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Great Works of Literature

A list of great classic and contemporary literature, including novels, short stories, essays, plays and poetry, I have read over the years.
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984
1
George Orwell
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2
Mark Twain
Age of Anxiety (W.H. Auden)
Age of Anxiety
3
W.H. Auden
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
4
Lewis Carroll
All the Pretty Horses (Cormac McCarthy)
All the Pretty Horses
5
Cormac McCarthy
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
6
Erich Maria Remarque
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
7
Michael Chabon
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
8
George Orwell
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
9
Leo Tolstoy
Antigone (Sophocles)
Antigone
10
Sophocles
Antony and Cleopatra (William Shakespeare)
Antony and Cleopatra
11
William Shakespeare
Armies of the Night (Norman Mailer)
Armies of the Night
12
Norman Mailer
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
13
William Faulkner
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
14
Ian McEwan
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz
15
W.G. Sebald
Axel's Castle (Edmund Wilson)
Axel's Castle
16
Edmund Wilson
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
17
The Balcony (Jean Genet)
The Balcony
18
Jean Genet
The Bald Soprano (Eugène Ionesco)
The Bald Soprano
19
Eugène Ionesco
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (Carson McCullers)
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
20
Carson McCullers
Being There (Jerzy Kosinski, 1970)
Being There
21
Jerzy Kosinski, 1970
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
22
Toni Morrison
A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul)
A Bend in the River
23
V.S. Naipaul
The Best Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant (Guy De Maupassant)
The Best Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
24
Guy De Maupassant
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch (Henry Miller)
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
25
Henry Miller
Billy Budd, Sailor (Herman Melville)
Billy Budd, Sailor
26
Herman Melville
Blood Wedding (Federico García Lorca)
Blood Wedding
27
Federico García Lorca
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
28
Aldous Huxley
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Truman Capote)
Breakfast at Tiffany's
29
Truman Capote
Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
Breakfast of Champions
30
Kurt Vonnegut
The Breast
The Breast
31
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
32
Thornton Wilder
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dosteovsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
33
Fyodor Dosteovsky
Caesar and Cleopatra (George Bernard Shaw)
Caesar and Cleopatra
34
George Bernard Shaw
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
35
Jack London
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
36
Voltaire
Cannery Row (John Steinbeck)
Cannery Row
37
John Steinbeck
Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Canterbury Tales
38
Geoffrey Chaucer
Cantos (Ezra Pound)
Cantos
39
Ezra Pound
Castle to Castle (Louis-Ferdinand Celine)
Castle to Castle
40
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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