100 Classics

Here is a more standard list of the 100 classics I would like to read in my life time. (There are some repeats from the "Best Novels" list and some oddballs)

Strike-though are books I've read
Bold are books I own copies of, but have not read. (SAD FACE)

  1. *A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain

  2. *A Doll's House, by Henrik Ibsen
  3. *A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
  4. *A Journey to the Center of the Earth, by Jules Verne
  5. *A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
  6. *A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens
  7. *Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll
  8. *Anna Karenina, by Leo Tolstoy
  9. *As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
  10. *Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell
  11. *Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley 

  12. *Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  13. *Dangerous Liaisons, by Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
  14. *Daniel Deronda, by George Eliot 
  15. *David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens
  16. *Disgrace, by J. M. Coetze 

  17. *Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes
  18. *Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  19. *Dracula, by Bram Stoker
  20. *Emma, by Jane Austen

  21. *Ethan Fromme, by Edith Wharton
  22. *Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
  23. *Far from the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy
  24. *Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
  25. *Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens
  26. *Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
  27. *If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, by Italo Calvino
  28. *Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
  29. *Howards End, by E.M. Forrester
  30. *Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë
  31. *Journey to the End of the Night, by Louis-Ferdinand Celine 
  32. *Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy 

  33. *LA Confidential, by James Ellroy 

  34. *Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D. H. Lawrence
  35. *Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo
  36. *Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
  37. *Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
  38. *Middlemarch, by George Eliot
  39. Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot
  40. *Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville
  41. *Moll Flanders, by Daniel Defoe
  42. *My Antoniaby Willa Cather 

  43. *No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre
  44. *Northern Lights (AKA The Golden Compass Trilogy), by Philip Pullman
  45. *Sometimes a Great Notion, by Ken Kesey
  46. *Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens
  47. *One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
  48. *Oscar And Lucinda, by Peter Carey
  49. *Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
  50. *Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
  51. *Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe (Twice!)
  52. *Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
  53. *Silas Marner, by George Eliot
  54. *Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
  55. *The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  56. *Sybil, by Benjamin Disraeli 

  57. *Tess of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy
  58. *The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
  59. *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle
  60. *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
  61. *The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
  62. The Big Sleep, by Raymond Chandler
  63. *The Brothers Karamazov, by Fyodor Dostoevsky 
  64. *The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

  65. *The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer
  66. *The Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger
  67. *The Charterhouse of Parma, by Stendhal
  68. *The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
  69. *The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
  70. *The Good Earthby Pearl S. Buck 

  71. *The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevski
  72. *The Iliad and The Odyssey, by Homer
  73. *The Island of Dr. Moreauby H.G. Wells
  74. *The Man Who Was Thursdayby G.K. Chesterton
  75. *The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
  76. *The New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster
  77. *The Octopus, by Frank Norris
  78. *The Periodic Table, by Primo Levi
  79. *The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde
  80. *The Plague, by Albert Camus 

  81. *The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James 

  82. *The Rainbow, by D. H. Lawrence
  83. *The Razor's Edge, by W. Somerset Maugham
  84. *The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  85. *East of Eden, by John Steinbeck
  86. *The Tin Drum, by Gunter Grass
  87. *The Trial, by Franz Kafka
  88. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
  89. *The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins 

  90. *Three Men in a Boat, by Jerome K. Jerome
  91. *Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
  92. *Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
  93. *Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne 
  94. *Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, by Jules Verne
  95. *Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  96. *USA Trilogy, by John Dos Passos
  97. *The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
  98. *Vanity Fair, by William Makepeace Thackeray
  99. *War and Peace, by Leo Tolstoy
  100. *Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë

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