So far, my classic list looks like this:
1. I Promessi Sposi
2. The Grapes of Wrath – Steinbeck
3. Of Mice and Men – Steinbeck
4. Slaughterhouse Five – Vonnegut
5. Things Fall Apart – Achebe
6. Madame Bovary – Flaubert
7. The House of Mirth – Wharton
8. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler –
Calvino
9. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl –
Jacobs
10. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas –
Stein
11. Animal Farm – Orwell (reread)
12. A Midwife’s Tale – Ulrich
13. Pygmalion – Shaw (reread)
14. Our Town – Wilder (reread)
15. Complete poems – Dickinson (reread)
16. Complete poems – Frost (reread)
17. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – McCullers
18. Howards End – Forster
19. Native Son – Wright (reread)
20. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek – Dillard
21. The Rest is Noise – Ross
22. A Prayer for Owen Meany – Irving
23. The Handmaid’s Tale – Atwood (reread)
24. David Copperfield – Dickens (reread)
25. The Assault – Mulisch
26. Autobiography of a Javanese Princess –
Cartini
27. The Wind-up Bird Chronicles – Murakami
28. The Education of Henry Adams – Adams
29. The Book of Abigail and John – Addams
30. The Strange Career of Jim Crow –
Woodworth
31. Mornings on Horseback – McCullough
32. The Making of the Atomic Bomb – Rhodes
33. Silent Spring – Carson
34. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat –
Sacks
35. Ceremony - Silko
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