My Favorite Classic Novels (Top 10)

What is your favorite classic novel?

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[wheelz]

1984 what's the far Superior book for me but that's because I live in Canada and it scared the shit out of me how close we are to living in that book

[virginiaramirez]

"A Pair of Blue Eyes" Thomas Hardy, "Northanger Abbey" Jane Austen.

[CinematicGalaxy]

Great list! The Count of Monte Cristo is my favorite book of all time, although East of Eden is next on my to-read list. I agree about the plotting of Monte Cristo; some find the middle portion boring, but I love how intricately and mysteriously the revenge is set up. I love how thematically rich these works are.

[sandraelder]

Woman in White made me burn through a pile of Collins in short order! So good.

[Johanna_reads]

Excellent list! I’ll never forget the way East of Eden made me feel. While I understand why the critics considered the book’s themes on-the-nose, Steinbeck’s character work added so much depth to how they were portrayed. I’m looking forward to reading several of the books on your list!

[caewing]

My favorite classic is The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. It’s adventure, romance, and mystery all wrapped into one short lovely book.

[veronicagarcia]

Great List!!. I can not say that my list will consider as a Classic per se but I think that will pass the test of time (5 of them are Russian -I"m not very objective-😬) : 1) Anna Karenina (or War and peace, I can not decide) by Leo Tolstoy, 2) Dr Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 3) A day in the life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 4) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 5) The master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, 6) Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 7) Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell 8)The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato 9) The red and Black by Stendhal 10) Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry....I need to read East of Eden.

[OnlyTheBestFantasyNovels]

Cool list. I loved The Pearl and Of Mice and Men from Steinbeck, I'll have to try East of Eden the next time I'm in the mood for a classic.

If I had to pick 3 classics without even trying they'd be Dracula, 20K Leagues Under the Sea and Edgar Allan Poe's everything. I feel like reading those as a kid helped push me towards becoming a lifelong SF, mainly F reader. For non-SFF, I'd have to go White Fang, Macbeth and the complete Sherlock Holmes.

[ethanwimsett]

Apocalypse Now is one of my favourite films so I'm keen to check out Heart of Darkness! Thanks for the recommendations

[alynam]

Strangely enough, I own all the books mentioned here but only read one of them, which was East of Eden. I read that last July, and was quite surprised by how much I enjoyed it.
I haven't read many classics, but here's my favorites amongst what I have read:
- In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
- East of Eden John Steinbeck
- Centennial by James Michener
- Dracula Bram Stoker
- A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle

[databloom]

Yes! Couldn't agree more with your assessment of Charlotte Bronte and her monumental work. First time reading Jane Eyre altered my literary sensibilities in a big way. I remember in college some arguing that her sister's work Wuthering Heights was in many ways superior. I read WH before reading JE, and while I enjoyed WH, I just didn't think it was in the same ballpark.

[BrianBell]

I always learn something from your videos and this one is no exception. I've only read two of these (To Kill a Mockingbird and Crime and Punishment). Seems like I need to add some classics to TBR Mountain! (quick edit.. thank you very much for getting Les Miz soundtrack stuck in my head now.)

[heathercumbo.y]

My absolute favorite is Wuthering Heights. I have read all of Jane Austen, George Eliot, and E.M. Forster.

[curtjarrell]

I've never made a list, but if I did the #1 author for me would have to be Willa Cather on the strength of several powerful works including My Antonia, One of Ours, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadows on the Rock, and The Song of the Lark.

[verosnotebook]

I’ll join you for Jane Eyre and Count of Monte Cristo. My Dickens would be Dombey Son. As for the rest, I’d have The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, North & South by Elizabeth Gaskell, Middlemarch by George Eliot, Dracula by Bram Stoker, and all 6 Jane Austen novels. I do want to read the Russian novels you mentioned and East of Eden 😊

[FredaM]

My favourite of the Brontë sisters is Anne! I loved the Count of Monte Cristo and it’s on my re-read list. Jane Austen is my absolute favourite author of all time. George Eliot, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy are right up there with Austen for me. I don’t hear much about Anthony Trollope, but he’s so prolific and has a great style and very engaging commentary on social and political issues in Victorian era.

[angelaholmes]

Here's my picks
1. East of eden by John Steinbeck
2. Pride and prejudice by jane Austen
3. Persuasion by jane Austen

[rickross]

One of my favorites is “Frankenstein: the Original 1818 Text”.

[WordsinTime]

Your top 2 are on my TBR. I haven’t read that many classics but my favourite is The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[ev]

Wonderful list, thank you! I've just started "Jane Eyre" today, I hope I like it as much as you do. I have 2 other classic on my shelf waiting (for years) that I read them "American Tragedy" by Theodore Freiser and "The Forsyte Saga" by john Galsworthy, but I've just added all the books from your list that I haven't read yet, first among them - "The count of Monte Cristo"!