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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".

  1. 1.
    Of Mice and Men
    by John Steinbeck

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  2. 2.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  5. 6.
    1984: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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    Brave New World (P.S.)
    by Aldous Huxley

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  7. 8.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut

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

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  9. 10.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  11. 12.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  13. 14.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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

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

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

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

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    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  19. 20.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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

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

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  22. 23.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  23. 24.
    Beowulf (Signet Classics)
    by Anonymous

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

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  25. 27.
    Dubliners
    by James Joyce

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  26. 28.
    20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
    by JULES VERNE

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

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  28. 30.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  29. 31.
    Jane Eyre

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  30. 32.
    Crime and Punishment
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  31. 33.
    East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
    by John Steinbeck

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  32. 34.
    Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
    by Ayn Rand

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  33. 35.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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  34. 36.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  35. 37.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  36. 38.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  37. 39.
    Journey to the Centre of the Earth
    by Jules Verne

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  38. 40.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  40. 42.
    The Jungle Book (Unabridged Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  41. 43.
    The Swiss Family Robinson (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Johann D. Wyss

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  42. 44.
    The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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  43. 45.
    The Time Machine: H. G. Wells
    by H. G. Wells

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  44. 46.
    The War of the Worlds - Literary Touchstone edition
    by H.G. Wells

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  45. 47.
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Signet Classics)
    by L. Frank Baum

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  46. 48.
    Nausea
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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  47. 49.
    Treasure Island (Enriched Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  48. 50.
    Around the World in 80 Days
    by Jules Verne

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  49. 51.
    The Hobbit

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  50. 52.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  51. 53.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C. S. Lewis

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  52. 54.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan

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  53. 56.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  54. 57.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  55. 58.
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Vintage Classics)
    by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  56. 59.
    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    by Washington, Irving

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  57. 60.
    Alice in Wonderland (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Lewis Carroll

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  58. 63.
    David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  59. 64.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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  60. 65.
    Tarzan of the Apes
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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  61. 67.
    Oliver Twist (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  62. 68.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  63. 69.
    The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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    All Quiet on the Western Front (Vintage Future Classics)
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  65. 71.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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  66. 72.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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  67. 73.
    Aesop's Fables: A Classic Illustrated Edition (Classics Illustrated)
    by R. and Higton, B. Ash

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  68. 74.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

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  69. 75.
    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

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  70. 76.
    The Call of the Wild

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    Tender Is The Night (A Scribner Classic)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  72. 78.
    The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Norman Mailer

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  73. 79.
    Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition)
    by J. M. Barrie

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  74. 81.
    Martin Luther : Selections From His Writings
    by Martin Luther

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  75. 82.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel García Márquez

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  76. 83.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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    Tom Jones. Henry Fielding (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  78. 85.
    The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library)
    by John Keats

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  79. 86.
    The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    by William Butler Yeats

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  80. 87.
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    by Emily Dickinson

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  81. 88.
    Complete Tales & Poems
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  82. 89.
    Beloved (Everyman's Library)
    by Toni Morrison

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  83. 90.
    Jude the Obscure. Thomas Hardy (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  84. 92.
    Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

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  85. 93.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

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  86. 95.
    The Diary of Anne Frank
    by Anne Frank

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  87. 96.
    Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
    by Walt Whitman

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  88. 97.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

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  89. 98.
    Bleak House
    by Charles Dickens

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  90. 100.
    The Art of War
    by Sun Tzu

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  92. 102.
    The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
    by Benjamin Franklin

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  93. 103.
    Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)
    by Seneca

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  94. 104.
    Walden and Civil Disobedience
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  95. 105.
    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

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  97. 107.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

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  98. 109.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

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  101. 112.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  102. 113.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  103. 114.
    The Phantom of the Opera (Puffin Classics)
    by Gaston Leroux

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  104. 115.
    Babbitt (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  106. 117.
    The Imitation of Christ (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas à Kempis

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    Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  108. 119.
    The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  109. 120.
    Utopia (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas More

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  110. 122.
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    Complete poems, 1913-1962
    by E. E Cummings

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    Collected Poems 1947-1997
    by Allen Ginsberg

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  113. 127.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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  114. 128.
    The Man in the Iron Mask (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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  115. 129.
    The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  117. 132.
    Flowers for Algernon
    by Daniel Keyes

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  118. 133.
    All The King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  119. 134.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

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  120. 135.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

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  121. 136.
    BELL JAR
    by SYLVIA PLATH

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  122. 137.
    Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  123. 138.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

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    Sense and Sensibilty
    by Jane Austen

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  125. 140.
    Conversations of Socrates (Penguin Classics)
    by Xenophon

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  126. 141.
    Light in August
    by William Faulkner

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  127. 142.
    ULYSSES by James Joyce
    by James Joyce

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  128. 143.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

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  129. 144.
    The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  130. 145.
    The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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  131. 146.
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    The Mahabharata (Penguin Classics)
    by Ed. J.D. Smith

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  132. 147.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  133. 148.
    Le Morte Darthur (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Thomas, Sir Malory

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  134. 149.
    The Man Who Was Thursday: Centennial Edition
    by G. K. Chesterton

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  135. 150.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

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