The History of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding.
Unless you had advanced placement, you probably were not assigned this book in high school. You might have read it in college, or you might have tried getting away with watching the movie. Great movie. But my college professor had a question about the female lead character’s hair color– brown in the book, blond in the movie. It’s well worth reading– baudy, funny, and fun. You can get it FREE at manybooks.net by clicking HERE. You can also find it at Feedbooks.com and other free ebook web sites.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
Not the first detective in fiction, but clearly the most famous, Sherlock Holmes definitely qualifies as a classic. Read this book. It’s great. It’s free. Download it HERE in a variety of eBook formats. This is the link to Feedbooks.com, but it can be downloaded from Manybooks.net and other purveyors of free eBooks.
Bleak House is one of my favorite Dickens novels. It’s full of suspense, tragedy, irony, and whimsy, not necessarily in that order. While you can always say you’ve read a Dickens book even though you haven’t– you really should read at least one, you big fat liar. Click here and get this book in a variety of eBook formats for Free. This link leads to feedbooks, but you can also find it at Manybooks.org and other distributors of public domain literature. Read it. You’ll be glad you did.
City of Amathar 