Madison Public Library's "Readable Fiction Classics"

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‘Readable’ and ‘classic’ can mean different things to different people. To avoid confusion, Madison Public Library’s librarians have defined what we mean by them. A ‘classic’ is a work of enduring interest and appeal in which successive generations can find truths that will not age. ‘Readable’ includes those classics whose appeal is immediately apparent and continues throughout.

http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/fiction.html

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    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

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    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

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    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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  5. 5.
    Adventures of Augie March, The (50th Anniv. Edition)
    by Saul Bellow

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    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

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    Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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    The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Pearl S. Buck

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    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

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    A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin)
    by Anthony Burgess

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    Cold Sassy Tree
    by Olive Ann Burns

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    Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Truman Capote

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    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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    Select Tales of Anton Chekov
    by Anton Chekhov

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    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

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  17. 17.
    Dancing at the Rascal Fair
    by Ivan Doig

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    A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
    by Michael Dorris

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    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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    The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Volumes I & II (Volume I & II)
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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

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    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier

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    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  24. 24.
    The Reivers: A Reminiscence
    by William Faulkner

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    The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
    by Ernest J. Gaines

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    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    A Map of the World (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jane Hamilton

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    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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    For Whom the Bell Tolls (War Promo)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library)
    by O. Henry

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    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse

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    The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)
    by Khaled Hosseini

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    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  40. 42.
    The World According to Garp A Novel
    by John Irving

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    The Lottery: And Other Stories
    by Shirley Jackson

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    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James

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    The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett
    by Willa Cather

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  44. 46.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

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    The Secret Life of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd

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  46. 48.
    The Bean Trees
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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    The Best Short Stories
    by Rudyard Kipling

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    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

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