List of Classic Books
Books listed in red print are books I have read and remember well.
1. The Bridge to San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
2. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
3. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
4. Death Be No Proud by John Gunther
5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
7. Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
9. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
10. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
11. Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
12. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
13. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
14. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
15. National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
16. A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
17. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Clark
18. Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier
19. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orezy
20. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
21. Shane by Jack Schaefer
22. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
23. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
24. Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
25. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
26. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
26. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
27. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
29. Drums by James Boyd
30. The Good Earth by Peal Buck
31. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
32. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
33. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
34. Munity on the Bounty by Charles Nardhoff and James N. Hall
35. My Antonia by Willa Cather
36. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
37. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
38. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
39. The Sea Wolf by Jack London
40. Silas Marner by George Eliot
41. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
42. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
43. Tow Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
44. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
45. The Virginian by Owen Wister
46. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
47. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
48. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
49. All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
50. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm/Haley
51. Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
52. Christy by Catherine Marshall
53. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns
54. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
55. Go Ask Alice
56. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
57. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
58. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
59. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
60. Karen by Marie Killilea
61. Last of the Breed by Louis L’ Amour
62. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
63. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
64. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
65. The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
66. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
67. Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
68. Rescue by Milton Meltzer
69. Shabanu by Suzanna Staples
70. To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
71. To Sir With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
72. While My Pretty One Sleep by Marry Higgins Clark
73.All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot
73. Animal Farm by George Orwell
74. April Morning by Howard Fast
75. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
76. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
77. Born Free by Joy Adamson
78. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
79. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
80. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
81. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
82. The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
83. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
84. Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rolvaag
85. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
86. The Hiding Place by Corrie TenBoom
87. Lillies of the Field by William Barrett
88. Lisa Bright and Dark by John Neufeld
89. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
90. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
91. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
92. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
93. A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
94. Watership Down by Richard Adams
95. When the Legends Die by Hal Borland
96. Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz
97. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
98. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
99. Dracula by Bram Stoker
1.Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon by Paul Zindel
2. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
3. Exodus by Leon Uris
4. Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
5. Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
7. Hiroshima by John Hersey
8. Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
9. Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith
10. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
11. Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
12. Night Thoreau Spent In Jail by Lawrence/Lee
13. Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
14. Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
15. Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
16. Pygmalion by George Shaw
17. River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
18. Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
19. War and Peace by Tolstoy
20. War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
21. Wind of War by Herman Wouk
22. Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
22. Beloved by Toni Morrison
23. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
24. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
25. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
26. Farwell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
27. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
28. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
29. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
30. In Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by May Angelou
31. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
32. Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
33. Mythology by Edith Hamilton
34. O’ Pioneers by Will Cather
35. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
36. On the Beach by Nevil Shute
37. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
38. Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
39. Power and Glory by Graham Greene
40. QB VII by Leon Uris
41. Roots by Alex Haley
42. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
43. Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
44. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerld
45. Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart
46. Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
47. All the King’s Men by Robert Warren
48. Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
49. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
50. Bell for Adano by John Hersey
51. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
52. Cain Mutiny by Herman Wouk
53. Confederacy of Dunces by John Toole
54. Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
55. Death in the Family by James Agee
56. Fixer by Bernard Malamud
57. Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
58. House Made of Dawn by N. Momaday
59. Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
60. Laughing Boy by Oliver LaFarge
61. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
62. One of Ours by Willa Cather
63. Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
64. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
65. Reivers by William Faulkner
66. Shipping News by E. Proulx
67. So Big by Edna Ferber
68. Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
69. Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
70. Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener
71. Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
72. 1984 by George Orwell
73. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
74. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
75. Chosen by Chaim Potok
76. Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller
77. Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West
78. Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
79. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
80. Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle
81. Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
82. Ivanhoe by Scott
83. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
84. Jungle by Upton Sinclair
85. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
86. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
87. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
88. Native Son by Richard Wright
89. Odyssey by Homer
90. Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
91. Our Town by Thronton Wilder
92. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
93. Stanger by Albert Camus
94. Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thoms Hardy
95. Turn of the Screw by Henry James
96. Walden by Henry Thoreau
97. Beowulf
98. Black Boy by Richard Wright
99. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
100.The Cross and The Switchblade by David Wilkerson
1. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
2. Don Quixote by Cervantes/Smollett
3. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
5. Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
6. Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
7. House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. Iilad by Homer
9. Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
10. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
11. Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
12. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
13. Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
14. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
15. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
16. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
17. Shogun by James Clavell
18. Sound and Fury by William Faulkner
19. Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
20. Time Machine by H.G. Wells
21. Ugly America by Lederer/Burdick
Accepted Classics
1. Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
3. October Sky by Homer Hickman