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I've hardly scratched the surface so far, but these get my vote, so far:

 

Bel-ami - Guy de Maupassant

 

Silas Marner - George Elliot

 

Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

 

(top twenty?) :D

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Persuasion - Jane Austen

 

Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens

 

Oh.......erm..........i think i would say Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen........but i may change my mind. I couldn't quite decide.

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I've not read them all
... then again, who has :)? I've nearly got two degrees in English Lit and even I've barely uncovered the tip of the iceberg...!
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Guest velocipede2288
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Nicholas Nickleby and Pickwick Papers, by Charles Dickens.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. by Mark Twain.

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I read A Christmas Carol every year to get in the festive spirit....

So do I! I also go see the play at the Guthrie Theater here in Minneapolis every year as well, which every year is fantastic...there is no better way to get into the spirit of giving than by reading A Christmas Carol.

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It's nigh on impossibe to narrow my choices down to three so here's my top three at the moment

 

The Romance Of The Forest - Ann Radcliffe

 

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

 

Dracula - Bram Stoker

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Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

 

All the obvious ones but I love them :lol:

 

Perfect

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Ouch - this is difficult. Two are easy:

 

Sense and Sensibility

Bleak House

 

but the third????

 

I suppose it'll have to be To Kill A Mockingbird, but then no Moby Dick or Vanity Fair or Wuthering Heights or War and Peace, all of which are monumental favourites. And where do classics start and end? (I could of course have simply voted for three Austens, including Persuasion).

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Guest velocipede2288
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A Christmas Carol. Charles Dickens.

 

Call of the Wild. Jack London.

 

The Three Musketeers. Alexandre Dumas.

 

But They are just the ones I enjoy the most at the time. In the middle of another book, I may change my mind. I loved Nichlolas Nickelby, and the Pickwick Papers, I found the funniest of Dickens and so on.

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All the books above are great. Here is my choices

- Tolstoy, The Kreutzer sonata / very radical and intense drama about jalousy and crime

- Dostoievsky, The Idiot / What if Jesus was alive now ? His kindness and lack of self-esteem would make of him a pure "idiot" in the balance of our judgemental societies

- Huysmans, Against nature / This is the yellow book given by Lord Henry to Dorian Gray / The story of decadent man who indulges his own passions in order to live remote in an excentric house at the end of the 19th century

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