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List of Classic Literature

Updated on May 30, 2013

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1984 (George Orwell)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)

A

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (Mark Twain)

A Death in the Family (James Agee)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)

Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)

A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemmingway)

Age of Reason (Jean Paul Sartre)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)

Andersonville (MacKinlay Kantor)

Animal Farm (George Orwell)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

Arrowsmith (Sinclair Lewis)

Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand) 

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)

B

Babbit (Sinclair Lewis)

Bell Jar (Sylivia Plath)

Beowulf (UNKNOWN, ancient English)

Holy Bible (VARIOUS)

Big Sky ( Alfred Bertram Guthrie)

Billy Budd (Herman Meville)

Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)

Bless Me, Ultima (Rudolfo Anaya)

Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)

Brothers Karamozov (Fyodor Dostoyevski)

C

Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk)

Call of the Wild (Jack London)

Cannery Row (John Steinbeck)

Candide (Voltaire)

Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)

Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

Catcher in the Rye (Jerome David Salinger)

Color Purple (Alice Walker)

Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevski)

Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)

D

Daisy Miller (Henry James)

Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)

David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)

Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)

Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy)

Dombey and Son (Charles Dickens)

Don Quiote de la Mancha (Miguel de Cervantes)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)

Dune (Frank Herbert)

E

Emma (Jane Austen)

Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)

F

Farenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

Farewell to Manzanar (Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston)

Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenve)

Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)

Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)

For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)

Frankenstein (Mary Shelly)

French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)

G

Germinal (Emile Zola)

Giant (Edna Ferber)

Giants in the Earth (Ole Edvart Rolvaag)

Go Tell it on the Mountain (James Baldwin)

Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)

Good Earth (Pearl Sydenstricker Buck)

Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)

Great Gatsby (Francis Scott Fitzgerald)

Great Short Works of Joseph Conrad (Joseph Conrad)

Green Mansions (William Henry Hudson)

Grendel (John Gardiner)

Gulliver's Travels (Johnathan Swift)

H

Heart is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)

Hiroshima (John Hersey)

House of Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo)

I

I Heard the Owl Call My Name (Margaret Craven)

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (Hannah Green)

In This Sign (Joanne Greenberg)

Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)

Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott)

J

Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)

Jungle Books (Rudyard Kipling)

K

Kidnapped Robert (Lewis Stevenson)

Kristen Lavransdatter (Sigrid Undset)

L

Lady Chatterly's Lover (David Herbert Richards Lawrence)

Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)

Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)

Le Morte D'Arthur (Thomas Malory)

Le Pere Goriot Honore De (Balzac)

Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)

Look Homeward Angel (Thomas Wolfe)

Lord Jim (Joseph Conrad)

Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

Lord of the Rings (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien)

M

Madame Bovary (Gustav Flaubert)

Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)

Main Street (Sinclair Lewis)

Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy)

Metamorphis (Franz Kafka)

Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)

Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)

Mutiny on the Bounty (Charles Nordhoff)

My Antonia (Willa Cather)

N

Native Son (Richard Wright)

Nausea (Jean Paul Sartre)

Nectar in a Sieve (Kamala Markandaya)

Northwest Passage (Kenneth Roberts)

O

Of Human Bondage (William Somerset Maugham)

Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)

Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)

On the Beach (Nevil Shute)

On the Road (Jack Kerouac)

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Alexander Solzhenitzyn)

One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

P

Painted Bird (Jerzy Kosinski)

Pearl (John Steinbeck)

Pilgim's Progress (John Bunyon)

Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)

Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austin)

Q

Quo Vadis (Henryk Sienkiewicz)

R

Rabbit Run (John Updike)

Rebecca (Daphne Dumaurier)

Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)

Red Pony (John Steinbeck)

Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy)

Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred Taylor)

S

Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorn)

Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)

Separate Peace (John Knowles)

Shane (Jack Schaefer)

Sherlock Holmes, the Complete Stories (Arthur Conan Doyle)

Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)

Silas Marner (George Eliot)

Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)

Slaughterhouse-five (Kurt Vonnegut)

Song of Roland (UNKNOWN, ancient French)

Sons and Lovers (David Henry Lawrence)

Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)

Stranger (Albert Camus)

Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)

T

Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)

Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)

The Aeneid (Virgil)

The American (Henry James)

The Castle (Franz Kafka)

The Chosen (Chaim Potok)

The Dollmaker (Harriet Arnow)

The Fixer (Bernard Malamud)

The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)

The Hobbit (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien)

The Iliad (Homer)

The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)

The King Must Die (Mary Renault)

The Man in the Iron Mask (Alexandre Dumas)

The Odyssey (Homer)

The Old Curiosity Shop (Charles Dickens)

The Once and Future King (Terence Hanbury White)

The Oxbow Incident ( Walter van Tilburg Clark)

The Natural (Bernard Malamud)

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

The Plague (Albert Camus)

The Red and the Black (Henri Stendhal)

The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett)

The Stranger (Albert Camus)

The Tin Drum (Gunter Grass)

The Yearling (Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings)

Three Musketeers (Alexander Dumas)

Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)

Time Machine (Herbert George Wells)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)

Tom Jones ( Henry Fielding)

Treasure Island (Robert Lewis Stevenson)

Turn of the Screw (Henry James)

U

U.S.A. (John Dos Passos)

Ugly American (William Julius Lederer/Eugene Burdick)

Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet (Beecher Stowe)

V

Vanity Fair (William Thackeray)

W

Walkabout (James Marshall)

War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

Wind, Sand and Stars (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)

Women in Love (David Herbert Lawrence)

Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)

Y

You Can't Go Home Again (Thomas Wolfe)

Z

Zorba the Greek (Nikos Kazantzakis)

Compilations

Works of Edgar Allen Poe (Edgar Allan Poe)

Works of William Shakespeare (William Shakespeare)

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