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Perlle's "100 Classic Novels"

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This is a list of "should read" classics that I have developed over time.

-Perlle

I don’t mind if you copy this list, but please change the description to indicate that this list did not originate with you. Thanks.

  1. 1.
    1984 (Signet Classics)
    by George Orwell

  2. 2.
    2001: A Space Odyssey
    by Arthur C. Clarke

  3. 3.
    Against Nature (A Rebours) (Penguin Classics)
    by Joris-Karl Huysmans

  4. 4.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  5. 5.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  6. 6.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  7. 7.
    Breakfast of Champions: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  8. 8.
    Caesar's Column
    by Ignatius Donnelly

  9. 9.
    Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Francois Voltaire

  10. 10.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  11. 11.
    A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
    by Mark Twain

  12. 12.
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    by Alexandre Dumas pere

  13. 13.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  14. 14.
    Daisy Miller
    by Henry James

  15. 15.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  16. 16.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann

  17. 17.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

  18. 18.
    ?
    Delta of Venus

  19. 19.
    Doctor Faustus (Everyman's Library)
    by Thomas Mann

  20. 20.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

  21. 21.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  22. 22.
    Bram Stoker's Dracula
    by Bram Stoker

  23. 23.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  24. 24.
    Ethan Frome (Enriched Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  25. 25.
    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand

  26. 26.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  27. 27.
    The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition
    by Doris Lessing

  28. 28.
    Green Mansions--A Romance of the Tropical Forest
    by W. H. Hudson

  29. 29.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  30. 30.
    A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library)
    by Evelyn Waugh

  31. 31.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library)
    by Carson McCullers

  32. 32.
    Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  33. 33.

  34. 34.
    Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  35. 35.
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (Modern Library Classics)
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  36. 36.
    House of Leaves
    by Mark Z. Danielewski

  37. 37.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  38. 38.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves

  39. 40.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

  40. 41.
    The Island of Dr. Moreau (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

  41. 42.
    Ivanhoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Walter Scott

  42. 43.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  43. 44.
    Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and Other Writings
    by Marquis De Sade

  44. 45.
    The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

  45. 46.
    Lady Chatterly's Lover
    by D.H.Lawrence

  46. 47.
    The Left Hand of Darkness
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

  47. 49.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  48. 50.
    Looking Backward 2000-1887
    by Edward Bellamy

  49. 51.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  50. 52.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  51. 54.
    The Mill on the Floss (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by George Eliot

  52. 55.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

  53. 56.
    The Mysterious Island (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jules Verne

  54. 57.
    Nausea (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  55. 58.
    Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  56. 59.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  57. 60.
    Orlando: A Biography
    by Virginia Woolf

  58. 61.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

  59. 62.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde

  60. 63.
    The Pioneers (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  61. 64.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

  62. 65.
    Possession
    by A.S. Byatt

  63. 66.
    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  64. 67.
    The Professor's House
    by Willa Cather

  65. 69.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

  66. 70.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  67. 71.
    In Search of Lost Time: Proust 6-pack (Proust Complete)
    by Marcel Proust

  68. 72.
    The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
    by Salman Rushdie

  69. 73.
    The Screwtape Letters: With Screwtape Proposes a Toast
    by C. S. Lewis

  70. 74.
    Sister Carrie, Third Edition (Norton Critical Edition)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  71. 75.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  72. 76.
    Steppenwolf: A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse

  73. 77.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  74. 78.
    Surfacing
    by Margaret Atwood

  75. 79.
    The Tale of Genji (Penguin Classics)
    by Murasaki Shikibu

  76. 80.
    The Talisman: The Works Of Sir Walter Scott
    by Sir Walter Scott

  77. 81.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

  78. 82.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  79. 84.
    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells

  80. 85.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

  81. 86.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

  82. 87.
    Tropic of Capricorn
    by Henry Miller

  83. 88.
    The Turn of the Screw
    by Henry James

  84. 89.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

  85. 90.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  86. 91.
    Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
    by Henry David Thoreau

  87. 92.
    War and Peace (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  88. 93.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams

  89. 94.
    The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts)
    by Samuel Butler

  90. 95.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)
    by Jean Rhys

  91. 96.
    Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by D. H. Lawrence

  92. 97.
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Modern Library Classics)
    by L. Frank Baum

  93. 98.
    Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
    by Emily Bronte

  94. 99.
    You Can't Go Home Again
    by Thomas Wolfe

  95. 100.
    Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Max Beerbohm

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Created by Perlle on May 13, 2006.
 

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