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bbotts's "150 Must-Read Classics"

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. Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
  
2. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
3. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
  
4. LORD OF THE FLIES (With a biographical and critical note by E.L. Epstein, and a portraight of the author) (WIDEVIEW/PERIGEE BOOKS)
by WILLIAM GOLDING
  
5. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
  
6. 1984: Centennial Edition
by George Orwell
  
7. Brave New World (P.S.)
by Aldous Huxley
  
8. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut
  
9. On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
by Jack Kerouac
  
10. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
11. A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
12. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
13. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
14. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
15. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
16. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Signet Classics)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
17. Anna Karenina (Thrift Edition)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
18. Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
by Victor Hugo
  
19. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
20. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
21. The Stranger (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Albert Camus
  
22. Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
by Mary Shelley
  
23. The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
  
24. Beowulf (Signet Classics)
by Anonymous
  
25. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
26. Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Bram Stoker
  
27. Dubliners
by James Joyce
  
28. 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA
by JULES VERNE
  
29. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
30. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
31. Jane Eyre  
32. Crime and Punishment
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
33. East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
by John Steinbeck
  
34. Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC)
by Ayn Rand
  
35. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
36. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
37. The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
by H.G. Wells
  
38. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
39. Journey to the Centre of the Earth
by Jules Verne
  
40. Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
41. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary Edition
by Douglas Adams
  
42. The Jungle Book (Unabridged Classics)
by Rudyard Kipling
  
43. The Swiss Family Robinson (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by Johann D. Wyss
  
44. The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
45. The Time Machine: H. G. Wells
by H. G. Wells
  
46. The War of the Worlds - Literary Touchstone edition
by H.G. Wells
  
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Signet Classics)
by L. Frank Baum
  
48.
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 Nausea
by Jean-Paul Sartre
  
49. Treasure Island (Enriched Classics)
by Robert Louis Stevenson
  
50. Around the World in 80 Days
by Jules Verne
  
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Created by bbotts on Jul 02, 2009.