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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.
    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

  50. 51.
    The Hobbit
    by J. R. R. Tolkien

  51. 52.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  52. 53.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C. S. Lewis

  53. 54.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by John Bunyan

  54. 56.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Modern Library Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  55. 57.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Signet Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  56. 58.
    The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Vintage Classics)
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  57. 59.
    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    by Washington, Irving

  58. 60.
    Alice in Wonderland (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Lewis Carroll

  59. 63.
    David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  60. 64.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

  61. 65.
    Tarzan of the Apes (Signet Classics)
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs

  62. 67.
    Oliver Twist (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  63. 68.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  64. 69.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller

  65. 70.
    ?
    All Quiet on the Western Front (Vintage Future Classics)
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  66. 71.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

  67. 72.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  68. 73.
    Aesop's Fables: A Classic Illustrated Edition
    by Aesop

  69. 74.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

  70. 75.
    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

  71. 76.
    The Call of the Wild

  72. 77.
    ?
    Tender Is The Night (A Scribner Classic)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  73. 78.
    The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Norman Mailer

  74. 79.
    Peter Pan (100th Anniversary Edition)
    by J. M. Barrie

  75. 81.
    Martin Luther : Selections From His Writings
    by Martin Luther

  76. 82.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel García Márquez

  77. 83.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka

  78. 84.
    Tom Jones (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  79. 85.
    The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library)
    by John Keats

  80. 86.
    The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    by William Butler Yeats

  81. 87.
    The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    by Emily Dickinson

  82. 88.
    The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

  83. 89.
    Beloved (Everyman's Library)
    by Toni Morrison

  84. 90.
    Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  85. 91.
    Little Women (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  86. 92.
    Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

  87. 93.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  88. 95.
    The Diary of Anne Frank
    by Anne Frank

  89. 96.
    Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
    by Walt Whitman

  90. 97.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

  91. 99.
    The Art of War
    by Sun Tzu

  92. 100.

  93. 101.
    The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
    by Benjamin Franklin

  94. 102.
    Letters from a Stoic (Penguin Classics)
    by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

  95. 103.
    Walden and Civil Disobedience
    by Henry David Thoreau

  96. 104.
    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

  97. 105.

  98. 106.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

  99. 108.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

  100. 109.

  101. 110.

  102. 111.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  103. 112.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

  104. 113.
    The Phantom of the Opera (Puffin Classics)
    by Gaston Leroux

  105. 114.
    Babbitt (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis

  106. 115.

  107. 116.
    The Imitation of Christ (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas à Kempis

  108. 118.
    The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

  109. 119.
    Utopia (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas More

  110. 121.
    ?
    Complete poems, 1913-1962
    by E. E Cummings

  111. 122.
    The Poems of Dylan Thomas, New Revised Edition [with CD]
    by Dylan Thomas

  112. 123.
    Collected Poems 1947-1997
    by Allen Ginsberg

  113. 124.

  114. 126.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

  115. 127.
    The Man in the Iron Mask (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  116. 128.
    The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

  117. 130.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene

  118. 131.
    Flowers for Algernon
    by Daniel Keyes

  119. 132.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  120. 133.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

  121. 134.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

  122. 135.
    BELL JAR
    by SYLVIA PLATH

  123. 136.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

  124. 137.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

  125. 138.
    ?
    Sense and Sensibilty
    by Jane Austen

  126. 139.
    Conversations of Socrates (Penguin Classics)
    by Xenophon

  127. 140.
    Light in August (The Corrected Text)
    by William Faulkner

  128. 141.
    ULYSSES by James Joyce
    by James Joyce

  129. 142.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

  130. 143.
    The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

  131. 144.
    The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

  132. 145.
    The Mahabharata (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

  133. 146.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  134. 147.
    Le Morte Darthur (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Sir Thomas Malory

  135. 148.
    The Man Who Was Thursday: Centennial Edition
    by G. K. Chesterton

  136. 149.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

  137. 150.
    Our Mutual Friend (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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