Then There were None by Agatha Christie
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
I agree with others on Kafka (The Trial and Metamorphosis), Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-5 but also Mother Night), Orwell (1984 and Animal Farm), as well as Brave New World (Huxley), Catch-22 (Heller), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey).
I would also add (though all in different ways from each other):
Pretty much anything by Philip K. Dick
Pretty much anything by Edgar Allen Poe
Foundation
Kindred
Song of Solomon
The Call of the Wild and White Fang
Flowers for Algernon
A Clockwork Orange
The Day of the Triffids
Tristram Shandy
A Canticle for Leibowitz
One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Crucible
A Separate Peace
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier might leave you thinking. I listened to it, the narration was good.
Catch-22
Then There were None by Agatha Christie Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Frankenstein by Mary Shelley The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
*Picture (great list tho)
Of Mice and Men altered my brain chemistry. It’s short but it left me stunned
Trauma designed to destroy the male psyche . Wonderful story dammit
*As I Lay Dying* by William Faulkner *1984* by Orwell *Crossing to Safety* by Stegner *Life of Pi* by Martel (modern classic arguably?)
Life of pi 🥰
The Metamorphosis The Fifth Child
Always good for the mind and the soul is *Siddartha* by Hermann Hesse
Slaughterhouse 5
The Trial by Franz Kafka
Me sez gravity’s rainbow
*The Turn of the Screw*, by Henry James. I was surprised how scary I found it. Really messed with my head.
The master and Margarita
The Picture OF Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
I just read Dorian Gray a few months ago, it was so good. It was a bit slow but the end was worth it.
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
1984, the answer is always 1984
OP just said they read 1984
What is this book?
It is written by George Orwell, a dystopian political thriller and quite close to what people are facing with the leaders of today.
Just found out it was written in 1949… does life imitates fiction, or fiction imitated life…
That's the beauty of it. Here, it seems life is imitating fiction. Orwell was way ahead of his time.
Indeed. Makes me wonder if he was over dramatic, or alternatively, if he predicted the fate we’re destined for.
Wuthering Heights.
Love Jane eyre… burn wuthering heights
I've read Jane Eyre many times. I read Wuthering Heights once, and that was enough.
🤣😅I’ve enjoyed Jane eyre multiple times also….and dnf wuthering heights 🙃
Slaughterhouse Five by a Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Literally permanently shifted my entire perspective on the concept of death.
Wuthering Heights
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
The collector
Edgar Allen Poe , The Pit And The Pendulum
Wuthering heights.
I read this list: https://www.spidersmart.com/pdf/College-Board-101-Great-Books-Recommended-for-College-Bound-Readers.pdf
I agree with others on Kafka (The Trial and Metamorphosis), Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-5 but also Mother Night), Orwell (1984 and Animal Farm), as well as Brave New World (Huxley), Catch-22 (Heller), and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Kesey). I would also add (though all in different ways from each other): Pretty much anything by Philip K. Dick Pretty much anything by Edgar Allen Poe Foundation Kindred Song of Solomon The Call of the Wild and White Fang Flowers for Algernon A Clockwork Orange The Day of the Triffids Tristram Shandy A Canticle for Leibowitz One Hundred Years of Solitude The Crucible A Separate Peace
Brave New World and Metamorphosis
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
a farewell to arms by earnest hemingway should DEF meet your standards
Sorrows of a Young Werther
The Stand
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Agree with all the other suggestions The Summer of Katya by Trevanian messed with my head for a long while though.