15 Classic Books it should be the Law to read !

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Jude the Obscure (Penguin Popular Classics)
1.  Jude the Obscure (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy
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  "The first book to ever really make me cry - so shocking and moving"
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Orlando: A Biography (Penguin Modern Classics)
2.  Orlando: A Biography (Penguin Modern Classics) by Virginia Woolf
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  "Lyrical and fantastical"
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Penguin Popular Classics)
3.  The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Penguin Popular Classics) by Victor Hugo
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  "Brutal and moving - there is so much more to this book than legend would have you believe.  Hugo is much underrated as a classical writer"
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Summer Classics)
4.  Wuthering Heights (Penguin Summer Classics) by Emily Bronte
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  "Perhaps guilty of melodrama in our modern eyes, but nonetheless, wild, descriptive and passionate"
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics)
5.  Jane Eyre (Penguin Popular Classics) by Charlotte Brontë
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  "Who can resist the mystery and romance of this story ??"
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The Return of the Native (Oxford World's Classics)
6.  The Return of the Native (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Hardy
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  "It is hard to choose just one of Thomas Hardy's heroines, but Eustacia Vye is a woman truly trapped in too early a time.  Wonderful enigmatic descriptions of environment and person - typical of Hardy"
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The Catcher in the Rye
7.  The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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  "Adolesence on the edge"
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Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
8.  Persuasion (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
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  "I think I like this better than any other Jane Austen book.  Underated among her works, but a mature and moving with all the usual Austen ingredients"
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Gigi: Play (Acting Edition)
9.  Gigi: Play (Acting Edition) by Anita Loos
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  "I like this book, because Colette was such an interesting character, because I like the movie and its just a great story"
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Vanity Fair: A Novel Without A Hero (Oxford World's Classics)
10.  Vanity Fair: A Novel Without A Hero (Oxford World's Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray
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  "Becky Sharp has to be one of the greatest heroines/anti-heroines (depending how you look at it) ever committed to paper. Long, but worth the time"
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Rebecca
11.  Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
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  "Cornish setting, mystery, attractive man loves ordinary girl - hope for us all !"
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Voyager Classics - Brave New World
12.  Voyager Classics - Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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  "Prophetic, readable, challenging"
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The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Popular Classics)
13.  The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Popular Classics) by Henry James
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  "Fantastic character studies"
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Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town (Oxford World's Classics)
14.  Madame Bovary: Life in a Country Town (Oxford World's Classics) by Gustave Flaubert
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  "Raunchy in its time, moving and human - an underrated classic"
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No Name (Oxford World's Classics)
15.  No Name (Oxford World's Classics) by Wilkie Collins
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  "I read this book because I liked its title - which seems as good a reason as any to choose a book !  Collins is a great write of mysteries - another underrated writer"
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