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Catching Up With the Classics: 100 Novels Jim Thinks He Should Probably Read

100 Classic novels I haven't read yet but think I probably should if I really want to consider myself "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, so I'm a little behind in my literature consumption. I'm limiting this list to classic and modern classic literary fiction; my love for and voracious consumption of mystery, crime, horror, fantasy, and Science Fiction can be found in my other lists.
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The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
1
Henry James
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
2
Tolstoy
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
3
Ian McEwan
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
4
Kate Chopin
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
5
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers
6
Anthony Trollope
Barrabas (Pär Lagerkvist)
Barrabas
7
Pär Lagerkvist
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
8
Sylvia Plath
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
9
Heinrich Böll
Bleak House (Dickens, Charles)
Bleak House
10
Dickens, Charles
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
Brighton Rock
11
Graham Greene
The Brothers Karmazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karmazov
12
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward
13
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Candide (Voltaire, Trans. Theo Cuffe)
Candide
14
Voltaire, Trans. Theo Cuffe
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
15
Franz Kafka
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
16
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49
17
Thomas Pynchon
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
18
Charles Dickens
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
19
Willa Cather
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
20
Leo Tolstoy
Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Demons
21
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
22
John Steinbeck
Elmer Gantry (Lewis)
Elmer Gantry
23
Lewis
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
24
Jane Austen
The End of the Affair (Greene)
The End of the Affair
25
Greene
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome
26
Edith Wharton
Far From the Madding Crowd (Hardy, Thomas)
Far From the Madding Crowd
27
Hardy, Thomas
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
28
Turgenev
Finnegan's Wake (Joyce)
Finnegan's Wake
29
Joyce
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
30
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
The French Lieutenant's Woman
31
John Fowles
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
32
Margaret Mitchell
The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
The Good Soldier
33
Ford Madox Ford
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
34
John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
35
Thomas Pynchon
Great Expectations (Dickens)
Great Expectations
36
Dickens
The Green Man (Kingsley Amis)
The Green Man
37
Kingsley Amis
Group Portrait With Lady (Bõll)
Group Portrait With Lady
38
Bõll
The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
The Heart of the Matter
39
Greene
How It Is (Samuel Beckett)
How It Is
40
Samuel Beckett
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