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The Most Important of Important Classics

Here you are, the most important of the important books in the world among the Classics! The parameters for Classics that I'm going with are: 1. transcends place and time (over generations), and 2. at least 50 years old (in 2025). Lots and lots and lots of polls and LISTS have been reviewed to determine which books made this list. Thousands, probably, of respondents helped narrow the field of contestants to these few.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1
Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
2
Mark Twain
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
3
Virgil
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland
4
Lewis Carroll
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
5
Erich Maria Remarque
The Analects (Confucius)
The Analects
6
Confucius
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
7
Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Anne of Green Gables
8
L.M. Montgomery
The Arabian Nights: One Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
The Arabian Nights: One Thousand and One Nights
9
Anonymous
Around the World in 80 Days (Jules Verne)
Around the World in 80 Days
10
Jules Verne
The Art of War (Sun-Tzu)
The Art of War
11
Sun-Tzu
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
12
Anonymous
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha (Various)
The Bible: Authorized King James Version With Apocrypha
13
Various
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
14
Aldous Huxley
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
15
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (H.P. Lovecraft)
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
16
H.P. Lovecraft
The Call of the Wild (Jack London)
The Call of the Wild
17
Jack London
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
18
Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
19
Geoffrey Chaucer
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
20
Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
21
J.D. Salinger
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol
22
Charles Dickens
City of God (St Augustine of Hippo)
City of God
23
St Augustine of Hippo
Complete Works of Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)
Complete Works of Shakespeare
24
William Shakespeare
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
25
Alexandre Dumas
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
26
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crucible (Arthur Miller)
The Crucible
27
Arthur Miller
Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
Cry, the Beloved Country
28
Alan Paton
Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
Death of a Salesman
29
Arthur Miller
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron
30
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
31
Dante Alighieri
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
32
Miguel De Cervantes
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners
33
James Joyce
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
34
John Steinbeck
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
35
Anonymous
Essays (Michel De Montaigne)
Essays
36
Michel De Montaigne
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
37
Ray Bradbury
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
38
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Ficciones (Jorge Luis Borges)
Ficciones
39
Jorge Luis Borges
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
40
Ernest Hemingway
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