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“Why read the classics? A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” These are a few recommendations, books everyone should read. Don’t let yourself be convinced they are good: read and decide for yourself!

(no particular order intended)

• Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
  
• The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
  
• North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
  
• Hard Times - Charles Dickens
• The Karamazov Brothers - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
• Wuthering Heights - Emily Brontë
• The Waves - Virginia Woolf
  
• Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
• Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
• Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
• Hamlet - William Shakespeare
• Richard II - William Shakespeare
  
• Little Women - Louisa Alcott
  
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
  
• Emma - Jane Austen
• Anna Karenina - Liev Tolstói
• Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
• Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
• The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton 
• Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
• Lord of The Flies - William Golding
  
• One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
  
• Persuasion - Jane Austen
  
• War and Peace - Liev Tolstói
• Macbeth - William Shakespeare
  
• The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
  
• Dracula - Bram Stoker
• The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar - Edgar Allan Poe
• Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
• The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka 
• Moby Dick - Herman Melville
• Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
  
• King Lear - William Shakespeare
• The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
  
• Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
  
• Jean Barois - Roger Martin du Gard
• Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Gaskell
  
• Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
  
• To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
  
• The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
  
• Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky