7 Best Old Classic Books That You Should Read

List of 5 best old classic books. Check out the booklist.

1. Pride & Prejudice

Pride & Prejudice

When Elizabeth Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy for the first time at a ball, she writes him off as an arrogant and obnoxious man. He not only acts like an insufferable snob, but she also overhears him rejecting the very idea of asking her for a dance!

2. 1984 

1984

1984: A Novel, unleashes a unique plot as per which No One is Safe or Free. No place is safe to run or even hide from a dominating party leader, Big Brother, who is considered equal to God. This is a situation where everything is owned by the State. The world was seeing the ruins of World War II.

3. Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

In the nineteenth century Russian high society, the ravishing, aristocratic Anna Karenina is married to Alexey Alexandrovitch Karenin, a senior statesman, twenty years her senior. But as her passionate and restless spirit compels her, she falls in love with Count Vronsky—a young and wealthy military officer. and now, Anna wants to break away from her cold marriage.
As Karenin refuses to separate, Anna is doomed. Caught between the rigorous societal norms, laws and the Orthodox Church, she is consumed by guilt and isolation.

4. The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Meet Dorian Gray, the beautiful young man with an impossibly charming face and spirit. as he sits for Basil Hallward—a deeply moral artist and a friend of the impish Lord Henry—who becomes obsessed with his beauty and wants to paint him, Dorian is enchanted by the perfection of his portrait.

5. To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age story, an anti-racist novel, a historical drama of the Great Depression and a sublime example of the Southern writing tradition.

6. The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

In this definitive tale on American culture, Fitzgerald pits a chaste dream against the corrupting influences of wealth and comes up with an epic story that can only be defined as ‘a Great American novel’.

7. One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

The novel One Hundred Years of Solitude is an absolute masterpiece. It manages to capture the various phases and glories of human history. The book has had a major impact on young minds that have taken up literature as a subject. The book is engaging and intense that reminiscence of how history repeats itself with the collapse and creation of a new Macondo within a span of a century.

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