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Any suggestions for classic fiction to add to my Nook?

Asked by Supacase (14563points) January 11th, 2011

Books with expired copyrights can be downloaded for free from sites such as Project Gutenburg.

I am looking for suggestions of classics to add to my Nook. I have several in mind, but am interested in ones I may have missed, never heard of, or thought I wouldn’t like.

Any favorites or absolute musts?

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Gregory's avatar

Baum’s American Fairy Tales by Frank L Baum. You know Frank L Baum, right?

JilltheTooth's avatar

DH Lawrence, any and all.

Earthgirl's avatar

House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

aprilsimnel's avatar

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
The Awakening and Other Short Stories by Kate Chopin
Leaves Of Grass by Walt Whitman

Hawaii_Jake's avatar

Middlemarch by George Eliot
I also vote for Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

anartist's avatar

Surely the unbowdlerized Huck Finn is out there too.

Michael_Huntington's avatar

Get some Edgar Allan Poe in there.

anartist's avatar

@Gregory L [yman] Frank Baum, and particularly those with the original illustrations of W W Denslow or John R Neill.
Hans Christian Anderson ?

CyanoticWasp's avatar

Dickens. Any and all.

Supacase's avatar

Thanks everyone. Several of these are ones I had forgotten all about and I so appreciate the reminders. A couple I have not heard of and will definitely check into.

incendiary_dan's avatar

Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, and Brave New World.

MyNewtBoobs's avatar

Canterbury Tales, Beowulf (kickin’ it old school).

bunnygrl's avatar

The Sherlock Holmes stories by Conan Doyle. I remember reading them in my early teens and have read them since many times. Anything by Edgar Allen Poe, whenever I read Poe I hear it in Vincent Price’s voice….. <sighs> wonderful!! I have lots of favourites (too many) but what about “The Tell Tale Heart” and “The Raven”? And there are the brilliant Raymond Chandler stories. “Farenheight 451” and “1984” are another couple of favourites. oooooo there are few pleasures like getting entirely lost in a really good book! enjoy honey <hugs> xx

downtide's avatar

The free ones I’ve downloaded to my Kindle are:
The complete Sherlock Holmes
Picture of Dorian Grey
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Dracula
Frankenstein
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Mysterious Island
I also recommend Phantom of the Opera, although I didn’t get it for my kindle because I already own it in paper form.
(can you tell I like the gothic horror stuff?)

Gregory's avatar

@anartist Frank L. Baum – Wizard of Oz

Kardamom's avatar

I’m with @CyanoticWasp and @bunnygrl

Any and all Dickens
Sherlock Holmes
And everything that @downtide listed

I just read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte for the first time. Excellent descriptions and dialogue with kind of a weird ending, but a great book.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

A Separate Peace by John Knowles

Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Everything by Mark Twain

Everything by John Steinbeck

The Alice in Wonderland Series by Lewis Carroll

Anything by Rudyard Kipling

The entire “Little House” series by Laura Ingall’s Wilder but if that seems like too much, at least read Little House in the Big Woods and Farmer Boy (those 2 are the best IMO).

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Watership Down by Richard Adams

Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell

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