Classics

Classics are books appreciated by generations over a period of time.They have universal appeal. The messages and characters retain freshness and are loved and treasured. These books are read and re-read many times over. Books categorised under the classics may be given higher literary status. The texts highlight experiences and lifestyles from other times. They reveal the cultural expectations of the time in which they are set.

“Until a book has weathered at least one generation and is accepted in the next,
it can hardly be given the rank of a classic”
Alice M. Jordan (1947).

Classic Lists
Listed here are some of the best classic reads for teenagers.
A Separate Peace - John Knowles
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn/Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Charles Dickens
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Catcher in the Rye - J.D Salinger
David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes
Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels - Johnathon Swift
The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
1984 - George Orwell
Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank
The Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Dracula - Bram Stoker
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David Wyss
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
The Iliad - Homer
The Odyssey - Homer
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham
The Outsiders - S.E. Hinton
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne

Resources

About Classic Novels
The Internet Classic Archive
A comprehensive list of Classic literature in a searchable database.