Ann's Classic List





1.       Abbot, Edwin – Flatland




5.       Beckett, Samuel – Waiting for Godot

6.       Bennet, Alan – The uncommon reader


8.       Butler, Samuel – The way of all flesh

9.       Camus, Albert – The Fall


11.   Chaucer, Geoffrey – The Canterbury Tales



14.   Conrad, Joseph – Lord Jim

15.   Cooper, James Fenimore – The Deerslayer

16.   Defoe, Daniel – Moll Flanders

17.   Dickens, Charles – Bleak House

18.   Dickens, Charles – Our Mutual Friend

19.   Dostoevsky, Fyodor – The Adolescent

20.   Dreiser, Theodore – American Tragedy

21.   Du Maurier, Daphne – Rebecca

22.   Dumas, Alexandre – The count of Mont Cristo

23.   Eliot, George – Adam Bede

24.   Eliot, George – Middlemarch

25.   Eliot, T.S – The wasteland


27.   Fitzgerald F. Scott – Tender is the night

28.   Fitzgerald F. Scott – The beautiful and damned

29.   Fitzgerald F. Scott – This side of paradise

30.   Fitzgerald F. Scott – The love of the last tycoon

31.   Ford, Ford Madox – The good soldier


33.   Freud Sigmund – The interpretation of dreams

34.   Gaskell, Elizabeth – Ruth

35.   Greene, Graham – The power and glory

36.   Hardy, Thomas – A pair of blue eyes

37.   Hardy, Thomas – Return of the native

38.   Hawthorne, Nathaniel – The house of seven gables

39.   Heaney, Seamus – Beowulf

40.   Heller, Joseph – Catch 22

41.   Hemingway, Ernest – For whom the bell tolls

42.   Hemingway, Ernest – Islands in the stream

43.   Hemingway, Ernest – To have and to have npt

44.   Hemingway, Ernest – True at first light

45.   Hesse, Hermann – Steppenwolf

46.   Hugo, Victor – Les Miserables

47.   Hugo, Victor – The hunchback of notredame

48.   Hurston, Zora Neale – Their eyes were watching God

49.   Huxley, Aldous – Island

50.   Irving, John – A prayer for owen Mary


52.   Ishiguro Kazuo – Remains of the day

53.   James, Henry – The ambassodors

54.   James, Henry – The Golden Bowl




58.   Joyce, James – Finnegans wake

59.   Kafka, Franz – The trial

60.   Keller, Helen – The story of my life

61.   Kingsolver, Barbara – The poisonwood Bible

62.   Kipling, Rudyard – Kim

63.   Knowles, John – A separate peace

64.   Lady Muraski – The tale of the Genji

65.   Lawrence, D.H – Women in love

66.   Lermontov, Mikhail – A hero of our time

67.   Lewis, H.G – The monk

68.   Lewis, Sinclair – Arrowsmith

69.   Lewis, Sinclair – Mainstreet

70.   London, Jack – The sea wolf

71.   Machiavelli, Niccolo – The Prince

72.   Mailer, Norman – An American Dream


74.   Mann, Thomas – Death in Venice

75.   Mann, Thomas – The magic mountain

76.   Markandaya, Kamala – Nectar in a sieve

77.   Marquez, Gabriel Garcia – One Hundred years of Solitude

78.   Margqez, Gabriel Garcia – Love in the time of Cholera

79.   Maugham, W. Somerset – Of Human Bondage

80.   Maugham, W. Somerset – The Razors edge

81.   Melville Herman – Bartleby the scrivener

82.   Melville, Hermann – The razors edge

83.   Miller, Arthur – A view from the bridge

84.   Morrison, Toni – Beloved

85.   Morrison, Toni – Home

86.   Morrison, Toni – Paradise

87.   Nabokov Vladimir – Lolita

88.   Nabokov, Vladimir – Pale fire

89.   Nesbit. E -The Enchanted Castle

90.   Orwell, George – Burmese day

91.   Plath, Sylvia – Ariel


93.   Pyle, Howard – The story of King Arthur and his Knights

94.   Richardson, Samuel – Clarissa

95.   Richardson, Samuel – Pamela

96.   Rushdie, Salman – Midnight children

97.   Rushdie, Salman – The satanic verses

98.   Waugh, Evelyn – Brideshead Revisited

99.   Vonnegut, Kurt – Slaughterhouse Five


10 comments:

  1. Amazing list. You have a nice variety of authors.

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  2. Very Nice. We have some overlap, so I'll look forward to comparing notes.

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  3. Thank you Joseph. You are welcome. I would also love to see your thoughts on those books we share.

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    1. I've added your site to the list of great book blogs on my own. Cheers

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  4. So many great picks. Best wishes. :)

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  5. Really interesting list. I've never even heard of Flatland by Edwin Abbot before! I love when I discover new books.

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    1. Thanks for stopping by. I too love discovering new books.

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  6. Hi Ann, I’ve nominated you and your blog for the Premio Dardos Award: http://100greatestnovelsofalltimequest.blogspot.com/2015/07/premio-dardos-award.html

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