Modern Classics

Classics must resonate with an audience and have continued readership. Modern classics are generally written after WWI. They are also popularly known as "contemporary classics." ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Modern Classics"

The Bee Sting
Mary Ventura and the Ninth Kingdom
The Promise
Black Butterflies
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
The Essential June Jordan (Penguin Modern Classics)
Forty-Ninth
The Austen Girls
Without MAlice
The Apprentice in the Master’s Shadow (Legends of the Order #2)
1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
The Great Gatsby
The Bell Jar
The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
Fahrenheit 451
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Lolita
Brave New World
A Clockwork Orange
Slaughterhouse-Five
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerAbsalom, Absalom! by William FaulknerLight in August by William FaulknerSanctuary by William Faulkner
Best of William Faulkner
85 books — 64 voters
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas LlosaConversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas LlosaThe War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas LlosaAunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas LlosaLa ciudad y los perros by Mario Vargas Llosa
All about Vargas Llosa
29 books — 36 voters

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerBreakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories by Truman CapoteHow to Lose Friends and Alienate People by Toby YoungNegative Space by Lilly DancygerJust Kids by Patti Smith
New York Eats Its Young
71 books — 69 voters
The Alchemist by Paulo CoelhoThe Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-ExupérySiddhartha by Hermann HesseTao Te Ching by Lao TzuThe Art of Happiness by Dalai Lama XIV
Inspiring Books
4,225 books — 3,479 voters

The Bronze Horseman by Paullina SimonsTatiana and Alexander by Paullina SimonsOutlander by Diana GabaldonThe Summer Garden by Paullina SimonsGone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
War/Romance novels
509 books — 695 voters
The Dante Club by Matthew PearlThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaPossession by A.S. ByattArthur & George by Julian BarnesThe Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield
Authors in Historical Fiction
180 books — 90 voters


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