Which books should I have read?

Question

I am from Germany, but I would like to know which books are important to read in English...I mean of the classical litrature.
Please help me! Thanks a lot!

Answer 1

Books by Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, and John Steinbeck. They're all classic authors

Answer 2

On a university level you should have read pieces by such authors as Shakespeare, Hemingway, Faulkner, Chopin, Proust, Swift, etc. amongst many other British authors.



In high school we read pieces like Lord of the Flies, The Bluest Eye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, The Giver, The Scarlet Letter, The Metamorphisis, etc.

Answer 3

Anything from Shakespeare, Mark Twain,

You'll need to understand the Great Gatsby, by Williams, I think.

DIckens, a brit, unbelievable work. The BEST/not my vote, but it is also: "To Kill a MockingBird" by Harper Lee...

then see the movie "A Time to Kill" unbelievable similarities and contrasts, as Lee's book was written in the early 60's,

and the character "Dill" was taken from Truman Capote's actual life. They were best friends..but he did not win his Pulitzer until "In Cold Blood" years later. She won THAT year.

Man was he jealous. It's not enough to know the books, you need to know the author's lives to understand what they are really saying. Good luck.

That's a start anyway.

Answer 4

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (136)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (97)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (95)

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (79)

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen (76)

Emma by Jane Austen (72)

The Odyssey by Homer (77)

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (65)

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (64)

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (60)

The Iliad by Homer (62)

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (67)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (55)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (61)

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (49)

David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (43)

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (57)

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (50)

The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (41)

The Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Answer 5

William Shakespeare

Answer 6

William Shakespeare

Bronte sister books

Jane Austen

George Elliot

wordsworth

Keats

Answer 7

I don't know what you should have read, but I can make some recommendations:



A Tale of Two Cities (Dickens)

1984 and Animal Farm (Orwell)

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)

The Time Machine (Wells)

The Diaries of Adam and Eve (Twain)

The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger- I didn't really care for it, but it's considered "important")

On the Road (Kerouac)



Best of luck!

Answer 8

The Kinsey Millhone series by Sue Grafton

Answer 9

Charles Dickens GREAT EXPECTATIONS; THE SCARLET LETTER by Hawthorne; Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray; and Moby Dick by Herman Melville to start with