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The Way of All Flesh
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Борис Годунов
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Carbonel: The King of the Cats (Carbonel, #1)
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A Very Bumpy Love
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Joyce Villeta (Goodreads Author)
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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The Client
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Vampire Academy (Vampire Academy, #1)
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Richelle Mead (Goodreads Author)
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Flush
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Sharp Objects
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Daniel Deronda
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To the Indies
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New Hope (The New Earth Colonies Book 1)
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Nina Silver (Goodreads Author)
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The Forty Days of Musa Dagh (Verba Mundi (Paperback) Book 20)
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The Ugly Duckling
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Life's Little Ironies
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Sandro of Chegem
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Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country
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Reggae Larger Than Life: The Ultimate Reggae Music Fun and Games Book
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The Princess Diaries (The Princess Diaries, #1)
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Il fu Mattia Pascal
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Das Glück der Familie Rougon (Les Rougon-Macquart, #1)
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My Past and Thoughts
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| 1423 |
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The Ghost Years
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Mutch Katsonga (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
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| 1423 |
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Two Little Misogynists
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Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
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Mephisto
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| 1428 |
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Beach Music
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Mirgorod: Four Tales by Nikolai Gogol
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The Notebook (The Notebook, #1)
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Nicholas Sparks (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 1,817,332 ratings
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The Black Obelisk
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Sam's Theory
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Sarah Mendivel (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Four Phases Of Love (1857)
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Der Weiße Wolf
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The Luzhin Defense
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The Odd Flower
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Barnaby Rudge
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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
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Nussknacker und Mausekönig
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Say It with Poison (Mitchell and Markby, #1)
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The Girl With The Golden Eyes
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Roughing It
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The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: After Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Richard Lancelyn Green (Editor)
4.42 avg rating — 44,558 ratings
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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill and Came Down a Mountain
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3.96 avg rating — 226 ratings
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The Four Major Plays: The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / Three Sisters / Cherry Orchard
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Caleb Williams
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Thuvia, Maid of Mars (Barsoom, #4)
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3.77 avg rating — 9,803 ratings
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The Phoenix and the Carpet (The Psammead Trilogy, #2)
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Martin Chuzzlewit
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Elixir of the Ages
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Five Little Pigs (Hercule Poirot, #25)
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Arms and the Man
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| 1453 |
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August 1914 (The Red Wheel, #1)
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The Sebastopol Sketches
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Little Fuzzy (Fuzzy Sapiens, #1)
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Strong and Steady, Or, Paddle Your Own Canoe
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Raspberry Danish Murder (Hannah Swensen, #22)
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Joanne Fluke (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 10,886 ratings
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Coming up for Air
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3.78 avg rating — 20,803 ratings
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The Complete Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1-8)
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Another Country
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Moonraker (James Bond, #3)
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Widow Barnaby
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The World of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-2)
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4.42 avg rating — 49,510 ratings
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The Player of Games (Culture, #2)
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El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
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Round The Red Lamp
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Going All In
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4.05 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
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Sartoris
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The Promised Land
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Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
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The Holy Land
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In an Antique Land
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A Fire Upon the Deep (Zones of Thought, #1)
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The Christmas Shoes (Christmas Hope, #1)
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Donna VanLiere (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 37,254 ratings
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Bee: The Princess of the Dwarfs
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Bartosz Beda: Hear my voice
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The Nose
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Catherine Cowan (Retold by)
3.95 avg rating — 14,021 ratings
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Casino Royale (James Bond, #1)
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Pilgrim at Sea
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Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution In Economics And Technology
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Anywhere but Here
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Mona Simpson (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 3,272 ratings
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You Can Never Go Wrong By Being Kind: 101 Inspirational Stories of Kindness & Generosity
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Il mondo nuovo / Ritorno al mondo nuovo
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The Moving Finger (Miss Marple, #3)
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Ahasverus död
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The Design of Everyday Things
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Main Street
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The Magic World
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The Lost Continent
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The Accidental Tourist
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Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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The Summoning (Darkest Powers #1)
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Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
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Dance of the Happy Shades
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Sleeping Murder (Miss Marple, #12)
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The Shadow-Line
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The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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Les Malheurs de Sophie
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Profits of Religion
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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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