What are you reading at the moment?

How about Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen? I always liked that one...a good story about the power struggle between the head and the heart!

Amazon does a good job of segregating genres, and they list a large number of "classics" on their website. Here's the link to Amazon's list of classics:
http://www.amazon.com/Classics-Literature-Fiction-Books/b/ref=bw_ab_17_4?ie=UTF8&node=10399&pf_rd_p=236679501&pf_rd_s=browse&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_i=17&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=126WM951HBF6YYNMCGC6

I'm a librarian, and love the recommendations by Nancy Pearl (a librarian with her own "Action Figure")!!! She has two books called Book Lust and More Book Lust where she gives many recommendations for any reader. I'd also recommend that you try some of her recommendations.

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Here are a couple of books by John Steinbeck:

The Pearl -(1947) We read this classic novella in high school as a class. It is tragic, but it really keeps your interest . . . It is about a poor Mexican family who find out that riches do not mean much in the face of tragedy. I loved it as a teenager.

Grapes of Wrath -(1939) I read this novel in college. It ends nothing like the movie . . . although the movie was good. (B&W - Henry Fonda) It is about a poor sharecropper's family who travel in their old broken down vehicle to the Salinas Valley during the Great Depression. Mr. Steinbeck followed migrant families, and camped along with them during this time which I am sure helped him write his book.

The Good Earth -(1931) Pearl S. Buck This novel is about a poor Chinese family who works for a wealthy household. It tells of their rise out of poverty, and the struggles they face, as they are farmers.

Night - (1955) Elie Weisel - This is a true story (autobiographical account) of a Yiddish boy, and his tale of his family during the Holocaust. I read this during high school, and though it was horrible . . . it gave me a great admiration of the Holocaust survivors.

The Hiding Place (1971) Corrie Ten Boom (w/ John & Elizabeth Sherrill) is another holocaust book which is true. It gives a young woman's account of how the Nazi invasion changed her life. She and her family were hiding Jews, and suffered a lot of consequences for it. The movie is nothing in comparison to the book. It is Corrie's record of God working miracles even through hopeless circumstances.

The Jungle - (1906) Upton Sinclair - tells the story of families who worked for meatpacking plants, and their struggles. It is spellbinding.

I love reading books about the struggles of people, and how they resiliently somehow come through although maybe the result isn't always sugar coated. I hope this sparked some interest for all.

PS . . . If anyone decides to read one of these books, how about letting me know how you liked them.
Some of the authors won Pullizer prizes for their work.