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sargon1193's "Classic books I want to read before my inevitable death"

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They’re only classics in my opinion, I’m sure.

  1. 1.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell

  2. 2.

  3. 3.
    Absalom, Absalom! The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  4. 4.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Bantam Classic)
    by Mark Twain

  5. 5.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  6. 7.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  7. 8.
    Anne of Green Gables

  8. 9.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  9. 10.
    Around the World in Eighty Days (Signet Classics)
    by Jules Verne

  10. 11.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  11. 12.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand

  12. 13.
    The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
    by Gertrude Stein

  13. 14.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  14. 15.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  15. 17.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities
    by Tom Wolfe

  16. 18.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  17. 19.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

  18. 20.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  19. 21.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

  20. 22.
    Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
    by Voltaire

  21. 23.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  22. 24.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Signet)
    by Tennessee Williams

  23. 25.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  24. 26.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  25. 27.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

  26. 28.
    Charlotte's Web (Trophy Newbery)
    by E. B. White

  27. 29.
    Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

  28. 32.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  29. 33.
    Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  30. 34.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller

  31. 35.
    Cyrano De Bergerac (Bantam Classics)
    by EDMOND ROSTAND

  32. 36.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  33. 37.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

  34. 38.

  35. 39.
    Death in Venice (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Mann

  36. 40.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

  37. 42.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

  38. 43.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  39. 44.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  40. 45.
    Dracula (Signet Classics)
    by Bram Stoker

  41. 46.
    Dubliners (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by James Joyce

  42. 48.
    Emma
    by JANE AUSTEN

  43. 49.
    Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  44. 50.
    Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin

  45. 51.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  46. 52.
    A Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  47. 53.
    Fathers and Sons (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ivan Turgenev

  48. 54.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  49. 55.
    Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by James Joyce

  50. 56.
    Flowers for Algernon (Millennium SF Masterworks S)
    by Daniel Keyes

  51. 57.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  52. 58.
    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand

  53. 59.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  54. 60.
    Franny and Zooey
    by J.D. Salinger

  55. 61.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

  56. 62.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

  57. 64.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  58. 65.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  59. 66.
    Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  60. 67.
    Hamlet (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  61. 68.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

  62. 69.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers

  63. 70.
    Heart of Darkness (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

  64. 71.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

  65. 73.
    Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
    by Allen Ginsberg

  66. 74.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  67. 77.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  68. 78.
    Idylls of the King (Penguin Classics)
    by Alfred Tennyson

  69. 81.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  70. 82.
    Ivanhoe (Tor Classics)
    by Sir Walter Scott

  71. 83.
    Jane Eyre (Signet Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  72. 85.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

  73. 86.
    Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  74. 88.
    The Jungle Book
    by Rudyard Kipling

  75. 89.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Bantam Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

  76. 90.

  77. 91.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  78. 93.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  79. 94.
    Lolita, 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  80. 95.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

  81. 96.
    The Lord of the Rings (Collector's Edition)
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  82. 97.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  83. 98.
    Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  84. 99.
    Madame Bovary (Bantam Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  85. 100.
    ?
    THE MALTESE FALCON
    by Dashiell Hammett

  86. 101.
    The Man in the Iron Mask (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  87. 102.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

  88. 103.
    The Metamorphosis (Bantam Classics)
    by Franz Kafka

  89. 104.
    Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  90. 105.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  91. 106.
    ?
    Moby Dick
    by Herman Melville

  92. 107.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

  93. 108.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  94. 109.
    Notes from Underground
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  95. 110.
    The Odyssey
    by Robert Fagles

  96. 111.
    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  97. 112.
    Of Mice and Men (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by John Steinbeck

  98. 113.
    ?
    The Old Man and The Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

  99. 114.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  100. 115.
    On the Road
    by Jack Kerouac

  101. 116.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

  102. 117.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  103. 118.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

  104. 119.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

  105. 120.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

  106. 121.
    The Pearl
    by John Steinbeck

  107. 122.
    Persuasion (Signet Classic)
    by Jane Austen

  108. 124.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray (Modern Library Classics)
    by Oscar Wilde

  109. 125.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

  110. 126.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

  111. 127.

  112. 128.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving

  113. 129.
    Pride and Prejudice (Bantam Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  114. 130.
    The Prince (Bantam Classics)
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  115. 131.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

  116. 132.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

  117. 133.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  118. 134.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

  119. 135.
    A Room with a View (Classic)
    by E.M. Forster

  120. 136.
    The Scarlet Letter (Bantam Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  121. 138.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  122. 139.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

  123. 140.
    Siddhartha
    by Hermann Hesse

  124. 141.
    Silas Marner (Bantam Classics)
    by GEORGE ELIOT

  125. 142.
    Sister Carrie (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  126. 143.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  127. 144.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  128. 145.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  129. 146.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  130. 147.
    A Streetcar Named Desire
    by Tennessee Williams

  131. 148.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  132. 149.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Signet Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  133. 150.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  134. 151.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  135. 152.
    This Side of Paradise
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  136. 153.
    The Three Musketeers (Modern Library)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  137. 154.
    Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Friedrich Nietzsche

  138. 155.
    The Time Machine
    by H. G. Wells

  139. 156.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  140. 157.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

  141. 158.
    Treasure Island (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  142. 159.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka

  143. 160.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

  144. 161.
    The Turn of the Screw (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry James

  145. 162.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  146. 163.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera

  147. 164.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Bantam Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  148. 165.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  149. 166.
    Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
    by Samuel Beckett

  150. 167.
    Walden; Or, Life in the Woods (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Henry David Thoreau

  151. 168.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

  152. 169.
    Watership Down
    by Richard Adams

  153. 170.
    Winnie-the-Pooh (Pooh Original Edition)
    by A. A. Milne

  154. 172.

  155. 173.
    Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
    by Emily Brontë

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