"Of Mice and Men" "Ten Years Before the Mast" "All things wise and wonderful" I've noticed alot of times they get to be classics cuz their really good

It's probably not a classic, but "A Clockwork Orange" was good.

When I was a young'n. LOL. I read 1984. Or you could try Brave New World.

The most beautiful writings are those of the Russian classics of the Golden era. Like for example those of Romanticism that permitted a flowering of especially poetic talent written by: Zhukovsky, Aleksandr Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Ivan Krylov the fabulist. Non-fiction writers such as Belinsky and Herzen; playwrights such as Griboedov and Ostrovsky; poets such as Evgeny Baratynsky, Konstantin Batyushkov, Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and Afanasij Fet; Kozma Prutkov (a collective pen name) the satirist; and a group of widely recognised novelists such as Nikolai Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leskov, Ivan Turgenev, Saltykov-Shchedrin and Goncharov. The influence of Pushkin cannot be overstated. He is credited with both crystalizing the literary Russian language and introducing a new level of artistry to Russian literature. His best-known work is a novel in verse is Eugene Onegin. I personally believe these are the best writers in the world. Regards.

"Middlemarch" by George Eliot is probably the greatest novel ever written in English.

I would recommend some classical non-fiction books that are very helpful for developing a good perspective on culture in general: Johan Huizinga: Homo Ludens (the fundamental theory of play as the basis of human culture) Elias Canetti: Mass and Power James Clifford: The Predicament of Culture André Malraux: The Imaginary Museum In Literature, one should have read at least one story by Ernest Hemingway, one by Joseph Conrad (preferably Heart of Darkness) and at least a short essay by Gertrude Stein ("What are Masterpieces, for instance). It would also be good to read something by Franz Kafka and James Joyce, as well as either "Endgame" or "Waiting for Godot" by Samuel Beckett. All this together would provide some insights into the twentieth century.

The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. The original book was wonderful, the movies and the play left much to be desired.

Atlas Shrugged

I don't know how classic you want to go. Plato's The Republic is an oldie, but honestly it's a bit harsh to read - and most people find it uninteresting at best. I'm sure you've ready Homer's The Odyssey - I actually kind of liked it. Going a bit further on in time, I'm quite fond of Candide, by Voltaire. Of course you've got Shakespeare which I'm sure you've read. Now over to the great American Classics, it starts off with Moby Dick. I think everyone should know the ending lines of The Great Gatsby. "They" say that The Scarlet Letter is a classic - but I honestly didn't care for it, but a lot of people love it. On the contrary, The Sound and the Fury I thought was pretty nifty. You gotta go with Steinbeck as well. War And Peace is just fracking long, but that doesn't take away from Tolstoy and other Russian greats. Alexander Pushkin is another one - and Moonwalker basically got all of the Russian greats in his. Then we can bust out with some of my favorites, by the Frenchman Alexandre Dumas. The Count Of Monte Cristo - A-fucking-mazing. The Three Musketeers - the book is way better than any of the movie adaptations, and the sequels Twenty Years After and The Vicomte de Bragelonne. I loved that series. I'm sure I'm missing some things, but that's what I'm getting from the top of my head.