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Catching Up With the Classics: 100 Novels (And Stories) Jim Actually HAS Read

100 Classic works of fiction (novels and story collections) I actually HAVE read in my ongoing attempt to become "well read". All those plays and scripts I read, studied, directed, acted in, stage managed, and/or worked tech on took up a lot of my life, which left me a little deficient in the literature department. Since I also taught English, I've worked hard to fix this deficiency. I tried to limit this list to classic and modern classic literary fiction but some mystery, crime, horror, fantasy, and Science Fiction have worked their way on to it. Still, if Penguin calls them classics, who am I to argue?
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1984 (Orwell)
1984
1
Orwell
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
2
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Twain)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
3
Twain
The African Queen (Forester)
The African Queen
4
Forester
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass (Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass
5
Carroll
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
6
Remarque
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
7
George Orwell
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
8
William Faulkner
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Gertrude Stein)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
9
Gertrude Stein
Beau Geste (P.C. Wren)
Beau Geste
10
P.C. Wren
Ben-Hur (Lew Wallace)
Ben-Hur
11
Lew Wallace
Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
Black Beauty
12
Anna Sewell
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
13
Aldous Huxley
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
Breakfast of Champions
14
Kurt Vonnegut
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
15
Thornton Wilder
A Burnt Out Case (Greene)
A Burnt Out Case
16
Greene
The Call of the Wild (London)
The Call of the Wild
17
London
Carmilla (J. Sheridan Le Fanu)
Carmilla
18
J. Sheridan Le Fanu
The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
19
Salinger
Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut)
Cat's Cradle
20
Vonnegut
The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Celestial Railroad and Other Stories
21
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol
22
Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange (Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
23
Burgess
Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll (Böll)
Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll
24
Böll
The Comedians (Greene)
The Comedians
25
Greene
The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989 (Samuel Beckett)
The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett, 1929-1989
26
Samuel Beckett
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
27
Ernest Hemingway
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
28
Alexandre Dumas
Dangling Man (Bellow)
Dangling Man
29
Bellow
Darkness at Noon (Koestler)
Darkness at Noon
30
Koestler
Dead Souls (Gogol)
Dead Souls
31
Gogol
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
Death in Venice
32
Thomas Mann
Diary of a Madman (Gogol)
Diary of a Madman
33
Gogol
Dracula (Stoker)
Dracula
34
Stoker
Dubliners (Joyce)
Dubliners
35
Joyce
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
36
Edgar Allan Poe
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
37
Ernest Hemingway
The First Circle (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
The First Circle
38
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Frankenstein
39
Shelley
Freedom or Death (Kazantzakis)
Freedom or Death
40
Kazantzakis
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