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kalavinka's "Book List to Simplify Book Lists"

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

1. Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
by George Orwell
 
2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
 
3. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
 
4. The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 
5. The Castle: A new translation based on the restored text
by Franz Kafka
 
6. Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
 
7. Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
 
8. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
 
9. The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition (Perennial Classics)
by Doris Lessing
 
10. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
11. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
12. Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions)
by Jonathan Swift
 
13. The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Edith Wharton
 
14. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
 
15. Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Brontë
 
16. Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Vladimir Nabokov
 
17. Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
 
18. The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
 
19.
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Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
 
20. Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
by Herman Melville
 
21. Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
 
22. Native Son
by Richard Wright
 
23. Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
 
24. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
25. The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
by John Bunyan
 
26. Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
27. The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
by Stendhal
 
28. The Scarlet Letter (Modern Library Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
29. Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
 
30. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
 
31.
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Things Fall Apart: An Adapted Classic
by Chinua Achebe
 
32. To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
by Virginia Woolf
 
33. The Trial
by Franz Kafka
 
34. Ulysses
by James Joyce
 
35. War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
 
36. White Noise: (Great Books Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Don DeLillo
 
37. Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics)
by Emily Bronte
 
This is kalavinka's list. Only kalavinka can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by kalavinka on Aug 11, 2006.