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Classic Novels From the Last 100 Years That You Should Read

Everyone who has gone to school was perhaps asked to read from this list. Pick the ones you have read and use my list as a TBR list to finish them all.
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
1
Harper Lee
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
2
George Orwell
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
3
George Orwell
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
4
Joseph Heller
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
5
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
6
William Golding
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
7
J.D. Salinger
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
8
Joseph Heller
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
9
Aldous Huxley
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
10
Sylvia Plath
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
11
John Steinbeck
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Mitch Albom)
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
12
Mitch Albom
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
13
Jack Kerouac
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
14
Alice Walker
The War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
The War of the Worlds
15
H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man (H.G. Wells)
The Invisible Man
16
H.G. Wells
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
17
Kate Chopin
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
18
Oscar Wilde
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
19
Kurt Vonnegut
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
My Antonia
20
Willa Cather
The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
The Bluest Eye
21
Toni Morrison
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
22
Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
23
Zora Neale Hurston
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
24
Ken Kesey
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
25
Thornton Wilder
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Siddhartha
26
Hermann Hesse
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl
27
Anne Frank
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
28
Ray Bradbury
Nausea (John-Paul Sartre)
Nausea
29
John-Paul Sartre
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
30
Franz Kafka
The Joy Luck Club (Amy Tan)
The Joy Luck Club
31
Amy Tan
Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)
Flowers for Algernon
32
Daniel Keyes
Tuesdays With Morrie (Mitch Albom)
Tuesdays With Morrie
33
Mitch Albom
Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
Winesburg, Ohio
34
Sherwood Anderson
2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke)
2001: A Space Odyssey
35
Arthur C. Clarke
A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)
A Room of One's Own
36
Virginia Woolf
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
37
Ralph Ellison
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
38
Douglas Adams
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
39
Ernest Hemingway
All the Pretty Horses (McCarthy, Cormac)
All the Pretty Horses
40
McCarthy, Cormac
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