An uber-classics list

My niece's husband, Bobby Powers, has a book blog. He reads a lot of business books but he has also wandered into a goal of reading the classics. Today I read through his list. I am not sure if he created the list or if he grabbed it from someplace else. He asked how many books his readers had read. I have read 57 of the 200, the number could be higher if I counted books I started but didn't complete or I read in a Illustrated Children's Classic Edition. What I like about this list is it has many modern classics on it---not just a stodgy list of books written by dead white guys from the British Empire. I don't intend to attempt to read all the other 143 books before my death, but I certainly am interested in reading more classics before I slip into oblivion.

⊗-books I've read

1. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe⊗
2. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams⊗
3. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott⊗
4. The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
5. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
6. Money by Martin Amis
7. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood ⊗
8. Emma by Jane Austen ⊗
9. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen ⊗
10. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
11. The Black Sheep by Honoré de Balzac
12. Malone Dies by Samuel Beckett
13. The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
14. Herzog by Saul Bellow
15. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
16. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ⊗
17. The Sleepwalkers by Hermann Broch
18. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë ⊗
19. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë ⊗
20. The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
21. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
22. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan ⊗
23. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess ⊗
24. If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
25. The Plague by Albert Camus
26. The Stranger by Albert Camus ⊗
27. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote ⊗
28. Oscar and Lucinda by Peter Carey
29. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carré
30. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ⊗
31. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
32. The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler ⊗
33. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
34. Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov
35. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie ⊗
36. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ⊗
37. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins ⊗
38. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
39. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
40. Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
41. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
42. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
43. Underworld by Don DeLillo
44. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz ⊗
45. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
46. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens ⊗
47. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens ⊗
48. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
49. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
50. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
51. Deliverance by James Dickey
52. Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli
53. The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
54. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
55. The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
56. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ⊗
57. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
58. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
59. The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
60. Middlemarch by George Eliot
61. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
62. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
63. L.A. Confidential by James Ellroy
64. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
65. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
66. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
67. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
68. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald ⊗
69. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
70. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
71. The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
72. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
73. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank⊗
74. The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
75. Neuromancer by William Gibson
76. Lord of the Flies by William Golding ⊗
77. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
78. The Tin Drum by Günter Grass
79. I, Claudius by Robert Graves
80. The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
81. The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith
82. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett ⊗
83. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
84. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
85. A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
86. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
87. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
88. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
89. Men Without Women by Ernest Hemingway
90. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway ⊗
91. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
92. Dune by Frank Herbert
93. The Iliad by Homer
94. The Odyssey by Homer
95. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo ⊗
96. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley ⊗
97. Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro ⊗
98. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
99. The Ambassadors by Henry James
100. The Golden Bowl by Henry James
101. The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
102. Dubliners by James Joyce
103. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
104. Ulysses by James Joyce
105. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
106. The Trial by Franz Kafka
107. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
108. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
109. It by Stephen King
110. The Stand by Stephen King
111. The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
112. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee ⊗
113. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle ⊗
114. The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
115. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis ⊗
116. The Call of the Wild by Jack London ⊗
117. Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
118. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
119. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
120. The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
121. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ⊗
122. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCallers ⊗
123. Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
124. Atonement by Ian McEwan ⊗
125. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
126. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
127. Paradise Lost by John Milton
128. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell⊗
129. The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
130. Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
131. Beloved by Toni Morrison⊗
132. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov⊗
133. Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
134. A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
135. 1984 by George Orwell ⊗
136. Animal Farm by George Orwell ⊗
137. U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
138. Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
139. Nightmare Abbey by Thomas Love Peacock
140. The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
141. Republic by Plato
142. The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe by Edgar Allen Poe
143. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
144. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman⊗
145. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
146. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
147. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque⊗
148. Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
149. Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson⊗
150. American Pastoral by Philip Roth
151. Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth
152. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling ⊗
153. Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
154. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ⊗
155. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger ⊗
156. Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
157. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
158. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
159. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
160. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
161. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
162. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ⊗
163. The Red and the Black by Stendhal
164. Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne
165. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
166. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
167. Dracula by Bram Stoker
168. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
169. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
170. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
171. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
172. The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien⊗
173. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien ⊗
174. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
175. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
176. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole⊗
177. The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
178. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain⊗
179. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
180. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
181. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
182. The Aeneid by Virgil
183. Candide by Voltaire
184. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut⊗
185. The Color Purple by Alice Walker⊗
186. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
187. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
188. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh⊗
189. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
190. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
191. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
192. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
193. Charlotte’s Web by EB White ⊗
194. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman⊗
195. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
196. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
197. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
198. Native Son by Richard Wright
199. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
200. One Thousand and One Nights by (Anon)⊗