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Classics I want to read

  • December 28, 2024
  • 80 Books
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A list of classics I would like to read.

My criterion for classics at this time: Must be a title I've heard of, and Must be published 1969 or before. (My birth year)

This will be a dynamic list. I will delete these as I read, and add more once I've managed to get through a good number.

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
  • Maya Angelou
Ubik
Ubik
  • Philip K. Dick
The Goblin Reservation
The Goblin Reservation
  • Clifford D. Simak
The Chosen
The Chosen
  • Chaim Potok
Babel-17
Babel-17
  • Samuel R. Delany
Stormbringer
Stormbringer
  • Michael Moorcock
Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes
  • Pierre Boulle
  • Xan Fielding (Translator)
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Something Wicked This Way Comes
  • Ray Bradbury
The Cricket In Times Square
The Cricket In Times Square
  • George Selden
A Canticle for Leibowitz
A Canticle for Leibowitz
  • Walter M. Miller Jr.
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers
  • Robert A. Heinlein
Minority Report
Minority Report
  • Philip K. Dick
Giovanni's Room
Giovanni's Room
  • James Baldwin
The Long Tomorrow
The Long Tomorrow
  • Leigh Brackett
The Crucible
The Crucible
    Foundation and Empire
    Foundation and Empire
    • Isaac Asimov
    The Demolished Man
    The Demolished Man
    • Alfred Bester
    I, Robot
    I, Robot
    • Isaac Asimov
    1984
    1984
    • George Orwell
    City
    City
    • Clifford D. Simak
    Arsenic and Old Lace
    Arsenic and Old Lace
    • Joseph Kesselring
    Cover 0

    Lest Darkness Fall

    Lest Darkness Fall
    • L. Sprague de Camp
    The Yearling
    The Yearling
    • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    • Zora Neale Hurston
    Sir Percy Leads the Band
    Sir Percy Leads the Band
    • Emmuska Orczy
    The Shape of Things to Come
    The Shape of Things to Come
    • H. G. Wells
    Brave New World
    Brave New World
    • Aldous Huxley
    The Thirteen Problems
    The Thirteen Problems
    • Agatha Christie
    Orlando: A Biography
    Orlando: A Biography
    • Virginia Woolf
    The Man in the Brown Suit
    The Man in the Brown Suit
    • Agatha Christie
    The King of Elfland's Daughter
    The King of Elfland's Daughter
    • Lord Dunsany
    Captain Blood
    Captain Blood
    • Rafael Sabatini
    The Mark of Zorro
    The Mark of Zorro
    • Johnston McCulley
    The Land That Time Forgot
    The Land That Time Forgot
    • Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Pygmalion
    Pygmalion
    • George Bernard Shaw
    Tarzan of the Apes
    Tarzan of the Apes
    • Edgar Rice Burroughs
    The Lost World
    The Lost World
    • Arthur Conan Doyle
    Emerald City of Oz
    Emerald City of Oz
    • L. Frank Baum
    The Road To Oz
    The Road To Oz
    • L. Frank Baum
    Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
    Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
    • L. Frank Baum
    The Man of Property
    The Man of Property
    • John Galsworthy
    The Gift Of The Magi
    The Gift Of The Magi
    • O. Henry
    The Marvelous Land of Oz
    The Marvelous Land of Oz
    • L. Frank Baum
    The Turn Of The Screw
    The Turn Of The Screw
    • Henry James
    The Reluctant Dragon
    The Reluctant Dragon
    • Kenneth Grahame
    The Island of Dr. Moreau
    The Island of Dr. Moreau
    • H. G. Wells
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles
    • Thomas Hardy
    A Study in Scarlet
    A Study in Scarlet
    • Arthur Conan Doyle
    The Canterville Ghost
    The Canterville Ghost
    • Oscar Wilde
    Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    • Robert Louis Stevenson
    Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
    Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
    • Margaret Sidney
    Around the World in Eighty Days
    Around the World in Eighty Days
    • Jules Verne
    Carmilla
    Carmilla
    • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
    Middlemarch
    Middlemarch
    • George Eliot
    Little men
    Little men
    • Louisa May Alcott
    The First Men in the Moon
    The First Men in the Moon
    • Steven McLean
    • H. G. Wells
    The Woman in White
    The Woman in White
    • Wilkie Collins
    Madame Bovary
    Madame Bovary
    • Gustave Flaubert
    • Alan Russell (Translator)
    Cover 3

    The Cask Of Amontillado

    The Cask Of Amontillado
    • Edgar Allan Poe
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    • Alexandre Dumas
    The Tell-Tale Heart
    The Tell-Tale Heart
    • Edgar Allan Poe
    The Pit and the Pendulum
    The Pit and the Pendulum
    • Edgar Allan Poe
    The Fall of the House of Usher
    The Fall of the House of Usher
    • Edgar Allan Poe
    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
    • Washington Irving
    Ivanhoe
    Ivanhoe
    • Walter Scott
    The Vampyre
    The Vampyre
    • John William Polidori
    Emma
    Emma
    • Jane Austen
    • Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch (Translator)
    Gulliver's Travels
    Gulliver's Travels
    • Jonathan Swift
    Macbeth
    Macbeth
    • William Shakespeare
    The two noble kinsmen
    The two noble kinsmen
    • William Shakespeare
    Cymbeline
    Cymbeline
    • William Shakespeare
    • Gabriele Baldini (Translator)
    Don Quixote
    Don Quixote
    • Miguel de Cervantes
    • Edith Grossman
    Troilus and Cressida
    Troilus and Cressida
    • William Shakespeare
    As You Like It
    As You Like It
    • William Shakespeare
    Doctor Faustus
    Doctor Faustus
    • Christopher Marlowe
    The Faerie Queene
    The Faerie Queene
    • Edmund Spenser
    Cover 3

    The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage

    The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage
    • Christopher Marlowe
    Cover 7

    The Poetic Edda

    The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
    • Unknown
    • Jackson Crawford (Translator)
    Lysistrata
    Lysistrata
    • Aristophanes
    • Sarah Ruden (Translator)
    The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
    The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
    • Aeschylus
    • Robert Fagles (Translator)