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

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The Bee Sting
Black Butterflies
The Promise
Septology (Septologien, #1-7)
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1: The Jeeves Collection
Without MAlice
The Apprentice in the Master’s Shadow (Legends of the Order #2)
Forty-Ninth
The Austen Girls
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The Handmaid's Tale
The Bell Jar
Fahrenheit 451
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Lolita
Brave New World
A Clockwork Orange
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Stranger
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer102 Minutes by Jim DwyerThe Looming Tower by Lawrence WrightThe Day the World Came to Town by Jim DeFedeThe Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
9/11 Related
245 books — 220 voters
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 Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Trial by Franz KafkaIn the Penal Colony by Franz KafkaThe Castle by Franz KafkaA Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka
The best of Franz Kafka
22 books — 63 voters
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest HemingwayA Farewell to Arms by Ernest HemingwayThe Sun Also Rises by Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayA Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Best of Hemingway
26 books — 167 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
4,458 books — 2,945 voters


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