Count of Monte Cristo
20,000 leagues under the sea

You can most classics for free on the Web.

Anonymous wrote:Rebecca
Jane Eyre
The Pearl
Ethan Frome
Little Women
Anne Frank
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn

(I know some of these are considered "young adult," but still worthwhile if you have not read them yet, IMO."

Just read this because DC is reading it in school. Very moving; wish I had gotten around to it much earlier.

Oh, and Frank Herberts Dune.

Master and Magarita - it is my favorite Russian novel.

If you have not read them, I suggest The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne, On Walden Pond by Thoreau, The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Their Eyes Are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston and Bleak House and A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens.

I cannot seem to get through any of Gagriel Garcia Marquez's stuff - I've tried

On my can't believe I have not read but must list: Ulysses by James Joyce and The Metamorphisis

Here's an idea that might prove unpopular but could help if all you have is short bursts of time on the metro.
get the cliff notes to the books, then read the book. that way you'll know what to look for and where the book is going and can follow it better.
(I know, I know, not the same as reading straight through, but better than never getting to it)

Try some Nabokov. Pale Fire will make you laugh.

Pickwick Papers - Ambitious! Maybe I will too! (It will take me forever. I miss those days when I could curl up with a book for hours.)

Anonymous wrote:I finally just crossed My Antonia off my list last year!

Some on my still need to read list

Catch 22
Moby Dick
Ethan Frome
more Hemingway
The Pickwick Papers

I'm glad to see so many others go back to read the classics I thought it was just me (totally get mocked in my family)

Re the book My Antonia--same here! Loved the story and thought it was beautifully written.

I finally just crossed My Antonia off my list last year!

Some on my still need to read list

Catch 22
Moby Dick
Ethan Frome
more Hemingway
The Pickwick Papers

I'm glad to see so many others go back to read the classics I thought it was just me (totally get mocked in my family)

A few more

Ones I've read:

Eugene Onegin
Dead Souls
No Exit (love me some Sartre)
The Canterbury Tales
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
My Antonia


Ones I need to read:

Oliver Twist
The House of Mirth
Ulysses (though part if me wonders if this is only to be all like, "I read Ulysses")
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
Sister Carrie

Anonymous wrote:I have lugged a copy of War and Peace around the world with me. Still never read it. I have been tempted to ask the passport guys to stamp it in each country.

Heheheh. Start with Anna Karenina instead

Anonymous wrote:If you are contemplating reading Dostoyevsky for the first time, don't start with karamazovs. Start with Idiot or Crime and punishment. You have to ease into it.

That's funny, because The Brothers Karamazov is the only Dostoevsky I've actually succeeded in reading. Whereas I can't count the number of times I've started but not finished The Idiot and Crime And Punishment.

Farenheit 451
Animal Farm

I didn't read these in high school, but found them great reads afterward.