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50 by 50

A list of 50 classic books that I want to read before I turn 50. Some are specific books that I wanted to read, whilst others were more to do with the author and a matter of choosing something from them.
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The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
1
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Tempest (William Shakespeare)
The Tempest
2
William Shakespeare
Richard III (William Shakespeare)
Richard III
3
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
The Merchant of Venice
4
William Shakespeare
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
5
Bram Stoker
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
6
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Baroness Orczy)
The Scarlet Pimpernel
7
Baroness Orczy
The Moonstone (Wilkie Collins)
The Moonstone
8
Wilkie Collins
Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
Tom Sawyer
9
Mark Twain
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
10
George Orwell
Pygmalion (George Bernard Shaw)
Pygmalion
11
George Bernard Shaw
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
Northanger Abbey
12
Jane Austen
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
13
Charles Dickens
Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gullivers Travels
14
Jonathan Swift
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
15
Franz Kafka
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
16
William Golding
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
17
Louisa May Alcott
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
Moll Flanders
18
Daniel Defoe
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl
19
Anne Frank
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
20
Joseph Heller
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
21
Sylvia Plath
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
22
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Victor Hugo)
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
23
Victor Hugo
Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Treasure Island
24
Robert Louis Stevenson
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
25
Vladimir Nabokov
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
26
Herman Melville
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners
27
James Joyce
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
28
Evelyn Waugh
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
29
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Cranford (Elizabeth Gaskell)
Cranford
30
Elizabeth Gaskell
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Washington Irving)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
31
Washington Irving
Rip Van Winkle
Rip Van Winkle
32
Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
Cold Comfort Farm
33
Stella Gibbons
The Island of Dr. Moreau (H. G. Wells)
The Island of Dr. Moreau
34
H. G. Wells
The Woman in White (Wilkie Collins)
The Woman in White
35
Wilkie Collins
The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K. Chesterton)
The Man Who Was Thursday
36
G.K. Chesterton
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
37
Truman Capote
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
38
Virginia Woolf
A Room With a View (E.M. Forster)
A Room With a View
39
E.M. Forster
Howard's End (E.M. Forster)
Howard's End
40
E.M. Forster
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