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Classics to Read/Reread as an Adult

Why do we act like some of these should only be read by kids or students just starting out in life? Many of these will mean something different or mean more later in life. Consider reading or re-reading these in your 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s....
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984
1
George Orwell
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2
Mark Twain
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
3
Leo Tolstoy
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
4
William Faulkner
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
5
Kate Chopin
Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
Bell Jar
6
Sylvia Plath
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
7
Toni Morrison
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
8
Charles Dickens
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
9
Aldous Huxley
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
10
J.D. Salinger
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
11
Emily Dickinson
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Crime and Punishment
12
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl
13
Anne Frank
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
14
Ray Bradbury
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
15
Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
16
Mary Shelley
The Giver (Lois Lowry)
The Giver
17
Lois Lowry
Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Grapes of Wrath
18
John Steinbeck
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
19
Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
20
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
21
Joseph Conrad
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
22
Charlotte Bronte
Le Petit Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
Le Petit Prince
23
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
24
William Golding
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
25
William Shakespeare
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
26
George Eliot
Odyssey (Homer)
Odyssey
27
Homer
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
28
John Steinbeck
The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
The Phantom Tollbooth
29
Norton Juster
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
30
Oscar Wilde
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
31
Jane Austen
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
32
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
33
Kurt Vonnegut
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
34
Ray Bradbury
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
35
Thomas Hardy
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
36
Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
37
Virginia Woolf
The Waste Land and Other Poems (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land and Other Poems
38
T.S. Eliot
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Watership Down
39
Richard Adams
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
40
Emily Bronte
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