Here is a more standard list of the 100 classics I would like to read in my life time. (There are some repeats from the "Best Novels" list and some oddballs)
Strike-though are books I've read
Bold are books I own copies of, but have not read. (SAD FACE)
Bold are books I own copies of, but have not read. (SAD FACE)
- *A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain
- *A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen
- *A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
- *A Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
- *A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
- *A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
*Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll- *Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
- *As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
*Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell*Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley- *Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- *Dangerous Liaisons, by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
- *Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot
- *David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
- *Disgrace, by J. M. Coetze
- *Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
*Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson*Dracula, by Bram Stoker- *Emma, by Jane Austen
- *Ethan Fromme, by Edith Wharton
*Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury- *Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy
*Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley- *Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
- *Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
- *If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, by Italo Calvino
- *Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
- *Howards End, by E.M. Forrester
*Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë- *Journey to the End of the Night, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- *Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
- *LA Confidential, by James Ellroy
- *Lady Chatterley's Lover,
by D. H. Lawrence - *Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo
*Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott- *Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
*Middlemarch, by George Eliot- Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
*Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville- *Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
*My Antonia, by Willa Cather*No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre*Northern Lights (AKA The Golden Compass Trilogy), by Philip Pullman- *Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey
- *Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
- *One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
- *Oscar And Lucinda, by Peter Carey
*Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen- *Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
- *Robinson Crusoe,
by Daniel Defoe(Twice!) *Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare- *Silas Marner, by George Eliot
*Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison*The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson- *Sybil, by Benjamin Disraeli
- *Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain- *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
*The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain- *The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler- *The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
*The Call of the Wild, by Jack London*The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer*The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger- *The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal
*The Color Purple, by Alice Walker- *The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
- *The Good Earth, by Pearl S. Buck
- *The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevski
- *The Iliad and
The Odyssey, by Homer - *The Island of Dr. Moreau, by H.G. Wells
- *The Man Who Was Thursday, by G.K. Chesterton
*The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka- *The New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster
- *The Octopus, by Frank Norris
- *The Periodic Table, by Primo Levi
*The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde- *The Plague, by Albert Camus
- *The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
- *The Rainbow, by D. H. Lawrence
- *The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham
- *The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
*East of Eden, by John Steinbeck- *The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass
- *The Trial, by Franz Kafka
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame- *The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins
- *Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome
- *Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
- *Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- *Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne
- *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
- *Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- *USA Trilogy, by John Dos Passos
- *The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
- *Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
- *War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
*Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
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