Penguin Classic Recommends

[Justadreamer]

Would anyone be able to suggest some penguin classic please?

[hellsbuddha]

Tale of two cities is great

[Super Sonic]

John Wyndham - The Chrysalids
A young boy growing up in a religious family in a world where mutations are common, and seen as an offence against god.
Mutated crops are burned, animals killed and babies sterilised and left in the wilderness.
The protagonist realises that him and his friends ability to communicate telepathically is in fact a mutation...
First read this at school age 11, and it's still a favourite.

[PushedDover]

As a child - the Willard Price ‘adventure’ series
Fabulous

[Got4wheels]

If you're into history and travel, I cannot recommend Arabian Sands by Wilfred Thesiger enough. He travels (1945-50) along the Arabian Peninsula and the Empty Quarter with the Bedouin tribes that lived there. It's essentially a love letter to an ancient way of life that was being eroded by the discovery of oil even while Wilfred was there immediately following WW2, it's rather sad in places as Thesiger curses what he knows is coming.

I read it in 2022, and I'm talking myself into a re-read.

Michael

[soad]

The Invisible Man
Dracula
The Catcher in the Rye

[Purosangue]

nausea
Friedrich Nietzsche biography
Titus Andronicus
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Three Musketeers
Demons Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Edited by Purosangue on Tuesday 17th March 00:10

[T697JVS]

Another vote for A Tale of Two Cities

Will add The Mayor of Casterbridge

[Turn7]

PushedDover said:

As a child - the Willard Price adventure series
Fabulous

Oh yes, read and owned them all.. loved them

[coppice]

If you like Hemingway , and I love his prose despite him now being deeply unfashionable , there are some utter gems . I have read A Moveable Feast so many times,and still adore it. I'm no fan of bull fignting but Death in the Afternoon was fascinating . For Whom the Bell Tolls, Islands in the Stream - so much choice

[Groomio]

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole

[Skyedriver]

coppice said:

If you like Hemingway , and I love his prose despite him now being deeply unfashionable , there are some utter gems . I have read A Moveable Feast so many times,and still adore it. I'm no fan of bull fignting but Death in the Afternoon was fascinating . For Whom the Bell Tolls, Islands in the Stream - so much choice

Hemingway's life was quite fascinating. I found For Whom the Bell Tolls a struggle.

[spikeyhead]

Anything by Trollope, Anthony not Joanna

Most of Dickens, Great Expectations, Nickolas Nickleby, A tale of two cities, David Copperfield, Pickwick papers and Bleak house are all worth a read