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One Hundred Must Read Novels

List from "Stuff You Should Have Learned at School" by Michael Powell.

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1. 1984 (Signet Classics)
by George Orwell
  
2. Absalom, Absalom! (Vintage International)
by WILLIAM FAULKNER
  
3. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
5. The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Edith Wharton
  
6. The Alexandria Quartet
by Lawrence Durrell
  
7. All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
  
8. The Ambassadors (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Henry James
  
9. An American Tragedy (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Theodore Dreiser
  
10. Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Wallace Stegner
  
11.
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 Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
12. Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
by John O'Hara
  
13. As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
  
14. A Bend in the River (Vintage International)
by V.S. Naipaul
  
15. Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
  
16. Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
by Thornton Wilder
  
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 The Brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
18. The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
by Jack London
  
19. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
20. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
21. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
  
22. Darkness at Noon: A Novel
by Arthur Koestler
  
23. The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
by Nathanael West
  
24. Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather Scholarly Edition)
by Willa Cather
  
25. The Death of the Heart
by Elizabeth Bowen
  
26. Deliverance
by James Dickey
  
27. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
28. A Farewell to Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
  
29. From Here to Eternity
by James Jones
  
30. Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
  
31. The Golden Bowl (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Henry James
  
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 The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Ford Maddox Ford
  
33. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
34. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
35. A Handful of Dust
by Evelyn Waugh
  
36. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
  
37. Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
by Joseph Conrad
  
38. The Heart of the Matter
by Graham Greene
  
39. Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
40. A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
by Richard Hughes
  
41. A House for Mr. Biswas
by V.S. Naipaul
  
42. The House of Mirth (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Edith Wharton
  
43. Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
by E. M. Forster
  
44. The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
by H.G. Wells
  
45. Ironweed
by William J. Kennedy
  
46. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
47. Kim (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Rudyard Kipling
  
48. Light in August: The Corrected Text (Modern Library)
by William Faulkner
  
49. Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
  
50. Lord of the Flies : (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by William Golding
  
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Created by Otherling on Feb 27, 2008.