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Classic Books list
I recently began my journey into classic literature. I’ve always read a lot of biographies (mostly music-related, since that’s my main interest) and more contemporary books. Earlier this year, I set a goal for myself: to read ALL the major classics of literature. I searched through many lists online and compiled the titles that showed up most often. So far, I’ve already read 32 books from this list.
My goal is that whenever a classic book is mentioned, I’ve already read it. I know that’s impossible, but in today’s world where so few people read, I feel that going through all these books will put me ahead of about 95% of people.
I’ll share the list in this post, and I’d love to hear your thoughts—am I missing any essential classic that should definitely be included?
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas - Assis
Dom Casmurro - Assis
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
Wuthering Heights - Brontë
Jane Eyre - Brontë
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
The Stranger - Camus
In Cold Blood - Capote
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Carroll
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Hearts of Darkness - Conrad
Divine Comedy - Dante
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Oliver Twist - Dickens
A Christmas Carol - Dickens
Great Expectations - Dickens
David Copperfield - Dickens
White Nights - Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
Demons - Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
The Three Musketeers - Dumas
Middlemarch - Eliot
The Invisible Man - Ellison
The Little Prince - Exupéry
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Faust - Goethe
Catch-22 - Heller
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
Dune - Herbert
Siddhartha - Hesse
Steppenwolf - Hesse
The Iliad and The Odyssey - Homer
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Hugo
Les Misérables - Hugo
Brave New World - Huxley
Ulysses - Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
Metamorphosis - Kafka
On The Road - Kerouac
It - King
The Stand - King
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
The Magic Mountain - Mann
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Márquez
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
Moby Dick - Melville
Beloved - Morrison
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell
Animal Farm - Orwell
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
Barren Lives - Ramos
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
The Outsiders - S.E Hinton
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Othello - Shakespeare
King Lear - Shakespeare
Frankenstein - Shelley
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
East of Eden - Steinbeck
Dracula - Stoker
Gulliver’s Travels - Swift
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
First Love - Turgenev
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain
Aeneid - Virgil
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
Mrs Dalloway - Woolf
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
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I recently began my journey into classic literature. I’ve always read a lot of biographies (mostly music-related, since that’s my main interest) and more contemporary books. Earlier this year, I set a goal for myself: to read ALL the major classics of literature. I searched through many lists online and compiled the titles that showed up most often. So far, I’ve already read 32 books from this list.
My goal is that whenever a classic book is mentioned, I’ve already read it. I know that’s impossible, but in today’s world where so few people read, I feel that going through all these books will put me ahead of about 95% of people.
I’ll share the list in this post, and I’d love to hear your thoughts—am I missing any essential classic that should definitely be included?
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas - Assis
Dom Casmurro - Assis
Pride and Prejudice - Austen
Fahrenheit 451 - Bradbury
Wuthering Heights - Brontë
Jane Eyre - Brontë
The Master and Margarita - Bulgakov
A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
Naked Lunch - Burroughs
The Stranger - Camus
In Cold Blood - Capote
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Carroll
Don Quixote - Cervantes
Hearts of Darkness - Conrad
Divine Comedy - Dante
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
Oliver Twist - Dickens
A Christmas Carol - Dickens
Great Expectations - Dickens
David Copperfield - Dickens
White Nights - Dostoevsky
Notes from Underground - Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
The Idiot - Dostoevsky
Demons - Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov - Dostoevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
The Three Musketeers - Dumas
Middlemarch - Eliot
The Invisible Man - Ellison
The Little Prince - Exupéry
The Sound and the Fury - Faulkner
The Great Gatsby - Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary - Flaubert
Faust - Goethe
Catch-22 - Heller
The Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway
Dune - Herbert
Siddhartha - Hesse
Steppenwolf - Hesse
The Iliad and The Odyssey - Homer
The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Hugo
Les Misérables - Hugo
Brave New World - Huxley
Ulysses - Joyce
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - Joyce
Metamorphosis - Kafka
On The Road - Kerouac
It - King
The Stand - King
To Kill a Mockingbird - Lee
The Magic Mountain - Mann
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Márquez
Blood Meridian - McCarthy
Moby Dick - Melville
Beloved - Morrison
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Nineteen Eighty-Four - Orwell
Animal Farm - Orwell
In Search of Lost Time - Proust
Barren Lives - Ramos
The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger
The Outsiders - S.E Hinton
Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Macbeth - Shakespeare
Othello - Shakespeare
King Lear - Shakespeare
Frankenstein - Shelley
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
The Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck
Of Mice and Men - Steinbeck
East of Eden - Steinbeck
Dracula - Stoker
Gulliver’s Travels - Swift
War and Peace - Tolstoy
Anna Karenina - Tolstoy
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy
The Lord of the Rings - Tolkien
Fathers and Sons - Turgenev
First Love - Turgenev
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Twain
Aeneid - Virgil
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Wilde
Mrs Dalloway - Woolf
To the Lighthouse - Woolf
#entertainment
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