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Modern Classics

Classics must resonate with an audience and have continued readership. Modern classics are generally written after WWI. They are also popularly known as "contemporary classics." ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Modern Classics"

The Bee Sting
Black Butterflies
The Promise
Septology (Septologien, #1-7)
The Austen Girls
P.G. Wodehouse Volume 1: The Jeeves Collection
All Desire Is a Desire for Being (Penguin Classics)
Without MAlice
The Apprentice in the Master’s Shadow (Legends of the Order #2)
Forty-Ninth
Stories for Christmas and the Festive Season
1984
To Kill a Mockingbird
Animal Farm
The Catcher in the Rye
The Great Gatsby
The Handmaid's Tale
The Bell Jar
Fahrenheit 451
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men
Lolita
Brave New World
A Clockwork Orange
Slaughterhouse-Five
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Alienist by Caleb CarrThe Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan DoyleMistress of the Art of Death by Ariana FranklinA Morbid Taste for Bones by Ellis PetersThe Beekeeper's Apprentice by Laurie R. King
Best historical-fiction mysteries
354 books — 105 voters
East of Eden by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men by John SteinbeckThe Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckCannery Row by John SteinbeckThe Pearl by John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
44 books — 211 voters

The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBeloved by Toni MorrisonKindred by Octavia E. ButlerThe Darkest Child by Delores PhillipsAmericanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Contemporary Black Women's Literature
374 books — 212 voters
The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas LlosaThe War of the End of the World by Mario Vargas LlosaAunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas LlosaLa ciudad y los perros by Mario Vargas LlosaConversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa
The Best Book by Mario Vargas Llosa
27 books — 50 voters


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