10 classic fiction books you should read right now
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YOU SOULD READ10 Classic Fiction Books
RIGHT NOW
INTRODUCTIONClassic Books
For those craving a feast for the ravenous
imagination, there is perhaps no greater
method of expanding the mind’s horizons than
to relax, grab a classic book, and enjoy the
journey through one of the greatest stories
ever told.
If you are considering a stroll through fiction’s
hall of fame (which I highly recommend), then
this list of 10 fantastic classic works might be
exactly what you need to take that first step.
THE CLASSICSHere Come
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The Grapes of Wrathby John Steinbeck
Animal Farm byGeorge Orwell Catch 22 byJoseph Heller
A Clockwork Orangeby Anthony Burgess
The Death of The Heartby Elizabeth Bowen
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Gone With the Windby Margaret Mitchell
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobeby C.S LewisThe Sun Also Rises byErnest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching Godby Zora Neale Hurston
To Kill A Mockingbirdby Harper Lee
BY JOHN STEINBECKThe Grapes of Wrath
With visceral, heart-wrenching clarity, this depression-era novel
hitches readers to the back of beat up ‘26 Hudson pickup and
drives them nonstop down a dusted dirt road, demonstrating
beautifully one family’s fight for unity and prosperity in wake of
endless hardship.
BY GEORGE ORWELLAnimal Farm
Allegory will likely never be
executed with such brutal
mastery as in Orwell’s
dystopian masterpiece, where
farm animals and humans...
...reenact with startlingly,
vicious honesty the motivations
both personal and societal
which erupted and fueled
Russia’s Stalinist era.
BY JOSEPH HELLERCatch 22
Heller’s work reflects the sense of anguish
felt when faced with an impossible, mind-
eviscerating paradox. He did so, so
poignantly he earned the phrase “catch-22”
a spot in the English lexicon.
BY ANTHONY BURGESSA Clockwork Orange
Peer inside the dysphoric
horror-scape inhabited by Alex,
a delinquent murder turned
involuntary, brainwashed
moralist, and challenge yourself
with the question of whether an
involuntary good is truly
preferable to a freely chosen
evil.
BY ELIZABETH BOWENGiven today’s prevailing
anxieties, this novel explores
experiences of sifting through
the heightened, tense
emotional landscape of Europe
between world wars, where the
newly rebuilt threatens to
collapse once more, seems
especially relevant.
The Death of TheHeart
BY MARGARET MITCHELL Gone With the Wind
This epitome of the American romance novel also manages to
vividly capture the cataclysm of Southern life and culture during
the Civil War.
BY C.S. LEWIS
The Lion, the Witch andthe Wardrobe
One hundred years of mad
winter hold sway over Narnia,
and only four English children
can break the land free of a
witch’s clutches.
The fantasy genre paradigms
established in Lewis’s magnum
opus set a standard to which
hordes of later works would
conform.
BY ERNESTHEMINGWAY
The Sun AlsoRises
Hemingway offers audiences an alternative
glimpse into the psyches of the so-called
“Lost Generation,” brave souls who lived
through and thrived on after WWI.
BY ZORA NEALEHURSTON
Their Eyes WereWatching God
A rich tale of strife and self-
discovery, Hurston’s electric
prose embodies and empowers
a voice too often marginalized.
BY HARPER LEETo Kill A Mockingbird tackles
difficult subjects of rape and
racism, succeeding massively in
weaving a complex tale
espousing the nature of human
morals and motivations.
To Kill AMockingbird
OPEN YOUR MIND TO THE THOUGHTS ANDLESSONS CONTAINED IN THESE PAGES, AND SOON
YOU WILL BECOME A GREATER THINKER ANDWRITER, PERHAPS EVEN CREATING CLASSICS OF
YOUR OWN ONE DAY!