Please recommend a "classic" that would be good for a book club. (novels, best)

[TeaJay]

We're all women. We have already read Madame Bovary. Thanks!

[Housemartin]

It's not a classic, not at all, but Stieg Larsson's Milenium trilogy is fantastic. A lot of pages, but like a drug.

It's not a classic, but it will be.

[MissLariss]

Pride & Prejudice
Vanity Fair
The Woman in White (if you like mysteries)
Jane Eyre
Emma

Outlander (not a classic, but great!)

[phonelady61]

the last of the mochicans , to kill a mocking bird , wuthering heights , jane eyre , I love all of those .

[maggie2101]

+ 1 for Outlander. I just finished the most recent in the series and am bummed I will have to wait who knows how long for the next.

As for a classic, how about Little Women by Louisa May Alcott?

[maciesmom]

The Good Earth?



Others that fall into "not a classic" but discussion-worthy:

A Thousand Splendid Suns

The Poisonwood Bible

The Samurai's Garden

[StilltheSame]

Mrs. Dalloway
Light in August
As I lay Dying
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[StarlaJane]

Rebecca
Tender Is The Night
The Portrait of a Lady
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Lady Chatterly's Lover
The Scarlet Pimpernel

[Wingfoot]

Originally Posted by TeaJay

We're all women. We have already read Madame Bovary. Thanks!

James Agee's " A Death in the Family"-widely considered on of the best american novels of the last hundred years.

Written plainly but profoundly about a family, it speaks about all families in a way that brings joy to the heart and tears to the eyes.

Of the thousands of novels I've read, in my top ten easily.

[lolagranola]

The Good Earth
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Jane Eyre

We read all of these for book club, and had great discussions on them.

Books I think would also be a good discussion:

Frankenstein
Resurrection (Tolstoy)
The Jungle (although there will be some who'll refuse to read it!)
The Grapes of Wrath