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Goodread's "99 Classic Books Challenge"

The well regarded web site, Goodreads, has many book challenge lists. This particular list spans many years of writing from authors of many cultures; thus it is more representative of true classic literature than some lists. NOTE: Goodreads is owned by Amazon.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1
Mark Twain
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
2
Virgil
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence
3
Edith Wharton
The Aleph and Other Stories (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Aleph and Other Stories
4
Jorge Luis Borges
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland
5
Lewis Carroll
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
6
Leo Tolstoy
Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights) (Anonymous)
Arabian Nights (One Thousand and One Nights)
7
Anonymous
Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne)
Around the World in Eighty Days
8
Jules Verne
The Art of War (Sun Tzu)
The Art of War
9
Sun Tzu
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
10
Ayn Rand
Baltasar and Blimunda (Jose Saramago)
Baltasar and Blimunda
11
Jose Saramago
The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Beautiful and Damned
12
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
13
Sylvia Plath
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
14
Aldous Huxley
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
15
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
16
Jack London
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
17
Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
18
Geoffrey Chaucer
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
19
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
20
J.D. Salinger
The Chronicles of Narnia (7 Books) (C. S. Lewis)
The Chronicles of Narnia (7 Books)
21
C. S. Lewis
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
22
Edgar Allan Poe
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
23
Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
24
Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
25
Charles Dickens
Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
Decameron
26
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
27
Dante Alighieri
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
28
Miguel De Cervantes
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
29
Bram Stoker
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
30
Jane Austen
Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
Farewell to Arms
31
Ernest Hemingway
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
32
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
The Flowers of Evil
33
Charles Baudelaire
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
34
Mary Shelley
Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
35
François Rabelais
Germinal (Émile Zola)
Germinal
36
Émile Zola
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
37
Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
38
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
39
Jonathan Swift
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
40
William Shakespeare
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