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csjr'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.

  2. 2.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  3. 4.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  4. 5.
    Anne of Green Gables

  5. 6.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  6. 7.
    Around the World in Eighty Days (Signet Classics)
    by Jules Verne

  7. 8.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  8. 9.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand

  9. 10.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    by Gertrude Stein

  10. 11.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  11. 12.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  12. 14.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe

  13. 15.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  14. 16.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

  15. 17.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  16. 18.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

  17. 19.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire

  18. 20.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  19. 21.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Signet)
    by Tennessee Williams

  20. 22.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  21. 23.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  22. 24.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

  23. 25.
    Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)
    by E. B. White

  24. 26.
    Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

  25. 27.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  26. 28.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  27. 29.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  28. 30.
    Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  29. 31.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller

  30. 32.
    Cyrano De Bergerac (Bantam Classics)
    by EDMOND ROSTAND

  31. 33.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  32. 34.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

  33. 35.

  34. 36.
    Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Mann

  35. 37.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

  36. 39.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

  37. 40.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  38. 41.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  39. 42.
    Dracula (Signet Classics)
    by Bram Stoker

  40. 43.
    Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by James Joyce

  41. 44.
    Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

  42. 45.
    Emma
    by JANE AUSTEN

  43. 46.
    Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  44. 47.
    Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin

  45. 48.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  46. 49.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  47. 50.
    Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ivan Turgenev

  48. 51.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  49. 52.
    Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by James Joyce

  50. 53.
    Flowers for Algernon (Millennium SF Masterworks S)
    by Daniel Keyes

  51. 54.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  52. 55.
    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand

  53. 56.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  54. 57.
    Franny and Zooey
    by J.D. Salinger

  55. 58.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

  56. 59.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

  57. 60.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  58. 61.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  59. 62.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  60. 63.
    Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  61. 64.
    Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  62. 65.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

  63. 66.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers

  64. 67.
    Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

  65. 68.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

  66. 70.
    Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
    by Allen Ginsberg

  67. 71.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  68. 73.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

  69. 74.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  70. 75.
    Idylls of the King (Penguin Classics)
    by Alfred Tennyson

  71. 77.
    The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Oscar Wilde

  72. 78.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  73. 79.
    Ivanhoe (Tor Classics)
    by Sir Walter Scott

  74. 80.
    Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  75. 82.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

  76. 83.
    Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  77. 84.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair

  78. 85.
    The Jungle Book
    by Rudyard Kipling

  79. 86.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Bantam Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

  80. 87.
    ?
    Dangerous Liaisons
    by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos

  81. 88.

  82. 89.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  83. 91.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  84. 92.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  85. 93.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  86. 94.
    The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  87. 95.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  88. 96.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  89. 97.
    Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  90. 98.
    ?
    THE MALTESE FALCON
    by Dashiell Hammett

  91. 99.
    The Man in the Iron Mask (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  92. 100.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

  93. 101.
    The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
    by Franz Kafka

  94. 102.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  95. 103.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  96. 104.
    ?
    Moby Dick
    by Herman Melville

  97. 105.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

  98. 106.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  99. 107.
    Notes from Underground
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  100. 108.
    The Odyssey
    by Robert Fagles

  101. 109.
    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  102. 110.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by John Steinbeck

  103. 111.
    ?
    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

  104. 112.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  105. 113.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

  106. 114.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

  107. 115.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  108. 116.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

  109. 117.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

  110. 118.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

  111. 119.
    The Pearl
    by John Steinbeck

  112. 120.
    Persuasion (Signet Classic)
    by Jane Austen

  113. 121.
    Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition)
    by J. M. Barrie

  114. 122.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

  115. 123.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

  116. 124.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

  117. 125.

  118. 126.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving

  119. 127.
    Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  120. 128.
    The Prince (Bantam Classics)
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  121. 129.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

  122. 130.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

  123. 131.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  124. 132.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  125. 136.
    A Room with a View (Classic)
    by E.M. Forster

  126. 137.
    The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  127. 138.
    The Secret Garden
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  128. 139.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  129. 140.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

  130. 141.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse

  131. 142.
    Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)
    by GEORGE ELIOT

  132. 143.
    Sister Carrie (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  133. 144.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  134. 145.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  135. 146.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  136. 147.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  137. 148.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    by Tennessee Williams

  138. 149.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  139. 150.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Signet Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  140. 151.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  141. 152.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  142. 153.
    This Side of Paradise
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  143. 154.
    The Three Musketeers (Modern Library)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  144. 155.
    Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

  145. 156.
    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells

  146. 157.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  147. 158.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

  148. 159.
    Treasure Island (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  149. 160.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka

  150. 161.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

  151. 162.
    The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry James

  152. 163.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  153. 164.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera

  154. 165.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  155. 166.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  156. 167.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett

  157. 168.
    Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry David Thoreau

  158. 169.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

  159. 170.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams

  160. 171.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne

  161. 172.
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder)
    by L. Frank Baum

  162. 173.

  163. 174.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Brontë

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