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44 Classic Novels To Read Before You Die

1) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1884, Mark Twain

Moral questions are raised in this touching (and amusing) story about Huck’s adventures on the Mississippi River with the runaway slave Jim.

2) All Quiet on the Western Front

1929, Erich Maria Remarque

The tale of a young German sent to fight in the trenches during World War I, this novel describes the emotional scars of all wars.

3) Beloved

1987, Toni Morrison

Morrison’s haunting novel follows the story of a woman who escapes from slavery to freedom in Cincinnati but remains damaged by the murder of her daughter.

4) The Best Short Stories

1945, O. Henry

Short stories provide irony and coincidence in everyday life. O. Henry’s signature is flowing, terse prose and the surprise ending.

5) Brave New World

1932, Aldous Huxley

A brilliantly written satire of the future in which society is made to be a machine of sorts. A grim and unforgettable read.

6) The Call of the Wild

1903, Jack London

Buck, the Husky, flees to the wild, where he becomes the leader of a wolf pack. Excitement and adventure set in Alaska’s barren wildnerness.

7) Catch-22

1961, Joseph Heller

This black comedy about World War II Army Air Corps aviators attempting to survive the absurdities of military bureaucracy has become a part of the American collective consciousness.

The Catcher in the Rye

1951, J.D. Salinger

Fleeing his Pennsylvania prep school, Holden Caulfield holes up in New York City and rails against adult phoniness while trying to lose his innocence.

9) The Complete Sherlock Holmes

1936, Arthur Conan Doyle

The Baker Street saga is chronicled in this collection that includes “A Study in Scarlet,” the 1887 story that introduced the English detective Sherlock Holmes, and his assistant Dr. Watson.

10) Crime and Punishment

1886, Fyodor Dostoevsky

First published in Russian in 1866, this masterful psychological novel shows the horror and remorse of Raskolnikoff, a student, after he has killed an old woman for her money.

11) Cry, the Beloved Country

1948, Alan Paton

In lyrical language Paton relates the moving story of a Zulu minister who searches for his children in Johannesburg, only to learn that South African society has destroyed their lives.

12) Don Quixote

1612, Miguel de Cervantes

Originally published in Spanish in 1605, Cervantes’ satire about a gentle visionary who becomes a knight after reading too many chivalric romances is a universal tale of idealism versus practicality.

13) Ethan Frome

1911, Edith Wharton

An unhappy couple attempts suicide but find a far worse fate in this tale of irony and retribution in rural New England.

14) Gone with the Wind

1936, Margaret Mitchell

Set against the backdrop of Georgia during the Civil War, Mitchell’s massive historical novel chronicles the tempestuous romance of Rhett Butler and Scarlett O’Hara.

15) The Good Earth

1931, Pearl S. Buck

This Pulitzer Prize winner follows Wang Lung’s family from their early struggles to live off the land to their final disintegration as they move to the city.

16) The Grapes of Wrath

1939, John Steinbeck

Proletarian fiction at its finest, Steinbeck’s portrait of an Oklahoma family during the Depression spurred legislation to help stricken migrant workers.

17) The Great Gatsby

1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald

Jay Gatsby has built an illegal empire to win the love of Daisy Buchanan, but his sacrifices for her prove to be his downfall.

18) Heart of Darkness

1902, Joseph Conrad

Marlow relates the tale of Mr. Kurtz, successful in his greedy quest for ivory in the African Congo but leaving in its place hunger, death and slavery, for the natives.

19) Invisible Man

1952, Ralph Ellison

A young African American man moves to New York City and discovers he is “invisible,” seen only as a racial stereotype and never as himself.

20) Jane Eyre

1847, Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre’s ill-fated love for the brooding Mr. Rochester endures in this story of a strong-willed heroine who refuses to compromise herself.

21) Lord of the Flies

1954, William Golding

A group of English schoolboys, marooned on a tropical island during a time of atomic warfare, bring both civilization and savagery to their community.

22) Moby Dick

1851, Herman Melville

Captain Ahab’s obsessive struggle to defeat Moby Dick, the great white whale who maimed him, is the focus of Melville’s masterpiece.

23) My Antonia

1918, Willa Cather

In spite of a life of hard work, Bohemian immigrant Antonia Shimerda is sustained by the healthy Nebraska soil and her warm-hearted brood of children.

24) Native Son

1940, Richard Wright

The accidental death of his white boss’s daughter begins a chain of events from which Bigger Thomas, a bitter young black man, cannot escape.

25) Nineteen Eighty Four

1949, George Orwell

Ignorance is strength and peace is war in Orwell’s darkly imaginative vision of a future controlled by Big Brother and the Thought Police.

26) Of Human Bondage

1915, W. Somerset Maugham

Afflicted with a club foot, Philip Carey suffers through his life, struggling to free himself from a destructive love affair and finally finding contentment as a country doctor.

27) The Old Man and the Sea

1952, Ernest Hemingway

Santiago realizes the dream of catching a giant marlin, but he must battle the sharks for two days to bring his prize home.

28) Pride and Prejudice

1813, Jane Austen

A delightful comedy of marriage traces the courtship of Elizabeth and Darcy as they overcome his pride and her prejudice and fall in love.

29) The Red Badge of Courage

1895, Stephen Crane

Through the eyes of Henry Fleming, a young Civil War soldier, we see the fears of battle and the inexplicable courage that comes when soldiers unite in a wartime machine.

30) Robinson Crusoe

1719, Daniel Defoe

Defoe’s novel about a castaway marooned for twenty-four years on a deserted island is an engrossing story of survival, civilization, and barbarism.

31) The Scarlet Letter

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hawthorne’s novel is a study of sin, guilt, and revenge. Adultress Hester Prynne must bear public humiliation but Roger Chillingsworth and Arthur Dimmesdale suffer equally.

32) A Separate Peace

1959, John Knowles

Fifteen years later, the narrator remembers his boarding school roommate. The rivalry that tinged their friendship eventually leads to tragedy.

33) Silas Marner

1861, George Eliot

This classic story shows redemption for a lonely and bitter man in the form of a child who brings him love and hope.

34) The Sound and the Fury

1929, William Faulkner

The moral decay of the Old South is presented through the eyes of four members of the once prominent Compson family of Jackson, Mississippi.

35) The Stranger

1946, Albert Camus

First published in French in 1942, the narrator of Albert Camus’ existential masterpiece is an autobiographical figure who does not conform to religious morality or social convention.

36) A Tale of Two Cities

1859, Charles Dickens

This dramatic story of Paris and London during the Reign of Terror contains some of Dickens’ most memorable characters—Madame Defarge with her knitting and the self-sacrificing Sidney Carton.

37) Tales

1952, Edgar Allan Poe

A collection of short stories by the nineteenth century master of the macabre. Included are “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Fall of the House of Usher.”

38) Tess of the D’Urbervilles

1891, Thomas Hardy

Tess is ruined when her father’s vanity forces her to seek the favors of rich relations, and her life becomes a study in the grim reality of her times.

39) Their Eyes Were Watching God

1937, Zora Neale Hurston

An African-American woman in 1930s rural Florida finds freedom and self-knowledge through a personal journey encompassing three very different marriages.

40) To Kill a Mockingbird

1960, Harper Lee

Small town Alabama in the 1930s is the setting for this fine novel of a child’s brutal introdution to racial prejudice and adult injustice.

41) Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe

Stowe’s sentimental but realistic novel is often credited with heightening public awareness about the evils of slavery, thus hastening the Civil War.

42) War and Peace

1889, Leo Tolstoy

An enormous cast of characters brings life to Tolstoy’s panoramic chronicle of Napoleonic Russia. Originally published in the 1860s.

43) Winesburg, Ohio

1919, Sherwood Anderson

Twenty-three stories of small town America show the characters’ spiritual dreams in conflict with society’s provincialism and materialism.

44) Wuthering Heights

1847, Emily Bronte

Catherine and Heathcliff are the tempestuous lovers in this tale of passion and revenge on the Yorkshire moors.

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