kalavinka's "Book List to Simplify Book Lists"

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I don’t read much, especially not the classics, so this list will help me to focus on which books I should read in the near future. The criteria is that the book must be on 4 or more collective lists that I am working on (not lists of individual authors).

American Library Association’s "The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000"

Dr. Peter Boxall’s "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

The Guardian’s "100 Best Books of All Time"

Harold Bloom’s "The Western Canon"

Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries

The New Lifetime Reading Plan

Time’s All-Time 100 Novels (1923-present)

The Well-Educated Mind

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  1. 1.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

  2. 2.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  3. 3.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  4. 4.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  5. 5.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

  6. 6.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  7. 7.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

  8. 8.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

  9. 9.
    The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition
    by Doris Lessing

  10. 10.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  11. 11.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  12. 12.
    Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Jonathan Swift

  13. 13.
    The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edith Wharton

  14. 14.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

  15. 15.
    Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  16. 16.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  17. 17.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  18. 18.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

  19. 19.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

  20. 20.
    Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  21. 21.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

  22. 22.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

  23. 23.
    Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

  24. 24.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  25. 25.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan

  26. 26.
    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  27. 27.
    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

  28. 28.
    The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  29. 29.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

  30. 30.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  31. 31.
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  32. 32.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

  33. 33.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka

  34. 34.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  35. 35.
    War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  36. 37.
    Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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Created by kalavinka on Aug 11, 2006.
 

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