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The book you know will go into the canon of literature, on par with Tolkien, Shakespeare, Austen and other greats. The books that will one day be part of a school curriculum, or are beginning to be accepted as such. These are the books in the last hundred years or so that have really touched many by their literary genius.
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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 319,894 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,139,510 ratings
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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Like Water for Chocolate
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Patriot Games (Jack Ryan, #1)
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Gone with the Wind
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A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
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No Country for Old Men
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In Search of Lost Time
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Franny and Zooey
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3.96 avg rating — 237,041 ratings
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The Birth of Venus
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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Cutting for Stone
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Abraham Verghese (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 421,080 ratings
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A Town Like Alice
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Native Son
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The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
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3.93 avg rating — 8,436 ratings
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Good Will Hunting
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4.49 avg rating — 5,808 ratings
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The Book of Negroes
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4.47 avg rating — 90,697 ratings
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The Miracle Worker: A Play
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
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4.27 avg rating — 290,724 ratings
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The Secret History
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The Chosen (Reuven Malter, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 96,645 ratings
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Company of Liars
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Karen Maitland (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 16,471 ratings
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Master and Commander: 20 Volume Set
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4.77 avg rating — 1,343 ratings
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Go Ask Alice
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Beatrice Sparks (as "Anonymous")
3.74 avg rating — 290,017 ratings
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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3.66 avg rating — 29,811 ratings
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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)
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4.50 avg rating — 1,098,719 ratings
score: 213,
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,308,917 ratings
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| 129 |
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Sophie's Choice
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4.17 avg rating — 93,949 ratings
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Love Story (Love Story, #1)
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3.65 avg rating — 63,765 ratings
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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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4.58 avg rating — 1,017,368 ratings
score: 210,
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World Without End (Kingsbridge, #2)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.32 avg rating — 271,616 ratings
score: 202,
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Airport
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 353,317 ratings
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The Satanic Verses
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3.71 avg rating — 70,897 ratings
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The Mists of Avalon (Avalon, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 211,887 ratings
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 586,552 ratings
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Silence Of The Lambs
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4.26 avg rating — 581,754 ratings
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The 19th Wife
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David Ebershoff (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 60,705 ratings
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The Power of One (The Power of One, #1)
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4.36 avg rating — 93,601 ratings
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Watchmen
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4.39 avg rating — 589,674 ratings
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Dead Man Walking: The Eyewitness Account Of The Death Penalty That Sparked a National Debate
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4.14 avg rating — 8,992 ratings
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How to Win Friends & Influence People
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4.22 avg rating — 1,124,542 ratings
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Redwall (Redwall, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 127,563 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 471,472 ratings
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Prodigal Summer
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4.05 avg rating — 125,639 ratings
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To Say Nothing of the Dog (Oxford Time Travel, #2)
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4.11 avg rating — 43,718 ratings
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| 148 |
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
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Jeffrey Archer (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 44,801 ratings
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On the Beach
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3.98 avg rating — 48,758 ratings
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The House on the Strand
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3.83 avg rating — 14,419 ratings
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The Homecoming
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3.69 avg rating — 10,124 ratings
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Firestarter
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 243,944 ratings
score: 162,
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The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly
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3.98 avg rating — 21,325 ratings
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The Postman
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David Brin (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 37,134 ratings
score: 159,
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The Cement Garden
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 34,878 ratings
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Breakfast of Champions
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4.06 avg rating — 276,871 ratings
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Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 63,990 ratings
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
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3.73 avg rating — 51,557 ratings
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Noughts & Crosses (Noughts & Crosses, #1)
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Malorie Blackman (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 81,453 ratings
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Flowers for Algernon
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4.23 avg rating — 774,700 ratings
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
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4.34 avg rating — 32,635 ratings
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Night Watch (Discworld, #29)
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The Fountainhead
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3.89 avg rating — 335,199 ratings
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Little Bee
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Chris Cleave (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 247,660 ratings
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The Story of Lucy Gault
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Christy
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,447,797 ratings
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The Martian Chronicles
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Strong Medicine
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The Rebel Angels (The Cornish Trilogy, #1)
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What's Bred in the Bone
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4.27 avg rating — 6,433 ratings
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’Salem’s Lot
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 644,114 ratings
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The Lyre of Orpheus
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The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
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The Time Machine
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Saturday
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 72,931 ratings
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The Ship Who Sang (Brainship, #1)
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Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
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The Firm
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 636,479 ratings
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His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, #1)
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Naomi Novik (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 110,256 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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The Runaway Jury
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 313,206 ratings
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The Martian
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 1,256,247 ratings
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
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Richard Bach (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 269,199 ratings
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To Sir, With Love
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The Ox-Bow Incident
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A Girl of the Limberlost
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The First Deadly Sin (Deadly Sins, #2)
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Jamaica Inn
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The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1)
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Graeme Simsion (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 588,505 ratings
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Frenchman's Creek
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Till We Have Faces
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The Birds and Other Stories
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Primal Fear (Vail/Stampler, #1)
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Cosmopolis
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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Don't Look Now and Other Stories
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The Street Lawyer
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 121,682 ratings
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Defending Jacob: A Novel
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William Landay (Goodreads Author)
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The Final Diagnosis
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why is a goosebumps book on this list!!
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I like this list, however there are some books on here that don't belong simply for the reason that they are not modern... Oscar Wilde and Charles Dickens are great writers and their books are classics, but they belong to the 1800's... Not the last 50 years.
Sam, you want me to "clean" this list? Remove anything from before, say, 1960?
Susanna wrote: "Sam, you want me to "clean" this list? Remove anything from before, say, 1960?"Just cleaned it up a bit; please let me know if there are any other books you find should be removed.
Sarah wrote: "I like this list, however there are some books on here that don't belong simply for the reason that they are not modern... Oscar Wilde and Charles Dickens are great writers and their books are clas..."Just cleaned it up a bit; please let me know if there are any other books you find should be removed.
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was first published in 1950, and Animal Farm is from 1945.
Susanna wrote: "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was first published in 1950, and Animal Farm is from 1945.">The list does say "fifty years OR SO" for a reason; so that people can loosely interpret that and put books on here that they find are classics that have not entered the standard literary canon yet. That being said, I removed the books you think do not belong there so that there is no more problems.
I'm fine with people voting for whatever they deem worthy to be called "modern classics". What I'm not fine with is that there are not a few books that are already undoubted classics, like books by Faulkner or Bulgakov. The idea is good but the list author doesn't seem to edit it accordingly.
"The list author" is currently 63 people. Most listopias are crowd sourced.It's easy to add books to lists; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."
This list wants a bit of editing as some books are listed twice.
Chris wrote: "This list wants a bit of editing as some books are listed twice."I just ran the Goodreads "duplicate checker;" it has found and removed five duplicates from the list.
Published > 50 years ago:To Kill a Mockingbird (#1)
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (#32)
Native Son (#105)
Rebecca (#121)
A Town Like Alice (#129)
On the Beach (#134)
1984 (#246)
Jamaica Inn (#269)
Frenchman's Creek (#271)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (#302)
Fiona wrote: "Published > 50 years ago:To Kill a Mockingbird (#1)
The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe (#32)
Native Son (#105)
Rebecca (#121)
A Town Like Alice (#129)
On the Beach (#134)
1984 (#246)
Jamaica I..."
What part of "or so" did you not understand?
Catherine wrote: "I'm fine with people voting for whatever they deem worthy to be called "modern classics". What I'm not fine with is that there are not a few books that are already undoubted classics, like books by..."That is a highly subjective opinion. This list is for the people to decide. You, as a person, can add books thst you feel are more fitting.
The Hobbit 1937 - 81 years. more than 50% greater than 50 years or so.The Time Machine 1890s - over 100 years. More than twice 50 years.
If the list criteria had a firm date, it would make the list easier to maintain.
Kurt wrote: "The Hobbit 1937 - 81 years. more than 50% greater than 50 years or so.The Time Machine 1890s - over 100 years. More than twice 50 years.
If the list criteria had a firm date, it would make the li..."
Make your own list with firm criteria, then. This list was created literally seven years ago, and to be frank, I do not have time to maintain and edit it. People have the ability to add and subtract books at their own will. If you feel that strongly about this, I will change the description to 100 years.
To all who are complaining that this list is inaccurate, has books outside of a time range you are comfortable with, or that you *insist* are already classics or not classics at all, become a Librarian and edit the list yourself. From the Goodreads page:
"Important: if you're on this page you have been granted a special "librarian" status, and can edit list data. Don't take this responsibility lightly—if you can help correct any inaccuracies or add any missing data, please do so! But only make changes if you're sure they're correct."
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