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Classics and Backlist Books to Read ASAP

This is a TBR list that I created for 2022. Maybe you want to read some of these older titles too.
I will also create a part 2 showing some of the classics and backlist books I have read recently. Stay tuned.
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A Prayer for Owen Meany
A Prayer for Owen Meany
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables
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Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited
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Can You Forgive Her?
Can You Forgive Her?
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Confederacy of Dunces
Confederacy of Dunces
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Count of Monte Cristo
Count of Monte Cristo
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David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
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Dear Life
Dear Life
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East of Eden
East of Eden
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Frankenstein
Frankenstein
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How Late It Was, How Late
How Late It Was, How Late
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Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
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Little House in the Big Woods
Little House in the Big Woods
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My Antonia
My Antonia
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Notes From the Underground
Notes From the Underground
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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men
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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
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Out of Africa
Out of Africa
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Persuasion
Persuasion
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Peter Pan
Peter Pan
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Possession
Possession
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Reading Lolita in Tehran
Reading Lolita in Tehran
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Swann's Way
Swann's Way
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Tess of the D'urbervilles
Tess of the D'urbervilles
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The Awakening
The Awakening
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
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The Inferno
The Inferno
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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The Name of the Rose
The Name of the Rose
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THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK by W.E.B. Du Bois
THE SOULS OF BLACK FOLK by W.E.B. Du Bois
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
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Vernon God Little
Vernon God Little
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War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
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Wizard of Oz
Wizard of Oz
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst)
The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst)
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