Young Writers Society

What about Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck, Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain, Peter Pan(Forgot author name)

That's all I can think of... hold on Arabian Nights( I don't know who wrote this, but it should be on this.)

Updated list: I've read 8. Yay.

sokool15 wrote:Ha! I've got you all beat with 38...and a lot of them are series, too!
A lot of these are great books, but some of them are...I just don't understand why people like them. Maybe people just pretend to like them so that they can say they 'read the classics' in a haughty accent. Even though several of the alleged 'classics' are extremely odiferous.

Note:* did you know that there are about eight or nine books in the Oz series? The Wizard of Oz was the famous one, but he wrote tons of others.

Yours I remain,

14, two of which were published after his death (I'm writing a paper)

EDIT: Baum wrote about 60 books in his lifetime, 14 were Oz, and others were popular things akin to our idea of Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys (stories about children in his time doing things),published under several pennames. Oz was the most successful series, though. A lot of his stuff, though, like American Fairy Tales did not sell well.

I thought I should clear that. Sorry :p

Now, I dislike Dickens, as many do, but he was a literary mastermind. If anything of his should go up there, it should be A Tale of Two Cities.

To Kill a Mockingbird - I don't think anyone could possibly dispute that. Same for Catcher in the Rye. ALL Salinger = goodness.

*applauds cadmium*

Wow, I've read 20 of these...though some only through school. I wouldn't have finished the Scarlet Letter if my midterm grade hadn't hinged on it. That being said, I also see why people consider it a classic. I might too, if Hawthore didn't continue through five pages without ending the sentence.

First arguement:
Wuthering Heights should be considered a classic because it shows the importance of choices. It is set in the perfect place to demonstrate this because the two houses involved are separate from the rest of the world, further hilighting their differences. (I'm not sure if this was a full reason or not...) The one thing that people should not do is classify this as a classic "romance" because this story is really not very romantic; it's rather morbid.

Only six. That stinks. Of course, I didn't count the ones I only got halfway through. I went on a classics spree a few years ago. Needless to say, it didn't go so well. I'll be reading more of these next year whenever I start my Modernity class.

I read five, though there were at least ten where I started or got halfway through and got so frustrated with them I just threw them at somebody.

But there's another classic you should add to the list which I really, really liked: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I loved that book!

I've only read 7.

Ouch.