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9 Literary Classics for the Contemporary Crime Reader (Crimereads)

Nine crime novels that are considered literary classics and can be appealing to a modern reader of crime fiction.
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Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
1
Fyodor Dostoevsky
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
2
Theodore Dreiser
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
3
Zora Neale Hurston
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
4
Albert Camus
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
5
John Steinbeck
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
Giovanni's Room
6
James Baldwin
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
7
Harper Lee
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
8
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
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Toni Morrison
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