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The Holy Bible: King James Version
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)
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A Room with a View
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Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1)
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Anthem
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Invisible Man
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Villette
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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Much Ado About Nothing
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Inferno
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Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
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The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)
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Atlas Shrugged
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The Remains of the Day
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The Prince and the Pauper
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The Decameron
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Le Morte d'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table
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The Complete Fairy Tales
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The Old Man and the Sea
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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Black Beauty
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Lost Horizon
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North and South
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Middlemarch
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Othello
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
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Forty-Ninth
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The Tale of Peter Rabbit (World of Beatrix Potter, #1)
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Oedipus Rex (Theban Plays, #1)
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The Tempest
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The Silmarillion
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A Moveable Feast
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Metamorphoses
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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Hard Times
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins, #1)
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Mrs. Dalloway
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Wives and Daughters
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Northanger Abbey / Persuasion
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Twelfth Night
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
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I Capture the Castle
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Pippi Longstocking (Pippi Långstrump, #1)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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A Passage to India
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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The Martian Chronicles
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Ulysses
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3)
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The Return of the King (The Lord of the Rings, #3)
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
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Moll Flanders
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
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The Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #1)
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Just So Stories
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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James and the Giant Peach
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Franny and Zooey
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White Fang
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The Sound and the Fury
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The Velveteen Rabbit
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
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The Cat in the Hat (Cat in the Hat, #1)
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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The Return of the Native
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Silas Marner
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Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
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The Iliad / The Odyssey
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Absalom, Absalom!
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The Story of Ferdinand
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The Mill on the Floss
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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The Red and the Black
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Madeline
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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!
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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!
I agree with Tamora, There are several books i've been told are must reads by people who don't read much themselves. I have been disappointed in many of them most books are classics because they've been around forever and a day. Much of the language is outdated and stale. occasionally you do stumble upon a book with a plot that holds up but it is a rare find. That being said, I loved Scarlett Letter and The hunchback of Notra Dame but found Pride and Prejudice tedious at best shallow and mindless at worst
i just discovered my interest in reading so i've read only a few. i just finished che's book on social revolution. so far from what i've read dracula is the best they describe the events as if one was there. my second best is lady chaterley's lover
This is a great list! I have this sort of mission too, although I gotta find a good library to hold all of these books. Too bad I don't have it in the area, or money to but some..
@CrystalI've tried adding other books than then ones originally written in English, apart from voting for the ones already on the list I mean, as there are so many great classics worth reading. All of which are available in English translations, by the way. Books I've added are, for instance, Alle fabels, Lustgebed, Avondgezichten, Het hoofdkussenboek, Het boek van Dede Korkoet, Nibelungenlied, De ring van de duif, Het boek der koningen, De rozentuin and Rubaiyat, to name just a few.
By the way, 'Classics' = 'Modern Classics' too? As there are plenty of those on your list.
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