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50 Classic Books Jim Always Meant to Read, but Never Got Around To…

All those plays, genre stuff, and histories just kept getting in the way. I just don't seem to be able to get things done…
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Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
1
Ian McEwan
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
2
Heinrich Böll
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
3
Charles Dickens
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward
4
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Crime and Punishment (1866)
Crime and Punishment
5
1866
Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Demons
6
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
East Lynne (Ellen Wood)
East Lynne
7
Ellen Wood
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
8
John Steinbeck
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome
9
Edith Wharton
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
10
How It Is (Samuel Beckett)
How It Is
11
Samuel Beckett
If Beale Street Could Talk (James Baldwin)
If Beale Street Could Talk
12
James Baldwin
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
13
Italo Calvino
Jane Eyre (Bronte)
Jane Eyre
14
Bronte
Jude the Obscure (Hardy)
Jude the Obscure
15
Hardy
Lady Audley's Secret (Mary Elisabeth Braddon)
Lady Audley's Secret
16
Mary Elisabeth Braddon
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
17
D.H. Lawrence
Lord Jim (Conrad)
Lord Jim
18
Conrad
Lucky Jim (Kinglsey Amis)
Lucky Jim
19
Kinglsey Amis
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
20
Salman Rushdie
Northanger Abbey (Jane Austen)
Northanger Abbey
21
Jane Austen
Nostromo (Conrad)
Nostromo
22
Conrad
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
23
Jack Kerouac
Orlando (Woolf)
Orlando
24
Woolf
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
25
Jane Austen
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca
26
Daphne Du Maurier
Robinson Crusoe (Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
27
Defoe
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility
28
Jane Austen
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf
29
Hermann Hesse
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tender Is the Night
30
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
31
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
32
Franz Kafka
The End of the Affair (Greene)
The End of the Affair
33
Greene
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
34
John Steinbeck
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
35
Margaret Atwood
The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
The Heart of the Matter
36
Greene
The Honorary Consul
The Honorary Consul
37
The Inheritors (William Golding)
The Inheritors
38
William Golding
The Last Temptation of Christ (Kazantzakis)
The Last Temptation of Christ
39
Kazantzakis
The Red Badge of Courage (Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage
40
Crane
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