Favorite classic?

[Taryntula]

Hmm...I think I'm having the same problem as some others...just one?

 

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Mansfield Park gets an honorable mention)

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe or anything at all by C.S. Lewis (loved Till We Have Faces)

Here be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman (may not be classic yet...but it IS a wonderful historical fiction)

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum

 

My bookshelves are full...but these are some of my favorites ever. I could read them over and over again, and I have!

[Majsju]

Anthony Burgess_ The Kingdom of the Wicked, Eartly Powers, A Clockwork Orange.

Jean Genet: The Miracle of the Rose.

Dostojevskij: Crime & Punishment.

Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master & Margarita.

Leo Tolstoj: War & Peace.

Emile Zola: The Ladies' Paradise.

Albert Camus: L'Etrangér.

Alexandre Dumas: The Count of Monte Christo, The Three musketeers.

Victor Hugo: Les Misérables.

James Joyce: Ulysses.

Shakespeare: Everything.

August Strindberg: The Red Room, Married.

Karin Boye: Kallocain.

George Orwell: 1984, The Animal farm.

Vilhelm Moberg: The Emigrants.

Pär Lagerqvist: Guest of Reality.

Esaias Tegnér: Story of Frithiof

Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights.

Jane Austen: Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice.

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist.

Joseph Conrad: heart of darkness.

Homer: Odyssey, Iliad.

Plato: The Symposium.

Nietzsche: Also Sprach Zarathustra.

 

That is about half of the books I think I would consider for a list like this, but I can not be bothered to write more right now ;D

[craftyreader]

One of my all time favorites is Little Women .  It was one of the first 'long' books I read.  I still have my original copy, somewhere.  Great Expectations too is on the list.  My oldest is just about old enough to start tackling some of the classics.

[TheBeerPatriot]

I have a hard time limiting it to one, but I'd say Shakespeare's King Lear, Hemingway's Farewell to Arms and Kerouac's On The Road.

[SirTownsend]

Alexandre Dumas' book "The Count of Monte Cristo"  it is my favorite book of all time, next to WoT of coarse! ;)  It is so complex and interesting that you cannot stop reading, a very good story with a point behind it.

[Vic]

So many good ones. I liked White Fang and Lord of the Flies.

[ed2funy]

Not really a 'classic' I guess (maybe?), but Catcher in the Rye is good.

 

EDIT:

Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls

 

This one is really great too!

[dapianoplay3r]

Catcher in the Rye is the serial killers book lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_references_to_the_novel_The_Catcher_in_the_Rye

[ed2funy]

lmao....I liked all the books I read in my Junior year.

The Great Gatsby was good too. So was Of Mice and Men.

 

(As the Pillow, I have killed many humans. :P)

[Werthead]

Outside of the SF&F field, MACBETH, GREAT EXPECTATIONS and WAR AND PEACE. LORD OF THE FLIES and IN COLD BLOOD are very powerful as well. Maybe also I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS and THE CANTERBURY TALES (well, some of them, anyway). Ovid's METAMORPHOSIS (aka 'The Greek Myths: The Greatest Hits') is also pretty cool.

 

Inside the field, THE GORMENGHAST TRILOGY and LORD OF THE RINGS, of course, pluse THE DYING EARTH sequence and Zelazny's LORD OF LIGHT (looking forward to - finally! - reading his AMBER books soon). NON-STOP by Brian Aldiss, THE STARS MY DESTINATION by Alfred Bester and I AM LEGEND by Richard Matheson as well.

[Talmanes]

I have to say I am nearly done with The Count of Monte Cristo and it is amazing! It is just plain great, and one of the best books I have read in a long time.