Classic literature suggestions for a 16 year old?

Question

I'm 16 and I'm looking for some good classic literature - preferably anything up to 1990. Any suggestions? Please give the author's name and a bit of what it's about.

Thanks.

Stuff I have read so far:

The Scarlet Letter
1984
The Crucible

Stuff I Want to read (please don't repeat):
A Tale of Two Cities
Great Expectations
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
The Pearl
The Great Gatsby
Brave New World
Catch-22
Animal Farm

Answer 1

Based on what you've listed...



Farenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury (Books are banned - one man wonders why)

Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger (Can't explain - just read)

The Time Machine - HG Wells (Man builds Time Machine to the future - very deep)

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (A child learning about prejudice)

The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oliver Wilde (A man and his portrait and the psychological pain it drives him through)

The House of Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne (Only read part, but if you liked the Scarler Letter...)

Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller (A salesman and his poor family)

Our Town - Thorton Wilder (Revealing observations of daily life)

Lord of the Flies - William Golding (A group of boys get trapped on an island - kind of creepy, but very good)

Alas, Babylon - Pat Frank (Nuclear bomb in America, and a group of survivors have to get through until help comes, if it ever will. One of the best, in my opinion)

Answer 2

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Earnest Hemingway

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Answer 3

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

The Time Machine by H. G. Wells

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

Answer 4

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset

Answer 5

Catcher in the rye by JD Salinger, and then make sure you read Nine Stories by him as well.



Of Human Bondage was really good, by Somerset Maugham. Also the Painted Veil.

Dandelion Wine-- so good

THE BELL JAR --Sylvia Plath- oh my god. this is my favorite book ever.

Jane Eyre

Also, read anything by Tolstoy

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson

Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway +the Sun also Rises

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving







ps: Grapes of Wrath, Tale of two cities, great expectations, of mice and men, the great gatsby: all REALLY good

Answer 6

I know of a few really good books.

1. The Vampire Lestat by: Anne Rice

It is about, as the title says, the Vampire lestat. It tells of his life story, his fledglings, his family, his friends. His loves. I adore the book with all my heart.



2. Secrets in the Attic by: V.C. Andrews

It is about a girl,Zappora, who moves to a town, Sandburg, and befriends another girl,Karen. Together they spend most of they're time in the attic. Karen has a terrible secret and in the attic they share everything. It's where the lies turn lethal...



3. Heart of the Hunter by: R.L. Stine

It is about a boy of age 16-17, Jamie Fier. He and his family are on they're way to the Kentucky Settlement. Along the way a series of events occur and Jamie finds himself captured by the Shawnee indians. He falls in love with one of them, but his love is not returned. An old medicine women says she can help him gain the love of his beauty, Whispering Wind. But the price is high. When the full moon is high in the sky Jamie will have to give her his soul.



These are just a few books that come to mind. I hope this helps

Answer 7

Judging by the books you listed, I think you would really enjoy Earth Abides by George R. Stewart and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Answer 8

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Catcher in the Rye





The Pearl was GOD AWFUL! Though it is my opinion, i wouldnt waste time reading it. But Of Mice and Men was great.

Answer 9

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