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MomsMyJob's "Madison Public Library 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.

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  1. 1.
    Little Women (Penguin Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  2. 2.
    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood
  3. 3.
    Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Jane Austen
  4. 4.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin
  5. 5.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  6. 6.
    Jane Eyre (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Charlotte Bronte
  7. 7.
    Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Emily Bronte
  8. 8.
    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck
  9. 9.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess
  10. 10.
    Cold Sassy Tree
    by Olive Ann Burns
  11. 11.
    Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Truman Capote
  12. 12.
    MY ANTONIA (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS)
    by A.S. BYATT (INTRODUCTION) WILLA CATHER
  13. 13.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon
  14. 14.
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    Select Tales
    by A.P. Chekhov
  15. 15.
    David Copperfield (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Charles Dickens
  16. 16.
    Ragtime
    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
  20. 20.
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  21. 21.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père
  22. 22.
    Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Daphne Du Maurier
  23. 23.
    Invisible Man (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ralph Ellison
  24. 24.
    The Reivers
    by William Faulkner
  25. 25.
    The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Fielding
  26. 26.
    The Great Gatsby (Modern Classics (Penguin))
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  27. 27.
    Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by E. M. Forster
  28. 28.
    A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
    by Ernest J. Gaines
  29. 29.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Gabriel Marquez
  30. 30.
    Lord of The Flies
    by William Golding
  31. 31.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene
  32. 32.
    A Map of the World
    by Jane Hamilton
  33. 33.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett
  34. 34.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller
  35. 35.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    by Ernest Hemingway
  36. 36.
    The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library)
    by O. Henry
  37. 37.
  38. 38.
    The Kite Runner
    by Khaled Hosseini
  39. 39.
    Les Miserables (Modern Library)
    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 (Modern Library)
    by John Irving
  43. 43.
    The Lottery and Other Stories
    by Shirley Jackson
  45. 45.
    ?
    Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett
    by Sarah Orne Jewett
  46. 46.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac
  47. 47.
    The Secret Life of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd
  48. 48.
    The Bean Trees
    by Barbara Kingsolver
  50. 50.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles
  51. 51.
    Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  52. 52.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  53. 53.
    Main Street (Modern Library)
    by Sinclair Lewis
  54. 54.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London
  55. 55.
    The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Bernard Malamud
  56. 56.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann
  57. 57.
    Short Stories (Everyman's Library (Paper))
    by Katherine Mansfield
  58. 58.
    Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  59. 59.
    All the Pretty Horses (UK edition)
    by Cormac Mccarthy
  60. 60.
    The Member of the Wedding (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Carson McCullers
  61. 61.
    Atonement
    by Ian McEwan
  62. 62.
    Lonesome Dove : A Novel
    by Larry McMurtry
  63. 63.
    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  64. 64.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  65. 65.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  66. 66.
    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  67. 67.
    In the Lake of the Woods
    by Tim O'Brien
  68. 68.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  69. 69.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak
  70. 70.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton
  71. 71.
  72. 72.
    The Shipping News : A Novel
    by Annie Proulx
  73. 73.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque
  74. 74.
    Housekeeping
    by Marilynne Robinson
  75. 75.
    Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)
    by Ole Edvart Rolvaag
  76. 76.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth
  77. 77.
    Empire Falls
    by Richard Russo
  78. 78.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  79. 79.
    Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries)
    by Dorothy L. Sayers
  80. 80.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  81. 81.
    The Stone Diaries
    by Carol Shields
  82. 82.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
    by Betty Smith
  83. 83.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Muriel Spark
  84. 84.
    Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wallace Earle Stegner
  85. 85.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck
  87. 87.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan
  88. 88.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray
  89. 89.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  90. 90.
    Anna Karenina (Everyman's Library)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  91. 91.
    A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES ( Penguin Red Classics )
    by John Kennedy (foreword by Walker Percy) Toole
  92. 92.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain
  93. 93.
    The Accidental Tourist
    by Anne Tyler
  94. 94.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike
  95. 95.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Duty-Dance with Death
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  96. 96.
    The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
    by Alice Walker
  97. 97.
    All the King's Men (Film Ink)
    by Robert Penn Warren
  98. 98.
    Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh
  99. 99.
    The Age of Innocence (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  100. 100.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder
  101. 101.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright
  102. 102.
    Germinal (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola
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