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

1. 1. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell Drag me to re-order

2. 2. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Puffin Classics S.) by Jules Verne Drag me to re-order

3. 3. Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text by William Faulkner Drag me to re-order

4. 4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic) by Mark Twain Drag me to re-order

5. 5. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain Drag me to re-order

6. 6. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) by Lewis Carroll Drag me to re-order

7. 7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy Drag me to re-order

8. 8. Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery Drag me to re-order

9. 9. Animal Farm by George Orwell Drag me to re-order

10. 10. Around the World in Eighty Days (Signet Classics) by Jules Verne Drag me to re-order

11. 11. As I Lay Dying (Modern Library) by William Faulkner Drag me to re-order

12. 12. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand Drag me to re-order

13. 13. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein Drag me to re-order

14. 14. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath Drag me to re-order

15. 15. Beloved by Toni Morrison Drag me to re-order

16. 16. Black Boy (The Restored Text Established by The Library of America) (Perennial Classics) by Richard A. Wright Drag me to re-order

17. 17. The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe Drag me to re-order

18. 18. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Drag me to re-order

19. 19. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Drag me to re-order

20. 20. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Drag me to re-order

21. 21. The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics) by Jack London Drag me to re-order

22. 22. Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics) by Voltaire Drag me to re-order

23. 23. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer Drag me to re-order

24. 24. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Signet) by Tennessee Williams Drag me to re-order

25. 25. Cat's Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut Drag me to re-order

26. 26. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Drag me to re-order

27. 27. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Drag me to re-order

28. 28. Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery) by E. B. White Drag me to re-order

29. 29. Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics) by Samuel Richardson Drag me to re-order

30. 30. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess Drag me to re-order

31. 31. The Color Purple by Alice Walker Drag me to re-order

32. 32. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père Drag me to re-order

33. 33. Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky Drag me to re-order

34. 34. The Crucible by Arthur Miller Drag me to re-order

35. 35. Cyrano De Bergerac (Bantam Classics) by EDMOND ROSTAND Drag me to re-order

36. 36. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens Drag me to re-order

37. 37. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol Drag me to re-order

38. 38. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Willa Cather Drag me to re-order

39. 39. Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions) by Thomas Mann Drag me to re-order

40. 40. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank Drag me to re-order

41. 41. The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library) by Dante Alighieri Drag me to re-order

42. 42. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak Drag me to re-order

43. 43. Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes Drag me to re-order

44. 44. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson Drag me to re-order

45. 45. Dracula (Signet Classics) by Bram Stoker Drag me to re-order

46. 46. Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions) by James Joyce Drag me to re-order

47. 47. Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1) by Frank Herbert Drag me to re-order

48. 48. Emma by JANE AUSTEN Drag me to re-order

49. 49. Ethan Frome (Signet Classics) by Edith Wharton Drag me to re-order

50. 50. Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexander Pushkin Drag me to re-order

51. 51. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Drag me to re-order

52. 52. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway Drag me to re-order

53. 53. Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics) by Ivan Turgenev Drag me to re-order

54. 54. Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Drag me to re-order

55. 55. Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce Drag me to re-order

56. 56. Flowers for Algernon (Millennium SF Masterworks S) by Daniel Keyes Drag me to re-order

57. 57. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway Drag me to re-order

58. 58. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand Drag me to re-order

59. 59. Frankenstein (Enriched Classics) by Mary Shelley Drag me to re-order

60. 60. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger Drag me to re-order

61. 61. The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Drag me to re-order

62. 62. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin Drag me to re-order

63. 63. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Drag me to re-order

64. 64. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Drag me to re-order

65. 65. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck Drag me to re-order

66. 66. Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics) by Jonathan Swift Drag me to re-order

67. 67. Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare Drag me to re-order

68. 68. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Drag me to re-order

69. 69. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club) by Carson McCullers Drag me to re-order

70. 70. Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions) by Joseph Conrad Drag me to re-order

71. 71. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams Drag me to re-order

72. 72. Hound of the Baskervilles (Aladdin Classics) Drag me to re-order

73. 73. Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4) by Allen Ginsberg Drag me to re-order

74. 74. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics) by Victor Hugo Drag me to re-order

75. 75. I, Claudius From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius Born 10 B.C. Murdered and Deified A.D. 54 (Vintage International) by Robert Graves Drag me to re-order

76. 76. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Drag me to re-order

77. 77. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky Drag me to re-order

78. 78. Idylls of the King (Penguin Classics) by Alfred Tennyson Drag me to re-order

79. 79. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) by Italo Calvino Drag me to re-order

80. 80. The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions) by Oscar Wilde Drag me to re-order

81. 81. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison Drag me to re-order

82. 82. Ivanhoe (Tor Classics) by Sir Walter Scott Drag me to re-order

83. 83. Jane Eyre (Signet Classics) by Charlotte Brontë Drag me to re-order

84. 84. A Journey to the Center of the Earth (Landoll's Classic Titles) Drag me to re-order

85. 85. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Drag me to re-order

86. 86. Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare Drag me to re-order

87. 87. The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition by Upton Sinclair Drag me to re-order

88. 88. The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling Drag me to re-order

89. 89. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Bantam Classics) by D.H. Lawrence Drag me to re-order

90. 91. Les Liaisons Dangereuses (New York Public Library Collector's Edition) by Pierre C. De Laclos Drag me to re-order

91. 92. Les Misérables (Signet Classics) by Victor Hugo Drag me to re-order

92. 93. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Full-Color Collector's Edition) by C. S. Lewis Drag me to re-order

93. 94. Little Women (Signet Classics) by Louisa May Alcott Drag me to re-order

94. 95. Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition by Vladimir Nabokov Drag me to re-order

95. 96. Lord of the Flies by William Golding Drag me to re-order

96. 97. The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition) by J.R.R. Tolkien Drag me to re-order

97. 98. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Drag me to re-order

98. 99. Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare Drag me to re-order

99. 100. Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics) by Gustave Flaubert Drag me to re-order

100. 101. ? THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett Drag me to re-order

101. 102. The Man in the Iron Mask (Oxford World's Classics) by Alexandre Dumas père Drag me to re-order

102. 103. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov Drag me to re-order

103. 104. The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics) by Franz Kafka Drag me to re-order

104. 105. Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot Drag me to re-order

105. 106. A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare Drag me to re-order

106. 107. ? Moby Dick by Herman Melville Drag me to re-order

107. 108. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Drag me to re-order

108. 109. No Exit and Three Other Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre Drag me to re-order

109. 110. Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky Drag me to re-order

110. 111. The Odyssey by Homer Drag me to re-order

111. 112. Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics) by W. Somerset Maugham Drag me to re-order

112. 113. Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck Drag me to re-order

113. 114. ? The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway Drag me to re-order

114. 115. Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens Drag me to re-order

115. 116. On the Road by Jack Kerouac Drag me to re-order

116. 117. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Drag me to re-order

117. 118. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Drag me to re-order

118. 119. Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics) by Thornton Wilder Drag me to re-order

119. 120. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton Drag me to re-order

120. 121. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster Drag me to re-order

121. 122. The Pearl by John Steinbeck Drag me to re-order

122. 123. Persuasion (Signet Classic) by Jane Austen Drag me to re-order

123. 124. Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition) by J. M. Barrie Drag me to re-order

124. 125. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics) by Oscar Wilde Drag me to re-order

125. 126. The Plague by Albert Camus Drag me to re-order

126. 127. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics) by Henry James Drag me to re-order

127. 128. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet classics) by James Joyce Drag me to re-order

128. 129. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving Drag me to re-order

129. 130. Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics) by Jane Austen Drag me to re-order

130. 131. The Prince (Bantam Classics) by Niccolo Machiavelli Drag me to re-order

131. 132. Rabbit, Run by John Updike Drag me to re-order

132. 133. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier Drag me to re-order

133. 134. Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics) by Daniel Defoe Drag me to re-order

134. 135. Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare Drag me to re-order

135. 136. A Room with a View (Classic) by E.M. Forster Drag me to re-order

136. 137. The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics) by Nathaniel Hawthorne Drag me to re-order

137. 138. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett Drag me to re-order

138. 139. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen Drag me to re-order

139. 140. A Separate Peace by John Knowles Drag me to re-order

140. 141. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Drag me to re-order

141. 142. Silas Marner (Bantam Classics) by GEORGE ELIOT Drag me to re-order

142. 143. Sister Carrie (Signet Classics) by Theodore Dreiser Drag me to re-order

143. 144. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Drag me to re-order

144. 145. The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner Drag me to re-order

145. 146. The Stranger by Albert Camus Drag me to re-order

146. 147. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein Drag me to re-order

147. 148. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Drag me to re-order

148. 149. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway Drag me to re-order

149. 150. A Tale of Two Cities (Signet Classics) by Charles Dickens Drag me to re-order

150. 151. Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hardy Drag me to re-order

151. 152. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Drag me to re-order

152. 153. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald Drag me to re-order

153. 154. The Three Musketeers (Modern Library) by Alexandre Dumas père Drag me to re-order

154. 155. Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions) by Friedrich Nietzsche Drag me to re-order

155. 156. The Time Machine by H. G. Wells Drag me to re-order

156. 157. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Drag me to re-order

157. 158. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf Drag me to re-order

158. 159. Treasure Island (Signet Classics) by Robert Louis Stevenson Drag me to re-order

159. 160. The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Franz Kafka Drag me to re-order

160. 161. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller Drag me to re-order

161. 162. The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry James Drag me to re-order

162. 163. Ulysses by James Joyce Drag me to re-order

163. 164. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Drag me to re-order

164. 165. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe Drag me to re-order

165. 166. Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics) by William Makepeace Thackeray Drag me to re-order

166. 167. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts by Samuel Beckett Drag me to re-order

167. 168. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henry David Thoreau Drag me to re-order

168. 169. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Drag me to re-order

169. 170. Watership Down by Richard Adams Drag me to re-order

170. 171. Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition) by A. A. Milne Drag me to re-order

171. 172. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder) by L. Frank Baum Drag me to re-order

172. 173. The World According to Garp (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by John Irving Drag me to re-order

173. 174. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Brontë Drag me to re-order