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. 51.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    Main Street (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  4. 54.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

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  5. 55.
    All The Pretty Horses, Volume One, The Border Trilogy
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  6. 56.
    Member of the Wedding, The
    by Carson McCullers

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  7. 57.
    Atonement (MTI)
    by Ian Mcewan

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  8. 58.
    Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Larry McMurtry

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  9. 59.
    The Fixer: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud

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  10. 60.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann

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    The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield
    by Katherine Mansfield

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  12. 62.
    Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  13. 63.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.

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  14. 64.
    Gone With the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  15. 65.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  16. 66.
    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  17. 67.
    In the Lake of the Woods
    by Tim O'Brien

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  18. 68.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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    Doctor Zhivago (1958 stated 1st ed.)
    by Boris Pasternak

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  20. 70.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

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  21. 71.
    Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  22. 72.
    The Shipping News
    by E. Annie Proulx

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  23. 73.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  24. 74.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

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  25. 75.
    Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)
    by Ole Edvart Rolvaag

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  26. 76.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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  27. 77.
    Empire Falls (HBO Tie-in)
    by Richard Russo

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  28. 78.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  29. 79.
    Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery)
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

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  30. 80.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  31. 82.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
    by Betty Smith

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  32. 84.
    Crossing to Safety
    by Wallace Stegner

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  33. 85.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  34. 86.
    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  35. 87.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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  36. 88.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  37. 89.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  38. 90.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  39. 91.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

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  40. 92.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  42. 94.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  43. 95.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  44. 96.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  45. 97.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  46. 98.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  47. 99.
    The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  48. 100.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey
    by Thornton Wilder

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