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Classics, Perhaps? - 2021 Update - Page 2

A year or so ago, I made up a list of all the works on my TBR that could potentially qualify as classics (aka, they were works I had not read that were at least 50 years old). Here's an update on the current situation, minus the ones I've gotten through (to greater or lesser success), plus the ones I've taken an interest in since then. Which ones will prove to be vital to humanity, and which ones could afford to die a quiet death? We'll just have to see.
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The Princess of Clèves (Madame De Lafayette)
The Princess of Clèves
41
Madame De Lafayette
Comrade Loves of the Samurai (Saikaku Ihara)
Comrade Loves of the Samurai
42
Saikaku Ihara
New Science (Giambattista Vico)
New Science
43
Giambattista Vico
Anti-Pamela (Eliza Haywood)
Anti-Pamela
44
Eliza Haywood
Tristram Shandy (Laurence Sterne)
Tristram Shandy
45
Laurence Sterne
Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream (Denis Diderot)
Rameau's Nephew / D'Alembert's Dream
46
Denis Diderot
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon)
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
47
Edward Gibbon
Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant)
Critique of Pure Reason
48
Immanuel Kant
The Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
The Confessions
49
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cecilia (Fanny Burney)
Cecilia
50
Fanny Burney
A Simple Story (Elizabeth Inchbald)
A Simple Story
51
Elizabeth Inchbald
The Complete Marquis De Sade (Marquis De Sade)
The Complete Marquis De Sade
52
Marquis De Sade
Napoleon in Egypt (Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jabarti)
Napoleon in Egypt
53
Abd Al-Rahman Al-Jabarti
The Waste Books (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
The Waste Books
54
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The Woman of Colour (Anonymous)
The Woman of Colour
55
Anonymous
Elective Affinities (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Elective Affinities
56
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Jan Potocki)
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
57
Jan Potocki
Selected Prose (Heinrich Von Kleist)
Selected Prose
58
Heinrich Von Kleist
Kelroy (Rebecca Rush)
Kelroy
59
Rebecca Rush
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong (Jahyun Kim Haboushi)
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong
60
Jahyun Kim Haboushi
Marriage (Susan Ferrier)
Marriage
61
Susan Ferrier
The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr (E.T.A. Hoffman)
The Life and Opinions of Tomcat Murr
62
E.T.A. Hoffman
The Mummy! (Jane C. Loudon)
The Mummy!
63
Jane C. Loudon
Complete Prose Fiction (Alexander Pushkin)
Complete Prose Fiction
64
Alexander Pushkin
A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said (Omar Ibn Said)
A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said
65
Omar Ibn Said
Mademoiselle De Maupin
Mademoiselle De Maupin
66
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selected Poems (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selected Poems
67
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cavalry Maiden (Nadezhda Durova)
The Cavalry Maiden
68
Nadezhda Durova
The Blackamoor of Peter the Great (Alexander Pushkin)
The Blackamoor of Peter the Great
69
Alexander Pushkin
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
The Charterhouse of Parma
70
Stendhal
The Women's War (Alexandre Dumas)
The Women's War
71
Alexandre Dumas
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
72
Nikolai Gogol
Fear and Trembling (Soren Kierkegaard)
Fear and Trembling
73
Soren Kierkegaard
Pierre (Herman Melville)
Pierre
74
Herman Melville
Bartleby and Benito Cereno (Herman Melville)
Bartleby and Benito Cereno
75
Herman Melville
Selected Writings (Gérard De Nerval)
Selected Writings
76
Gérard De Nerval
The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
The Flowers of Evil
77
Charles Baudelaire
Oblomov (Ivan Goncharov)
Oblomov
78
Ivan Goncharov
The Bondwoman's Narrative (Hannah Crafts)
The Bondwoman's Narrative
79
Hannah Crafts
Adam Bede (George Eliot)
Adam Bede
80
George Eliot
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