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Bloom, Boxall, AND Pearl. Definitive Enough for Ya?

Here are works of fiction which appear in THREE popular lists of great books to read. All of these are listed in:

"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"
The Western Canon by Harold Bloom
Book Lust and/or More Book Lust by Nancy Pearl

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1. Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
2. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
by Henry Fielding
  
3.
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 Clarissa
by Samuel Richardson
  
4.
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 Pamela
by Samuel Richardson
  
5. The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
6.
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 Pride and Prejudice
by Jane Austen
  
7. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
8. Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
by Mary Shelley
  
9.
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 Wuthering Heights (40th Anniversery Edition)
by Emily Bronte
  
10. The Scarlet Letter
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  
11.
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 Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
  
12. A Hero of Our Time
by Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
  
13. Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
14.
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 Adam Bede (George Eliot's Works)
by George Eliot
  
15. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
16. Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
17. Our Mutual Friend (Modern Library Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
18.
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 Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
19.
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 The Last Chronicle of Barset
by Anthony Trollope
  
20.
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 Phineas Phinn  
21.
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 Little Women
by Louisa May Alcott
  
22.
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 War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
  
23.
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 Anna Karenina
by Leo Tolstoy
  
24. The Brothers Karamazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
25. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
  
26. The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Oscar Wilde
  
27.
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 The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
  
28.
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 Kim
by Rudyard Kipling
  
29. The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)
by Henry James
  
30.
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 The House Of Mirth
by Edith Wharton
  
31. The Forsyte Saga : The Man of Property and In Chancery
by John Galsworthy
  
32.
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 Sons and Lovers
by D.H. Lawrence
  
33. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics)
by James Joyce
  
34. The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by Edith Wharton
  
35.
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 A Passage to India by E.M. Forster  
36. The Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
  
37.
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 The Trial
by Franz Kafka,
  
38.
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 The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
39. Mrs. Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
  
40.
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 Swann's Way - In Search of Lost Time Volume I
by Marcel Proust
  
41.
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 Within a Budding Grove - In Search of Lost Time Volume II
by Marcel Proust
  
42.
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 The Guermantes Way - In Search of Lost Time Volume Ill
by Marcel Proust
  
43.
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 Sodom and Gomorrah - In Search of Lost Time Volume IV
by Marcel Proust
  
44.
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 The Captive and The Fugitive - In Search of Lost Time Volume V
by Marcel Proust
  
45. Time Regained: In Search of Lost Time, Vol. VI (Modern Library Classics)
by Marcel Proust
  
46. A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
47. Call It Sleep: A Novel
by Henry Roth
  
48. Tender is the Night
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
49.
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 Miss Lonelyhearts
by Nathanael West
  
50.
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 Absalom, Absalom!
by William Faulkner
  
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Created by jillelvish on Oct 23, 2008.