Readable Classics

Descrição
These are classics that you actually enjoyed reading.
1
Pride and Prejudice
de Jane Austen
80,704 membros
1,369 resenhas
½ 4.4
10 Members
cpg, jain, ghilbrae, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kerrygiven, jeffza, TeriAndersonNeedham, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith : I just don't like the Bennetts.
2
Persuasion
de Jane Austen
28,710 membros
532 resenhas
4.2
9 Members
cpg, jain, ghilbrae, aulsmith, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, jeffza, ManWithAnAgenda
3
O Sol é para Todos
de Harper Lee
78,520 membros
1,434 resenhas
½ 4.4
8 Members
hipdeep, cpg, Euryale, aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963, kerrygiven, TeriAndersonNeedham
4
Emma
de Jane Austen
38,000 membros
505 resenhas
4.1
8 Members
hipdeep, cpg, jain, ghilbrae, aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
5
Jane Eyre
de Charlotte Brontë
59,022 membros
919 resenhas
4.2
7 Members
aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963, kerrygiven, jeffza, TeriAndersonNeedham, ManWithAnAgenda
6
Catch-22
de Joseph Heller
40,029 membros
526 resenhas
4.1
6 Members
hipdeep, Euryale, aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963, TeriAndersonNeedham
7
The Haunting of Hill House
de Shirley Jackson
9,763 membros
433 resenhas
3.9
7 Members
Euryale, jain, aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963, TeriAndersonNeedham, ManWithAnAgenda
8
O grande Gatsby
de F. Scott Fitzgerald
72,233 membros
1,170 resenhas
3.8
6 Members
Euryale, sturlington, ahef1963, jeffza, TeriAndersonNeedham, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith : It's readable, but I find the end disappointing every time I read it.
9
A Revolução dos Bichos
de George Orwell
60,077 membros
885 resenhas
4
6 Members
hipdeep, aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963, TeriAndersonNeedham, ManWithAnAgenda
10
Rebecca
de Daphne Du Maurier
20,743 membros
613 resenhas
4.2
5 Members
merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, kerrygiven, TeriAndersonNeedham
11
Frankenstein
de Mary Shelley
42,688 membros
712 resenhas
3.8
6 Members
hipdeep, Euryale, sturlington, ahef1963, TeriAndersonNeedham, ManWithAnAgenda
12
O Retrato de Dorian Gray
de Oscar Wilde
39,505 membros
633 resenhas
4
5 Members
Euryale, sturlington, ahef1963, kerrygiven, ManWithAnAgenda
13
Their Eyes Were Watching God
de Zora Neale Hurston
19,141 membros
347 resenhas
4
4 Members
hipdeep, jain, sturlington, ahef1963
14
Fahrenheit 451
de Ray Bradbury
53,953 membros
999 resenhas
4
5 Members
hipdeep, Euryale, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963
15
A Christmas Carol
de Charles Dickens
24,714 membros
525 resenhas
4.1
5 Members
hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, TeriAndersonNeedham
16
A Tale of Two Cities
de Charles Dickens
36,686 membros
456 resenhas
3.9
5 Members
cpg, aulsmith, merrystar, ahef1963, TeriAndersonNeedham,sturlington
17
O Cão dos Baskerville
de Arthur Conan Doyle
15,354 membros
301 resenhas
3.9
5 Members
Euryale, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
18
The Tempest
de William Shakespeare
13,781 membros
175 resenhas
3.9
4 Members
cpg, aulsmith, ahef1963, jeffza,sturlington
19
1984
de George Orwell
82,024 membros
1,272 resenhas
4.2
4 Members
aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963, TeriAndersonNeedham
20
Cold Comfort Farm
de Stella Gibbons
5,779 membros
223 resenhas
4
4 Members
merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
21
Something Wicked This Way Comes
de Ray Bradbury
11,377 membros
297 resenhas
3.9
5 Members
hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, TeriAndersonNeedham, ManWithAnAgenda
22
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
de Shirley Jackson
8,158 membros
424 resenhas
4.1
4 Members
Euryale, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
23
Little Women
de Louisa May Alcott
26,471 membros
400 resenhas
4
5 Members
aulsmith, merrystar, ahef1963, kerrygiven, TeriAndersonNeedham,sturlington
24
Sense and Sensibility
de Jane Austen
38,138 membros
529 resenhas
4.1
4 Members
jain, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963
25
The Bell Jar
de Sylvia Plath
28,102 membros
503 resenhas
4
4 Members
sturlington, ahef1963, TeriAndersonNeedham, ManWithAnAgenda
26
Of Mice and Men
de John Steinbeck
39,082 membros
665 resenhas
3.9
4 Members
hipdeep, aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963
27
Treasure Island
de Robert Louis Stevenson
34,104 membros
430 resenhas
3.8
4 Members
Euryale, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
28
The Left Hand of Darkness
de Ursula K. Le Guin
15,973 membros
384 resenhas
4
4 Members
hipdeep, jain, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
29
As Aventuras de Huckleberry Finn
de Mark Twain
43,017 membros
519 resenhas
3.9
5 Members
hipdeep, aulsmith, sturlington, ahef1963, TeriAndersonNeedham,merrystar
30
The Age of Innocence
de Edith Wharton
13,909 membros
300 resenhas
4
3 Members
merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963
31
Madame Bovary
de Gustave Flaubert
26,243 membros
390 resenhas
½ 3.7
3 Members
sturlington, ahef1963, jeffza
32
A Wrinkle in Time
de Madeleine L'Engle
39,460 membros
961 resenhas
4
4 Members
hipdeep, merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963
33
O Senhor das Moscas
de William Golding
49,631 membros
746 resenhas
½ 3.7
3 Members
ghilbrae, sturlington, ahef1963
34
Cranford
de Elizabeth Gaskell
4,541 membros
132 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
35
A Room with a View
de E. M. Forster
11,183 membros
223 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963
36
The Dispossessed
de Ursula K. Le Guin
10,714 membros
268 resenhas
4.1
3 Members
jain, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
37
Gaudy Night
de Dorothy L. Sayers
5,461 membros
150 resenhas
½ 4.3
3 Members
merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963
38
My Ántonia
de Willa Cather
13,611 membros
286 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
dara85, merrystar
39
The End of the Affair
de Graham Greene
6,531 membros
171 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
hipdeep, merrystar, ManWithAnAgenda
40
Cannery Row
de John Steinbeck
9,901 membros
186 resenhas
4
3 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
41
Drácula
de Bram Stoker
35,467 membros
625 resenhas
4
4 Members
Euryale, sturlington, TeriAndersonNeedham, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith : I found pacing lose and disjointed. Had to start it a couple of times before I got through it.
42
Howards End
de E. M. Forster
8,780 membros
132 resenhas
4
3 Members
merrystar, sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
43
The Moonstone
de Wilkie Collins
10,835 membros
251 resenhas
4
3 Members
merrystar, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
44
Northanger Abbey
de Jane Austen
21,634 membros
419 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
jain, sturlington, ahef1963
45
Breakfast of Champions
de Kurt Vonnegut
16,269 membros
167 resenhas
4
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
46
Go Tell It on the Mountain
de James Baldwin
5,755 membros
112 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
hipdeep, aulsmith, ahef1963
47
Villette
de Charlotte Brontë
8,791 membros
145 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
jain, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
48
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (with Alice's Adventures Under Ground)
de Lewis Carroll
2,008 membros
18 resenhas
4.1
4 Members
hipdeep, sturlington, ahef1963, TeriAndersonNeedham,aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith : I've never found these very readable as novels. They don't make sense, and the chess game in Looking Glass makes it even worse. But each chapter is fun and the poetry is great.
49
I Capture the Castle
de Dodie Smith
9,207 membros
294 resenhas
4.1
3 Members
jain, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
50
Kindred
de Octavia E. Butler
8,404 membros
353 resenhas
4.2
3 Members
jain, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
51
Mansfield Park
de Jane Austen
22,505 membros
357 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
jain, sturlington, ahef1963
52
Brave New World
de Aldous Huxley
53,928 membros
772 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963
53
Adam Bede
de George Eliot
4,215 membros
71 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
jain, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
54
Heart of Darkness and Other Tales (Oxford World's Classics)
de Joseph Conrad
1,081 membros
15 resenhas
½ 3.7
3 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
55
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
de Thomas Mann
5,676 membros
109 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
aulsmith, jeffza
56
Breakfast at Tiffany's
de Truman Capote
2,777 membros
81 resenhas
½ 3.7
3 Members
sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
57
O Velho e O Mar
de Ernest Hemingway
30,750 membros
505 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
jain, sturlington, ahef1963
Explicações
jain: I'm not usually a fan of Hemingway, but this I liked.
58
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
de Ken Kesey
24,227 membros
299 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
59
A Confederacy of Dunces
de John Kennedy Toole
21,388 membros
475 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963
60
Wuthering Heights
de Emily Brontë
52,024 membros
704 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
jain, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington
Explicações
jain: Shows a perceptive and nuanced understanding of generational abuse. Accordingly, the beginning and middle of the book can be painful (though compelling) reading, but I find the eventual happy ending extremely catharctic.
61
Things Fall Apart
de Chinua Achebe
20,670 membros
432 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
jain, ahef1963
62
Cry, the Beloved Country
de Alan Paton
9,374 membros
182 resenhas
4
2 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963
63
The Warden
de Anthony Trollope
4,374 membros
131 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
64
Winesburg, Ohio
de Sherwood Anderson
5,936 membros
120 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
hipdeep, ManWithAnAgenda
65
The Plague
de Albert Camus
18,506 membros
249 resenhas
4
2 Members
aulsmith, ahef1963
66
The World of Jeeves
de P. G. Wodehouse
796 membros
7 resenhas
½ 4.4
2 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963
67
Agnes Grey
de Anne Brontë
5,120 membros
169 resenhas
½ 3.6
2 Members
jain, ManWithAnAgenda
68
Cakes and Ale
de W. Somerset Maugham
1,956 membros
41 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
69
Beowulf
de Beowulf Poet
25,392 membros
334 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
jain, ahef1963
Explicações
jain: The Seamus Heaney translation is my favorite.
70
The Grapes of Wrath
de John Steinbeck
34,309 membros
472 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
aulsmith, sturlington
Explicações
sturlington: Can be a slog but worth reading
71
So Long a Letter
de Mariama Bâ
1,320 membros
44 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
jain, ahef1963
72
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
de Philip K. Dick
19,302 membros
474 resenhas
4
2 Members
hipdeep, sturlington
73
As Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
de Arthur Conan Doyle
15,692 membros
248 resenhas
4.1
2 Members
hipdeep, ahef1963
74
The Talented Mr. Ripley
de Patricia Highsmith
6,212 membros
199 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
75
Nervous Conditions
de Tsitsi Dangarembga
2,051 membros
45 resenhas
3.9
2 Members
jain, ManWithAnAgenda
76
Middlemarch
de George Eliot
17,726 membros
331 resenhas
4.2
2 Members
jain, ahef1963,sturlington
77
Silas Marner
de George Eliot
11,342 membros
153 resenhas
3.8
2 Members
jain, ahef1963
78
Babel-17
de Samuel R. Delany
2,648 membros
84 resenhas
½ 3.7
2 Members
jain, sturlington
79
Beloved
de Toni Morrison
22,855 membros
408 resenhas
3.9
3 Members
jain, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington
80
Barchester Towers
de Anthony Trollope
4,919 membros
106 resenhas
4.2
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
81
Grendel
de John Gardner
6,049 membros
107 resenhas
3.8
3 Members
sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith : I found the prose dense and the story odd.
82
The Enchanted April
de Elizabeth von Arnim
2,817 membros
123 resenhas
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
83
The Man of Property
de John Galsworthy
1,044 membros
21 resenhas
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
84
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
de Carson McCullers
10,726 membros
243 resenhas
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
85
The Girls of Slender Means
de Muriel Spark
1,322 membros
57 resenhas
½ 3.7
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
86
Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
de Yukio Mishima
868 membros
14 resenhas
3.9
Member
jain
87
The Good Soldier
de Ford Madox Ford
4,788 membros
115 resenhas
3.8
Member
hipdeep
88
The Mating Season
de P. G. Wodehouse
1,631 membros
33 resenhas
4.2
Member
Euryale
89
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories
de Sarah Orne Jewett
1,057 membros
28 resenhas
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
90
A Moveable Feast
de Ernest Hemingway
9,069 membros
191 resenhas
4
Member
hipdeep
91
Eyrbyggja Saga
de Anonymous
347 membros
4 resenhas
3.8
Member
jain
92
Memento Mori
de Muriel Spark
1,730 membros
64 resenhas
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
93
East of Eden
de John Steinbeck
23,425 membros
424 resenhas
½ 4.4
2 Members
sturlington, TeriAndersonNeedham,aulsmith
Explicações
aulsmith : I read this at age 18 and found it confusing and irritatingly misogynist (though I didn't know the word at the time).
94
The Blithedale Romance
de Nathaniel Hawthorne
1,668 membros
23 resenhas
½ 3.4
Member
aulsmith
95
The Sound of the Mountain
de Yasunari Kawabata
1,238 membros
19 resenhas
4.1
Member
jain
96
The Master of Go
de Yasunari Kawabata
1,270 membros
37 resenhas
4
Member
jain
Explicações
jain: Who knew a book all about a board game could be so exciting?
97
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
de Edgar Allan Poe
1,929 membros
18 resenhas
4
3 Members
hipdeep, ghilbrae, sturlington,aulsmith ,ManWithAnAgenda
Explicações
aulsmith : Poe is very readable, but he gives me nightmares.
98
Confessions of a Mask
de Yukio Mishima
2,596 membros
42 resenhas
3.9
Member
jain
99
The Epic of Gilgamesh
de Gilgamesh Poet
9,880 membros
119 resenhas
3.8
Member
jain
100
The Awakening
de Kate Chopin
9,187 membros
179 resenhas
½ 3.6
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda