cjacklen's "Classic Literature Challenge 2007"

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Here is my version of a basic reading list of the classics; hopefully, by the time I am done, I will understand most of the references to Machiavelli, Cervantes, Homer, and others I see in many contemporary novels. I hope to finish the list by the end of 2007, but I am not holding my breath. Either way, when I am finished I plan to make another list in order to fill in some of the holes in this one.

The list is actually four lists of 25 each: first introductory literature, like you might read in high school, then American lit, then British lit, then world lit; all in alphabetical order by author. I am willing to consider suggestions; I haven’t read anything of literary value in about 10 years and my memory is a bit fuzzy about what’s out there.

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  1. 1.
    Beowulf: A Prose Translation (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  2. 2.
    The Complete Fables (Penguin Classics)
    by Aesop

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  3. 3.
    Tarzan of the Apes
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  4. 5.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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  5. 6.
    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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  7. 8.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

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  8. 9.
    The Diary of Anne Frank
    by Anne Frank

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  9. 10.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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  10. 12.
    The Scarlet Letter
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  11. 13.
    The Iliad

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  12. 14.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer - Translated By Ian Johnston

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  13. 15.
    Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  14. 16.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  15. 17.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  16. 18.
    Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  17. 19.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  18. 20.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  19. 21.
    Frankenstein
    by Mary Shelley

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  20. 22.
    Dracula (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Bram Stoker

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  21. 23.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  22. 24.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  23. 25.
    The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. G. Wells

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  24. 27.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  25. 28.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

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  26. 30.
    My Antonia (Signet Classics)
    by Willa Cather

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  27. 31.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephan Crane

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  28. 32.
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    by Frederick Douglass

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  29. 33.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  30. 34.
    The Autobiography and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
    by Benjamin Franklin

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  31. 35.
    The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
    by Alexander Hamilton

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  32. 37.
    Good-Bye, Mr. Chips
    by James Hilton

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  34. 39.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
    by Herman Melville

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  35. 40.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller

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  36. 41.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  37. 43.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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  38. 44.
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  39. 45.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  40. 46.
    Walden
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  41. 47.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  42. 48.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair

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  43. 49.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  44. 50.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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