Hmmm, I suppose most of what has been said here would apply to me, Although there are a few missing,
20,000 leagues under the sea would be a good start, And the entire OZ series.
Robinson Crusoe, and pretty much any survival/shipwrecked tales.
The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
Anything by David and Leigh Eddings.
R.L.Stine, Childish I know but I grew up on his books.
Chuck palahniuk...
You know what, The list goes on forever I think. Suffice to say, I'm a bookworm.

Anything by Poe - I have been been in awe of him since childhood when I first learned how to read.

The Killer and the Slain by Walpole

Picture of Dorian Gray by Wilde

Letters to his Mother by Baudelaire

And for some reason I like a very old "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" book that I have. And I LOVE antique books.....the older the better!

Other than the aforementioned, I tend to lean towards non-fiction......especially history and mythology of any kind.

My classics are: Tell No Man, by Adela Rogers St John, Kindred by Octavia Butler, anything by Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, Soren Kierkegaard or Linda Goodman. The book that started my 30+ year journey was "The Little Prince", by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Other authors who have sparked me are Terry Pratchett (a hoot!), Christopher Moore and Carl Hiaasen. Too many to list! Peace to all. :flower: :flower: :flower:

Oh! I forgot,......anything by Jane Austen. And I like "The Little Prince" too. Thanks for reminding me of it FannyNzinga :thumbup:

H P Lovecraft, especially the Arkham stories.

Have any of you ever heard of a comic book called "Classics Illustrated" it's been around forever. My uncle collected them. I have an 151 comic set of them at the moment.

I have enjoyed having them around since my uncle gave them to me to sell. They are pretty cool in-a-nutshell summed up versions of the classics.

Since I just typed up all their titles to organize them, I thought some of you might enjoy the list... this isn't all of the ones that exist but just the ones in my uncles collection. Maybe it'll bring to mind more of your favorite classics that you hadn't thought of. :wizard: It surely did for me. I'm a little embarrassed that a lot of these I've never even heard of though lol. Sorry I didn't put the authors in the list but just the titles.

Classics Illustrated issue number and title
#1, The Three Muskateers
#2, Ivanhoe
#3, The Count of Monte Cristo
#4, The Last of the Mohicans
#5, Moby Dick
#6, A Tale of Two Cities
#8, Arabian Nights
#9, Les Miserables
#10, Robinson Crusoe
#11, Don Quixote
#12, Rip Van Winkle and the Headless Horseman
#13, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
#15, Uncle Tom's Cabin
#16, Gulliver's Travels
#17, The Deerslayer
#18, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
#19, Huckleberry Finn
#21, 3 Famous Mysteries; Sherlock Holmes "the Sign of the 4", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Flayed Hand"
#22, The Pathfinder
#23, Oliver Twist
#24, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
#25, Two Years before The Mast
#26, Frankenstein
#27, The Adventures of Marco Polo
#28, Michael Strogoff
#29, The Prince and the Pauper
#30, The Moonstone
#31, The Black Arrow
#34, Mysterious Island
#35, The Last Days of Pompeii
#36, Typee
#37, The Pioneers
#38, Adventures of Cellini
#39, Jane Eyre
#40, Twenty Years After
#42, Swiss Family Robinson
#44, Mysteries of Paris
#45, Tom Brown's School Days
#47, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
#48, David Copperfield
#49, Alice in Wonderland
#51, The Spy
#52, The House of the Seven Gables
#53, A Christmas Carol
#54, The Man In The Iron Mask
#55, Silas Marner
#57, The Song of Hiawatha
#58, The Prairie
#59, Wuthering Heights
#60, Black Beauty
#61, The Woman in White
#62, Western Stories
#63, The Man Without a Country
#64, Treasure Island
#65, Benjamin Franklin
#66, The Cloister Hearth
#67, The Scottish Chiefs
#68, Julius Caesar
#69, Around the World in 80 Days
#70, The Pilot
#71, The Man Who Laughs
#72, The Oregon Trail
#73, The Black Tulip
#74, Mr. Midshipman Easy
#75, The Lady of the Lake
#76, The Prisoner of Zenda
#77, Homer's Iliad
#78, Joan of Arc
#79, Cyrano de Bergerac
#81, The Odyssey
#82, The Master of Ballantrae
#83, The Jungle Book
#85, Sea Wolf
#86, Under Two Flags
#87, A Midsummer Night's Dream
#89, Crime and Punishment
#90, Green Mansions
#91, The Call of the Wild
#92, The Courtship of Miles Standish and Evangeline
#93, Pudd'nhead Wilson
#94, David Balfour
#97, King Solomon's Mines
#98, The Red Badge of Courage
#99, Hamlet
#100, Mutiny on the Bounty
#102, The White Company
#103, Men Against the Sea
#104, Bring 'Em Back Alive
#105, From Earth to the Moon
#107, King of the Khyber Rifles
#108, Knights of the Round Table
#111, The Talisman
#113, The Forty-Five Guardsmen
#115, How I Found Livingstone
#116, The Bottle Imp
#117, Captains Courageous
#118, Rob Roy
#119, Soldiers of Fortune
#122, The Mutineers
#123, Fang and Claw
#124, The War of the Worlds
#125, The Ox-Bow Incident
#126, The Downfall
#128, Macbeth
#130, Caesar's Conquests
#132, The Dark Frigate
#133, The Time Machine
#134, Romeo and Julier
#135, Waterloo
#136, Lord Jim
#138, A Journey To The Center of the Earth
#139, In the Reign of Terror
#140, On Jungle Trails
#144, The First Men on the Moon
#145, The Crisis
#146, With Fire and Sword
#149, Off on a Comet
#151, Won by the Sword
#153, The Invisible Man
#155, The Lion of the North
#156, The Conquest of Mexico
#158, The Conspirators
#159, The Octopus
#161, Cleopatra
#163, Master of the World
#164, The Cossack Chief
#166, Tigers and Traitors
#167, Faust

I had a ton of those Classics Illustrated books growing up. The paperbacks were super cheap at KB Toys back in the day.

Now geez, there's so many. Everything by Nietzsche. Laozi. Sun Tzu. Miyamoto Mushashi. Just about everything from the height of Greece and Rome. The Federalist. Alexis de Tocqueville. Han Feizi. Thomas Hobbes. John Locke. Ayn Rand if you have time. It takes her 1000 pages to say what Nietzsche says in an aphorism. And there are so many more, especially Chinese philosophers who are worth reading. A lot of decent stuff out of Germany in the 19th century, although Nietzsche's criticisms of their work usually prove far more entertaining.

Oh almost forgot, one book that I believe is an absolute must read for anyone, "The wasp factory" by Iain Banks. If your interested in some of the most bizarre stories ever written, This will make your top 5.

Beyond The PawPaw Trees, Magic By The Lake are childhood favorites that first captured my magical imagination. Though labeled as stories for children, the child within still is captured by Lewis Carroll's Alice wandering in Wonderland, Baum's Wizard of Oz, The Night Before Christmas (it's that flying reindeer thing) and A Thousand and One Nights (that djinn thing). Shakespeare's Tempest (well anything with a ghost or witches), Austin's Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice. Depending on the brain tap, I could go on and on...