I want to read something dense, challenging, and interesting. I'm going to grad school next year, so you'd be doing me a disservice by recommending me high school classics. I already read those - in elementary school. Interesting and challenging.
Thanks in advance
These are all kindergarten books!!
I want to read something dense, challenging, and interesting. I'm going to grad school next year,...
Any of these do?
Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding
The Professor and Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift
Sons and Lovers - D H Lawrence
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D H Lawrence
Great Gatsby - Scot Fitzgerald
1984 and Animal Farm – George Orwell
Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Wolfe
I Claudius - Robert Graves
Rebecca - Daphne de Maurier
Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Decline and Fall - Evelyn Waugh
Women in Love - D H Lawrence
Lord Jim - Joseph Conrad
A Portrait of an Artist as a Young man - James Joyce
Goodbye to all That - Robert Graves
Shirley - Charlotte Bronte
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldais Huxley
Anna Karnina - Tolstoy
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
Lolita - Vladimer Naborkov
Tarka the Otter - Henry Williamson
Burning Bright - John Steinbeck
Hunchback of Notre Dame - Victor Hugo
Les Miseriables - Victor Hugo
Lorna Doon - R D Blackmore
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Brideshead Revisted - Evelyn Waugh
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Women in Love - D H Lawrence
Brighten Rock - Graham Greene
The Portrait of A Lady - Henry James
Daisy Miller – Henry James
The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Uncle Tom’s Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Black Joke - J M Scott
The Catcher in the Rye - J D Solinger
The French Lieutenants Woman - John Fowles
A Room of One’s Own - Virginia Woolf
The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan
The Last Tycoon - Scot Fitzgerald
The Trail - Franz Kataka
Villette – Charlotte Bronte
Robin Hood - Henry Gilbert
Chien/Cheri The last of - Collette
The Mill on the Floss - George Elliott
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Close Quarters - William Golding
Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
Agnes - Anne Bronte
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Bronte
Three Men in A Boat - Jerome K Jerome
The Hearing Trumpet - Leonora Carrington
20,000 Leagues under the Sea – Jules Verne
Tom Sawyer/Hunkleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Around the World in 80 days – Jules Verne
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Beowulf
Billy Budd – Herman Melville
The Black Arrow – Robert Louis Stevenson
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
The Blue Zone – Andrew Gross
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky
Captains Courageous – Rudyard Kipling
The Chouans – Honore de Balzac
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Common Sense – Thomas Paine
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court – Mark Twain
The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dacid Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Don Juan – George Byron
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
Emma – Jane Austen
English Lord, Ordinary Lady – Fiona Harrrper
Theee Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Alan Poe
Faust – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Iliad of Homer
The Importance of being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
A Journey to the interior of the Earth – Jules Verne
The Jungle Book – Rudyard Kipling
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Last of The Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
Letters on England – Voltaire
The Man who would be King – Rudyard Kipling
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Middlemarch – George Elliot
Moby Dick – Herman Melville
The odyssey of Homer
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
On the Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
Paradise Lost – John Milton
Paz/Pierrette/The Purse – Honore de Balzac
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Poison Study – Maria V Snyder
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Prince – Nicolo Machavelli
The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe
The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
The Republic – Plato
Rhoda Fleming/Sandra Belloni – George Meredith
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleride
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
The Sentimentalists – George Meredith
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde/Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Uncle Vanya – Anton Checkov
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
Walden or life in the Woods – Henry David Thoreau
The Wicked Earl Margaret McPhee
The Wife and other stories – Anton Chekov
The Works of Aristotle
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
