the universally loved books everyone should own. a mix of the timeless classics you keep meaning to read (and will actually fall in love with) and the modern fiction that will absolutely wreck you in the best way possible
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Classic Novels Everyone Should Own
Great American Novels for Your Shelf
Classic Novels Everyone Should Own
the ones you keep meaning to read and then actually love. i buy the pretty clothbound versions of these so they earn their spot on the shelf, not just collect dust.
beth. that's it that's the note 😭
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
mr darcy ruined real men for me and i've made peace with it
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
reads a little too close to the news lately… still couldn't put it down
1984 by George Orwell
the monster is the sad boy of my heart, perfect spooky season read
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
read it in school, reread it at 28 and cried in totally new places
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
so short but that last line lives in my head rent free
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
cozy gothic rainy day energy, reader i married him and all that 🕯️
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
everyone in this book is a menace and i couldn't look away
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
holden is so annoying but somehow i finished it in a weekend
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Amazon
oscar wilde could roast someone in the prettiest sentence
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
took me a month but that ending… i had to sit in silence after
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Great American Novels for Your Shelf
underlined half the book, so many lines just hit
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
the last scene lives in my head, steinbeck doesn't miss
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
toni morrison writes like nobody else, read it slowly
