Favorite classic novels
 

I just read North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, and it was wonderful! It has put me in a mood to read classic novels, and I'm wondering what everyone's favorites are.

One of my favorites is Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. I read it I don't know how many times as a young boy, and still re-read it now and then.

My favorite, which I have reread many times, is Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Dracula by Bram Stoker
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad

The Sea Wolf by Jack London

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by RLS

To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

If what you're hankering for is big, fat Victorian novels like Mrs. Gaskell's, try Trollope. Start with The Warden, the first novel of the Barchester Chronicles. That'll give you a taste without a big commitment and if it's love, your path is clear.

I'm on it! Thanks. :) And it's free for Kindle!

Pretty much anything Jules Verne; with Journey to the Center of the Earth heading the list.

It's out of copyright (at least in the US & Canada) and available here.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53280
(Of course, that's the whole set, not just the first book.)

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All of Jane Austen's and Anne of Green Gables.

I've read lots of classics, but the one I've reread the most is Moonfleet by Meade Falkner.
I love this book!

Charles Dickens:
A tale of two cities
Great expectations

Fyodor Dostoevsky:
The brothers Karamazov

Jules Verne:
Journey to the centre of the earth

Alexandre Dumas:
The Three Musketeers

Robert Louis Stevenson:
The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Lots of great books mentioned above. Some additional titles:

Elizabeth Gaskell wrote some other excellent novels, including "Cranford" and "Wives and Daughters"

Charles Dickens - "Bleak House" - who could forget Mr. Tulkinghorn and Harold Skimpole, and it includes a spontaneous human combustion

Anthony Trollope - "Barchester Towers" in the Barsetshire books (see issybird's comments above) is probably my favourite novel, but Trollope wrote many other excellent novels, particularly the Palliser novels - "Can You Forgive her?", "Phineas Finn", "The Eustace Diamonds", ...

William Makepeace Thackeray - "Vanity Fair" - You'll want to hiss at Becky Sharpe and shake Amelia Sedley

For me, it is The Three Musketeers and anything by Charles Dickens especially David Copperfield.

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
Bleak House - Charles Dickens
The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann Wyss
Candide - Voltaire
Spoon River Anthology - Edgar Lee Masters