Over on listography, I have "read the classics" as a life goal. I've been trying to find the perfect list before finally deciding to cull one together myself . . . Am I missing any of the great ones? Are there any I should take off? I have crossed through the ones I have read. How embarrasingly few. I am working on Wuthering Heights right now.
Interesting how Vox numbered them.
- A Death in the Family, James Agee
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway- A Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O’Connor
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
- Aesop's Fables, Aesop
- The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
- Agnes Grey, Anne Bronte
- All the King’s Men, Robert P. Warren
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
- The Ambassadors, Henry James
- An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
Antigone, Sophocles- The Arabian Nights, Anonymous
- The Art of War, Sun Tzu
- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
- The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath- Beowulf, Anonymous
- Bleak House, Charles Dickens
- The Bostonians, Henry James
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London
- Candide, Voltaire
- The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
- Catch 22, Joseph Heller
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- The Collected Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde
- The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson
- Common Sense and Other Writings, Thomas Paine
- The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. I, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Vol. II, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Confessions, St. Augustine of Hippo
- A Connecticut Yankee in King Authur's Court, Mark Twain
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Crucible, Arthur Miller
- Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
- Daisy Miller, Henry James
- David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
- Dead Souls, Nikolai Gogol
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller- The Death of Ivan Ilych, Leo Tolstoy
The Diary of Anne Franks, Ann FrankThe Divine Comedy, Dante- Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
- Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
- Dracula, Bram Stoker
- Emma, Jane Austen
- The Enchanted Castle, Edith Nesbit
- Essays and Poems, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Essential Dialogues , Plato
- Essential Fiction and Poems, Edgar Allan Poe
- Ethan Frome and Selected Stories, Edith Wharton
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
- Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen
- Fathers and Sons, Ivan Turgenev
For Who the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway- The Four Feathers, A.E.W. Mason
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams- Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
- The Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald- Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
Hamlet, Shakespeare- Hard Times, Charles Dickens
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton
- The House of Spirits, Isabel Allende
- The House of the Dead and Poor Folk, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Howards End, E. M. Forster
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
- The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Harriet A. Jacobs
The Inferno, Dante- Ivanhoe, Sir Walter Scott
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
- Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
- Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
- The Jungle Books, Rudyard Kipling
- Kim, Rudyard Kipling
- King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard
- Lady Chatterley's Lover, D. H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving
- Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos
- Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
- The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell
Little Women, Louisa May Alcott- Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
- Lost Illusions, Honore de Balzac
Macbeth, Shakespeare- Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
- Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
- Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
- The Mayor of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
- The Metamorphoses, Ovid
- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare- Middlemarch, George Eliot
- Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
- Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
- Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
- My Ántonia, Willa Cather
- My Bondage and My Freedom, Frederick Douglass
- Nana, Emile Zola
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth, Sojourner Truth
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass
- Nicholas Nickleby, Charles Dickens
- Night, Elie Weisel
- Night and Day, Virginia Woolf
- Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
- Notes from Underground, Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Odyssey, HomerOedipus Rex, Sophocles- Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
O Pioneers!, Willa Cather- The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
Our Town, Thornton Wilder- Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
- Persuasion, Jane Austen
Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
- Poetics and Rhetoric, Aristotle
The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
- The Possessed, Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain
- Pudd'nhead Wilson, Mark Twain
- Purgatorio, Dante
- Pygmalion and Three Other Plays, George Bernard Shaw
- The Red and the Black, Stendhal
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen CraneRepublic, Plato- The Return of the Native, Thomas Hardy
- Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare- A Room with a View, E. M. Forster
- Sailing Alone Around the World, Joshua Slocum
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne- The Scarlet Pimpernel, Baroness Orczy
- The Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
- The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Selected Stories, O. Henry
- Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
- Sentimental Education, Gustave Flaubert
- Silas Marner, George Eliot
- Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
- Six Plays, Henrik Ibsen
- Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
- The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
- Sula, Toni Morrison
- Swann's Way, Marcel Proust
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
- Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
- This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Three Lives, Gertrude Stein
- Three Theban Plays, Sophocles
- The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Time Machine, H. G. Wells
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Tom Jones, Henry Fielding
- Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Turn of the Screw, Henry James
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Utopia, Thomas More
- Vanity Fair, William Thackeray
- The Voyage Out, Virginia Woolf
- Walden and Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
- War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
- The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells
- Ward No. 6, Anton Chekhov
- The Waste Land , T. S. Eliot
- The Way We Live Now, Anthony Trollope
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- The Wings of the Dove, Henry James
- Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell
- The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
- Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
