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pinsky's "Classic books I want to read before my inevitable death"

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They’re only classics in my opinion, I’m sure.

  1. 1.
    1984: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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    Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International)
    by WILLIAM FAULKNER

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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    Anne of Green Gables

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    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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    Around the World in Eighty Days (Signet Classic)
    by Jules Verne

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    As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

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    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand

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    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    by Gertrude Stein

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    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by TOM WOLFE

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    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

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  21. 22.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire

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  22. 23.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  23. 24.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    by Tennessee Williams

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  24. 25.
    Cat's Cradle
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  25. 26.
    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller

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  26. 27.
    The Catcher in the Rye

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    Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)
    by E. B. White

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    Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

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    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  30. 31.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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    Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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    Cyrano De Bergerac (Bantam Classics)
    by EDMOND ROSTAND

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    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

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    Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Mann

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    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

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  40. 42.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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

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    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  43. 45.
    Dracula (Signet Classics)
    by Bram Stoker

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  44. 46.
    Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by James Joyce

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  45. 47.
    Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

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  46. 48.
    Emma
    by JANE AUSTEN

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  47. 49.
    Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  48. 50.
    Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin

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  49. 51.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  50. 52.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  51. 53.
    Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  52. 54.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  53. 55.
    Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  54. 56.
    Flowers for Algernon (Millennium SF Masterworks S)
    by Daniel Keyes

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  55. 57.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  56. 58.
    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand

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  57. 59.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  58. 60.
    Franny and Zooey
    by J.D. Salinger

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  59. 61.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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  60. 62.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

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  61. 63.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  62. 64.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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