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Catching Up With the Classics: 100 Novels Jim Thinks He Should Probably Read

100 Classic novels I haven't read yet but think I probably should if I really want to consider myself "well read". All those plays and scripts I read, studied, directed, acted in, stage managed, and/or worked tech on took up a lot of my life, so I'm a little behind in my literature consumption. I'm limiting this list to classic and modern classic literary fiction; my love for and voracious consumption of mystery, crime, horror, fantasy, and Science Fiction can be found in my other lists.
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The Ambassadors
The Ambassadors
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Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Tolstoy)
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Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
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The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
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Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
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Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
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Barrabas (Pär Lagerkvist)
Barrabas (Pär Lagerkvist)
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The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
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Billiards at Half-Past Nine
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
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Bleak House (Dickens, Charles)
Bleak House (Dickens, Charles)
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Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
Brighton Rock (Graham Greene)
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The Brothers Karmazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karmazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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Candide (Voltaire, Trans. Theo Cuffe)
Candide (Voltaire, Trans. Theo Cuffe)
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The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
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David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Leo Tolstoy)
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Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
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Elmer Gantry (Lewis)
Elmer Gantry (Lewis)
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Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma (Jane Austen)
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The End of the Affair (Greene)
The End of the Affair (Greene)
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Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
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Far From the Madding Crowd (Hardy, Thomas)
Far From the Madding Crowd (Hardy, Thomas)
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Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons (Turgenev)
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Finnegan's Wake (Joyce)
Finnegan's Wake (Joyce)
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For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
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Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
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The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
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The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
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Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
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Great Expectations (Dickens)
Great Expectations (Dickens)
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The Green Man (Kingsley Amis)
The Green Man (Kingsley Amis)
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Group Portrait With Lady (Bõll)
Group Portrait With Lady (Bõll)
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The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
The Heart of the Matter (Greene)
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How It Is (Samuel Beckett)
How It Is (Samuel Beckett)
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