Classics Club reading list. Last updated: 7/4/25
(I updated my list with classics I read before I started blogging and with classics still languishing on my TBR on 5/21/25. So I am well beyond the first 50 books on my classics club list, though I never kept a copy of my original list.)
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Title |
Author |
Date completed |
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Things Fall Apart |
Achebe, Chinua |
30-Apr-07 |
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
A |
Adams, Douglass |
11-May-11 |
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A Death in the Family |
Agee, James |
16-Oct-24 |
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Little Women (Re-read) |
Alcott, Louisa May |
27-Nov-16 |
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Divine Comedy |
Alighieri, Dante |
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Bless Me, Ultima |
Anaya, Ruldolfo |
5-Oct-14 |
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Fairy Tales |
Anderson, Hans Christian |
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Winesburg, Ohio |
Anderson, Sherwood |
21-Oct-19 |
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Angelou, Maya |
15-Oct-06 |
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Wouldn’t Take Nothing from My
Journey Now |
Angelou, Maya |
15-Jun-96 |
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Emma |
Austen, Jane |
1-Nov-10 |
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Lady Susan |
Austen, Jane |
15-Sep-10 |
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Love and Friendship |
Austen, Jane |
10
Oct-18 |
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Mansfield Park |
Austen, Jane |
14-Apr-14 |
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Sense and Sensibility |
Austen, Jane |
22-Jun-13 |
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Sanditon and The Watsons |
Austen, Jane |
15-Feb-07 |
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If Beale Street Could Talk |
Baldwin, James |
12-Sep-19 |
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Giovanni’s Room |
Baldwin, James |
28-Oct-24 |
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Go Tell It on the Mountain |
Baldwin, James |
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Peter Pan |
Barrie, J.M. |
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz |
Baum, L. Frank |
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Are You There, God? It’s Me,
Margaret |
Blume, Judy |
1-May-20 |
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Aleph and Other Stories |
Borges, Jorges Luis |
15-Oct-23 |
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Fahrenheit 451 |
Bradbury, Ray |
10-Oct-08 |
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Something by |
Bradbury, Ray |
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Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The |
Bronte, Anne |
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Jane Eyre |
Bronte, Charlotte |
15-Jan-80 |
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Wuthering Heights |
Bronte, Emily |
1-Dec-08 |
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The Good Earth (Reread) |
Buck, Pearl S. |
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The Master and Margarita |
Bulgakov, Mikhail |
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The Secret Garden |
Burnett, Francis Hodgson |
1-Mar-22 |
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Kindred |
Butler, Octavia |
15-Mar-18 |
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The Postman Always Rings Twice |
Cain, James |
06-Nov-24 |
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If On a Winter's Night a Traveler |
Calvino, Italo |
15-Jan-23 |
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s |
Capote, Truman |
11-June-23 |
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A Christmas Memory, et al |
Capote, Truman |
30-Nov-24 |
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Death Comes for the Archbishop |
Cather, Willa |
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My Antonia |
Cather, Willa |
15-Dec-08 |
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One of Ours |
Cather, Willa |
6-Jun-21 |
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Don Quixote |
de Cervantes, Miguels |
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Big Sleep, The |
Chandler, Raymond |
10-Aug-19 |
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Cherry Orchard, The |
Chekhov, Anton |
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ABC Murders, The |
Christie, Agatha |
20-Mar-23 |
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And Then There Were None |
Christie, Agatha |
19-June-16 |
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Cards on the Table |
Christie, Agatha |
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Murder on the Orient Express |
Christie, Agatha |
21-Feb-22 |
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Murder of Roger Ackroyd, The |
Christie, Agatha |
06-Jun-18 |
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Murder at the Vicarage, The |
Christie, Agatha |
23-Jan-18 |
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Mysterious Affair at Styles, The |
Christie, Agatha |
1-May-03 |
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The House on Mango Street |
Cisneros, Sandra |
1-Oct-07 |
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Woman in White, The |
Collins, Wilkie |
5-May-15 |
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Heart of Darkness |
Conrad, Joseph |
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BFG, The |
Dahl, Roald |
28-Feb-19 |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory |
Dahl, Roald |
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Robinson Crusoe |
Defoe, Daniel |
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A Christmas Carol |
Dickens, Charles |
19-Oct-24 |
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Dickens, Charles |
2, May-25 |
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Great Expectations |
Dickens, Charles |
19-Sep-15 |
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood |
Dickens, Charles |
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The Tale of Two Cities |
Dickens, Charles |
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Out of Africa |
Dinesen, Isak |
23-Oct.-16 |
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The Brothers Karamazov |
30-Mar-25 |
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Crime and Punishment |
Dostoevsky, Fyodor |
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass ... |
Douglass, Frederick |
29-Jul-08 |
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan |
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The Hound of the Baskervilles |
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan |
1-Feb-08 |
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Rebecca (reread) |
Du Maurier, Daphne |
1-Sep-09 |
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The Count of Monte Cristo |
Dumas, Alexandre |
28-Mar-23 |
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The Name of the Rose |
Eco, Umberto |
10-Sep-18 |
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Invisible Man |
Ellison, Ralph |
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Middlemarch |
Eliot, George |
29-Oct-23 |
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Silas Marner |
Eliot, George |
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Four Quartets |
Eliott, T.S. |
15-Apr-16 |
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Neverending Story |
Ende, Michael |
17-Apr-15 |
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As I Lay Dying |
Faulkner, William |
2-Oct-22 |
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Reivers, The |
Faulkner, William |
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So Big |
Ferber, Edna |
30-May-20 |
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Great Gatsby, The |
Fitzgerald, Scott F. |
24-Apr-13 |
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Madam Bovary |
Flaubert, Gustave |
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Passage to India |
Forster, E.M. |
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Alas Babylon |
Frank, Pat |
1-Jul-08 |
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My Brilliant Career |
Franklin, Miles |
1-Jan-18 |
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The Snow Goose |
Gallico, Paul |
11-Nov-11 |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude |
Garcia Marquez, Gabriel |
7-Sep-14 |
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Something by |
Gaskell, Elizabeth |
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The Odd Women |
Gissing, George |
12-Nov-97 |
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Lord of the Flies |
Golding, William |
22-Feb-11 |
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Princess Bride, The |
Goldman, William |
18-Nov-20 |
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Grimm’s Fairy Tales |
Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm |
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The Maltese Falcon |
Hammett, Dashell |
15-Aug-03 |
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84, Charing Cross Road |
Hanff, Helene |
18-Oct-21 |
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles |
Hardy, Thomas |
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The Scarlet Letter |
Hawthorne, Nathaniel |
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Catch-22 |
Heller, Joseph |
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Farewell to Arms, A |
Hemingway, Ernest |
3-Oct-13 |
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Old Man and the Sea (Reread) |
Hemingway, Ernest |
26-Feb-24 |
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The Sun Also Rises |
Hemingway, Ernest |
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Moveable Feast, A |
Hemingway, Ernest |
27-Apr-13 |
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Dune |
Herbert,
Frank |
24-Apr-20 |
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A
Bell for Adano |
Hersey,
John |
5-Sept-24 |
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Siddhartha |
Hesse,
Herman |
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Talented
Mr. Ripley, The |
Highsmith,
Patricia |
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Outsiders |
Hinton,
S.E. |
1-Feb-06 |
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Iliad |
Homer |
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Hind’s Feet in High Places |
Hurnard, Hannah |
17-Jun-20 |
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Their Eyes Were Watching God |
Hurston, Zora Neale |
15-Aug-15 |
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Brave New World, A |
Huxley, Aldous |
3-Mar-11 |
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The Turn of the Screw |
James, Henry |
10-Nov-24 |
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Something by |
James, Henry |
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Sound of the Mountain |
Kawabata, Yasunari |
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest |
Kesey, Ken |
1-Sept-23 |
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Three Men in a Boat |
Jerome, Jerome K. |
20-Mar-15 |
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Now in November |
Johnson, Josephine Winslow |
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Phantom Tollbooth, The |
Juster, Norton |
11-Nov-11 |
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Metamorphosis, The |
Kafka, Franz |
19-May-21 |
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Trial, The |
Kafka, Franz |
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On the Road |
Kerouac, Jack |
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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam |
Khayyam, Omar |
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The Jungle Book |
Kipling, Rudyard |
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Passing |
Larson, Nella |
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Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The |
le Carre, John |
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To Kill a Mockingbird |
Lee, Harper |
15-Jul-15 |
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Left Hand of Darkness |
Le Guin, Ursula |
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The Chronicles of Narnia (reread
series) |
Lewis, C.S. |
Mar-May-22 |
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The Great Divorce |
Lewis, C.S. |
15-Apr-96 |
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Elmer Gantry |
Lewis, Sinclair |
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The Robe |
Lloyd, Douglas |
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The Palace Walk |
Mahfouz, Naguib |
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West With the Night |
Markham, Beryl |
30-Jun-16 |
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The Painted Veil |
Maugham, Somerset |
05-Nov-21 |
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter |
McCullers, Carson |
1-May-96 |
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Lonesome Dove |
McMurtry, Larry |
15-Apr-20 |
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Gone with the Wind |
Mitchell, Margaret |
1-Sep-76 |
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Moby-Dick |
Melville, Herman |
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Tales of the South Pacific |
Michener, James |
12-Apr-17 |
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Anne of Green Gables (Reread) |
Montgomery, L.M. |
16-Aug-16 |
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The Bluest Eye |
Morrison, Toni |
14-May-2000 |
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Beloved |
Morrison, Toni |
8-Apr-11 |
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Lolita |
Nabokov, Vladimir |
1-Feb-07 |
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Suite Française |
Nemirovsky, Irene |
8-Sep-18 |
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A Good Man is Hard to Find |
O’Connor, Flannery |
30-Jun-16 |
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1984 (Reread) |
Orwell, George |
24-Feb-09 |
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Something by |
Parker, Dorothy |
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Cry, The Beloved Country |
Paton, Alan |
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Bell Jar, The |
Plath, Sylvia |
30-Apr-11 |
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The Raven (Reread) |
Poe, Edgar Allan |
16-Apr-12 |
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Remembrance of Things Past |
Proust, Marcel |
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Excellent Women |
Pym, Barbara |
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Westing Game, The |
Raskin, Ellen |
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Yearling, The |
Rawling, Marjorie Kinnan |
9-Jan-16 |
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Wild Sargasso Sea |
Rhys, Jean |
28-Jan-19 |
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Poems from the Book of Hours |
Rilke, Rainier Maria |
12-Mar-16 |
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Letters to a Young Poet |
Rilke, Rainier Maria |
21-Mar-16 |
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The Goblin Market and other Poems |
Rossetti, Christina |
05-Mar-23 |
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Pedro Paramo |
Rulfo, Juan |
26-Nov-24 |
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Masnavi: Book One |
Rumi |
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Little Prince, The |
Saint-Exupery, Antoine du |
3-Apr-15 |
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The Catcher in the Rye |
Salinger, J.D. |
15-Nov-95 |
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Hamlet |
Shakespeare |
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Romeo and Juliet |
Shakespeare |
16-Apr-23 |
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Frankenstein |
Shelley, Mary |
20-Jul-23 |
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Tale of the Genji |
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A Town Like Alive |
Shute, Neville |
7-Dec-11 |
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Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A |
Smith, Betty |
1-Feb-06 |
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I Capture the Castle |
Smith, Dodie |
9-Nov-97 |
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One Day in the Life of Ivan
Denisovich |
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr |
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Kokoro |
Soseki, Natsume |
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Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, The |
Spark, Muriel |
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The Angle of Repose |
Stegner, Wallace |
12-Nov-97 |
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Grapes of Wrath, The |
Steinbeck, John |
8-Sep-22 |
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East of Eden |
Steinbeck, John |
15-Feb-20 |
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The Red Pony |
Steinbeck, John |
5-Jun-09 |
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A Child’s Garden of Verses |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
26-Nov-21 |
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Treasure Island |
Stevenson, Robert Louis |
02-Nov-21 |
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Dracula |
Stoker, Dram |
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Valley of the Dolls |
Susann, Jaqueline |
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The Magnificent Ambersons |
Tarkington, Booth |
18-May-25 |
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The Fellowship of the Ring Trilogy |
Tolkien, J.R.R. |
1974 |
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Anna Karenina |
Tolstoy, Leo |
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
Tolstoy, Leo |
09-Nov-24 |
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Confederacy of Dunces, A |
Toole, John Kennedy |
18-Aug-13 |
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
Twain, Mark |
1-Feb-09 |
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Breathing Lessons |
Tyler, Anne |
11-Jul-21 |
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Around the World in Eighty Days |
Verne, Jules |
17-Mar-07 |
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Candide |
Voltaire |
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Slaughterhouse -Five |
Vonnegut, Kurt |
27-Sep-17 |
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Winter Wheat |
Walker, Mildred |
14-Jul-19 |
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All the King’s Men |
Warren, Robert Penn |
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Brideshead Revisited |
Waugh, Evelyn |
15-Jan-09 |
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Scoop |
Waugh, Evelyn |
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Optimist’s Daughter, The |
Welty, Eudora |
20-Jan-25 |
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Age of Innocence, The |
Wharton, Edith |
20-Apr-16 |
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Leaves of Grass |
Whitman, Walt |
9-Mar-17 |
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The Sword in the Stone |
White, T.H. |
11-Oct-17 |
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Picture of Dorian Grey |
Wilde, Oscar |
22-Oct-21 |
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Bridge Over San Luis Rey |
Wilder, Thornton |
06-Nov-23 |
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Our Town |
Wilder, Thornton |
08-Nov-23 |
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Joy in the Morning |
Wodehouse, P.G. |
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The Return of Jeeves |
Wodehouse, P.G. |
25-Apr-23 |
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A Room of One’s Own |
Woolf, Virginia |
27-Nov-24 |
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To the Lighthouse |
Woolf, Virginia |
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Mrs. Dalloway |
Woolf, Virginia |
20-May-24 |
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Germinal |
Zola, Emile |
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