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Jennifer's 50 Classic Books List

I got tired of going through all those book lists and only checking off a few... it was so silly, because I read alot and all the lists are different, so I just made a list that has all the books I always check-off on those lists, plus a few that I think should be on those lists. I have tried to arrange the books in roughly historical order, oldest first. Just because a book is on this list doesn't mean that I really liked it (though most, I did), or that I recommend it.
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The Bible (Anonymous)
The Bible
1
Anonymous
Ethics
Ethics
2
Emile – Or, on Education (Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Emile – Or, on Education
3
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Common Sense (Thomas Paine)
Common Sense
4
Thomas Paine
The Federalist Papers (Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay)
The Federalist Papers
5
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
6
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
7
Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
8
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
9
Leo Tolstoy
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott
10
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
11
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
12
Oscar Wilde
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine
13
H.G. Wells
The Man Who Was Thursday (G.K. Chesterton)
The Man Who Was Thursday
14
G.K. Chesterton
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
The Metamorphosis
15
Franz Kafka
Captain Blood
Captain Blood
16
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
17
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
18
Franz Kafka
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales (H. P. Lovecraft)
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Tales
19
H. P. Lovecraft
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf
20
Hermann Hesse
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
The Maltese Falcon
21
Dashiell Hammett
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
22
Aldous Huxley
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
23
Margaret Mitchell
Think and Grow Rich
Think and Grow Rich
24
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Hobbit
25
J.R.R. Tolkien
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
26
Albert Camus
The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupéry)
The Little Prince
27
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry
The Road to Serfdom
The Road to Serfdom
28
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
29
George Orwell
The Great Divorce (C.S. Lewis)
The Great Divorce
30
C.S. Lewis
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
31
J.R.R. Tolkien
Foundation (Iaac Asimov)
Foundation
32
Iaac Asimov
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
33
Ray Bradbury
The Chronicles of Narnia (C.S. Lewis)
The Chronicles of Narnia
34
C.S. Lewis
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
35
Ayn Rand
Starship Troopers (Robert A. Heinlein)
Starship Troopers
36
Robert A. Heinlein
Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
Stranger in a Strange Land
37
Robert A. Heinlein
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
The Death and Life of Great American Cities
38
The Phantom Tollbooth (Norton Juster)
The Phantom Tollbooth
39
Norton Juster
The Moonspinners (Mary Stewart)
The Moonspinners
40
Mary Stewart
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