Mine is
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee. I have read it multiple times and still enjoy it. I sometimes think we ruin the classics for people by having kids read them in high school. When I reread something I was assigned in high school, I see how much I missed because I was just too young. Try a classic today. You may like it.
.In case you don't know the story of
To kill a mockingbird, Scout, a young girl growing up in an Alabama town in the 1930s, learns about injustice and violence when her father, Atticus, defends a black man, Tom, who is falsely accused of rape.
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I love All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. It is simple, clear, and a heartbreaking book about how we send youth into wars they don't understand, and suffer terrible consequences for...I've reread it a few times and am always impressed.
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy (Emmuska Orczy) is my favorite classic read. Clearly, I'm not alone, since it has been made into several films and television miniseries.
Set during the French Revolution, this book has adventure, trickery, suspense, and, yes, even some romance.
Sir Percy, a high-style low-compassion Englishman, gives every appearance that he couldn't care less about anything but himself and fashion. No one would guess that he is, in fact, the gallant Scarlet Pimpernel, a daring agent who regularly risks his own life to save French aristocrats destined for the guillotine.
Sir Percy mixes with the aristocracy at parties in England, feigning disinterest and even scorn for the plight of the French. Marguerite thinks him a foppish, useless, man. When she finds herself in need of the Scarlet Pimpernel's services, she discovers the truth about Sir Percy and the depth of his character and courage.
I have to admit that I fell a little in love with Sir Percy. Maybe you will, too!
So hard to choose! But I think that David Copperfield by Charles Dickens is probably at the top of my list. I have read it several times in my life and each time something different resonates for me.
I agree with Terry, I could read David Copperfield again and again. The audio version read by British actors adds even more life to the story.
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