Classics you know you should have read but probably haven't

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I know I feel guilt at the number of works I feel I ought to have read, but haven't quite managed to get round to yet... Well, let's try to prioritise!
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Krig och fred
av Leo Tolstoy
28,748 medlemmar
455 recensioner
½ 4.3
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Förklaringar
Randall.Parr: I would really like to read this book. Okay. thanks.
Arrashid7: I read btw. high school and college. Got me hooked on more Russian lit.
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Don Quijote av La Mancha
av Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
30,475 medlemmar
449 recensioner
4.1
Global rankning 2
106 Members
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Förklaringar
aulsmith : Read enough to know I don't want to finish
ManWithAnAgenda : Read, enjoyed.
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Den gudomliga komedin
av Dante Alighieri
21,725 medlemmar
188 recensioner
4.1
Global rankning 6
94 Members
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Förklaringar
aulsmith : Got halfway through hell and gave up.
sturlington : Read Inferno in college. Not sure of the point of reading the rest.
Arrashid7: I plan to read it this summer.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read, loved.
MyFathersDragon: I didn’t finish. I read some in Italian, but I am not very good with Italian. I read more in English translation, but I wanted to go back to the Italian, and never finished.
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Moby Dick eller Den vita valen
av Herman Melville
35,527 medlemmar
541 recensioner
3.8
Global rankning 7
95 Members
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Förklaringar
aulsmith : Skipping. Too much blubber.
rainpebble : puts my brain in a muddle no matter how many attempts I make to read it.
amanda4242: I read it and discovered that I could quite happily have gone through life without having read it.
sturlington : Read in college.
JalenV: Read twice for different classes (one definitely in college), chose it the second time because I remembered enough from dfiscussing it the first time I figured it would help the second. (Still wonder if that preacher who appeared early in the book gave the same sermon every Sunday.)
Aprill: I love Melville's writing.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read. Interesting.
MyFathersDragon: I liked the book in 5th grade, but when I tried rereading in 11th grade, I didn’t find it interesting enough to read it, perhaps because I had previously read it.
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Brott och straff
av Fyodor Dostoevsky
44,121 medlemmar
492 recensioner
4.2
Global rankning 5
98 Members
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Förklaringar
aulsmith : Started and decided not to finish
Aprill: I'm partway through. Hope to finish it some day.
ahef1963: Loved it.
MyFathersDragon: I read some in 6th grade, but I didn’t finish because it wasn’t very interesting to me.
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Den osynlige mannen
av H. G. Wells
10,903 medlemmar
253 recensioner
½ 3.5
Global rankning 24
68 Members
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Förklaringar
JalenV: I read quite a bit of H. G. Wells during the 1970s. I'm pretty sure I read this one.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read, enjoyed.
MyFathersDragon: I would have been about 13. I don’t remember finishing it, so either we went on vacation or I didn’t like it. At that age, I almost always finished books.
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Decamerone
av Giovanni Boccaccio
9,985 medlemmar
120 recensioner
4
Global rankning 45
52 Members
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Förklaringar
amanda4242: A slow starter and can drag a bit in places, but a great read.
MyFathersDragon: I read this as an adult because it was a classic. I read some excerpts in high school.
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Tidmaskinen
av H. G. Wells
17,661 medlemmar
338 recensioner
½ 3.7
Global rankning 38
64 Members
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Förklaringar
aulsmith : Tried and gave up.
JalenV: I loved the 1960 movie with Rod Taylor when I was a kid so of course I read the book.
ahef1963: So far the only book by Wells that I've liked.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
MyFathersDragon: I discovered Jules Verne and H. G. Wells in 4th or 5th grade and read all of the ones I found in the public library.
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Landet långt borta
av Willa Cather
5,928 medlemmar
147 recensioner
4
Global rankning 84
41 Members
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Förklaringar
JalenV: I have this one. The only thing I remember from it is the Archbishop's garden.
ahef1963 : I really tried. Twice. Found it boring and have given up.
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På spaning efter den tid som flytt. 1, Swanns värld
av Marcel Proust
11,115 medlemmar
182 recensioner
4.2
Global rankning 115
24 Members
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Förklaringar
aulsmith : Fell asleep on page three and will never open it again.
nlgeorge: The journey is worth it
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Rött och svart
av Stendhal
9,486 medlemmar
136 recensioner
3.8
Global rankning 121
29 Members
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Förklaringar
electrice : read in junior high school
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Återstoden av dagen
av Kazuo Ishiguro
16,331 medlemmar
475 recensioner
4.2
Global rankning 97
34 Members
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Förklaringar
aulsmith : Not a classic
sturlington: Read it. Probably will be a classic someday.
Simone2 : Must read!!
ahef1963: Beautiful book. A beautiful movie as well.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
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Onkel Toms stuga
av Harriet Beecher Stowe
16,981 medlemmar
190 recensioner
3.8
Global rankning 70
47 Members
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Förklaringar
aulsmith : Life's too short to bother with this polemic.
sturlington : You can understand the importance of this novel in history without actually having to read it.
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På väg
av Jack Kerouac
27,928 medlemmar
385 recensioner
½ 3.6
Global rankning 88
44 Members
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Förklaringar
aulsmith : I read it and liked it, but I doubt it will be a classic.
sturlington : Couldn't finish it.
bw94612 : Tiresome
ahef1963 : The misogyny turned me off and I didn't finish it.
MyFathersDragon: I read it as a teenager, because it was recommended and loaned to me.
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Absalom, Absalom!
av William Faulkner
7,649 medlemmar
106 recensioner
4.1
Global rankning 174
23 Members
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Förklaringar
gilroy : Faulkner is a dated writer. He was fine when he was first published, but unless you're a literary scholar, not worth the struggle.
aulsmith : Read As I Lay Dying and will never touch Faulkner again.
sturlington : Read it in college. Check off my one Faulkner.
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Månstenen
av Wilkie Collins
10,812 medlemmar
251 recensioner
4
Global rankning 61
49 Members
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Förklaringar
sturlington : Tried to read--couldn't get into it.
JalenV: I believe I read a Classics Illustrated version first. I don't like it as much as The Woman in White, but I liked it.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
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Ett veck i tiden
av Madeleine L'Engle
39,407 medlemmar
958 recensioner
4
Global rankning 91
36 Members
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Förklaringar
dara85: Really enjoyed it as a child.
amanda4242: Hated it as a child and hate it as an adult.
JalenV: I've had my hardcover copy for decades and read it several times. It's a good one!
Aprill: Read it.
ahef1963: One of the favourites of my early teen years.