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I am on a mission to read and reread classic literature. I searched far and wide for a decent book list but all seem incomplete to me. Please add your favorite classic books to the list.
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Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen 76 people voted »
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Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë 48 people voted »
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1984
1984
by George Orwell 44 people voted »
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley, Maurice Hindle (Editor) 36 people voted »
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Little Women
Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott 30 people voted »
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens 30 people voted »
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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo
by Alexandre Dumas, Robin Buss (Translator) 29 people voted »
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Brave New World
Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley 29 people voted »
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A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens 27 people voted »
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë 26 people voted »
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill (Translator) 25 people voted »
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Sense and Sensibility
Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen 26 people voted »
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The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator) 25 people voted »
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The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald 25 people voted »
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy, David Magarshack (Translator) 24 people voted »
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The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne 24 people voted »
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Dracula
Dracula
by Bram Stoker 23 people voted »
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Rebecca
Rebecca
by Daphne du Maurier 22 people voted »
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Fahrenheit 451
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury 21 people voted »
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Hamlet
Hamlet
by William Shakespeare, Richard Andrews (Editor) 19 people voted »
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain 19 people voted »
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Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe 17 people voted »
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Emma
Emma
by Jane Austen 17 people voted »
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
by George Orwell 17 people voted »
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Persuasion
Persuasion
by Jane Austen 16 people voted »
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Moby Dick
Moby Dick
by Herman Melville 16 people voted »
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The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger 15 people voted »
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translator) 13 people voted »
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Les Misérables
Les Misérables
by Victor Hugo, Lee Fahnestock (Translator) 13 people voted »
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by Anonymous, Seamus Heaney (Translator) 13 people voted »
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine
by H.G. Wells 13 people voted »
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War and Peace
War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy, Henry Gifford (editor) 12 people voted »
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Gone With The Wind
Gone With The Wind
by Margaret Mitchell 12 people voted »
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Catch 22
Catch 22
by Joseph Heller 11 people voted »
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
A Midsummer Night's Dream
by William Shakespeare 11 people voted »
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Alex Jennings (Narrator) 10 people voted »
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David Copperfield
David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens 10 people voted »
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The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton 9 people voted »
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The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers
by Alexandre Dumas 9 people voted »
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Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad 9 people voted »
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Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair
by William Makepeace Thackeray, John Carey (Editor) 9 people voted »
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Mayor of Casterbridge
by Thomas Hardy, Keith Wilson (Introduction and Notes) 9 people voted »
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The Iliad
The Iliad
by Homer, Robert Fagles (Translator) 9 people voted »
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Jude the Obscure
Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy 8 people voted »
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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee 9 people voted »
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Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
by Jules Verne 8 people voted »
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Madame Bovary
Madame Bovary
by Gustave Flaubert, Margaret Mauldon (translator) 8 people voted »
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston 7 people voted »
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The Moonstone
The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins 7 people voted »
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King Lear
King Lear
by William Shakespeare 7 people voted »
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Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome
by Edith Wharton 7 people voted »
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The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan 7 people voted »
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea
by Jules Verne 7 people voted »
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Ivanhoe
Ivanhoe
by Walter Scott 7 people voted »
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Villette
Villette
by Charlotte Brontë, A.S. Byatt (Introduction) 6 people voted »
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Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift 6 people voted »
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton 6 people voted »
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The Republic
The Republic
by Plato, Desmond Lee (translator) 6 people voted »
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Northhanger Abbey - Persuasion
Northhanger Abbey - Persuasion
by Jane Austen 6 people voted »
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Bleak House
Bleak House
by Charles Dickens 5 people voted »
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The Crucible
The Crucible
by Arthur Miller 6 people voted »
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Don Quijote, 2nd Edition
Don Quijote, 2nd Edition
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Burton Raffel (Translator) 5 people voted »
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The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck 5 people voted »
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Island of Dr. Moreau
by H.G. Wells 5 people voted »
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Invisible Man
Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison 5 people voted »
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass 5 people voted »
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The Aeneid
The Aeneid
by Publius Vergilius Maro, Robert Stuart Fitzgerald (Translator) 5 people voted »
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost
by John Milton, John Leonard (Editor, Contributor) 5 people voted »
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare 5 people voted »
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The Histories
The Histories
by Herodotus, John M. Marincola (Editor, Introduction, Notes) 5 people voted »
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Tarzan of the Apes
Tarzan of the Apes
by Edgar Rice Burroughs 5 people voted »
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Tess of D'urbervilles Mgr Int Pk
Tess of D'urbervilles Mgr Int Pk
by Thomas Hardy, John Escott 5 people voted »
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The Remains of the Day
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro 4 people voted »
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The Master and Margarita
The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov 4 people voted »
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O Pioneers!
O Pioneers!
by Willa Cather 4 people voted »
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
by H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (Editor) 4 people voted »
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The Woman in White
The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins 4 people voted »
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The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds
by H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke (Introduction) 4 people voted »
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Candide
Candide
by Voltaire 4 people voted »
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Lolita
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov, Craig Raine (Afterword) 4 people voted »
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand 3 people voted »
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The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand 3 people voted »
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe 3 people voted »
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Stuart Little
Stuart Little
by E.B. White, Garth Williams (Illustrator) 3 people voted »
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The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel
The Phantom of the Opera: The Original Novel
by Gaston Leroux 3 people voted »
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The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton 3 people voted »
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OLIVER TWIST
OLIVER TWIST
by Charles Dickens 3 people voted »
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East of Eden
East of Eden
by John Steinbeck 3 people voted »
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Anthem
Anthem
by Ayn Rand 3 people voted »
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The Tell-Tale Heart
The Tell-Tale Heart
by Edgar Allan Poe 3 people voted »
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through th...
by Lewis Carroll 3 people voted »
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A Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast
by Ernest Hemingway 2 people voted »
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The Waves
The Waves
by Virginia Woolf 2 people voted »
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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar
by William Shakespeare 2 people voted »
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Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex
by Sophocles 2 people voted »
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The Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka, Stanley Corngold (Translator) 2 people voted »
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The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
by Stendhal, Roger Gard (Translator) 2 people voted »
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The Martian Chronicles
The Martian Chronicles
by Ray Bradbury 2 people voted »
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Adam Bede
Adam Bede
by George Eliot 2 people voted »
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message 1: by Tamora (new)

1451591 I'm just clicking on what I've read, not on what I liked. When you're dealing with books like these, that generally drop into everyone's life before they're 20, what you like and what you don't like is highly individual. I don't think you can really go by the opinion of the next person, because you're all forming your opinions. I liked TARZAN, but had no interest in CHARLOTTE'S WEB. My classmates had spasms over CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, so much so that I never told them that I kinda liked it. They were okay with THE SCARLET LETTER, which made me crazy. You really have to try the books that our parents, teachers, and peers think are probably classic, and decide for yourself if they're good reads as far as you're concerned!


message 2: by Mandy (new)

2794062 I would just like to say that I believe 'Les Miserables' by Victor Hugo is the best book on this list. And nooooo, I'm not basing it on the hit musical (even though I love that as well), because it did get a lot wrong. I'm currently reading A Tale of 2 Cities, nad let me say I've made a lot of connections to Les Miserables. It's just an amzing and epic Book!


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