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No Longer Human
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Slade House
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Orestea: Agamennone, Coefore, Eumenidi
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The Well of Loneliness
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The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
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The Girl Who Chased the Moon
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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness
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The Feast of the Goat
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Josephus-Trilogie: Der jüdische Krieg/Die Söhne/Der Tag wird kommen
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Carry Me Down
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A Hero of Our Time
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
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Rana
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Воскресение
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The Setting Sun
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Intimate Diary of a Professional Lady
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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A Crown of Feathers: Stories
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Heroes
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Felix Holt: The Radical
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Success: Three Years in the Life of a Province
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The Young Desire It
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Generals Die in Bed
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Oeuvres complètes: 101 titres La Comédie humaine
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Intimacy On The Plate: 209 Aphrodisiac Recipes to Spice Up Your Love Life at Home Tonight
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Bad Luck and Trouble (Jack Reacher, #11)
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Sons (House of Earth, #2)
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Gösta Berling's Saga
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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Jew Süss
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Between Sky & Sea
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Travel as Transformation: Conquer the Limits of Culture to Discover Your Own Identity
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An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
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¿Quién mató a Palomino Molero?
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Native Son
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Seven Men and Two Others
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The Chrysalids
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The Invention of Morel
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The Devil's Disciple
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The Custom of the Country
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Love, Anger, Madness: A Haitian Trilogy
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
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Roadside Picnic
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From Russia with Love (James Bond, #5)
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Murphy
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years #1)
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Father and I Were Ranchers (Little Britches, #1)
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The Virgin and the Gipsy & Other Stories
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The Prisoner of Zenda (The Ruritania Trilogy, #2)
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A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy of the Korosko
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A Perfect Day for Bananafish
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Love, Aubrey
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The Accidental Theorist and Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science
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My Face For the World to See
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Empower Now: True Stories from 14 Young Minority Professionals
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The Cabinet of Curiosities (Pendergast, #3; Nora Kelly, #0B)
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We Need to Talk About Kevin
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A Theft
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Down at the Dinghy
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Freak the Mighty (Freak the Mighty, #1)
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The Ninth Directive
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Strength to Love
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The Write Prescription: Finding the "Right" Spiritual Dosage to Overcome Any Obstacle
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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The Pact
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The Thing on the Doorstep
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Das siebte Kreuz
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The Fields of Home (Little Britches, #5)
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Five Plays: The Robbers / Passion and Politics / Don Carlos / Mary Stuart / Joan of Arc
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Midnight
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The Paul Street Boys
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The Professor's House
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Tempest (Tempest, #1)
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The Leatherstocking Tales
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Empower Now for Women
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Te Kaihau/the Windeater
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (Ripley, #1)
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The Home Ranch (Little Britches, #3)
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The Spanish Ballad
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The Raj Quartet
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The Spoils of Poynton
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Time Enough for Love
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Famous Last Words
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Tales Of The Nine: Apothecary
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The Romance of the Queen Pedauque
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Novel without a Name
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Walt Disney's Dumbo (A Little Golden Book)
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Cilvēks, kas smejas
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Behind a Mask, Or, a Woman's Power
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Una excursión a los indios ranqueles
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Mary Emma & Company (Little Britches, #4)
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The Secret Magdalene
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The Beach
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Fractured (Unbreakable, #1)
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Rich Man, Poor Man
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Undone (Will Trent, #3)
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Mission: Subhero
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Meshugah
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there are two "to kill a mockingbird". how to delete one?
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Silvana wrote: "there are two "to kill a mockingbird". how to delete one?"there are three wuthering heights - i voted for 'em all
You've a bit of Russian lit on here. If you enjoy it, and you've not read these already, you might try: Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita"
Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls"
The team of Pevear and Volokhonsky is my current favorite for Russian to English translation whenever I can find them. They do very well capturing the "flavor" and sensibilities of the original Russian.
I give it a week before the Bible or Book of Mormon supplants Camus as number one.
This is a great list! Eventually I'll work my way through it...lol
It's nice to know someone else is enjoying these books besides me! If only I could find someone in High School who enjoys them this much! Love your list and will hopefully be able to make it through all 456 books!!!
Emily, I love these books. Some strange ones slipped in this list but I really like them on the whole.
Some of these are not classics yet.
Great list! I'm a lover of classics myself, and if you haven't read them already, I highly recommend "La dame aux camelias" by Alexandre Dumas fils and "Manon Lescaut" by L'Abbe Prevost. They are some really great books that have been much neglected by readers. These two stories are similar but not alike.
Anne wrote: "Great list! I'm a lover of classics myself, and if you haven't read them already, I highly recommend "La dame aux camelias" by Alexandre Dumas fils and "Manon Lescaut" by L'Abbe Prevost. They are ..."
Anne, I just downloaded Manon Lescaut from Project Gutenberg. I could not find Dumas' La Dame aux Camelias. Thank you for the suggestions. I will find it somewhere else.
Anne, I just downloaded Manon Lescaut from Project Gutenberg. I could not find Dumas' La Dame aux Camelias. Thank you for the suggestions. I will find it somewhere else.
And diary of a wimpy kid dog days! What on earth?
Charlotte's web should be on that list. Its a true classic.
There are several repeats, I noticed The Bible, "To Kill a Mockingbird," "I capture the Castle," and "Metamorphosis." They are the different formats of the same book on here twice.... Can it be fixed?
Librarians' can change it, I think.
I removed diary of a wimpy kid from the list, but I am not sure if I should remove Harry Potter or not since I don't know how old a book can be before it is deemed a "classic."
I tried to do a check for duplicates but some of the books are wierd. For example, there is a 7 in one book for the Chronicles of Narnia, but there is also the first two in separate places on the list. Unfortunately, those can't be combined and if I delete one than votes will be lost, also being on the delete book page scares me, because if I delete something I shouldn't than my librarian privileges could be revoked. I value my librarian status too much to risk that.
Danielle wrote: "I removed diary of a wimpy kid from the list, but I am not sure if I should remove Harry Potter or not since I don't know how old a book can be before it is deemed a "classic.""I know that it has been a while but I agree with your decision to keep Harry Potter. It may not be a classic now, exactly, but I believe that one day it will be.
Can anyone recommend a publisher of hard cover classics? Or a book club where I can purchase them? I'd like to begin a library to pass on to my family's future generations. Thank you.
Classics are just phenomenal! They are basis of books today and a reason why I keep reading!
Anne wrote: "Great list! I'm a lover of classics myself, and if you haven't read them already, I highly recommend "La dame aux camelias" by Alexandre Dumas fils and "Manon Lescaut" by L'Abbe Prevost. They are ..."It is impossible I have finally got somenone who loves La dame aux camelias, this story is one of the best love stories EVER>
It's pretty easy to add books to lists; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."
Susanna wrote: "It's pretty easy to add books to lists; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes.""How does #181 Isn't It Pretty To Think So? qualify for this list?
Because those same 12 people have spammed it on 27 pages of Listopias! (Was 28, but I removed it from a few, like "Time's Top 10 Novels of 2012," which it wasn't.)
Removed, because a book published in 2012 is not a classic in the terms of this list:Isn't It Pretty To Think So?
some books are not classics and so should be removed
Dorothy wrote: "Can anyone recommend a publisher of hard cover classics? Or a book club where I can purchase them? I'd like to begin a library to pass on to my family's future generations. Thank you."Great idea - building a library to pass on to future generations. Thanks for the idea!
The Godfather is a classic? I liked it but a classic?
The movie is a classic. Haven't read the book.
I read the book and the part about the horse was much too graphic. I would not call it a classic yet but I am not sure how that is determined.
Is there a list for classic movies? (will search)
thanks
Is there a list for classic movies? (will search)
thanks
There are several for movies, don't know if there's a list for that or not, though. (There's at least one of all of these, though: book and movie both good, book better than movie, movie better than book.)
My definition of "classic" is about as liberal as you're going to find. In going through this list, I found and removed some titles published within the last ten-fifteen years:The Fault In Our Stars
The Book Thief
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Dear John
Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope (this is a YA modernization of the classic Austen novel)
Code Name Verity
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... And It's All Small Stuff
Looking For Alaska
I Know This Much Is True
Angela's Ashes
Many of these books are good, but it's too soon to say whether they'll become classics for future readers.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marques is the greatest novel of the twentieth century IMHO.Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis is a great cycle of poetry.
The Illustrated Man by the late Ray Bradbury is excellent as are ANY OF HIS WRITINGS!
Other good reads:
The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt
Hawaii by James Mitchener
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
i have just retired an want a place to start reading,i have read a lot but want to read classics at this point, why? because i want to see what the great thinkers and writes had to draw on to get where they got with the knowledge they saw before them
I am very surprised to see The Scarlet Pimpernel on the list. Although Baroness Orczy should be credited for creating the disguised-hero-alter-ego oeuvre, I don't think that she had any talent!
One of the best non-fiction short stories I ever read was Jack London's People of the Abyss. It is a harrowing sociological study of the East End of London around the time of Jack the Ripper. This is a great classic and one that most people should read if for no other reason than to put that time frame in context. You will be thanking God that you live in this time as opposed to that time after reading this book. It is available to download on gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1688
Bruce wrote: "i have just retired an want a place to start reading,i have read a lot but want to read classics at this point, why? because i want to see what the great thinkers and writes had to draw on to get w..."Hi Bruce, I retired from "corporate America" recently but am doing lots of different things now. I too am catching up on my reading. I think this list is a pretty good place to start. I've read seven of the top ten and Jane Eyre is next!
This list is way too long. A lot of these aren't classics, especially the books on the latter pages.
Greg wrote: "Bruce wrote: "i have just retired an want a place to start reading,i have read a lot but want to read classics at this point, why? because i want to see what the great thinkers and writes had to dr..."Bruce, I read Jane Eyre. Worst book I've ever read. IF you dare read it, don't say I didn't warn you.
what definition is being used for "classic" ? i'd say some are too recent to be included.
I checked for duplicates and removed 17.
I went and typed this out on a spreadsheet & removed duplicates. The Harry Potter series is in there at least three times, still.
From the 1046 I have 956 non-duplicated books.
I love the classics for sure, but I just don't get the fascination with Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye... just because it's old doesn't make it a classic.
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