Lists of Bests: bbotts's "150 Must-Read Classics" http://www.listsofbests.com/list/66000 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". Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:31:38 GMT en-us 0 50 150 50 0 Of Mice and Men http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/835347 <div id="position">1</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/835347"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0553110098.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> The Great Gatsby http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4239324 <div id="position">2</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4239324"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41FNVTRGE8L._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by F. Scott Fitzgerald</div> A Clockwork Orange http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850 <div id="position">3</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/10850"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0393312836.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anthony Burgess</div> LORD OF THE FLIES (With a biographical and critical note by E.L. Epstein, and a portraight of the author) (WIDEVIEW/PERIGEE BOOKS) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1786661 <div id="position">4</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1786661"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000FXT2LA.01-A1RG93EOLVXQXB._SCTHUMBZZZ_V50971094_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by WILLIAM GOLDING</div> Fahrenheit 451 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7581 <div id="position">5</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/7581"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0345342968.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1122534399_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ray Bradbury</div> 1984: Centennial Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23814 <div id="position">6</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23814"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0452284236.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> Brave New World (P.S.) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1434784 <div id="position">7</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> Slaughterhouse-Five http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4476469 <div id="position">8</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4476469"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41IFzvwCZVL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jr. Kurt Vonnegut</div> On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813054 <div id="position">9</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2813054"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/019lrx4kVJL.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jack Kerouac</div> Lolita http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39275 <div id="position">10</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/39275"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0739322060.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Vladimir Nabokov</div> A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56513 <div id="position">11</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/56513"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684837889.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> The Sound and the Fury http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742 <div id="position">12</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18742"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679732241.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by William Faulkner</div> Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511 <div id="position">13</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3511"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439513.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1138676361_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jane Austen</div> Catch-22 http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3180857 <div id="position">14</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3180857"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/1101ZNMTESL.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Joseph Heller</div> The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555 <div id="position">15</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3555"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0142000663.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Uncle Tom's Cabin (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3887933 <div id="position">16</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3887933"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4145pFkh0PL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Harriet Beecher Stowe</div> Anna Karenina (Thrift Edition) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51660 <div id="position">17</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51660"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0486437965.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Leo Tolstoy</div> Les Misérables (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13908 <div id="position">18</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13908"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451525264.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Victor Hugo</div> Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13975 <div id="position">19</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13975"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528956.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> Animal Farm http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2737902 <div id="position">20</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2737902"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1595404295.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by George Orwell</div> The Stranger (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962469 <div id="position">21</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/962469"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679420266.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Albert Camus</div> Frankenstein (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23705 <div id="position">22</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/23705"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439475.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mary Shelley</div> The Sun Also Rises http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1233441 <div id="position">23</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/1233441"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0743297334.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Beowulf (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4502443 <div id="position">24</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/4502443"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51jrITVF1xL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Anonymous</div> A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517 <div id="position">25</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3517"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439602.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Dracula (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67784 <div id="position">26</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/67784"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1593081146.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1098441968_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Bram Stoker</div> Dubliners http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2613898 <div id="position">27</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2613898"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580491650.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by James Joyce</div> 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43726 <div id="position">28</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/43726"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0439224071.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by JULES VERNE</div> For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86125 <div id="position">29</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/86125"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0684830485.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ernest Hemingway</div> Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3514 <div id="position">30</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3514"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439564.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V34858991_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Charles Dickens</div> Jane Eyre http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5775906 <div id="position">31</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5775906"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41C-klRzAiL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div> Crime and Punishment http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315005 <div id="position">32</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/315005"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0679734503.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464907_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Fyodor Dostoyevsky</div> East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216567 <div id="position">33</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/216567"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0670033049.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by John Steinbeck</div> Atlas Shrugged (Centennial Ed. HC) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51741 <div id="position">34</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/51741"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0525948929.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ayn Rand</div> The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3337 <div id="position">35</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> Invisible Man http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757 <div id="position">36</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/18757"><img src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0679732764.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V1056464902_.gif" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Ralph Ellison</div> The Invisible Man (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13965 <div id="position">37</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/13965"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451528522.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.G. Wells</div> The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/908587 <div id="position">38</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/908587"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0143039563.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Mark Twain</div> Journey to the Centre of the Earth http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5803692 <div id="position">39</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5803692"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51I2SAAUzhL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jules Verne</div> Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3527 <div id="position">40</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/3527"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0141439823.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Daniel Defoe</div> The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 25th Anniversary Edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45214 <div id="position">41</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/45214"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1400052920.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Douglas Adams</div> The Jungle Book (Unabridged Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2755394 <div id="position">42</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2755394"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/1402743408.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V42464048_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Rudyard Kipling</div> The Swiss Family Robinson (Signet Classics (Paperback)) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/370097 <div id="position">43</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/370097"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451529618.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Johann D. Wyss</div> The Three Musketeers (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189469 <div id="position">44</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/189469"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530039.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Alexandre Dumas père</div> The Time Machine: H. G. Wells http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6637481 <div id="position">45</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/6637481"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515MYb2MAFL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H. G. Wells</div> The War of the Worlds - Literary Touchstone edition http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2569956 <div id="position">46</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2569956"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1580493432.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_V62142722_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by H.G. Wells</div> The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Signet Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2505142 <div id="position">47</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2505142"><img src="http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0451530292.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by L. Frank Baum</div> Nausea http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/2522398 <div id="position">48</div><div class="place-image-placeholder"><span class="qm">*</span></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jean-Paul Sartre</div> Treasure Island (Enriched Classics) http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/272415 <div id="position">49</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/272415"><img src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/1416500294.01._SCTHUMBZZZ_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Robert Louis Stevenson</div> Around the World in 80 Days http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5664244 <div id="position">50</div><div class="item-image" style="padding:3px;float:left;"><a href="http://www.allconsuming.net/item/view/5664244"><img src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Of9qL9LQL._SL75_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-size: 12px;"> by Jules Verne</div>