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A Lit. Teacher's Favourite Classics, Modern Classics, and Contemporary Classics-To-Be

Just what the title says - favourite being the operative word. These are not necessarily the"best", but they are the ones I'll pick up and read again simply because I want to. These books are almost exclusively fiction, drama, and poetry because that's what I taught; the few non-fiction titles are there because they qualify as literature. Finally, there are a lot of plays here because that's how I spent most of my adult life. Directing plays. I could have kept going, but I figured 200 was a long enough list.
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11/22/63 (Stephen King)
11/22/63
1
Stephen King
1984 (Orwell)
1984
2
Orwell
Agamemnon (Arnott)
Agamemnon
3
Arnott
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
All the Light We Cannot See
4
Anthony Doerr
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
5
Remarque
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
And Then There Were None
6
Agatha Christie
Angels Fall (Lanford Wilson)
Angels Fall
7
Lanford Wilson
Angels in America (Tony Kushner)
Angels in America
8
Tony Kushner
The Anglo-Saxon World (Crossley-Holland)
The Anglo-Saxon World
9
Crossley-Holland
Arcadia (Tom Stoppard)
Arcadia
10
Tom Stoppard
Arms and the Man (George Bernard Shaw)
Arms and the Man
11
George Bernard Shaw
The Army of the Potomac (Catton)
The Army of the Potomac
12
Catton
Background to Danger (Ambler)
Background to Danger
13
Ambler
The Bald Soprano and the Lesson (Ionesco)
The Bald Soprano and the Lesson
14
Ionesco
Battle Cry of Freedom (James M. McPherson)
Battle Cry of Freedom
15
James M. McPherson
Beowulf (Wright -Trans)
Beowulf
16
Wright -Trans
Beowulf (Crossley-Holland)
Beowulf
17
Crossley-Holland
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft (H.P. Lovecraft)
The Best of H.P. Lovecraft
18
H.P. Lovecraft
Betrayal (Harold Pinter)
Betrayal
19
Harold Pinter
The Big Clock (Kenneth Fearing)
The Big Clock
20
Kenneth Fearing
The Big Sleep (Chandler)
The Big Sleep
21
Chandler
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
Breakfast of Champions
22
Kurt Vonnegut
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
23
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Büchner: Complete Collected Works (Büchner/Schmidt)
Büchner: Complete Collected Works
24
Büchner/Schmidt
A Burnt Out Case (Greene)
A Burnt Out Case
25
Greene
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
26
Geoffrey Chaucer
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
A Canticle for Leibowitz
27
Miller
The Caretaker (Harold Pinter)
The Caretaker
28
Harold Pinter
Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu)
Carmilla
29
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Carrion Comfort (Simmons)
Carrion Comfort
30
Simmons
Carver, Raymond: Where I'm Calling From
Carver, Raymond: Where I'm Calling From
31
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
32
Joseph Heller
Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut)
Cat's Cradle
33
Vonnegut
Childhood's End (Clarke)
Childhood's End
34
Clarke
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Ambler)
A Coffin for Dimitrios
35
Ambler
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot (T.S. Eliot)
Collected Poems of T.S. Eliot
36
T.S. Eliot
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (W.B. Yeats)
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
37
W.B. Yeats
The Comedians (Greene)
The Comedians
38
Greene
The Complete Dramatic Works (Samuel Beckett)
The Complete Dramatic Works
39
Samuel Beckett
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
40
Arthur Conan Doyle
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