Top 10 Classic Books for Beginners (Where to Start) | The Bookworm

Today I'll list 10 of my favorite classic books that are beginner friendly! Reading classic literature may look really intimidating, but worry not because on this list I'll recommend novels from thrillers to adventure and comedy that are interesting, fun, and easy to read.
Want to know which literary works made the list? Just watch my video!
There's a reason why some books pass the test of time and are considered "classics", but I know some books look heavy, long and anything but fun. This is why on this video I'm listing works that, despite written in the Victorian era (or even earlier than the 19th century!) are actually good, fun to read and are accessible to everyone.
If you've always heard names like Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Conan Doyle and wandered whether they're ACTUALLY good - here's your chance to get a glimpse!
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[@thebookworm6554]

Bookworms, what are your favorite fun classic novels?

[@madworld1962]

Definitely some great recommendations 😀👍

[@jtru0]

I just put the hound of the Baskervilles on my TBR 😉. Been trying to read some classics.

[@thebookworm6554]

Hope I contributed well to your list :)

[@richardranke3158]

I've read Dr. Jeckel, Treasure Island, Huckleberry Finn, Hound of the Baskervilles, Diary of Anne Frank, and A Christmas Carol!

[@thebookworm6554]

Cool! Did you enjoy them? Hope I also gave you a couple of ideas.

[@marktyrrell8892]

Jerome K Jerome was a fantastic humorist, very funny but he could also be profound in some of his short stories. I think he's under-rated as a series commentator because of his amusing reputation.

[@smileytpb]

The most important thing is, that no one reads the abridged version of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde...

[@smileytpb]

kerfuffle :D

[@thebookworm6554]

Does it contain more than 3 words?

[@cylelle376]

One of my favourites that really doesn't get as much love as it ought to is Anthony Hope's The Prisoner of Zenda. I also enjoy Baroness Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel, Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Good Wives, anything by Jane Austen, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World and Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. More modern classics would include To Kill A Mocking Bird, Stephen King's The Stand and anything by Daphne du Maurier.

[@thebookworm6554]

Definitely good ones!

[@Dawnsbookreviews]

I read My Cousin Rachel last year and it became one of my favorite books of all time!❤

[@thebookworm6554]

@@Dawnsbookreviews It's on my TBR (To Be Read) list!

[@Nixreads]

Haunting of Hill House was in my 2023 favourites video 😊❤

[@scp240]

A decent list, the Wodehouse books are loads of fun if you like that sort of thing. I’ll have to check out Three Men in a Boat it escaped my radar somehow. I’m reminded of the first classics that I read as a boy, particularly memorable were The Call of the Wild, Robinson Crusoe, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Metamorphosis, Of Mice and Men, and Animal Farm. I re-read these within the past few years some 40+ years later and they all were as good or better than I remembered.

[@Mike-ym6rl]

Lovely presentation of many good books that I have read as a younger man.

[@iqbalmakda9359]

I'm glad I 've read them all and saw the ones made the silver screen and this was before I had a short attention span due to smart phones too.

[@MyMessyBookshelf]

I’m a Christie girl too but I enjoyed some of Holmes’ stories. I definitely plan to check out some of the Jeeves books!

[@darkwitnesslxx]

Have you read any of the Lord Peter Wimsey books? Dorothy Sayers? She was a contemporary to Christie.

[@ameerahalgohary]

I think I studied "Treasure Island" in school, too! Are we from the same country? 😄

[@ameerahalgohary]

Looking forward to reading 1984, Animal Farm & Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde this year .. I put them in my TBR when I was planning my reading year

[@DarianTrinity]

According to her channel bio, she's from Germany

[@susaniacuone5758]

I've read nine of them but I'd not even heard of the Jerome K Jerome entry,😮 Three Men and a Dog.

[@thebookworm6554]

Oh, it's HILARIOUS!!!

[@Nmber6]

3:04. Takes place in Missouri, not Mississippi.

[@TheLinguistsLibrary]

I absolutely love your classic mystery recs! Do you like Wilkie Collins?

[@thebookworm6554]

Thanks! I only read The Woman in White by Collins, but I have The Moonstone at home and it's on my TBR list.

[@sharonrose5134]

One of my favourites is Three men in a boat and another by J K Jerome called After supper ghost stories which had me in stiches😅

[@thebookworm6554]

Haven't heard of the second one but I'm curious!

[@sharonrose5134]

@@thebookworm6554 It took me a while to find it, I think it was on eBay. Really worth it, I still think about it and it makes me smile 😁

[@kowalski363]

Wonderful. Shirley Jackson is very scary

[@leslieleeper3408]

Huckleberry Finn took place in Missouri not Mississippi.

[@captainnolan5062]

I love the great Charles Dickens! I have read almost all of the books on this list and can recommend them highly. Why not add Dracula to the list?

[@thebookworm6554]

I don't find it on the same "easiness" level as the other...

[@darkwitnesslxx]

Dracula is an epistolary novel, and that turns a lot of people off since they go in expecting a narrative.

[@captainnolan5062]

@@darkwitnesslxx Pity.

[@JTM1809]

What, no James Joyce?

[@javaguy5783]

Your English if excellent. What is your first tongue, Russian ?

[@numapompilius4313]

Eeh!

[@РоманПаляниця-к5э]

This is the first video on your channel that I have watched, but I already want to write a comment in support! Greetings from Ukraine, thank you for the interesting book review! Of course, I would like to offer Ukrainian classic books that are almost unknown in Europe. Example, "Clouds" by Ivan Nechuy-Levytskyi. This book was written in 1874, but it describes the issues that arise now, during the war against terrorist Russia. Even the words used by the book's characters one-to-one correspond to what Russian propagandists are saying now! Next, I would like to suggest books by Ivan Bagryany, namely: "Tiger hunters", "Garden of Gethsemane", "Man runs over the abyss" There - the truth about the 30s - 40s and 50s of the 20th century. From modern Ukrainian authors attention should be paid to the work of Serhiy Zhadan, for example, the book "Internat" and Oksana Zabuzhko, in particular, her essay "The Longest Journey", "Ukrainian Palimpsest" and others.

[@thebookworm6554]

Thanks for the supporting comment and the recommendations!

[@Dawnsbookreviews]

Wow, thank you for these book recommendations. I will save this information!!😊

[@РоманПаляниця-к5э]

@@Dawnsbookreviews If you are interested, I can recommend more books by Ukrainian authors.

[@Dawnsbookreviews]

@@РоманПаляниця-к5э Thank you! I will save your name!

[@rosenthal111]

i love this list so much and agree with them all! i love your accent and your hair too 😁 i would recommend anne of green gables and white nights for beginners. those are some i started with 🩷