I normally read contemporary fiction (my last two novels were Rachel's Holiday by Marian Keyes and The Drowning Lesson by Jane Shemilt) but like to read the odd "classic". I was thinking about The Call of the Wild by Jack London or A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. I prefer books that are readable and not too long (say 300-400 pages). Any suggestions?
the Defoe book is fiction, strictly speaking, since he was only about five at the time; all the same it reads more like journalism and readers were supposed to think it was,
I read Wuthering Heights a few months ago and enjoyed it. Not what I was expecting, very atmospheric, almost like a psychological thriller. I might give The Tenant of Wildfell Hall a go.