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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

What's your favourite classic novel and why.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not sure if it fits into the "classic" bracket, what makes a book a classic? But I love "The Crow Road" as it tells a great story of family peculiarities set against a mysterious backdrop and has a great soundtrack (in my head). The characters are so well defined that I had no issue picturing them.

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By *agermeisterMan
over a year ago

Leeds

I don't think Fabbers are reknowned for their reading lists.

Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck

1984 - George Orwell

Great Expectations

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By *agermeisterMan
over a year ago

Leeds

"I don't think Fabbers are reknowned for their reading lists.

Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck

1984 - George Orwell

Great Expectations

I like novels with a strong comment on society

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By *otstuffbabeCouple
over a year ago

Bolton

"I don't think Fabbers are reknowned for their reading lists.

Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck

1984 - George Orwell

Great Expectations

WOW! what a patronising generalisation!

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By *eplicant JoWoman
over a year ago

Sussex countryside

War and Peace

Anna Karenina is on my to read list

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I only recently started reading novels. I loved 1984. That and Dune are my favourites so far.

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By *ud and BryanCouple
over a year ago

Boston, Lincolnshire

Bram Stokers' Dracula

It's so wonderfully dark, moody & sexy, it really sets the tone for all the decadent vampire films that followed.

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By *eanGreyWoman
over a year ago

Birmingham

The Picture of Dorian Grey

Dracula

The Moonstone

I did my dissertation on Gothic Literature. Loved it ever since.

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By *agermeisterMan
over a year ago

Leeds

"I don't think Fabbers are reknowned for their reading lists.

Grapes of Wrath by Steinbeck

1984 - George Orwell

WOW! what a patronising generalisation!"

Just going by my personal experiences and observations

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I'd agree with 1984. Brave New World and Catch 22 have stayed with me too.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I've got some good recommendations. I've almost finished to kill a mockingbird. So I'll need another

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

Day of the Jackal is good

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I once tried to read Mein Kampf.

Don't.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a Thomas Hardy fan, Under the Greenwood Tree is my favourite. Modern authors? Almost everything Annie Proulx has written, apart from Barkskins, which was just too damn long.

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By *he_virgin_maryWoman
over a year ago

Here, there and everywhere!

"I once tried to read Mein Kampf.

Don't."

I once tried to read the idiot by dostoyezski and War and peace by Tolstoy during my younger years.

Again just don't!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I have Lord of the flies to read next.

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