bbotts's "150 Must-Read Classics"

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This list is my attempt to read what I believe are the 150 must-read classics. I compiled it through reading several other "Top 100 Lists".

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  1. 1.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  2. 2.
    Of Mice and Men
    by John Steinbeck

  3. 3.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  4. 5.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  5. 6.
    Nineteen Eighty-Four
    by George Orwell

  6. 7.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  7. 8.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  8. 9.
    On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Jack Kerouac

  9. 10.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  10. 11.
    A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  11. 12.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  12. 13.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  13. 14.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  14. 15.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  15. 16.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (200th Anniversary Edition) (Signet Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  16. 17.
    Anna Karenina (Thrift Edition)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  17. 18.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  18. 19.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  19. 20.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

  20. 21.
    The Stranger (Everyman's Library)
    by Albert Camus

  21. 22.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  22. 23.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  23. 24.
    Beowulf (Signet Classics)
    by Anonymous

  24. 25.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  25. 26.
    Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Bram Stoker

  26. 27.
    Dubliners
    by James Joyce

  27. 28.
    20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
    by Jules Verne

  28. 29.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  29. 30.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  30. 31.
    Jane Eyre

  31. 32.
    Crime and Punishment
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  32. 33.
    East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
    by John Steinbeck

  33. 34.
    Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
    by Ayn Rand

  34. 35.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  35. 36.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  36. 37.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

  37. 38.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  38. 39.
    Journey to the Centre of the Earth
    by Jules Verne

  39. 40.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  40. 41.

  41. 42.
    The Jungle Book (Sterling Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

  42. 43.
    The Swiss Family Robinson (Signet Classics)
    by Johann D. Wyss

  43. 44.
    The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  44. 45.
    The Time Machine: H. G. Wells
    by H. G. Wells

  45. 46.
    The War of the Worlds - Literary Touchstone edition
    by H.G. Wells

  46. 47.
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Signet Classics)
    by L. Frank Baum

  47. 48.
    Nausea
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  48. 49.
    Treasure Island (Enriched Classics Series)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  49. 50.
    Around the World in 80 Days
    by Jules Verne

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Created by bbotts on Jul 02, 2009.
 

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