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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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Lick the Razor
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The Stove-Junker
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Before Life Happened (Before, #1)
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Sacajawea
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Mambo in Chinatown
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Jean Kwok (Goodreads Author)
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The Lord of the Rings
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The Deceived Ones
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Piranesi
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Secret Daughter
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Mortals
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Learning to Kiss in the Snow
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Dalva
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Girl in Translation
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Jean Kwok (Goodreads Author)
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Bridge to Terabithia
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The Silmarillion
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The Night's Night
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Annals of the Former World
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Searching for Sylvie Lee
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Jean Kwok (Goodreads Author)
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Sabbath's Theater
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Harriet the Spy
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Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea: The History and Discovery of the World's Richest Shipwreck
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Time and Time Again
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Our Missing Hearts
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Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 206,872 ratings
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Angle of Repose
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Sounder
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Beyond Black
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Il minotauro
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The Secret River
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Il club dei padri estinti
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Matt Haig (Goodreads Author)
3.23 avg rating — 9,215 ratings
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The Crystal Cave (Arthurian Saga, #1)
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The River Why
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The Art Lover
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Between Shades of Gray
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The Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule
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Paradise
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The Hollow Hills (Arthurian Saga, #2)
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Love Medicine (Love Medicine, #1)
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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The Sense of an Ending
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The Last Enchantment (Arthurian Saga, #3)
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The Color of Magic (Discworld, #1; Rincewind, #1)
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What I Loved
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The Deptford Trilogy
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Heavy Sand
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Memnoch the Devil (The Vampire Chronicles, #5)
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The Discovery of Heaven
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The Angel of Darkness (Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, #2)
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Heren van de thee
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Anathem
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 74,928 ratings
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The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
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M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 242,413 ratings
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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Jungle Tales of Tarzan (Tarzan #6)
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The Return of Tarzan (Tarzan, #2)
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The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, #4)
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Love and Longing in Bombay
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All Over But the Shoutin'
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Cane River
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Lalita Tademy (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 50,231 ratings
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Did You Ever Have a Family
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Bill Clegg (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 28,020 ratings
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A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 225,343 ratings
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The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 1,971,497 ratings
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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The Pecan Man
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Cassie Dandridge Selleck (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 31,354 ratings
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The Zero Game
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Brad Meltzer (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 13,505 ratings
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Kaddish in Dublin (Inspector Matt Minogue #3)
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John Brady (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit (Ishmael, #1)
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Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2)
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Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
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Final Jeopardy (Alexandra Cooper, #1)
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Linda Fairstein (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 15,709 ratings
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The Horse and His Boy (Chronicles of Narnia, #5)
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Clarence Darrow for the Defense
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Marathon Man
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Everything I Never Told You
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Serpico
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The Valdez Horses
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The Magician’s Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #6)
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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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The House of Sixty Fathers
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In a Dark Wood Wandering: A Novel of the Middle Ages
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The Origin
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The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
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The 101 Dalmatians (The Hundred and One Dalmatians, #1)
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Chicago Poems
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I Capture the Castle
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Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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A Gathering of Old Men
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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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Housekeeping
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The River
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The Last Lecture
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The Fifth Child
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Rabbit Is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, #3)
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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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The War of the Worlds
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Rabbit at Rest (Rabbit Angstrom, #4)
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An Episode of Sparrows
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The Power of Intention: Learning to Co-Create Your World Your Way
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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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