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50 Classic and Important Novels James Really Should Have Read by Now

Yeah, I'm that guy. The one who didn't read the assigned books in lit classes and wrote the papers from Monarch and Cliff Notes( Remember Monarch Notes? They were the best!) . Granted , I've read other works by most of the authors here, and I could talk about all the plays and genre novels and history books that I have read, but that doesn't really mitigate the huge gap that this list represents. But hey, I know more about Wilkie Collins, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and a whole bunch of other really good writers than do any of my fellow English teachers, and I had way more fun in school than they did. So there. Note: I limited myself to one book per author so as not to embarrass myself TOO much.
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The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
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All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
3
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
4
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
5
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
6
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
7
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
8
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
9
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
10
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
11
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop
12
Dr Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Dr Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
13
The Erasers
The Erasers
14
Far From the Madding Crowd
Far From the Madding Crowd
15
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
16
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
17
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
18
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
19
The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
20
How It Is (Samuel Beckett)
How It Is (Samuel Beckett)
21
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
22
Independence Day (Richard Ford)
Independence Day (Richard Ford)
23
Ivanhoe (Walter Scott)
Ivanhoe (Walter Scott)
24
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
25
Libra (Don Delillo)
Libra (Don Delillo)
26
The Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain
27
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Magnificent Ambersons
28
Man's Fate (André Malraux)
Man's Fate (André Malraux)
29
Middlemarch
Middlemarch
30
Nostromo (Conrad - Penguin Classics))
Nostromo (Conrad - Penguin Classics))
31
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
32
Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)
Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)
33
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
34
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
35
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
36
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
37
The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories (Stephen Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories (Stephen Crane)
38
Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road
39
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
40
Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)
Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)
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