My list began with me wanting to read one book from every year since 1800… then 1700… then wanting to be able to consider myself "well read". These are all books that I hope to read eventually, be it as an exemplary piece of the time period, their historical significance, or just for the pure pleasure. They are my selections from about 60 various lists, as well as non "listed" selections for their respective time period.
If anyone who stumbles across my list knows of some good reads from the 16th-18th Centuries, I’m obviously lacking. I would welcome the recommendations. I am mostly interested in fiction, but if it held a significant impact on society, I owe it to myself to read it.
This list should also be inclusive of 99% of books from the following lists: Pulitzer Prize Winners for Novel/Fiction; Oprah’s Book Club; Newbery Medal Award Winners (as a well read adult, you should be able to steer a child in the course of reading); BBC’s the Big Read; Time Magazine’s All-Time 100 Novels (1923-present); Costa (Whitbread) Book Awards: Book of the Year / Best Novel; and several other award lists. (This will probably be a work in progress for a long time… I have a lengthy list.)
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Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defense of One's Life) (Dover Giant Thrift Editions)
by John Henry Newman
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A Bell for Adano
by John Hersey
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
by Barbara W. Tuchman
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Dreiser American Tragedy (Library of America)
by Theodore Dreiser
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A Doll's House - Literary Touchstone Edition
by Henrik Ibsen
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A Bend in the River
by V. S. Naipaul
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A Fable
by William Faulkner
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The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
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A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
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A Canticle for Leibowitz
by Walter M. Miller
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A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
by Rohinton Mistry
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Aesop's Fables (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Aesop
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A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
by Joan W. Blos
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A Christmas Carol, The Chimes and The Cricket on the Hearth (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
by Charles Dickens
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
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The Aeneid
by Virgil (trans. Robert Fagles)
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"A Confederacy of Dunces"
by John Kennedy Toole
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Aunt Phillis's Cabin
by Mary Eastman
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Mark J. Twain
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The Analects of Confucius
by Confucius
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A Dance to the Music of Time (series)
by Anthony Powell
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Barnes & Noble Cla (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Lewis Carroll
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A Day No Pigs Would Die
by Robert Newton Peck
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Age of Reason
by Thomas Paine
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A Death in the Family: A Novel
by James Agee
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)
by Mark Twain
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Unknown-The Arabian Nights: Tales From A Thousand And One Arabian Nights
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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
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Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classic) Paperback
by L.M. Montgomery
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Anna Karenina (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
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Anne of Avonlea (Dover Juvenile Classics)
by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
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The Ambassadors (Oxford World's Classics)
by Henry James
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The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Edith Wharton
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Arthur Mervyn
by Charles Brockden Brown
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All Quiet on the Western Front
by Erich Maria Remarque
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Puffin Classics)
by Mark Twain
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As I Lay Dying
by William Faulkner
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Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
by John O'Hara
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Absalom. Absalom! by William Faulkner
by William Faulkner
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank
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An American Dream
by Norman Mailer
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AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS.
by Flann. O'Brien
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Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
by Judy Blume
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The Assistant
by Bernard Malamud
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All the President's Men
by Bob Woodward
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All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
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Animal Farm
by George Orwell
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The Holy Bible
by Various Authors
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Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
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Burr: A Novel
by Gore Vidal
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