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150 Classics

  1. Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
  2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  3. Watership Down, Richard Adams
  4. Aesop’s Fables, Aesop
  5. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
  6. Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Anderson
  7. The Arabian Nights, Anonymous
  8. Beowulf, Anonymous
  9. The Epic of Gilgamesh, Anonymous
  10. The Mahabharata, Anonymous
  11. The Song of Roland, Anonymous
  12. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austin
  13. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austin
  14. Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
  15. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
  16. The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio
  17. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
  18. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronë
  19. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
  20. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
  21. The Master and Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
  22. The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan
  23. A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
  24. Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs
  25. The Plague, Albert Camus
  26. The Stranger, Albert Camus
  27. Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
  28. The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
  29. The Man who was Thursday, GK Chesterton
  30. The Last of the Mohicans, James Fenimore Cooper
  31.  Complete Poems, EE Cummings
  32. Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
  33. White Noise, Don DeLillo
  34. A Christmas Carol,  Charles Dickens
  35. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
  36. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
  37. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
  38. Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens
  39. A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  40. Complete Poems, Emily Dickinson
  41. Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  42. The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  43. The Compete Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle
  44. The Three Musketeers, Alexander Dumas
  45. The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexander Dumas
  46. The Man in the Iron Mask, Alexander Dumas
  47. Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
  48. Essential Writings, Ralph Waldo Emerson
  49. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner
  50. As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
  51. A Light in August, William Faulkner
  52. Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
  53. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  54. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  55. The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank
  56. The Autobiography of Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
  57. The Poetry of Robert Frost, Robert Frost
  58.  Collected Poems, Allen Ginsberg
  59. Lord of the Flies, William Golding
  60. Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
  61. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham
  62. I, Claudius, Robert Graves
  63. The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene
  64. The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, Brothers Grimm
  65. The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
  66. Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
  67. The Scarlet Letter,  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  68. Catch 22, Joseph Heller
  69. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
  70. For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
  71. The Old Man in the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
  72. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
  73. Dune, Frank Herbert
  74. The Hunchback of Notre-Dam, Victor Hugo
  75. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo
  76. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
  77. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
  78. The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
  79. Dubliners, James Joyce
  80. Ulysses, James Joyce
  81. The Trial, Franz Kafka
  82. The Compete Poems, John Keats
  83. The Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis
  84. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
  85. On the Road, Jack Kerouac
  86. Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
  87. The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling
  88. Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
  89. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
  90. The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
  91. Babbitt, Sinclair Lewis
  92. The Call of the Wild, Jack London
  93. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  94. Martin Luther: Selections from this Writings, Martin Luther
  95. The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
  96. Le Morte D’Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory
  97. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
  98. Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
  99. Utopia, Thomas More
  100. Beloved, Toni Morrison
  101. Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov
  102. The Complete Stories, Flannery O’Conner
  103. 1984, George Orwell
  104. Animal Farm, George Orwell
  105. Metamorphoses, Ovid
  106. Rights of Man, Common Sense and Other Political Writings, Thomas Paine
  107. Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
  108. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig
  109. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
  110. Complete Tales and Poems, Edgar Allan Poe
  111. Poems and Translations, Ezra Pound
  112. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
  113. All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
  114. Cyrano de Bergeac, Edmund Rostand
  115. Midnight’s Children, Salman Rushdie
  116. Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
  117. Letters from a Stoic, Seneca
  118. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
  119. The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
  120. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  121. Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
  122. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
  123. East of Eden, John Steinbeck
  124. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
  125. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
  126. Dracula, Bram Stoker
  127. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
  128. Complete Poems, Dylan Thomas
  129. Walden and Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
  130. The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
  131. The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
  132. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, J.R.R. Tolkien
  133. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
  134. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
  135. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
  136. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
  137. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
  138. Around the World in 80 Days, Jules Verne
  139. Journey to the Centre of the Earth,  Jules Verne
  140. Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
  141. All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
  142. The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
  143. The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
  144. The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
  145. Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
  146. Night, Elie Wiesel
  147. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
  148. Native Son, Richard Wright
  149. The Swiss Family Robinson, Johann Wyss
  150. Collected Poems, W.B. Yeats