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

  1. 1.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell
  2. 2.
  3. 3.
    Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  4. 4.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic)
    by Mark Twain
  5. 5.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  7. 7.
    Anna Karenina
    by Leo Tolstoy
  8. 8.
    Anne of Green Gables
    by L. M. Montgomery
  9. 9.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  10. 10.
    Around the World in Eighty Days (Signet Classics)
    by Jules Verne
  11. 11.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner
  12. 12.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand
  13. 13.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    by Gertrude Stein
  14. 14.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath
  15. 15.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  17. 17.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe
  18. 18.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  19. 19.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh
  20. 20.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  21. 21.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London
  22. 22.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire
  23. 23.
    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  24. 24.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Signet)
    by Tennessee Williams
  25. 25.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  26. 26.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  27. 27.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger
  28. 28.
    Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)
    by E. B. White
  29. 29.
    Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson
  30. 30.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess
  31. 31.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  32. 32.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père
  33. 33.
    Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  34. 34.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller
  35. 35.
    Cyrano De Bergerac (Bantam Classics)
    by EDMOND ROSTAND
  36. 36.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  37. 37.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol
  38. 38.
  39. 39.
    Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Mann
  40. 40.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank
  42. 42.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak
  43. 43.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes
  44. 44.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  45. 45.
    Dracula (Signet Classics)
    by Bram Stoker
  46. 46.
    Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by James Joyce
  47. 47.
    Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert
  48. 48.
    Emma
    by JANE AUSTEN
  49. 49.
    Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  50. 50.
    Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin
  51. 51.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  52. 52.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  53. 53.
    Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ivan Turgenev
  54. 54.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  55. 55.
    Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by James Joyce
  56. 56.
    Flowers for Algernon (Millennium SF Masterworks S)
    by Daniel Keyes
  57. 57.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  58. 58.
    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand
  59. 59.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  60. 60.
    Franny and Zooey
    by J.D. Salinger
  61. 61.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams
  62. 62.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin
  63. 63.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  64. 64.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  65. 65.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  66. 66.
    Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  67. 67.
    Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  68. 68.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood
  69. 69.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers
  70. 70.
    Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad
  71. 71.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams
  73. 73.
    Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
    by Allen Ginsberg
  74. 74.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo
  76. 76.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou
  77. 77.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  78. 78.
    Idylls of the King (Penguin Classics)
    by Alfred Tennyson
  80. 80.
    The Importance of Being Earnest (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Oscar Wilde
  81. 81.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  82. 82.
    Ivanhoe (Tor Classics)
    by Sir Walter Scott
  83. 83.
    Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  85. 85.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan
  86. 86.
    Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare
  87. 87.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair
  88. 88.
    The Jungle Book
    by Rudyard Kipling
  89. 89.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Bantam Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  90. 90.
    ?
    Dangerous Liaisons
    by Pierre-Ambrois-Francois Choderlos de Laclos
  91. 91.
  92. 92.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo
  94. 94.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  95. 95.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  96. 96.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding
  97. 97.
    The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  98. 98.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  99. 99.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  100. 100.
    Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert
  101. 101.
    ?
    THE MALTESE FALCON
    by Dashiell Hammett
  102. 102.
    The Man in the Iron Mask (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père
  103. 103.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov
  104. 104.
    The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
    by Franz Kafka
  105. 105.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot
  106. 106.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  107. 107.
    ?
    Moby Dick
    by Herman Melville
  108. 108.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf
  109. 109.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre
  110. 110.
    Notes from Underground
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  111. 111.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer
  112. 112.
    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  113. 113.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by John Steinbeck
  114. 114.
    ?
    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  115. 115.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  116. 116.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac
  117. 117.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey
  118. 118.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  119. 119.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder
  120. 120.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton
  121. 121.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster
  122. 122.
    The Pearl
    by John Steinbeck
  123. 123.
    Persuasion (Signet Classic)
    by Jane Austen
  124. 124.
    Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition)
    by J. M. Barrie
  125. 125.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde
  126. 126.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus
  127. 127.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James
  128. 128.
  129. 129.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving
  130. 130.
    Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  131. 131.
    The Prince (Bantam Classics)
    by Niccolo Machiavelli
  132. 132.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike
  133. 133.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier
  134. 134.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe
  135. 135.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare
  136. 136.
    A Room with a View (Classic)
    by E.M. Forster
  137. 137.
    The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  138. 138.
    The Secret Garden
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  139. 139.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  140. 140.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles
  141. 141.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse
  142. 142.
    Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)
    by GEORGE ELIOT
  143. 143.
    Sister Carrie (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  144. 144.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  145. 145.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  146. 146.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus
  147. 147.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein
  148. 148.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    by Tennessee Williams
  149. 149.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  150. 150.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Signet Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  151. 151.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy
  152. 152.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston
  153. 153.
    This Side of Paradise
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  154. 154.
    The Three Musketeers (Modern Library)
    by Alexandre Dumas père
  155. 155.
    Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche
  156. 156.
    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells
  157. 157.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  158. 158.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf
  159. 159.
    Treasure Island (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson
  160. 160.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka
  161. 161.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller
  162. 162.
    The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry James
  163. 163.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce
  164. 164.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera
  165. 165.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  166. 166.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  167. 167.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett
  168. 168.
    Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry David Thoreau
  169. 169.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy
  170. 170.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams
  171. 171.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne
  172. 172.
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder)
    by L. Frank Baum
  173. 173.
  174. 174.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Brontë
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