Top Classic Books and All Round Good Books
When you say top classic books as distinct from simply, good books, of course there is a difference. Top classic books are those that are generally agreed by both academics and ‘those experts’ on the internet, that are deemed to be in the ‘best books of all time’ category. They were the kind of books that have been taught to schoolchildren down the ages; translated into various languages and whose life lessons seem to transcend the ages and remain just as valid today, in our fast-paced modern world, as they were in bygone eras.
What constitutes a good book, is more of a subjective matter, just as with good wine or good movies, one person’s triumph is another’s disappointment. The sheer number of books in the world means that this website only has the bandwidth to capture a small selection, but nevertheless, I hope you enjoy them. Scroll down to view, or if these are not what you were seeking, please check the other genre links below:
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Other Good Books & Classics
Books can entertain, educate and inspire
Aesop, – Fables of Aesop
Adams, Douglas – The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Archer, Jeffrey – The Fourth Estate
Baum, L Frank – The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Brown, Dan – Angels and Demons
Brown, Dan – The Da Vinci Code
Bryson, Bill – Notes From A Small Island
Buchan, John – The Thirty-Nine Steps
Carroll, Lewis – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Charriere, Henri – Papillon
Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales
Coelho, Paulo – The Alchemist
Defoe, Daniel – Robinson Crusoe
Dickens, Charles – David Copperfield
Dickens, Charles – Great Expectations
Dickens, Charles – Oliver Twist
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan – The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dumas, Alexandre – The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas, Alexandre – The Three Musketeers
Elton, Ben – Dead Famous
Elton, Ben – Gridlock
Elton, Ben – Popcorn
Elton, Ben – Stark
Elton, Ben – This Other Eden
Fitzgerald, F Scott – The Great Gatsby
Fleming, Ian – Casino Royale
Fleming, Ian – Live and Let Die
Fleming, Ian – Moonraker
Fleming, Ian – Diamonds are Forever
Fleming, Ian – From Russia with Love
Fleming, Ian – Dr No
Fleming, Ian – Goldfinger
Fleming, Ian – For Your Eyes Only
Fleming, Ian – Thunderball
Fleming, Ian – The Spy Who Loved Me
Fleming, Ian – On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Fleming, Ian – You Only Live Twice
Fleming, Ian – The Man With The Golden Gun
Fleming, Ian – Octopussy and The Living Daylights
Forsythe, Frederick – The Day of the Jackal
Forsythe, Frederick – The Odessa File
Gallico, Paul – The Poseidon Adventure
Golding, William – Lord of the Flies
Grahame, Kenneth – The Wind in the Willows
Heller, Joseph – Catch 22
Higgins, Jack – The Eagle Has Landed
Hope, Murry – The Sirius Connection – Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Egypt
Hughes, Thomas – Tom Brown’s Schooldays
Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
Inman, Tony – The Parrot and the Lady – Introducing Randy Short 008
Jacq, Christian – Ramses – The Lady of Abu Simbel
Kipling, Rudyard – The Jungle Book
Lawrence, DH – Lady Chatterley’s Lover
London, Jack – The Call of the Wild
London, Jack – White Fang
MacLean, Alistair – Where Eagles Dare
Melville, Herman – Moby Dick
Milne, AA – Winnie the Pooh
Moliere, – Le Misanthrope
Orwell, George – Animal Farm
Orwell, George – Nineteen-Eighty-Four
Osborn, David – Open Season
Puzo, Mario – The Godfather
Redfield, James – The Celestine Prophecy
Salinger, JD – The Catcher in the Rye
Scott, Walter – Ivanhoe
Sewell, Anna – Black Beauty
Shakespeare, William – Antony and Cleopatra
Shakespeare, William – Hamlet
Shakespeare, William – Julius Caesar
Shakespeare, William – Macbeth
Shakespeare, William – Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William – Richard the Third
Shakespeare, William – The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare, William – The Taming of the Shrew
Shelley, Mary – Frankenstein
Shute, Neville – A Town Like Alice
Shute, Neville – On the Beach
Smith, Wilbur – Eagle in the Sky
Smith, Wilbur – Wild Justice
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Strange Case of Dr Jeckll and Mr Hyde
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Kidnapped
Stevenson, Robert Louis – Treasure Island
Stoker, Bram – Dracula
Swift, Jonathan – Gulliver’s Travels
Thurber, James – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
Tolkien, JRR – The Lord of the Rings
Twain, Mark – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Verne, Jules – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Wells, HG – The War of the Worlds
Winton, Tim – The Turning
Wyndham, John – The Day of the Triffids
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