Lists of Bests: MomsMyJob's "Madison Public Library Readable Fiction Classics" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/50218 ‘Readable’ and ‘classic’ can mean different things to different people. To avoid confusion, Madison Public Library’s librarians have defined what we mean by them. A ‘classic’ is a work of enduring interest and appeal in which successive generations can find truths that will not age. ‘Readable’ includes those classics whose appeal is immediately apparent and continues throughout. http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/booklists/fiction.html Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:27:00 GMT en-us 0 50 102 50 0 Little Women (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65408 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/65408"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0140390693.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122532575_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Louisa May Alcott</div> Cat's Eye http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10317 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10317"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0385491026.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Margaret Atwood</div> Pride and Prejudice (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2286709 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2286709"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679405429.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1134082742_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1678501 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1678501"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141185910.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Baldwin</div> The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/736734 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/736734"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141184868.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Saul Bellow</div> Jane Eyre (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18427 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18427"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679405828.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charlotte Bronte</div> Wuthering Heights (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77177 <div id="position">7</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/77177"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679405437.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Emily Bronte</div> The Good Earth (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17837 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/17837"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0671510126.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Pearl S. Buck</div> A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64541"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182601.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> Cold Sassy Tree http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/164930 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/164930"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0899193099.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Olive Ann Burns</div> Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64525 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/64525"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182792.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Truman Capote</div> MY ANTONIA (VIRAGO MODERN CLASSICS) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2893614 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2893614"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/01SZ6EVHEFL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.S. BYATT (INTRODUCTION) WILLA CATHER</div> The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6080 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6080"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312282990.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Chabon</div> Select Tales http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3622063 <div id="position">14</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by A.P. Chekhov</div> David Copperfield (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18425 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18425"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679405712.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Ragtime http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1650620 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1650620"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141188170.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E.L. Doctorow</div> Dancing at the Rascal Fair http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58565 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/58565"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684831058.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ivan Doig</div> A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6404 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6404"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0312421850.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Michael Dorris</div> The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3336 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3336"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449248.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> The Complete Sherlock Holmes: All 4 Novels and 56 Short Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15839 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/15839"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553328255.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122548879_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle</div> The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140449264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> Rebecca (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3457885 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3457885"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/0132XSCEEML.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daphne Du Maurier</div> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1822104 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1822104"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141184426.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> The Reivers http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18860 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18860"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679741925.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/207830 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/207830"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0140436227.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V43031961_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry Fielding</div> The Great Gatsby (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/263780 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/263780"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141182636.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V65730790_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F.Scott Fitzgerald</div> Howards End (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics,) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3455 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3455"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118213X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V37202371_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by E. M. Forster</div> A Lesson Before Dying (Five Star) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/244000 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/244000"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/185242723X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest J. Gaines</div> One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70356 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/70356"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/014118499X.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Gabriel Garcia Marquez</div> Lord of the Flies http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2364951 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2364951"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0571084834.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056456553_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Golding</div> The Power and the Glory (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3713 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3713"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437301.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Graham Greene</div> A Map of the World http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554185 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3554185"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/0140CMG1X8L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Hamilton</div> The Maltese Falcon http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18648"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679722645.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1100853900_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Dashiell Hammett</div> Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19589"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684865130.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> For Whom the Bell Tolls http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19248 <div id="position">35</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/19248"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684803356.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Best Short Stories of O. Henry (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18576 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18576"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679601228.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by O. Henry</div> Siddhartha: An Indian Tale (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3449 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3449"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0141181230.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Hermann Hesse</div> The Kite Runner http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21727 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21727"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0747566534.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1120712355_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Khaled Hosseini</div> Les Miserables (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41097 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/41097"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679600124.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V44916391_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> Their Eyes Were Watching God http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1284834"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0061120065.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Zora Neale Hurston</div> Brave New World (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434784 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434784"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0060850523.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Aldous Huxley</div> The World According to Garp (Modern Library) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/309647 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/309647"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679603069.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Irving</div> The Lottery: And Other Stories http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92378 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/92378"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0374529531.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Shirley Jackson</div> The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3529 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3529"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439904.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Henry James</div> Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2260873 <div id="position">45</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sarah Orne Jewett</div> On the Road (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3709 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3709"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142437255.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> The Secret Life of Bees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3189309 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3189309"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01K3XAGMWXL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Sue Monk Kidd</div> The Bean Trees http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3621677 <div id="position">48</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3621677"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01GR95BRJ2L.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Barbara Kingsolver</div> The Best Short Stories - Kipling (Wordsworth Collection) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3622327 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3622327"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/01pUEZGqwNL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudyard Kipling</div> A Separate Peace http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21147 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/21147"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743253973.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Knowles</div>