10 books a day: classics

Today, I bring you ten more books. Books I consider classics in their own right. (Now, you all know I have a lot of books. About 1,400. Well, it seems I could find one of them in time for the picture, so there are nine pictured, one added on the list at the end.) Which books do you consider classics? Have you read any of these?

The Aeneid by Virgil
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius
Timaeus by Plato
The Plague by Albert Camus
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Garden of Eden (not pictured) by Earnest Hemingway

I'm joining Sarah Bessey and showing 10 Books a Day for a Week.

Share your own favorites on your blog, and post your link in the comments, or just let me know what you think or recommend!

Sunday: 10 books that formed my faith

Monday: 10 books that formed me as a writer

Tuesday: 10 books that are classics

Wednesday: 10 books that I wish the world would read

Thursday: 10 books that formed my academic imagination

Friday: 10 books you’d be surprised I own

Saturday: 10 books that I use daily

Meet Preston

Preston is a twenty-something once-upon-a-time conservative Southern Baptist from Texas who learned to read saints, cross himself, and move across the world to China, England, and Scotland. Since, he's been theologically conservative, oft politically liberal, but radically pro-life, a believer in sacraments and sacramentality, a sort-of Christian feminist, an idealist pacifist who also understands the need for civil defense ... and a handful of everything else in-between. He thinks of himself now as a haphazard and patchwork Bapto-Anglican, though he is becoming confirmed in the Anglican tradition. This blog is his repository of working this whole faith thing out day by day, bird by bird. His first book, Tables in the Wilderness, a memoir of God found, lost, and found again, is due out autumn 2014 with Zondervan.