Classics you know you should have read but probably haven't

Beschrijving
I know I feel guilt at the number of works I feel I ought to have read, but haven't quite managed to get round to yet... Well, let's try to prioritise!
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Moby Dick
door Herman Melville
35,514 leden
540 besprekingen
3.8
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Verklaringen
aulsmith : Skipping. Too much blubber.
rainpebble : puts my brain in a muddle no matter how many attempts I make to read it.
amanda4242: I read it and discovered that I could quite happily have gone through life without having read it.
sturlington : Read in college.
JalenV: Read twice for different classes (one definitely in college), chose it the second time because I remembered enough from dfiscussing it the first time I figured it would help the second. (Still wonder if that preacher who appeared early in the book gave the same sermon every Sunday.)
Aprill: I love Melville's writing.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read. Interesting.
MyFathersDragon: I liked the book in 5th grade, but when I tried rereading in 11th grade, I didn’t find it interesting enough to read it, perhaps because I had previously read it.
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A Tale of Two Cities
door Charles Dickens
36,597 leden
455 besprekingen
3.9
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Verklaringen
gilroy : Read it
jain: Read it in high school but need to reread as an adult.
JalenV: Another Dickens novel I listened to after checking it out from the library. I go to bed listening to books and it's an easy way to get through classics.
MyFathersDragon: I read lots of Dickens in 6th grade because I liked them.
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De avonturen van Huckleberry Finn
door Mark Twain
42,898 leden
518 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 9
99 Members
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Verklaringen
gilroy : Read it
amanda4242: Loved it.
auntSteelbreaker : Read it, did not enjoy it.
JalenV: I think I read my parents' copy. I'd read all my books and usually had the library ones finished before our next visit.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read, eh.
MyFathersDragon: I read some Twain in 5th grade and ended up reading most of his books.
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De vanger in het graan
door J. D. Salinger
69,473 leden
1,078 besprekingen
3.8
Algemene Rangorde 27
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Verklaringen
.Monkey. : Read it. Hated it.
amanda4242: Loved it in high school.
sturlington : Read in high school.
electrice : read
JalenV: Had to read it in high school.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read it. Hated. Read it. Loved it.
MyFathersDragon: I knew some of the high school English classes read it. I knew it was considered a classic. So, I decided I would read it. I did not like it. I am glad I read it, so I know what people are talking about when they bring it up, but I wouldn’t read it again.
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De rode letter
door Nathaniel Hawthorne
36,493 leden
371 besprekingen
½ 3.4
Algemene Rangorde 41
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Verklaringen
.Monkey. : Read it. Hated it.
sturlington : Read in college
JalenV: I have, and have read, my copy. I was already familiar with the plot thanks to The Classics Reclassified by Richard Armour.
aekd: Not likely to read.
ahef1963: Loved it.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read. Nearly everything else he wrote is better.
MyFathersDragon: It was one of the classics to choose from to read in a high school class. I read lots of the choices, so I had options to choose from when it was time to write a book report.
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De wonderlijke geschiedenis van dr Jekyll en mr Hyde
door Robert Louis Stevenson
17,113 leden
315 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 59
59 Members
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Verklaringen
amanda4242: Read in college.
electrice : read in 2013
JalenV: It's been decades, but watching the Overly Sarcastic Productions video about it on YouTube reminded me of details I'd forgotten, not to mention making me chuckle.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
MyFathersDragon: I received it as a gift when I was about 12, so of course I read it. I reread it several years later, too.
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Hart der duisternis
door Joseph Conrad
23,571 leden
387 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Algemene Rangorde 94
42 Members
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Verklaringen
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
MyFathersDragon: We read the Secret Sharer in English class, but on the other side of it (upside down from each other) was this one, so I read it because it was available. The book also described it as a Joseph Conrad classic. I was determined to read lots of books considered classics when I was in high school.
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Sons and Lovers
door D. H. Lawrence
9,494 leden
100 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Algemene Rangorde 189
23 Members
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Verklaringen
aulsmith : This is the one Lawrence I read, and I agree with sturlington.
sturlington : You really only need to read one Lawrence, I think. I read Lady Chatterley's Lover and had no interest in reading more.
ahef1963: I really loved this book. It captured England so well.
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De moord op Roger Ackroyd
door Agatha Christie
9,978 leden
322 besprekingen
4.1
Algemene Rangorde 255
9 Members
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Verklaringen
aekd: Agatha Christie - not for me.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
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Tien kleine negertjes
door Agatha Christie
21,202 leden
534 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 212
13 Members
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Verklaringen
aekd: Agatha Christie - not for me.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
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Joy of Cooking [2006]: 75th Anniversary Edition
door Irma S. Rombauer
1,877 leden
17 besprekingen
½ 4.4
Algemene Rangorde 380
9 Members
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Verklaringen
: Is the 75th anniversary edition really the classic version of this cookbook? Why do we think this is a classic a person *should* read but probably hasn't?
sturlington : Read it, as much as one can read a cookbook.
aekd: Cooking? No.
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Macbeth
door William Shakespeare
26,038 leden
225 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 140
25 Members
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Verklaringen
ahef1963: One of my favourite Shakespeare plays.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
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Het belang van ernst
door Oscar Wilde
10,762 leden
177 besprekingen
4.2
Algemene Rangorde 175
24 Members
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Verklaringen
sturlington: Read in school; play
ahef1963: Read in high school; hilarious.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
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Mastering the Art of French Cooking [Volume 1]
door Julia Child
3,378 leden
27 besprekingen
½ 4.5
Algemene Rangorde 299
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Verklaringen
aulsmith : I see no need to read this. I read Joy of Cooking instead.
sturlington : A classic cookbook, but you don't really read those. You cook from them. Agree that Joy of Cooking is more useful, though.
aekd: Cooking? No, thanks. French cooking? No way!
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De tovenaar van Oz
door L. Frank Baum
21,906 leden
423 besprekingen
3.9
Algemene Rangorde 173
19 Members
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Verklaringen
dara85: Different from the movie
electrice : read it 2013
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
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Robinson Crusoe [Norton Critical Edition]
door Daniel Defoe
736 leden
8 besprekingen
½ 3.6
Algemene Rangorde 206
12 Members
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Verklaringen
ahef1963: Read it, but what a slog it was.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read. Dull.
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Ontbijt bij Tiffany
door Truman Capote
2,771 leden
81 besprekingen
½ 3.7
Algemene Rangorde 192
21 Members
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Verklaringen
electrice : read in 2012
ahef1963 : Read it on a trans-Atlantic flight; it bored me to sleep.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.
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De Rode Pimpernel
door Baroness Orczy
8,780 leden
189 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 129
24 Members
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Verklaringen
tiddleyboom : Read it. Fun read.
aulsmith : Fun book, but not a classic.
JalenV: Having read it makes watching Daffy Duck in The Scarlet Pumpernickel even funnier.
ahef1963: A lot of fun.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read. Eh.
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Gejaagd door de wind
door Margaret Mitchell
23,417 leden
440 besprekingen
½ 4.3
Algemene Rangorde 103
34 Members
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Verklaringen
aulsmith : Not a classic
JalenV: I've read it twice, decades ago, probably because I'd seen the movie.
Aprill: Read it.
ManWithAnAgenda : Don't see the point.
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De avonturen van Alice in Wonderland
door Lewis Carroll
27,013 leden
476 besprekingen
4
Algemene Rangorde 87
45 Members
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Verklaringen
dara85: Didn't like it.
auntSteelbreaker : Read it, loved it.
electrice : read in 2014
JalenV: When I was in elementary school, my parents gave me a boxed set with a printed copy of the book and an audio copy on vinyl records (I'm 69). I've read it several times, but I like my annotated Alice better.
ManWithAnAgenda : Read.