classic novels that are engaging?

[Anonymous]

The Forsyte Saga by Galsworthy.

[Anonymous]

Moby Dick!

Anonymous wrote:Vanity Fair.

I was just going to say that!

OP, what about the Brontes? Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, etc.?

Or, you could just poke out my eyes with a red hot poker. Same for that Gatsby thing.

[Anonymous]

The Killer Angels by Michael Sharra
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
Winter's Tale by Mark Helprin
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Things Fall Apaet by Cichua Achebe
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
A Clockwork Orange by Anthiny Burgess
The Power and the Glory by Grahsm Greene
The Quiet Americsn by Graham Greene
Dune by Frank Herbert
A Thousand Splendid Sons by Khaled Hosseini
The Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
And Quiet Flows the Don by Mikhail Sholokhov
The Fixer by Bernard Malamud
The White Guard by Mikhail Bulgakov

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rebecca

East Of Eden

Ethan Frome

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

The Pearl

Jane Eyre

Of Mice And Men

Are you me? Love your picks. Jane Eyre is my favorite of all time. And I thought I was the only person on earth who thought Ethan Frome was heartbreakingly beautiful.

[Anonymous]

NP here who also loved Ethan Frome.

[Anonymous]

Tale of Two Cities
Grapes of Wrath
Uncle Tom's Cabin

or, in the modern:
Meridian, by Alice Walker
Roots
Howard's End

[Anonymous]

Ethan Frome has stayed with me, in a haunting way.

Though I enjoyed Chuck D's autobiography, where he concluded, "F*ck Ethan Frome!" My 14-y.o. self cheered.