📚 These 10 Classic Novels are Worth Revisiting (AARP Article)

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📚 These 10 Classic Novels are Worth Revisiting (AARP Article)

FROM THE ARTICLE.

Reading These 10 Classic Novels Won’t Feel Like Homework.

It’s time to put these iconic books on your to-be-read list.

By Maria Speidel & Christina Ianzito, AARP. Published August 25, 2025.

The best classic books endure decades after they were scribbled in pen and ink or pecked out on a manual typewriter. Some might have felt irrelevant when they were forced upon you in high school, but if you read them with more maturity — and voluntarily! — you may find them as entertaining or absorbing as any of the more modern books on your TBR list. The ten below are some of our all-time favorites, although there are many others we could have included (Jane Eyre, East of Eden, Invisible Man, Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot…).

If you’re not a fan of our picks, let us know in the comments section below and share your own faves.

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https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/books/classic-novels-worth-revisiting/

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