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MomsMyJob's "Madison Public Library Readable Fiction Classics"

‘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. Little Women (Penguin Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
  
2. Cat's Eye
by Margaret Atwood
  
3. Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Jane Austen
  
4. Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
  
5. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
6. Jane Eyre (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Charlotte Bronte
  
7. Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Emily Bronte
  
8. The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
by Pearl S. Buck
  
9. A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
  
10. Cold Sassy Tree
by Olive Ann Burns
  
11. Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Truman Capote
  
12. MY ANTONIA (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS)
by A.S. BYATT (INTRODUCTION) WILLA CATHER
  
13. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
  
14.
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 Select Tales
by A.P. Chekhov
  
15. David Copperfield (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Charles Dickens
  
16. Ragtime
by E.L. Doctorow
  
17. Dancing at the Rascal Fair
by Ivan Doig
  
18. A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
by Michael Dorris
  
19. The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
20. The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  
21. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
22. Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
23. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
24. The Reivers
by William Faulkner
  
25. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
by Henry Fielding
  
26. The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics)
by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  
27. Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,)
by E. M. Forster
  
28. A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star)
by Ernest J. Gaines
  
29. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
30. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
  
31. The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Graham Greene
  
32. A Map of the World
by Jane Hamilton
  
33. The Maltese Falcon
by Dashiell Hammett
  
34. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
  
35. For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Ernest Hemingway
  
36. The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library)
by O. Henry
  
37. Siddhartha: An Indian Tale (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Hermann Hesse
  
38. The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini
  
39. Les Miserables (Modern Library)
by Victor Hugo
  
40. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
41. Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
  
42. The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
by John Irving
  
43. The Lottery: And Other Stories
by Shirley Jackson
  
44. The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
  
45.
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 Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett
by Sarah Orne Jewett
  
46. On the Road (Penguin Classics)
by Jack Kerouac
  
47. The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
  
48. The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
  
49. The Best Short Stories - Kipling (Wordsworth Collection)
by Rudyard Kipling
  
50. A Separate Peace
by John Knowles
  
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Created by MomsMyJob on Feb 24, 2008.