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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  1. 1.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  2. 2.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

  3. 3.
    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

  4. 4.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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

  6. 6.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  7. 7.
    Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
    by Emily Brontë

  8. 8.
    The Good Earth (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Pearl S. Buck

  9. 9.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

  10. 10.
    A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin)
    by Anthony Burgess

  11. 11.
    Cold Sassy Tree
    by Olive Ann Burns

  12. 12.
    Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Truman Capote

  13. 13.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

  14. 14.
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    Select Tales of Anton Chekov
    by Anton Chekhov

  15. 15.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  16. 16.
    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

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

  18. 18.
    A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
    by Michael Dorris

  19. 19.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  20. 20.
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes - Volumes I & II (Volume I & II)
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  21. 21.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  22. 22.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier

  23. 23.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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

  25. 25.
    The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  26. 26.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  27. 27.
    Howards End (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

  28. 28.
    A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
    by Ernest J. Gaines

  29. 29.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  30. 30.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

  31. 31.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene

  32. 32.
    A Map of the World (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jane Hamilton

  33. 33.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

  34. 34.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  35. 35.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (War Promo)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  36. 36.
    The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library)
    by O. Henry

  37. 37.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse

  38. 38.
    The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)
    by Khaled Hosseini

  39. 39.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  40. 40.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  41. 41.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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

  43. 43.
    The Lottery and Other Stories
    by Shirley Jackson

  44. 44.
    The Turn of the Screw (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Henry James

  45. 45.
    ?
    The Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett
    by Willa Cather

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

  47. 47.
    The Secret Life of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd

  48. 48.
    The Bean Trees
    by Barbara Kingsolver

  49. 49.
    The Best Short Stories
    by Rudyard Kipling

  50. 50.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

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