Discussion What is your novel classics?

Hi! I just wanted to ask everyone what they consider a literature classic, by that, i mean that the work should be finished and have a decent renown (or just be so peculiar that it deserves to be mentioned)
Of course it can range from novels to poems, or any literary work. As I think it could be a good experience to share what we consider a good book and this may improve our literature's knowledge. In fact, we have the chance to have people from all across the globe here on NUF thus we don't have the same culture so it would be an enlightening experience to share our own literature experience outside of webnovels, which i consider boring up to a point.
So feel free to share what you consider a classic and mention in your description why it is one.
I will update the OP regularly so that everyone can have a rough idea of where and when was published the work
Then i'll start with my own recommendation:

So for me, there is two author and their work that i consider as a classic:
-Isaac Asimov, with the fondation series and the robot series, as it cover a wide range of ideas about philosophy, sociology, economy etcetera, i think it is one of the must read novels, along with Tolkien's work as far as moder literature is conscerned(but since i didn't finish reading it i don't feel entitled to recommend it.)

-Emile Zola's "l'assomoir" it's a french piece of work=>art that i think most of us may be able to relate to. As it was written by E.Zola, it is of course from the naturalism literature current, which along with realism is the literature current i like the most. Even though there is no superpower or anything extraordinary in this novel, the decline the character will suffer from is something everyone of us shall read about at least once.

Then here's the indexe:

Spoiler: Western literature

Spoiler: 14th Century

Dant Alighieri, Inferno, Italia, Description

Spoiler: 18th Century

Immanuel Kant, Critique of pure reason, 1781, Germany

Spoiler: The Age Of Enlightenment

Voltaire, Candide, 1759, France

Spoiler: Sturm und Drang(late 18th)

Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774, Germany

Spoiler: 19th literature

Spoiler: Naturalism(late 19th C.)

Emile Zola, L'assomoir,1877, France
Knut Hamsun, Hunger, 1890, Norway

Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo, 1844, France, Description
Edgar Allan Poe, The cask of amontillado, 1846, USA
Multatuli, Max Havelaar, 1860, Netherlands
Mark Twain, The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, 1876, USA

Spoiler: Modern literature (20th C.)

Spoiler: Science Fiction

Isaac Asimov, I, robot (there are other collection of the robot series), America
Isaac Asimov, the fundation series, USA
David Weber, The Honorverse, USA
John Ringo, Voyage of the space bubble, USA
Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl, Ireland
George Orwell, 1984, 1949, England, description
Peter F. Hamilton, The Night's Dawn, Britain, Description
Lain M. Banks, The Player Of Games, 1988, Scotland
Orson Scott, Ender's Game, 1985, USA

Spoiler: Fantaisy

Raymond E. Feist, The Riftwar saga, USA
G.R.R.Martin, A Song Of Ice And Fire, USA
James Oliver Rigney, The Wheel Of Time, USA
J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter, Britain
David Eddings, The Elenium, USA

Spoiler: War

Kurt Vonne
gut, Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death, 1969, USA

Spoiler: Stephen King

Stephen Edwin King, It, 1986, USA
Stephen Edwin King, Carrie, 1974, USA

Jack London, The Call Of The Wild, 1903, USA
Frans G. Bengtsson, The Long Ships, 1941, Sweden, Description
Antoine de saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince, 1943, France
Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game, 1943, Germany
J.D.Salinger, The Catcher In The Rye, 1951, USA, Description
William Golding, Lord of the flies, 1954, England, description
Elizabeth George Speare, Calico Captive, 1957, USA
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961, USA

Spoiler: Eastern literature

Vàtsyàyana, Kama Sutra, India description
Ràmàyana and Mahàbhàrata, "Holy books of Hinduism"

Spoiler: 20th century

Parijat, Shiris Ko Phool, 1965, Nepal, description
Jin Yong, (Give me a novel), Chinese

(I won't cite the dates for the collections of works so no need to tell me the dates)


PS: i can't believe no one got the idea before so if someone could link me to previous threads that are similiar, you'd be welcomed.
of course you can recommend as many novels as you want as long as it is interesting (but no webnovels though even though some deserve to be here)
PPS: A webnovel is for me, any novel that is or may be on NU.
Edit: and you should put a short description as i will make a link to your post.

 

Lord Of The Flies by William Golding. The realism and allegory are pretty much why I consider it a classic.

 

To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee

 

1984 by George Orwell

 

Invisible Dragon

 

Max havelaar by multatuli

 

No hijacking please....

 

The Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe: well, it's just a good book to read
and of course the Bible: the pioneer of the fantasy genre and also talks about ethics and these kind of things

 

That is such a difficult one to read just because of the mood it puts you into, but once you finish it you realize you just read the best novel ever written.
Now that you made me remember it, I gotta go re-read it, lol

 

I kinda wanna troll, but looking at the amount of culture here I guess not. Just dropping this here so I can find back this thread. Don't mind me.

 

Das Glasperlenspiel by Hesse, in English 'The Glass Bead Game' if there is a western XianXia style book, this would come close.

 

Hunger by Hamsun.
Call of the Wild by Jack London.
Catch 22 by Heller.
Slaughterhouse-five and the Children's Crusade.

All books I highly recommend.

I guess I could also recommend a classic that...I never managed to read through. It was too boring to reread the same stuff trying to keep it all straight. Damn interesting, but it made my head hurt: Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant.

 

I've read literature from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to Jules Verne Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea.
And I have to say reading book similar to these always bring me back to my school days. So in essence I fall asleep after a few paragraphs.
I'm sure these novel are world renowned, but if I had to describe myself it wouldn't be a scholar. If I had to say maybe a barbarian.
To answer your question. A classic literature:
Hardcover:
Fantasy-
The Rift War saga by Raymon E. Fiest
Forgotten Realms by R.A. Salvatore
Science Fiction-
Honor Harrington by David Weber
Vorpal Blade series by John Ringo
I could go on, but I'll leave it like that.

 

There is this Bengali series of poem named " Abol Tabol "(which basically translates as bullshit in English). Its one helluva series, but it just doesn't work that well when translated, especially due to the rhymes going haywire.

 

The Artemis Fowl series by Eoin Colfer. It is more similar to these Xianxia novels though. The MC initially is a douche-bag who has shades of anti-protagonist and then transforms to eventually become into someone that saves the world.

 

the cask of amontillado and the most dangerous game are two that I enjoyed a lot.
One that I hated but was moving, i suppose, was Harrison Bergeron

Oh and Thus I refute mr. Beelzy and Sredni Vashtar. Both short stories but very good

 

loved those still have most of them from when I was a kid

 

Btw i have poor internet right now so i'll wait till i'm home to start to repertoriate seriously.
And special mention to @ShimizuA 's max havelaar i think i'll read it

 

What about Hesse's Siddhartha?
My favs would be books by Anne McCaffrey, Tamora Pierce, Agatha Christie, Arthur C. Clarke. All their works can be considered classics in their genre.
Manga would be all manga written by Adachi Mitsuru.