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bowlingturtle's "must read classics"

the classic novels i must read before i die
1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
  
2. All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
  
3. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
4.
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 The best short stories of O. Henry [pseud.] (The Modern library of the world's best books)
by O Henry
  
5. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
6. Nineteen Eighty-four
by George Orwell
  
7. The Call of the Wild (Scribner Classics)
by Jack London
  
8. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
  
9. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
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 The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Library)
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
11. Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)
by F.M. Dostoevsky
  
12. Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
  
13. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
14. Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
by Edith Wharton
  
15. Gone With the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
16. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
17. The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
18. Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
by Joseph Conrad
  
19. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
20. Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
21. Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by William Golding
  
22. Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Herman Melville
  
23. My Antonia
by Willa Cather
  
24. Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
  
25. Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
by W. Somerset Maugham
  
26. The Old Man and the Sea
by Ernest Hemingway
  
27. Pride and Prejudice (Baker Classics Collection)
by Jane Austen
  
28. The Red Badge of Courage & "The Veteran" (Modern Library Classics)
by Stephen Crane
  
29. Robinson Crusoe
by Daniel Defoe
  
30. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
31. A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
  
32. Silas Marner
by George Eliot
  
33. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
34. Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)STUDY GUIDE
by Patrick McCarthy
  
35. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
36. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems
by Edgar Allan Poe
  
37.
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 Tess of the d'Urbervilles (The World's Best Reading)  
38. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
39. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
40. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
41. War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
42.
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 Winnesburg, Ohio: Sherwood Anderson (Living literature series)
by Mary Ellen Snodgrass
  
43. Wurthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
  
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Created by bowlingturtle on May 09, 2007.