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50 Classic Books Everyone Should Read in Their Lifetime

classic books

• 1984 by George Orwell 

• A House for Mr. Biswas by V.S. Naipaul

• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

• Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

• Cane by Jean Toomer 

• Emma by Jane Austen 

• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 

• Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin 

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 

• Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

• Howards End by E.M. Forster

• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 

• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 

• Middlemarch by George Eliot 

• Moby-Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville 

• My Antonia by Willa Cather 

• Native Son by Richard Wright 

•  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass 

• Night by Elie Wiesel 

• Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov 

• Paradise Lost by John Milton 

• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 

• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 

• The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

• The Awakening by Kate Chopin

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

• The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky 

• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

• The Complete Stories by Flannery O’Connor

• The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams 

• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers 

• The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper 

• Metamorphoses by Ovid 

• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy 

• The Odyssey by Homer 

• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 

• The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston 

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

• Ulysses by James Joyce 

• Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 

• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte