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I decided that I want be better read so I made a list of classics and modern classics and plan on adding them to my life long bucket list of goals. Could anyone look at the list and tell me if there are any glaring omissions or inclusions (i.e. books that should definitely be on these lists or books on here that do not belong). Thanks.
SORRY ABOUT THE FORMATTING
They are in order by authors first name
List of Classic Books to Read
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
Dracula Bram Stoker
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Bleak House Charles Dickens
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Life and Adventures of Nicholas N. Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
A Room with a View E.M. Forster
Howards End E.M. Forster
The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allen Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allen Poe
The Pit and the Pendeulum Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven Edgar Allen Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Beyond Good & Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostroyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostroyevsky
Middlemarch George Eliot
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
The Time Machine H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells
Uncle Toms Chabin Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Walden Henry David Thoreau
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
Moby-Dick Herman Melville
Siddartha Herman Hesse
At the Mountains of Madness Howard Philips Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulu Howard Philips Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror Howard Philips Lovecraft
The Call of the Wild Jack London
White Fang Jack London
Ulysses James Joyce
Emma Jane Austen
Mansfield Park Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen
Persuasion Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
Paradise Lost John Milton
Gullivers Travels Jonathon Swift
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the... Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Alices Adventures in Wonder.... Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Conn. Yankee in King Arthurs... Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes
The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlett Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
Tess of the dUbervilles Thomas Hardy
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Candide Voltaire
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
Modern Classics to Read
Watchmen Alan Moore
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
The Assistant Bernard Malamud
The Fixer Bernard Malamud
The Natural Bernard Malamud
A Tree grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Blood Meridian, or the... Cormac McCarthy
The Road Cormac McCarthy
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
White Noise Don DeLillo
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's... Douglas Adams
Ragtime E.L. Doctorow
A Passage to India E.M. Forster
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984 George Orwell
Animal Farm George Orwell
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
Living Henry Green
Loving Henry Green
Party Going Henry Green
Call It Sleep Henry Roth
Atonement Ian McEwan
On the Road Jack Kerouac
A Death in the Family James Agee
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin
Deliverance James Dickey
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosiński
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion
The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré
Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara
East of Eden John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Rabbit, Run John Updike
Rabbit Redux John Updike
Rabbit is Rich John Updike
Rabbit at Rest John Updike
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Are You There God? It's Me... Judy Blume
The Brief Wondrous Life of Os.. Junot Diaz
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's... Ken Kesey
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
The Giver Lois Lowry
Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Gilead Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
Money Martin Amis
The A. A. of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
The Day of the Locust Nathanael West
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
Do Android Dream of Electric Philip K. Dick
Ubik Philip K. Dick
American Pastoral Philip Roth
Portnoys Complaint Philip Roth
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
The Sportswriter Richard Ford
Native Son Richard Wright
Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
All the Kings Men Robert Penn Warren
Dog Soldiers Robert Stone
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow
Herzog Saul Bellow
Humboldts Gift Saul Bellow
Mr. Sammlers Planet Saul Bellow
Seize the Day Saul Bellow
Ravelstein Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
Beloved Toni Morrison
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
A House for Mr Biswas V.S. Naipaul
The Moviegoer Walker Percy
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Possession A.S. Byatt
Light in August William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
Count Zero William Gibson
Mona Lisa Overdrive William Gibson
Neuromancer William Gibson
Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs
The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
Sophies Choice William Styron
White Teeth Zadie Smith
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SORRY ABOUT THE FORMATTING
They are in order by authors first name
List of Classic Books to Read
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
Dracula Bram Stoker
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
Bleak House Charles Dickens
David Copperfield Charles Dickens
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens
Life and Adventures of Nicholas N. Charles Dickens
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe
The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
A Room with a View E.M. Forster
Howards End E.M. Forster
The Cask of Amontillado Edgar Allen Poe
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allen Poe
The Murders in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allen Poe
The Pit and the Pendeulum Edgar Allen Poe
The Raven Edgar Allen Poe
The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allen Poe
Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth Edith Wharton
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Metamorphosis Franz Kafka
Beyond Good & Evil Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostroyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostroyevsky
Middlemarch George Eliot
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
The Time Machine H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells
Uncle Toms Chabin Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe
Walden Henry David Thoreau
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
Moby-Dick Herman Melville
Siddartha Herman Hesse
At the Mountains of Madness Howard Philips Lovecraft
The Call of Cthulu Howard Philips Lovecraft
The Dunwich Horror Howard Philips Lovecraft
The Call of the Wild Jack London
White Fang Jack London
Ulysses James Joyce
Emma Jane Austen
Mansfield Park Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey Jane Austen
Persuasion Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
Paradise Lost John Milton
Gullivers Travels Jonathon Swift
Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Jules Verne
Journey to the Center of the... Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Alices Adventures in Wonder.... Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking Glass Lewis Carroll
Little Women Louisa May Alcott
Conn. Yankee in King Arthurs... Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer Mark Twain
Frankenstein Mary Shelley
Don Quixote Miguel Cervantes
The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlett Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson
The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis
The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane
Tess of the dUbervilles Thomas Hardy
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf
Candide Voltaire
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray
Modern Classics to Read
Watchmen Alan Moore
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess
The Assistant Bernard Malamud
The Fixer Bernard Malamud
The Natural Bernard Malamud
A Tree grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe
Blood Meridian, or the... Cormac McCarthy
The Road Cormac McCarthy
Infinite Jest David Foster Wallace
White Noise Don DeLillo
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's... Douglas Adams
Ragtime E.L. Doctorow
A Passage to India E.M. Forster
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway
A Handful of Dust Evelyn Waugh
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh
At Swim-Two-Birds Flann O'Brien
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald
1984 George Orwell
Animal Farm George Orwell
The Heart of the Matter Graham Greene
Living Henry Green
Loving Henry Green
Party Going Henry Green
Call It Sleep Henry Roth
Atonement Ian McEwan
On the Road Jack Kerouac
A Death in the Family James Agee
Go Tell It on the Mountain James Baldwin
Deliverance James Dickey
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides
The Painted Bird Jerzy Kosiński
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion
The French Lieutenant's Woman John Fowles
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold John le Carré
Appointment in Samarra John O'Hara
East of Eden John Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck
Rabbit, Run John Updike
Rabbit Redux John Updike
Rabbit is Rich John Updike
Rabbit at Rest John Updike
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen
Catch-22 Joseph Heller
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
Are You There God? It's Me... Judy Blume
The Brief Wondrous Life of Os.. Junot Diaz
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
Tropic of Cancer Henry Miller
Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's... Ken Kesey
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut
The Giver Lois Lowry
Under the Volcano Malcolm Lowry
The Book Thief Markus Zusak
The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood
Gone With the Wind Margaret Mitchell
Gilead Marilynne Robinson
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
Money Martin Amis
The A. A. of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark
The Day of the Locust Nathanael West
Snow Crash Neal Stephenson
Do Android Dream of Electric Philip K. Dick
Ubik Philip K. Dick
American Pastoral Philip Roth
Portnoys Complaint Philip Roth
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury
The Sportswriter Richard Ford
Native Son Richard Wright
Revolutionary Road Richard Yates
All the Kings Men Robert Penn Warren
Dog Soldiers Robert Stone
Midnight's Children Salman Rushdie
Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow
Herzog Saul Bellow
Humboldts Gift Saul Bellow
Mr. Sammlers Planet Saul Bellow
Seize the Day Saul Bellow
Ravelstein Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March Saul Bellow
Gravity's Rainbow Thomas Pynchon
The Crying of Lot 49 Thomas Pynchon
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder
Beloved Toni Morrison
Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
A House for Mr Biswas V.S. Naipaul
The Moviegoer Walker Percy
Lord of the Flies William Golding
Possession A.S. Byatt
Light in August William Faulkner
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner
Count Zero William Gibson
Mona Lisa Overdrive William Gibson
Neuromancer William Gibson
Naked Lunch William S. Burroughs
The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron
Sophies Choice William Styron
White Teeth Zadie Smith
]