Classic Books You Should Actually Read

There’s a quote attributed to Mark Twain that goes something like: “A classic is a book which people praise, but don’t read.“ And I think a lot of us feel that way -- the idea of settling down with all 1,200 pages of Tolstoy’s War & Peace is enough to make us give up before we’ve begun. But the classics are the classics for a reason, and any serious booklover will probably want to explore at least some of them. So we’ve made this list of Classic Books You Should Actually Read.