What is a ‘modern classic’? Although there is no strict definition, the following list contains novels which are considered outstanding pieces of literature. This list is restrictive. For your modern pick choose one of the novels below.
Anthony Burgess
A Clockwork Orange
, 1962
John Fowles
The Collector, 1963
William Golding
Lord of the Flies, 1954
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms, 1929
Susan Hill
I’m the King of the Castle, 1970
Aldous Huxley
Brave New World, 1932
Ken Kesey
One flew over a Cuckoo’s Nest, 1962
Harper Lee
To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita, 1955
Michael Ondaatje
The English Patient, 1992
George Orwell
1984, 1949
Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar, 1963
Chaim Potok
The Chosen, 1967
Jean Rhys
Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966 [ ½ ]
Salman Rushdie
Midnight’s Children, 1995
J.D. Salinger
The Catcher in the Rye, 1951
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby, 1925
John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, 1939
Alice Walker
The Color Purple, 1982
Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence, 1920
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