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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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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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The Outsiders
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
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The Kite Runner
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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The Color Purple
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In Cold Blood
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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Catch-22
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
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The Princess Bride
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The Bell Jar
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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The Master and Margarita
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,591,495 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 390,528 ratings
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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A Clockwork Orange
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 633,953 ratings
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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Water for Elephants
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Sara Gruen (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,688,003 ratings
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The Joy Luck Club
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Amy Tan (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 705,813 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,629,728 ratings
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Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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The Man Without Qualities
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4.19 avg rating — 7,262 ratings
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The Remains of the Day
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 349,913 ratings
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 2,982,291 ratings
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,602,212 ratings
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Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park, #1)
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4.13 avg rating — 1,044,050 ratings
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Midnight’s Children
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3.98 avg rating — 131,560 ratings
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The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 3,480,021 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,092,778 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
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A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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3.93 avg rating — 9,763 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Sue Monk Kidd (Goodreads Author)
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A Wrinkle in Time
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3.97 avg rating — 1,269,695 ratings
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The Things They Carried
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4.14 avg rating — 340,063 ratings
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Jaws (Jaws, #1)
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As I Lay Dying
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3.72 avg rating — 184,155 ratings
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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3.94 avg rating — 540,113 ratings
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The Cider House Rules
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 193,800 ratings
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.57 avg rating — 228,496 ratings
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author)
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Night
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Valley of the Dolls
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3.86 avg rating — 76,186 ratings
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Matilda
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4.33 avg rating — 1,087,804 ratings
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The Incredible Journey
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The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
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4.12 avg rating — 386,501 ratings
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The Neverending Story
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The World According to Garp
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 237,073 ratings
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Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
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The Poisonwood Bible
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The Thorn Birds
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Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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The Shipping News
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Starship Troopers
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Contact
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Empire of the Sun
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The Shell Seekers
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The Bluest Eye
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American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
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A Scanner Darkly
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Presumed Innocent (Kindle County Legal Thriller, #1)
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Gilead (Gilead, #1)
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Rebecca
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Cold Mountain
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
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A Fine Balance
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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The Client
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The Selfish Gene
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Coma
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Centennial
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The Blind Assassin
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The Pelican Brief
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Howl’s Moving Castle (Howl’s Moving Castle, #1)
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The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
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Mar 23, 2013 06:14AM
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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