My mom wants me to start reading some good classic books. But I don't know any! Any suggestions?

Anything by Jane Austen. ("Pride and Prejudice", "Sense and Sensibility", "Emma", etc.)
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" by William Shakespeare.
"The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare.
"Macbeth" by William Shakespeare.
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll (best book ever).
"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. I've heard that "The Grapes of Wrath" was good too, but I haven't gotten around to reading it.
"A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.
"Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift.
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley.
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain.
"Dracula" by Bram Stoker.
"Animal Farm" by George Orwell.

Hoped that helped. :)

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen


I've read two of these: Romeo and Juliet and Of Mice and Men; both very good.

I started reading Pride and Prejudice, but I saw the 2005 movie so many times to be familiar with the story, and it is amazing!

I saw at least one adaptation of each Jane Austen novel, but didn't read the books. They are good stories.

I saw the BBC series of Little Dorrit... Amazing! I didn't read the book, though.

I never read or saw an adaptation of Jane Eyre; it came to mind because there is a new movie coming out soon.

Hope this helps! :)

Its always hard answering these, because if you're not in the mood for a good classic it can be hard to get into.

I loved Anne of green gables by lucy maude montgomery, it's an easy one to start with becuase it's heartwarming and funny and the other books in the series just get better and better!

I think anything by Jules Verne is a must read. I love '20,000 Legues Under the Sea'.

How old are you? Some of the books mentioned were required reading when I was in High School so if you're that age or younger you may want to wait(or not) on those titles.

Hunchback of Notre Dame is a favorite of mine. Also Pride and Prejudice, it's a great read.

Is "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder a classic? It's really good. I think it might be a classic. . .Anyway, "Anne of Green Gables" is a good one, so is "Romeo and Juliet". But, read Our Town. It's amazing! ^.^

My favorites are "Hunchback of Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo, "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens, anything to do with Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "The Phantom of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux, "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson...
check some of those out! Your mom is right to want you reading good literature - follow her advice, there's some great stories out there!

ofcourse, Jane Austin. and "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott....such a great read. (a cute movie too!)

Tons of books:
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Moby Dick
King Arthur (Various Books)
Tons of books.

The whole Anne of Green Gables series.
The Harp in the South by Ruth Park (this is Australian so you might not be able to get your hands on it, but is very good, as are all the other books she wrote.)
The little women books by Louisa May Alcott.
I've read all of them, they're good, and none are too hard to understand.

FANKINSTIEN!!!!

Definately read Wuthering Heights!

Possibly War and Peace or the Sherlock Holmes Series

Catcher In The Rye this book is a good read I've read it twice.about a college guy who feeles alienated and out of place from his peers.well written its a good buy.

Of Mice and Men, it's great!

It really depends how mature you are and what reading level you are at. If you want a simple book go for Peter Pan, Heidi or What Katy Did. If you want a more mature read try Pride and Prejudice or To Kill A MockingBird.
And if you want to take the mickey, read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It's a spoof of Prdie and Prejudice with a modern twist. It still uses Victorian English but the plot line differs slightly (more violence but the parings stay the same!). I read it before I read Pride and Prejudice, because it uses some modern themes with old fashioned ones, which makes understanding Victorian English a little easier. When I read the original Pride and Prejudice I understood it better, because I had been first introduced to a watered down version of the language. Does that make sense?

You should also give the Russian and French classics a try. I highly recommend anything by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Hugo.

You should at least try:
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy
Les Misérables - Hugo (i know it is quite huge but it's worth it, especially if you're into history)

Definitely Wuthering Heights. It's the best classic I've read. I also recommend Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, and almost all of Jane Austen's books.

knight and the dove by lori wick
hawk and the jewel by lori wick
bamboo place by lori wick
pretense by lori wick
the proposal by lori wick
vanity fair by william makepeace thackeray
the woman in white by wilkie collins
the hobbit by J.R.R TOLKIEN
what massie knew by henry james
to the lighthouse by virginia wolf

My fave are the Anne of Green Gables books. They're written extremely well.

Thank you for asking this question. I have a 13 year old daughter who's an avid reader, but she's a bit stuck on the romance novels atm. I've made a deal with her and she can still read them so long as she keeps it at ratio of one trashy novel per 3 other genre books. I'll be giving her a list of the books mentioned in the answers here. Though she's read a number of them already, there are quite I few we hadn't considered.

1984 by Geroge Orwell
The chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
I, robot by Isaac Asimov
Lord of the flies by William Golding
The outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells
The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer

On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Illiad by Homer
Dracula by Bram Stoker
anything by Ernest Hemingway
anything by Nick Hornby
and so on

Here are 2 that I don't think have been mentioned yet:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
(The dialogue in this book is written in the vernacular, but stick w/it--it's well worth the time)

Gone woth the wind

Lord of the Flies by William Golding
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe