Classic novels

nimrod said:
erm 4 Harry Potter..
I wont be reading them
Cant believe 4 HP but no Le Carre or Dostoevsky
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apart from Crime and Punishment :)
Read well over half of those.
Surprised at DeBerniers Captain Corelli? wasnt even his best book and for some reason I've read 3 Faulks novels but not Birdsong!! Haha.
I didn't get on with Catch 22 or Cather in the Rye. But on an Americana theme Im surprised Philip Roth and DeLillos Underworld doesn't scrape in. The list does look a little British biased though.
 
Read quite a few of them, suprised Frankenstien isn't in there though, where 4 harry potter books are.
 
Prestwich_Blue said:
I've read it twice. The first half/two-thirds is simply magnificent. The last bit, with all its moralising and religious shite, is dirgey I'll agree.

Surprised at that list. There no way people like Terry Pratchett & Jacqueline Wilson should be in there about authors like Grahame Greene and Ernest Hemingway. Two novels that should be in there are Solzhenitsyn's 'One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich' and Donna Tartt's 'Secret History' which is probably the best modern novel I've read. Also no Trollope? Barchester Towers, The Warden are both absolute classics.
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I was contemplating reading those Trollope books. Think I’ll put one on my read next list on my Kindle.

Did someone mention that list was classic books for young people, not necessarily classics that have stood the test of time.
 
nimrod said:
The idea of the thread really was to discuss classic literature, I didnt post the BBC list as I knew this would lead to disagreements, somebody posted it though and now the discussion is all about the list.
No list is perfect for everybody I suppose.

The list isnt important, lets for get the bloody list and talk about your favourite classics.
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Favourite classics? Not and exhaustive list, and I'm sure I've missed out some of my favourites, but the first that popped into my head:

Pretty much anything by Hardy, Dickens, Kafka, Kundera.
Wuthering Heights
Robinson Crusoe
Animal Farm
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Around the World in 80 days
Candide
Pride and Prejudice
The Canterbury Tales
Last of the Mohicans
Moby Dick
Veronika Decides to Die (not sure if this would be really classed as a classic but it should be)
Osudy Dobrého Vojáka Švejka za Světové Války
R.U.R
The 39 Steps
The Wizard of Oz
 
MellowJoe said:
This is the list:

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
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That is one strange list. Lots of classics I had expected to see but Harry Potter? The Thorn Birds? The Twits? A Stephen King novel but no Bram Stoker? Ok immensely popular, but classic? It looks like a list that is the result of a public vote. Check out http://thegreatestbooks.org for a more 'thoughtful' list.
 
I've read some of that list. I'd give Catcher in the Rye and Wuthering Heights a miss. Bunch of over privileged kids moaning about tap all or dying of drizzle.

A book that really surprised me with how much I enjoyed it was Around the World in 80 Days.

Ive read Good Omens a few times and I believe they are making that into a TV series
 
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