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Classic Books You Should Read

These are classic works of literature, which is to say novels and short stories you should read at some point.
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The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
1
Albert Camus
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
2
Aldous Huxley
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
3
Alexandre Dumas
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
4
Alice Walker
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The God of Small Things
5
Arundhati Roy
The Children of the New Forest (Captain Marryat)
The Children of the New Forest
6
Captain Marryat
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
7
Charles Dickens
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
8
Charles Dickens
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
9
Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist
10
Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
11
Charlotte Bronte
Half of a Yellow Sun (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)
Half of a Yellow Sun
12
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
13
Chinua Achebe
The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead)
The Underground Railroad
14
Colson Whitehead
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
15
Cormac McCarthy
Women in Love (D.H. Lawrence)
Women in Love
16
D.H. Lawrence
Jamaica Inn (Daphne Du Maurier)
Jamaica Inn
17
Daphne Du Maurier
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
18
Dee Brown
Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)
Charlotte's Web
19
E. B. White
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
20
Emily Bronte
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
21
Ernest Hemingway
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
22
Evelyn Waugh
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
23
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never Cry Wolf (Farley Mowat)
Never Cry Wolf
24
Farley Mowat
The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)
The Secret Garden
25
Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
26
Franz Kafka
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Crime and Punishment
27
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
28
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
29
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
30
George Eliot
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
31
George Orwell
Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell)
Homage to Catalonia
32
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty Four
33
George Orwell
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
Brighton Rock
34
Graham Greene
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
35
Gustave Flaubert
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
36
Harper Lee
Kafka on the Shore (Haruki Murakami)
Kafka on the Shore
37
Haruki Murakami
Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
Tom Jones
38
Henry Fielding
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
39
Henry James
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
40
Herman Melville
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