classical books for next generation Best Classics for Next Generation

Today we bring you the literary choice picks of Orange Prize for Fiction (OPF) winners which according to them are their choice selection for the generation to come.

“Orange Inheritance”, is a new project of Orange in partnership with Vintage Classics, where Orange Prize for Fiction (OPF) winners have picked individual books as an answer to,

If you had only one book to pass on to the next generation, what would it be?

The names of the authors participating in the project are:

  • Helen Dunmore,1996 OPF winner for A Spell of Winter
  • Linda Grant, 2000 OPF winner for When I Live in Modern Times
  • Anne Michaels, 1997 OPF winner for Fugitive Pieces
  • Ann Patchett, 2002 OPF winner for Bel Canto
  • Lionel Shriver, 2005 OPF winner for We Need to Talk About Kevin
  • Rose Tremain, 2008 OPF winner for The Road Home

The choice of these books reflect that even in the era of online documentation, micro blogging and on the fly E-Books the classics retain their place. People who write with a distinguish are made by what they have read in their childhood. Select reading in early ages lends to the exploration of one’s literary faculties in later stages.

The books making it to the “best picks in classics” by the Big Sisters are as follows:

  1. The Man Who Planted Trees’ target=_blank>The Man Who Planted Trees, by Jean Giono
  2. Revolutionary Road’ target=_blank>Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates
  3. Mrs Dalloway (Oxford World’s Classics)" target=_blank>Mrs Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
  4. The Plague’ target=_blank>The Plague, by Albert Camus
  5. The Iliad’ target=_blank>The Iliad, by Homer
  6. Robinson Crusoe (Collector’s Library)" target=_blank>Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
  7. The Mill on the floss’ target=_blank>The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
  8. The Women’s Room: A Novel" target=_blank>The Women’s Room, by Marilyn French