How Many "Must-Read" Classics Have I Read? 🏛️🍃 | The Book Castle | 2021 

Shocked that Oscar Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray isn't on the list. A remarkable Classic. I've read 64 of these. So many to recommend! I've reads loads of Classics not listed. Love Hardy, Trollope, Wharton, Eliot, Gaskell, Bowen, Austen, Brontes... Thank you for this!

One flew over the cocos nest is one of my favorite books. A gripping commentary on how the those with mental illness are marginalized and misunderstood. The Grapes of Wrath is also excellent.

Call of the Wild!! I listened to this on Audio, an older gentleman narrated it and it was the most enjoyable experience ever! Don't like Little Women, but Razor's Edge by Maugham is worth it. I have read all of his books.

The Outsiders by S.E Hinton is one of my favorite books of all time.

I loved this video, I’ve just started my own book channel and it’s so great to meet you!! ✨

Suite Francaise was only published in 2004, however that's because it was actually a manuscript found by the author's daughter (Nemirovsky and her husband were killed in Nazi concentration camp). I read this book this year and was blown away, one of my favourite books of the year for sure.

I loved this video! And I would really like a vlog where you read The Master and Margarita 😊

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is amazing. The book and movie differ a bit but both are so meaningful and the movie has scenes you will never forget. People talk about the nurse all the time.

I have read 25 and 8 are on my TBR. Lovely list!

Try reading a Christmas Carol by Dickens. It is short and I think you will enjoy it.

Reading Wodehouse's books are an absolute delight. The Code of the Woosters is no exception. The Jeeves and Wooster series, Psmith series, Blandings series to name a few, will bring hours of joy to the reader.

Loved this video. I did want to tell you that I’ve read Great Expectations twice and it’s the only Dickens I like. And I REALLY like it. It’s just a good story.

I love Crime & Punishment! Raskolnikov is such a great & memorable character. Give it in a chance when you’re in the mood for man losing his mind!

Wind in The Willows is an adult book and very fun!!

I guessed that I had read about 50 and I was spot on! It was nice to see some books I'd never heard of on there, it seems a bit more interesting than the usual classics lists you get. When I saw The Count of Monte Cristo I immediately thought this would be a book for you because you love adventure stories! I'm reading it right now and although I'm very slow with it, I'm definitely really enjoying it :) Also definitely read Lolita, the writing is STUNNING

Now I want to do this too! Such a fun video.

I highly recommend the Count of Monte Cristo. I just read it this summer and it’s such a journey. It’s a brick though at 1300 pages but it’s highly worth it to read the unabridged edition. It’s just an amazing plot.

I love Dickens and have read many on this list. Between A Tale of two Cities and Great Expectations and for ease of connecting to the story I'd say Great Expectations is the place to start especially with the character of Miss Havisham who is one of my favourite characters ever. I must add that A Tale of Two Cities is one of my favourite books of any genre. 2 more things; 1, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is another of my favourites and although it is very long and there are pages and pages of description about the sewers it is beautifully written and the story heart wrenching and emotive. 2, My Antonia by Willa Cather, another favourite which I went into blind to the story and the author and it was incredible. Again beautiful writing, great characters and prose. Next year is going to be my year of reading the Russians. The master and Margarita and Anna Karenina are both on my list along with Crime and Punishment and The idiot by Fydor Dostoevsky.

your opinions seem frank, honest, and insightful.

North and south isn’t like pride and prejudice… so good

I’m currently reading The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham and I’m loving it. Great writing and interesting themes (finding purpose in your life ect.) and yet extremely readable. Highly recommend it!

I love One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest. Its definitely worth a read! Edit: North and South is worth the long read its so good. The characters! Otherwise the BBC mini series with Richard Armitage is phenomenal!

Great Expectations is light but heavy with insight into the weight of having great expectations for your imagined future life. You will be glad you read it. Really.

Passing by Nella Larsen should definitely be on this list! I read it a few weeks ago and I loved it!

I've read 37/100. I have The Chrysalids, The Master & Margarita, Count of Monte Cristo, and North & South which I plan to read. Also Anna Karenina which will be a reread. Last year I tried reading Tale of Two Cities and just couldn't get through it. We read Great Expectations in high school, but I doubt I will read anything else by him. Willa Cather is one of favorite authors and I loved My Antonia. Her descriptions of the prairie and homesteading life are interesting and moving. John Steinbeck is another of my favorites and I plan to reread East of Eden. I'm going to look for Suite Francaise. From other comments it sounds very interesting.

As for A Christmas Carol, I've read that one on Christmas Eve so it can be a very short read even for people who have no experience with Dickens like myself. However, it is still a bit slow paced in my opinion.

I really loved the grapes of wrath(: as well as east of eden

I've read 26 of the 100, and have 26 books on my shelf that are on this list unread. I love lists, so I will probably take those books and set them aside to read, challenging myself to read them. I loved Mill on the Floss and My Antonia (Willa Cather is one of my favorite authors). I don't have The Outsiders, but I think I would like to read it. The Wodehouse book too. I've read a couple of Jonathan Coe's books. I really like him. The Rotter's Club is very good.

Oh! & if I had to pick one Steinbeck: I would definitely go with East of Eden! It’s a masterpiece ❤️

Crime and Punishment and The Age of Innocence are amazing, definitely worth reading!

O, One flew over the Cockoo’s nest is also great.

James Baldwin is my favorite author. All the books by him that I’ve read were fantastic . Highly recommend Giovanni’s Room, If Beale Street Could Talk, and Another Country. I feel like he writes about what needs to be written. His work is some of the most real and raw I’ve ever read. His characters aren’t always good people nor are the stories always a feel good time but they’re important. I can’t recommend him enough!

This video was randomly recommended to me so I can't really suggest which ones to read based on your taste because I'm not familiar with it. But there were quite a few I was like, _Oh, that one's so good!!_ I've read 25 out of this 100. And own and want to read many more. A handful of my favorites are Anna Karenina, East of Eden, Brideshead Revisited, The Outsiders, The Secret History and Lolita- which are all-time favorites as well for me. Also, Suite Française was first published in 2004, but written in the 40s. The author was already prolific at the time and had other published works but was Jewish and died at Auschwitz. The book was later discovered and finally published soon afterwards. She has many posthumously published works, including at least two novels that I know of that were found much later.

The Wind in the Willows is awesome. I've only read it as an adult, and it's so readable. The first part is cosy and idyllic, the second part is insane. Think something similar to drug addiction and a battle if I remember correctly. Weird and brilliant.

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is a short read, I think it's quite interesting and memorable. The ideas in it about the future are interesting, especially for the year the actual book was written.

The Little Women slander! That’s probably my favorite book! I’ll try not to hold that against you Lol! Based on what I’ve read and know about Charles Dickens I feel like you would enjoy A Christmas Carol and Great Expectations the most. Also, please read The Count of Monet Cristo! I read an abridged version when I was 15 and fell in love. I wish more people would read it! I want to get an unabridged copy soon and do a reread! (Sorry for the all over the place comment. Apparently I have a lot of thoughts about classics).

39/100- woot! This is a good list! The Code of the Woosters is GREAT! All the Jeeves and Wooster books are great- they're funny, idyllic, charming. But they're a certain type of British humor, so you either LOVE them- or you just don't get it. They're about a butler (Jeeves) and the foolish young man he serves (Bertie Wooster) and they take place in England during the 1920s-30s, and all the plots are light and silly.

Finally! Someone who has the exact same opinion about Dracula! I always think it has dragged out, and not scary but boring as hell. I can’t recount how many times the ladies in the book had been bitten by Dracula and given blood transfusion and bitten again but it definitely goes beyond necessary. I highly recommend Giovanni’s room by James Baldwin, one of my favorite classic. I haven’t read Another Country, I will add it to my list! This is a fun video! I silently count my number and wow there are so many classics I want to read but I haven’t. Thanks for doing this video! Another thing is, It’s a fine list, but I think it highly focuses on the British/American classics. I wish it can include more classics around the world.

LK3 HI5 great video ! Happy Bookish Thursday Friends

from the title i thought that Crime and Punishment would be really abstract and long-winded, but once i started i couldn't stop, cat-and-mouse page-turner that it was - highly recommend it!

You would love the Outsiders!!! It's amazing! :)

Totally should give The Outsiders a shot! It's a great story and has a good movie too :)

I got 17! 😃 Also, my photo gallery is full of screenshots of your videos, I always find so many good recommendations from you 🥰

Of this list I've read exactly half. I've never heard of some of these books and I have checked out many of these lists before. A lot of the books are on my pile of possibilities. *One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest* is great. But I liked the book a lot more than the movie. The movie makes it more into a comedy. A lot of great titles on this list. *East of Eden* is one of my favourites. And you should definitely checkout Willa Cather and Edith Wharton.

Could you please make a spoilery review of the Secret history when you reread it? I read it and while it was good, it didn't understand why people love it so much, and I would love to hear you thoughts about it! Also, if you have any critique against the book I would love to hear that too!

Could I make a suggestion? Since the 1960s, The BBC or the other British TV channels have made TV adaptations of many classics. The BBC has also made and continues to make wonderful radio plays of all the classics. These dramas are pretty easy to find if you do a google search, and often they are available at no cost on the BBC website and elsewhere. If you are not certain whether you will like a classic novel, a TV or radio drama adapted from the book can be a great taster. For example, I have really enjoyed reading Dostoyevsky since I listened to the BBC dramatisation of The Idiot.

I loved Lolita, To Kill a Mockingbird and The Scarlet Letter

Good guess at "Woosters", which is indeed pronounced "Wusters", but "Wodehouse" is "wood-house". He wrote classic works of English comedy that are very class-bound and probably don't translate well to the American experience - hell, they don't translate all that well to the modern English experience - so skipping him is absolutely fine. If you want a flavour of his work, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie were in an adaptation some decades ago called simply "Jeeves and Wooster" that might be available online. Wodehouse himself blotted his copybook in the end by doing some propaganda work for the Nazis, though how much of that was intentional and how much of it was simply because he was living in France when they invaded is a source of much heated debate. Oh, and I totally agree with you about Lord of the Rings. A rare case of the films being better than the books.

North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell isn't a super long book, at least not as long as most Dickens or Russian novels 😅 If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like North and South. It is really good, one of my favourites.

I really enjoy North and South. It has a similar feel to Pride and Prejudice. There is an excellent miniseries which I recommend If you want to skip the book :)

I got to 45! I'm kinda proud of myself, for no reason at all. But do read Things Fall Apart, it is genius and there aren't enough words to describe how brilliant it is.

I've read 20 from this list. I would have liked to see something from Ray Bradbury on here. He's one of my favorites. Also, The Picture of Dorian Gray I think should have made the list. I definitely vote for you reading Great Expectations. That is in my top 5 classics for sure. My favorite Steinbeck is Of Mice and Men. I thought it was simply genius. Although, I did really like Travels with Charley and East of Eden, too.

Crime and Punishment is definitely worth reading. One of my favorites

Edith Wharton was the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize. I loved The Age of Innocence (movie too!), and I love Edith Wharton- but she's not for everyone. All of her books are about women, they're realistic stories about women. No sunshine endings here- she sugarcoats nothing. Some readers find that to be a downer, but I love the realism.

The Outsiders is great, although I haven't read it since high school. There is also an excellent movie of it.

Try reading North and South (reminds me about Pride and Prejudice) and Suite francaise (Second World War tragic love story in France) - one of my top 10 favourite books :)

Well I read 35/100 on this list. I read The Forsyte Saga many many years ago, when the show was running on PBS, and I loved it. I need to reread it. I think there is a newer TV adaptation out now.

"Buddenbrooks" is one of my favourites - it is really long though.^^

Yes someone else who didn‘t like Dracula! I was so excited to read it and I had to force myself to finish it because I kept getting sleepy while reading it 🙈 I kind of missed The Picture of Dorian Grey on this list because it‘s such a well known classic (plus a really good book) and also Of Mice and Men and Slaughterhouse Five which I haven‘t read but are on my classics tbr list ☺️ also Penguin has the prettiest covers for classics 🥰

(I read quite a few of these, sorry for the long comment.) The Master and Margarita is very Russian, but an interesting read. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is not in any way Halloween spooky, thrillery. It is worth reading. Things Fall Apart is good, and I think you would like it. It's a very manly-man book, but within the African tradition, and that culture's idea of masculinity. I found it quite interesting. But there are quite a few terrible things that happen in it (a lot of it to women), so one needs to be in the mood for it. Catch 22 is great. But it has a very distinctive style. Another Country is good, because it's Baldwin, and all of his writing is beautiful. I would recommend Giovanni's Room instead. Or The Fire Next Time. I wouldn't recommend Le Miserables for you because it is mostly the heavy historical, battle and etc. writing that you mentioned you don't enjoy. You're not alone with not liking Little Women, and Dickens in general. Also: Anything that was published less than 50-100 years ago shouldn't be considered a classic. Books from 1990's and 2004 on this list are ridiculous.

I've read 36/100 😁 The Count of Monte Cristo is my favourite book 😍 I liked A Tale of Two Cities way more than Great Expectations.

The Outsiders is YA. My daughter read it for school in grade 9 I believe and absolutely loved it. I've read The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka. It's a very short, bizarre novella that I enjoyed. I want to read more by him.

The Outsiders is a great book. It often changes non readers into readers as teens.

If you ever decide to read something from Kafka, try Metamorphosis or The Trial

I've read 16/100 lol I've seen some that I still haven't read, that I own and some that I want to read, but need to buy first XD I need to get out of that reading slump I am in and start reading! 🙈

From the books I have read (27/100) I'd highly recommend "I Capture the Castle" and "Brideshead Revisited". Both books also have really good movie and/or mini series adaptations. "Buddenbrooks" is very good, too. I was surprised by how much I liked it after not thinking it would really be for me (read it because it is one of my Mum's favourite books).

I'm amazed 'On The Road' by Kerouac isn't in that list - that's my favourite book.

Catching up, Alice! 36/100 📚

i read the count of mc earlier this year (unabridged) and i'd strongly suggest to go for the abridged option :-D

This was an interesting list. I’ve read 24 and am in the middle of one. Then there are 10 on my shelves and there are five I also want to read Through this list I found two new ones: The master and Margarita and One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich. I’d like to recommend The outsiders and A Christmas carol. Both short and lovely. And now something I’m sad about: I’ve read four novels and one short story by Jane Austen and none of them are on this list.

I read Things Fall Apart back in January and it was good, it tackles the colonialism issues that changed the lives of people in Africa. I think it is an important work and it is part of a trilogy but I just read the first one. If you wanna read Charles Dickens try reading Hard Times it is my favorite by him. And White Nights I didn’t like I don’t know if Dostoyevsky is for me so far I didn’t like any book I read by him.

giovanni's room by james baldwin is incredible!

Columbo the tv detective is based on a cop character in "Crime And Punishment".

I'm an old former English lit major so I've been reading for years and years. However, I tended to prefer old classics. I have read 58 of the list. Not sure why P.G. Wodehouse is on the list although I've always enjoyed reading his funny, funny writing and bought all of his Jeeves books that I could find. Didn't read the Wodehouse book listed, however. Some of the suggestions do seem to be ideosyncratic choices and not books that are widely recognized as significant.

Willa Cather writes quiet family stories of the American plains. My Antonia was required reading in school. The Razors Edge by Maugham is much shorter and it is beautiful. Then you could see if you liked his writing before jumping into a chunker. Felt the same way about Little Women.

I listened to Dracula and think it is the best way for some people to enjoy it.

The list of classics left out Gulliver’s Travels and Don Quixote.

I've never read THE OUTSIDERS but I highly recommend the movie. I think S.E. Hinton was high-school young when she wrote it and there a lot of very young future movie stars in it. Also, it was directed by Francis Ford Coppola.

if those classics are in russian or french, do you read them in norwedian or english?

_Code of the Woosters,_ P. G. Wodehouse - Treat yourself to some hilarity. _Atlas Shrugged,_ Ayn Rand - I strongly suggest you instead read _The Fountainhead_ by the same author prior to reading Atlas. _I, Claudius,_ Robert Graves - Ancient Roman Empire as seen through the eyes of the 4th emperor, Claudius. Dishes the dirt on the Emperors and their wives. Entertaining, engaging. If I could suggest an addition for you... _Bonjour Tristesse_ (Hello Sadness), Françoise Sagan - (Wikipedia) _Published in 1954, when the author was only 18, it was an overnight sensation. The title is derived from a poem by Paul Éluard, "À peine défigurée", which begins with the lines "Adieu tristesse/Bonjour tristesse..." An English-language film adaptation was released in 1958, directed by Otto Preminger._ I'm sure you'd like it.

Les Miserables is on my top 3 favourite books of all time. Victor Hugo forged it with such unparalleled prose -- it makes the characters' turmoils feel universal. I never cried so hard before. It makes me aspire to be a more unselfish, thoughtful, and compassionate person.

I know I'm commenting really late and I just watched your video and have no idea what you've read or actually permanently written off by now, but I just want to say re: Dickens--personally I like Dickens enough that I intend to eventually read everything he's ever written BUT at the same time also find myself in a perpetual love/hate relationship with him. Basically every book (maybe A Christmas Carol excepted) is a mixed bag of things that give me great joy and things that irritate me to no end, in varying concentrations. For me, the good obviously wins out overall, though I can absolutely see how that might not be the case for someone else. That said, Oliver Twist was to me easily the worst of the seven (eight if you count A Christmas Carol) novels I've read so far, and I know that's a pretty popular opinion among contemporary Dickens fans. So if you didn't outright hate it that COULD actually be a sign you might go for some of the other books. Or maybe not. My advice would be to just read A Christmas Carol since you say you're interested anyway, especially since it sounds like you've never seen any adaptation, which gives you a relatively rare opportunity of having a "pure" reaction to the original. I'd say this is what Dickens most quintessentially IS to a general public who may never have read Dickens. It's very short, definitely a novella rather than a novel, and it's now an absolute classic story in the best sense of that word. And then when you've read it watch the Muppet movie version, because it's actually really really great and smartly done and just delightful. If you feel more optimistic about Dickens at that point, Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities are both relatively short as far as his novels go, so I wouldn't choose on that basis. I really like both of them, but I'll be honest and admit that A Tale of Two Cities took me three or four attempts over the years to make it past the first chapter before I eventually got going. I think Great Expectations is probably a pretty good litmus test of whether he's going to work for you past this point, because there's a pretty compelling hook right at the start and I'd say the plot and themes going on are more tightly developed from there than in many of his other novels. Great Expectations is many many readers' favorite of his books. It's not actually mine, but if you're not feeling it here, I doubt you will with anything else.

If you like funny books, I recommend the audiobooks of Wodehouse's Jeeves books read by Martin Jarvis. His narration makes the books even more hilarious.

I read Great Expectations and it was a hard read for me, I had to re read a few pages to get the jest of it. I had high hopes because everyone speaks highly of it, but it's a big no for me.😕

All of your comments were from a year ago but I’m just seeing this video now. Read Crime and Punishment. Dostoevsky is intense and brilliant in his writing. He was a contemporary of Tolstoy so I like reading them simultaneously. The Brothers Karamazov is his masterpiece and it’s long but intense and psychologically interesting like Crime, which I’ve read twice. Not on the list but equally as good is The Idiot. Don’t waste your time with Moby Dick. I would rather claw my eyes out than reread that book. It may be due to the fact that my 11th grade English teacher spent half of the year discussing it. If you are going to read a Dickens novel then Great Expectation is a good choice. I read it in high school 30 years ago and I would reread it. Hard times is shorter but the characters are not as interesting as Pip and Mrs. Havisham. All Americans should read Toni Morrison whose book The Bluest Eye was the first of her works that I read. I’ve read Beloved (3 times) Sula, Song of Solomon, Love and Paradise. Her writings make you think and some of them fall into the category of magical realism like those of Gabriel Garcia Marquez ‘s book 100 years of solitude. I have read that book twice and I really enjoyed it. Suspend all belief and just go along for the ride. If you enjoy it then also read Love in the time of Cholera. I have Chinua Achebe on TBR especially after reading Chimimamda Adichies Half a Yellow Sun. Both books discuss the Nigerian civil war. She tells the story about the effects of the war on twin sisters and he tells it from the perspective of a young warrior. She was inspired by his work. Suite Francaise was not written in 2004. That may be when the manuscript was found because the author never returned from the concentration camp (I think that I remember that correctly). It is a good book. One that I intend to reread. Catch -22 is better in audio. It’s essentially about a guy who wants to defect from war. I’ve read it twice. I have not read Women in Love but Lady Chatterly’s Lover was a really good book. I recommend reading about Lawrence prior to reading the books. It puts your reading into a different perspective. It’s been a really long time since I read Vanity Fair and I remember liking it but I can’t recall details. Les Miserable is as the title suggests not a happy book but I’m glad that I read it. It is very long (like this message) and 1/2 of it could have been omitted. Go see the musical it’s amazing. Read The Count of Monte Cristo and add 3 Musketeers to your list. If Beale Street Could Talk is a great audiobook by James Baldwin. I have not read the book on the list. I can’t believe there is no Shakespeare, Hemingway, Faulkner, no Allende. I could go on and on but it’s 224 am and I’ve been up since 630 am yesterday. Good luck.

I've read 28 of these! I really liked Crime and Punishment, but I read it in two days in an exam prep panic, so my opinion is probably not to be trusted 😅 Les Miz is probably the longest book I've ever read, and parts of it are amazing! Some of the most beautiful writing ever. But then there's also a long passage about the sewer system in Paris, so... 🙄

I must be the last person on the planet earth, to not have read a Jane Austen story. Which should be my first one?

I loved the Master and Margarita. The book features biblical references, the devil and witches, but with a strange surrealist take. I don't think I can explain what it's about, you just have to enjoy the ride.

I've read 16/100!

I've read 52 of these. Still a few I want to read. Orlando is on my imminent TBR. Crime and Punishment is way too long and the ending made me angry. I enjoyed Moby Dick, but didn't love it. All the stuff on whaling was interesting, and made sense in the context of Ahab's obsession in the story, but I get why people would want to skip it! I did not like Dracula. It's very unkind to the women in the story (like so many 'classic' books). A lot of people seem to love Great Expectations, but I didn't get on with it. Things Fall Apart is a reaction to Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. It's quite short, but impactful. Middlemarch is the best of the Eliots I've read. I don't recommend The Mill on the Floss. It's so bleak. The Counte of Monte Cristo is so much fun. It is long, but he keeps the plot moving. There's one section between around chapter 30 and 40 that drags a little, but the rest is great. Everything is connected to the story brilliantly. Lol on the comment on Ulysses! I have read it, and it's not unreadable, but it does help to know a bit about Joyce's style before going in. I recommend an annotated edition, particularly for the non-Irish reader.

I Capture the Castle and Travels with Charlie are both great reads, but I wouldn’t call them classics. Anything by Vonnegut and you can start with any of his books. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is quite good, and probably not what you think. This was a rather odd list of classics, though.

Not a classic expert, but LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER by D.H. LAWRENCE is one of my favorite ones. At the time it was banned for it's erotic scenes 😆

Crime and punishment and The count of Monte Cristo 5⭐

I knew right away this list wasn't the one I had in mind - only 4 French books.. sorry ! We have our own national list of 100 French Classics - not seeing Maupassant, Flaubert, Camus, Sartre, De Beauvoir .. and Japanese, Italian, German authors ... but there are 100 lists of the 100 Must Read Classics as you pointed it out ! As you highlight it - no books are a must read and on that list, I still don't know a few of them and I am not interested at all in reading them. I have read probably over 30 books of the Penguin List but I don't intend to follow any list (nor the French one either). I want to read some of them because they're on my TBR (all the Dickens and more Dostoievsky). I also think you have read much more classics but they are not listed here. Also, I know two of books on that list that people always say are very bad so yes, you can easily skip them ! As for the ones I like, well I don't mind big books, I actually love them when you love the story you're in such as Middlemarch :-) And Flying over a Cuckoo's nest is sad but a beautiful story with beautiful writing ! and Master and Margerita ..I'll stop there !

Crime and Punishment is definitely worth the effort. Surprised that Tartt made the list, regard her as overrated and the literary equivalent of watching paint dry. Moby Dick is hard work and was glad to get to the end. Altogether I have read 36 of the list. Then I love Russian literature many of which don't get mentioned. I envy you living in Oslo, a beautiful city of which I have many fine memories of.

Eager to read all the comments. I really liked Things Fall Apart. I enjoyed the movie Age of Innocence but the book was meh. I totally enjoyed The Godfather. I bought it not having a clue about what a Godfather was or the Mafia. (I’m rural!!). I pretty much agree with you on the traditional classics like Dickens. Too long!very much enjoyed this video. Thanks.

Crime and Punishment is one of my favorite books of all time!!! I

Please ignore me if I'm wrong, but I seem to think you are interested in literature evolving around European antiquity and therefore I'd imagine you might really like I, Claudius! It is written as the autobiography of Emperor Claudius by bisexual icon Robert Ranke Graves. Claudius' place in history is incredibly interesting in itself, what with being sandwiched between two notoriously violent and unpredictable emperors, but the book expertly spins a narrative around that! In case you're still intrigued ^^

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Ok, this list is very English-American-centred. Nevertheless very intresting! If I can give you a recommandation, I read both "Crime and Punishment" and "The Brother Karamazov" and "CaP" is way better, "TBK" was too long and also a bit (or very) boring at times. "The Master and Margarita" was kind of fun to read, but I did not get the sense of that book :-D "One day in the life of Ivan Denisovich" was fantastic! (and very short). Uhhh Dickens, I heard as audiobook David Copperfield, and it was so boring for me, and pretty much all characters not real enough. I will never read anything by Dickens again. I noticed, that I don't care too much about classics in general, except I am truly interested in them. But I won't read classics just to have read them, if you know what I mean. I know I wouldn't enjoy a book like the Iliade or Ulisses. "One flew over the coockoo's nest": just saw the movie and it is both funny and heartbreaking. I can immagine the book is very good.