Classics I want to read

December 28, 2024
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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.

Details	Rating
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou	4.13
Ubik Philip K. Dick	3.99
The Goblin Reservation Clifford D. Simak	3.23
The Chosen Chaim Potok	4.06
Babel-17 Samuel R. Delany	3.49
Stormbringer Michael Moorcock	4.18
Planet of the Apes Pierre Boulle Xan Fielding (Translator)	4.07
Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury	3.86
The Cricket In Times Square George Selden	3.95
A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr.	3.93
Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein	3.7
Minority Report Philip K. Dick	3.83
Giovanni's Room James Baldwin	4.36
The Long Tomorrow Leigh Brackett	3.67
The Crucible	3.58
Foundation and Empire Isaac Asimov	4.03
The Demolished Man Alfred Bester	3.6
I, Robot Isaac Asimov	4.05
1984 George Orwell	4.21
City Clifford D. Simak	4.12
Arsenic and Old Lace Joseph Kesselring	4.39
Lest Darkness Fall Lest Darkness Fall L. Sprague de Camp	3.5
The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	3.95
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston	3.92
Sir Percy Leads the Band Emmuska Orczy	0
The Shape of Things to Come H. G. Wells	2.5
Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.88
The Thirteen Problems Agatha Christie	3.82
Orlando: A Biography Virginia Woolf	3.75
The Man in the Brown Suit Agatha Christie	3.62
The King of Elfland's Daughter Lord Dunsany	3.92
Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini	3.81
The Mark of Zorro Johnston McCulley	4.14
The Land That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs	3
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw	3.58
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs	3.47
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle	3.72
Emerald City of Oz L. Frank Baum	3.11
The Road To Oz L. Frank Baum	2.92
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz L. Frank Baum	3.5
The Man of Property John Galsworthy	5
The Gift Of The Magi O. Henry	3.95
The Marvelous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum	3.5
The Turn Of The Screw Henry James	3.28
The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame	5
The Island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells	3.49
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy	3.67
A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle	4.02
The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde	3.82
Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson	3.73
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney	4.14
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne	3.66
Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu	3.8
Middlemarch George Eliot	4.16
Little men Louisa May Alcott	3
The First Men in the Moon Steven McLean H. G. Wells	3.53
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins	4.43
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Alan Russell (Translator)	3.58
The Cask Of Amontillado The Cask Of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe	3.75
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas	4.31
The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe	4.22
The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe	3.93
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe	3.89
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving	3.4
Ivanhoe Walter Scott	3.57
The Vampyre John William Polidori	3.18
Emma Jane Austen Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch (Translator)	3.95
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift	3.43
Macbeth William Shakespeare	3.89
The two noble kinsmen William Shakespeare	3.33
Cymbeline William Shakespeare Gabriele Baldini (Translator)	3.2
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Edith Grossman	4.1
Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare	2.5
As You Like It William Shakespeare	3.81
Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe	3.83
The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser	3.5
The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage Christopher Marlowe	3.5
The Poetic Edda The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes Unknown Jackson Crawford (Translator)	4.75
Lysistrata Aristophanes Sarah Ruden (Translator)	3.67
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides Aeschylus Robert Fagles (Translator)	3.91

Details	Rating
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou	4.13
Ubik Philip K. Dick	3.99
The Goblin Reservation Clifford D. Simak	3.23
The Chosen Chaim Potok	4.06
Babel-17 Samuel R. Delany	3.49
Stormbringer Michael Moorcock	4.18
Planet of the Apes Pierre Boulle Xan Fielding (Translator)	4.07
Something Wicked This Way Comes Ray Bradbury	3.86
The Cricket In Times Square George Selden	3.95
A Canticle for Leibowitz Walter M. Miller Jr.	3.93
Starship Troopers Robert A. Heinlein	3.7
Minority Report Philip K. Dick	3.83
Giovanni's Room James Baldwin	4.36
The Long Tomorrow Leigh Brackett	3.67
The Crucible	3.58
Foundation and Empire Isaac Asimov	4.03
The Demolished Man Alfred Bester	3.6
I, Robot Isaac Asimov	4.05
1984 George Orwell	4.21
City Clifford D. Simak	4.12
Arsenic and Old Lace Joseph Kesselring	4.39
Lest Darkness Fall Lest Darkness Fall L. Sprague de Camp	3.5
The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings	3.95
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston	3.92
Sir Percy Leads the Band Emmuska Orczy	0
The Shape of Things to Come H. G. Wells	2.5
Brave New World Aldous Huxley	3.88
The Thirteen Problems Agatha Christie	3.82
Orlando: A Biography Virginia Woolf	3.75
The Man in the Brown Suit Agatha Christie	3.62
The King of Elfland's Daughter Lord Dunsany	3.92
Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini	3.81
The Mark of Zorro Johnston McCulley	4.14
The Land That Time Forgot Edgar Rice Burroughs	3
Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw	3.58
Tarzan of the Apes Edgar Rice Burroughs	3.47
The Lost World Arthur Conan Doyle	3.72
Emerald City of Oz L. Frank Baum	3.11
The Road To Oz L. Frank Baum	2.92
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz L. Frank Baum	3.5
The Man of Property John Galsworthy	5
The Gift Of The Magi O. Henry	3.95
The Marvelous Land of Oz L. Frank Baum	3.5
The Turn Of The Screw Henry James	3.28
The Reluctant Dragon Kenneth Grahame	5
The Island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells	3.49
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy	3.67
A Study in Scarlet Arthur Conan Doyle	4.02
The Canterville Ghost Oscar Wilde	3.82
Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson	3.73
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew Margaret Sidney	4.14
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne	3.66
Carmilla J. Sheridan Le Fanu	3.8
Middlemarch George Eliot	4.16
Little men Louisa May Alcott	3
The First Men in the Moon Steven McLean H. G. Wells	3.53
The Woman in White Wilkie Collins	4.43
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert Alan Russell (Translator)	3.58
The Cask Of Amontillado The Cask Of Amontillado Edgar Allan Poe	3.75
The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas	4.31
The Tell-Tale Heart Edgar Allan Poe	4.22
The Pit and the Pendulum Edgar Allan Poe	3.93
The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe	3.89
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Washington Irving	3.4
Ivanhoe Walter Scott	3.57
The Vampyre John William Polidori	3.18
Emma Jane Austen Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch (Translator)	3.95
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift	3.43
Macbeth William Shakespeare	3.89
The two noble kinsmen William Shakespeare	3.33
Cymbeline William Shakespeare Gabriele Baldini (Translator)	3.2
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Edith Grossman	4.1
Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare	2.5
As You Like It William Shakespeare	3.81
Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe	3.83
The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser	3.5
The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage The Tragedy of Dido Queene of Carthage Christopher Marlowe	3.5
The Poetic Edda The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes Unknown Jackson Crawford (Translator)	4.75
Lysistrata Aristophanes Sarah Ruden (Translator)	3.67
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides Aeschylus Robert Fagles (Translator)	3.91

Classics I want to read

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