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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 (John Irving)
A Prayer for Owen Meany
1
John Irving
Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland
2
Lewis Carroll
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
3
Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Anne of Green Gables
4
L.M. Montgomery
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
5
Evelyn Waugh
Can You Forgive Her? (Anthony Trollope)
Can You Forgive Her?
6
Anthony Trollope
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
7
John Kennedy Toole
Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas)
Count of Monte Cristo
8
Alexander Dumas
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
9
Charles Dickens
Dear Life (Alice Munro)
Dear Life
10
Alice Munro
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
11
John Steinbeck
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
12
Mary Shelley
How Late It Was, How Late
How Late It Was, How Late
13
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
14
David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
15
Ralph Ellison
Little House in the Big Woods (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
Little House in the Big Woods
16
Laura Ingalls Wilder
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
My Antonia
17
Willa Cather
Notes From the Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Notes From the Underground
18
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
19
John Steinbeck
Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
Oliver Twist
20
Charles Dickens
Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen)
Out of Africa
21
Isak Dinesen
Persuasion (Jane Austen)
Persuasion
22
Jane Austen
Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie)
Peter Pan
23
J.M. Barrie
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
24
James Joyce
Possession (A.S. Byatt)
Possession
25
A.S. Byatt
Reading Lolita in Tehran (Azar Nafisi)
Reading Lolita in Tehran
26
Azar Nafisi
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
Swann's Way
27
Marcel Proust
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
28
Thomas Hardy
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
29
Kate Chopin
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
30
J.D. Salinger
The Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
The Inferno
31
Dante Alighieri
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Olaudah Equiano)
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
32
Olaudah Equiano
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
33
Umberto Eco
The Souls of Black Folk (W.E.B. Du Bois)
The Souls of Black Folk
34
W.E.B. Du Bois
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
35
James Joyce
Vernon God Little (D.B.C. Pierre)
Vernon God Little
36
D.B.C. Pierre
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
37
Leo Tolstoy
Wizard of Oz (Baum, Frank L.)
Wizard of Oz
38
Baum, Frank L.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
39
Ken Kesey
The Line of Beauty (Alan Hollinghurst)
The Line of Beauty
40
Alan Hollinghurst
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