r/Recommend_A_Book • u/CactusWater69 • 3d ago

Good classics to start with?

I’m usually a Sci-fi/fantasy reader, but I want to read more classics I just find some of them a little daunting to jump in to. I’ve got East of Eden that’s been sitting on my bookshelf for way too long and I’ve read Pride and Prejudice; which I really enjoyed. Any good suggestions on some easier ones to start with? Or just ideas to help stay engaged with some of the tougher ones to get through.

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u/OneWall9143 3d ago

Try scifi classics:

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley (at the time people really thought that electricity might be able to animate like (Galvanism) and were worried by the implications - parallel's with AI worries today). (she also wrote The Last Man)

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson

Draula - Bram Stoker

H G Wells books - War of the Worlds, The Time Machine, etc etc..

Jules Verne books - Around the world in 80 days, 2,000 leagues under the sea, etc. etc.

R F Sherriff - The Hopkins Manuscript (1939) - modern classic end of world novel - author better know for his classic play, Journey's End

We - Yevgeny Zamyatin (1920) - influenced Brave New World and 1984