Book Club

[skatting44]

   " The Good Earth " written in 1931  by Pearl S. Buck

    " which depicted peasant life in China, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and contributed to her winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. " 

 There was also a 1937  movie made abt this books story staring Paul Muni & Luise Rainer

[bargainsgirl]

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@ellaphant wrote:

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@Mz iMac wrote:

The Other Side Of Midnight - Sidney Sheldon

Lucky - Jackie Collins

Hollywood Wives - Jackie Collins

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I wouldn't consider books by Collins and Sheldon "Classics"

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They are not.

[Flatbush]

I don't  know if Thomas Clayton Wolfe works are a classic, but I have been addicted to his writings since I was in my late teens.

For the moment I am reading, "Of Time And The River"

It is wordy ( 800 -900 pages )  that's for sure but full of  the humor and poetry  that Wolfe is famous for.

I greytly regret his early death at age 37.

I read it on my kindle as I am vision impaired.

[Sakuya]

Romeo and Juliet
Wuthering Heights
Jane Eyre

Currently reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time. I have easily read over 1,000 books but not really many classics. Would Sherlock Holmes books count as classics?

[LadyAlice]

Black Beauty (autobiography of a horse)

The Black Stallion

A Christmas Carol

David Copperfield

[beach-mom]

Jane Eyre. Little Women, The Little Prince, Gone With the Wind, Les Miserables, East of Eden, A Christmas Carol, The Great Gatsby, Black Beauty, Fahrenheit 451, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Scarlet Letter 

These are books I've read and I can think of. I didn't like all of them. The first 4 I listed are probably my favorites.  

[beach-mom]

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@Mz iMac wrote:

The Other Side Of Midnight - Sidney Sheldon

Lucky - Jackie Collins

Hollywood Wives - Jackie Collins

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@Mz iMac - I loved The Other Side of Midnight!   

[Oznell]

@cornicopia ,  great question.  A few of mine have changed over time, but here are just two:

"The House of Mirth"   by Edith Wharton.    Has a very complicated heroine, is set in Gilded Age New York.   Lily Bart is lovely, sensitive, vibrantly intelligent.  She knows that given her relative "genteel poverty",  she must 'marry well' in order to survive.  She has a rather cold-blooded strategy, but her imagination and her passions keep tripping her up in the high-stakes game she is playing in callous, hypocritical New York society.  Can be read as a cautionary tale...

"The Sun Also Rises"  by Ernest Hemingway.    A smart, skeptical group of Americans in the 1920's in Paris, part of the "Lost Generation" after World War I.   Artists, writers, hangers-on.  Reporter Jake Barnes was savagely wounded in the war.  He loves quirky Lady Brett Ashley, and she him, but they can't get together, so each suffers and copes in their own way.  Brett was famously modeled on Lady Duff Twysden, a devil-may-care socialite in Hemingway's Paris circle.   

[MoJoV]

The Count of Monte Christo

The Magnificent Ambersons

Dracula 

[rockygems123]

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@cornicopia wrote:

What do you consider your most favorite classic that you have read.

One of mine is "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."

I also like, but is very scary, is "1984."  I read it 

in the pre-internet times and was so glad it was fiction,

but these days, I'm not so sure.  It may becoming too

true.

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@cornicopia 

Madam Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Damian & Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

Brothers Karamozov by Dostoevsky

The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte