Most people shy away from “classic” books, thinking them to be outdated or written in a way that’s hard to read. While this is true of many classic novels, there are plenty of classics that stand the test of time. I like to call them “Time Capsule Books,” because you could lock the book away and dig it up again a hundred years later and it would still be relevant. Here are some Time Capsule Books you might enjoy:

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Are you There, God? It’s me, Margaret by Judy Blume

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

A Time to Kill by John Grisham

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

Number the Stars by Lewis Lowry

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

What books would you add to this list? Would you take any of them away?