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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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    Little Women (Penguin Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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    Cat's Eye
    by Margaret Atwood

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    Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Jane Austen

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

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    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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    Jane Eyre (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Charlotte Bronte

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    Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Emily Bronte

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    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck

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    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    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 (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS)
    by A.S. BYATT (INTRODUCTION) WILLA CATHER

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    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

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    Select Tales
    by A.P. Chekhov

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    David Copperfield (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Charles Dickens

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    Ragtime
    by E.L. Doctorow

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    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 Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories
    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 (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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    The Reivers
    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 (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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    Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,)
    by E. M. Forster

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

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    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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    A Map of the World
    by Jane Hamilton

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    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

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    For Whom the Bell Tolls
    by Ernest Hemingway

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

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    The Kite Runner
    by Khaled Hosseini

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    Les Miserables (Modern Library)
    by Victor Hugo

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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    Brave New World (P.S.)
    by Aldous Huxley

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    The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

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    The Lottery: And Other Stories
    by Shirley Jackson

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    Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett
    by Sarah Orne Jewett

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    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

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    The Secret Life of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd

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    The Bean Trees
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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    The Best Short Stories - Kipling (Wordsworth Collection)
    by Rudyard Kipling

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    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

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    Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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    Main Street (Modern Library)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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

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    The Fixer (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Bernard Malamud

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    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann

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    Short Stories (Everyman's Library (Paper))
    by Katherine Mansfield

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    Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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    All the Pretty Horses (UK edition)
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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    The Member of the Wedding (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Carson McCullers

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    Atonement
    by Ian McEwan

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    Lonesome Dove : A Novel
    by Larry McMurtry

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    A Canticle for Leibowitz
    by Walter M. Miller Jr.

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    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    In the Lake of the Woods
    by Tim O'Brien

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    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

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    The Shipping News : A Novel
    by Annie Proulx

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    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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    Housekeeping
    by Marilynne Robinson

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

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    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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    Empire Falls
    by RICHARD RUSSO

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    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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    Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries)
    by Dorothy L. Sayers

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    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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    The Stone Diaries
    by Carol Shields

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    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Perennial Classics)
    by Betty Smith

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    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

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    Crossing to Safety (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wallace Earle Stegner

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    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  86. 89.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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    Anna Karenina (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  88. 91.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

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  89. 92.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

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    The Accidental Tourist
    by Anne Tyler

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  91. 94.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  92. 95.
    Slaughterhouse 5
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  93. 96.
    The Color Purple: Tenth Anniversary Editon
    by Alice Walker

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  94. 97.
    All the King's Men (Film Ink)
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  95. 98.
    Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  96. 99.
    The Age of Innocence (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  97. 100.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  98. 101.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

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    Germinal (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola

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