George Orwell's "1984"

Thank you, good suggestion! Just read that one a few months ago.

What about Charles Dickens "Great Expectations" 

Edgar Allen Poe....H.P. Lovecraft.....anything written by these guys....



Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky,  Crime and Punishment...


and of course Tolkien The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.......my favorite books


The Count of Monte Christo.....Dumas....just a classic

Not a classic, but The Force by Don Winslow is god tier imo

The Master and Margerita, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Cannery Row.

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Since you mentioned not being exposed to classics, may I suggest

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee and "Gone with the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell.

If you have read these two then may I suggest "Scarlett" by Alexandra Ripley which was intended as a sequel to Gone with the Wind 
and 
"Go set a Watchman" again by Harper Lee which is a sort of 'precursor' for "To Kill a Mockingbird"..

This would be a clear break from Stephen King's style and cover some essential classics in my opinion.

If you would rather do some lighter reading then maybe Jane Austen books or stuff like "The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy or even "The Tale of Two cities" by Charles Dickens might be more entertaining.

Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park is good.

I read Mein Kampf\
(It's not Minecraft, Go and google it)

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Animal Farm - George Orwell.
This book was an Amazing prod at communism, and I still find it one of my favorite required readings.

The World's most dangerous Game (super good short story)

A Separate Peace - John Knowles
Really good book about coming of age. We read it in 11th grade, so I probably connect to it a bit differently than someone else, but I still think it's really good :)

Number the stars - Lois Lowry
Really good book about the Holocaust. Really shows how it was for people trying to escape the war as Jewish people.

Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
It's hard to explain, but it's a really depressing coming-of-age story in Afghanistan a long time ago

The Giver - Also Lois Lowry
This entire book series was SOOOO GOOD. It's a dystopia about memories, and how they're stored.

Anthem - Ayn Rand.
Really good book, but can be kind of hard to understand for anyone who's first language isn't english.

Harrison Bergeron - Kurt Vonnegut
Also super good Dystopia

Fyodor Dostoevsky (I know, someone else said this one, but) The Karamazov Brothers.

Not a classic, but Ender's Game series was Extremely good to read (Then again, I find it good because it was my first hard book to read at about 8)

Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Naked And Afraid, but written a long time ago

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Really boring, trust me. But the climax is extremely good.

Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
I find it more fun as a teen currently, just because some of it is more relatable, but it's kind of hard to read at times.

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
ONCE AGAIN. A DYSTOPIA. See a pattern in the books I like?

Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
A classic. Nothing bad about it.

I loved all of these books ^-^ I hope you will too!!!

Skulduggery Pleasant Series by Derek Landy.

They're all great books.

Gone With The Wind

I read the world's most dangerous game

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas is a really good read, also a little more mainstream would be the game of thrones books

+ 1 on Count of Monte Cristo, takes a few pages to get into and then is edge of seat stuff.

Nicholas Nickleby was what got me into Dickens. Oliver Twist and Christmas Carol are also good starters for Dickens.

Jane Austen is beautifully written social satire, it is essentially early 19th century Mills & Boon (or Harlequin I think for US ppl) so if romance isn't your thing then may want to avoid.

To mix it up  - short stories by Ray Bradbury and Philip K Dick. 

Out of copyright books can be read/downloaded for free from Project Gutenberg website - including much of the 19th century literature that would appear on school reading lists.