A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain ,
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll , (re-read)
An Arsene Lupin Omnibus by Maurice Leblanc ,
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy,
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne,
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll , (re-read)
An Arsene Lupin Omnibus by Maurice Leblanc ,
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy,
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne,
Charles Dickens: Best Ghost Stories published by Wordsworth Classics ,
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz by L. Frank Baum
Kidnapped and Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson ,
Kim by Rudyard Kipling ,
King Richard III by William Shakespeare ,
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard ,
Kim by Rudyard Kipling ,
King Richard III by William Shakespeare ,
King Solomon’s Mines by H. Rider Haggard ,
Ruth ,
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 1 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 2 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang--addendum ,
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 1 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume 2 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales of Troy and Greece by Andrew Lang--addendum ,
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs ,
Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas ,
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain [Revisited],
Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas ,
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain [Revisited],
The Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm,
The Civil Wars by Appian of Alexandria,
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas,
The Debacle by Emile Zola
The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit ,
The Epic of Gilgamesh translated by Andrew George,
The Gods Will Have Blood by Anatole France
The Histories by Herodotus
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
The Iliad by Homer
The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer
The Iron Heel by Jack London
The Karamazov Brothers by Fyodor Dostoevsky ,
The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexander Dumas,
The Martian Tales Trilogy by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
The Odyssey by Homer,
The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Princess and the Goblin by George MacDonald
The Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Story of King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (Revisited)
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells ,
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll,
Tik-Tok of Oz by L. Frank Baum
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Mark Twain,
Tom Sawyer Detective by Mark Twain,
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson,
Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
(This is my complete list. For my favorites from this list, see HERE)
Modern Classics (i.e. after 1914)
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster,
All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque,
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis,
Beloved by Toni Morrison,
Burmese Days by George Orwell
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
Coming Up for Air by George Orwell
Crash by J.G. Ballard
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell ,
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway,
It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien--addendum ,
Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov,
Peace Breaks Out by John Knowles
Rabbit Redux by John Updike
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
Seek My Face by John Updike
Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Sugar Street by Naguib Mahfouz ,
Thank You, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse,
The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit / The Lord of the Rings Box Set by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Malayan Trilogy by Anthony Burgess,
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury ,
The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie,
The Once and Future King by T.H. White
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Addendum
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
The Quiet American by Graham Greene ,
The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway ,
The Way of the Kings by Andre Malraux ,
This Gun for Hire by Graham Greene,
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1 comment:
Since I'm using my own criteria here, I should perhaps clarify.
I consider anything published before World War I to be old enough to be automatically considered a classic. If it's that old, I don't even take quality into consideration, I just automatically grandfather it in as a classic. That's why there are a few old pulp fiction books being counted as "classics" here.
I've added an addendum for modern classics (i.e. books published after 1914). For modern classics, I've had to use my own judgement call as to what is considered respected and influential enough to be considered a "classic"
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