 by Harper Lee

Uncle Tom’s Cabin 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe

War and Peace 1889 by Leo Tolstoy

Winesburg, Ohio 1919 by Sherwood Anderson

Wuthering Heights