Classic Novels for Homework

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Here's a list to get you going. Remember, this isn't a definitive list - if there's one you'd like to read, ask me, and I'll let you know if it is suitable. If you'd like to 'try before you buy', why not google some information about them?



Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Emma by Jane Austen
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque
Empire of the Sun by JG Ballard
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Count of Monte by Cristo Alexandre Dumas
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (if you liked Dr. Jekyll... this one is even crazier)
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
Little Women by Louisa M. Alcott
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
Animal Farm by George Orwell
1984 by George Orwell
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allan Poe
A Passage to India by EM Forster
The War of the Worlds by HG Wells
Brighton Rock by Graham Greene
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee



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