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Favorite Classics, Modern Classics, and Future Classics

Here are 150 works of literary and/or popular(genre) fiction that I a) consider to be classics (or future classics) in their respective categories and b) found moving, provocative, or entertaining enough to want to read and reread for pleasure.
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All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
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All Quiet on the Western Front (German Title: Im Westen Nichts Neues) (Enrich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front (German Title: Im Westen Nichts Neues) (Enrich Maria Remarque)
3
Ancient Sorceries (Algernon Blackwood)
Ancient Sorceries (Algernon Blackwood)
4
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
5
August 1914 (Solzhenitsyn)
August 1914 (Solzhenitsyn)
6
Background to Danger (Ambler)
Background to Danger (Ambler)
7
Beowulf (Crossley-Holland)
Beowulf (Crossley-Holland)
8
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
9
Beowulf (Wright -Trans)
Beowulf (Wright -Trans)
10
Best of R.A. Lafferty (R.A. Lafferty)
Best of R.A. Lafferty (R.A. Lafferty)
11
The Best of Richard Matheson (Matheson)
The Best of Richard Matheson (Matheson)
12
The Big Sleep (Chandler)
The Big Sleep (Chandler)
13
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
14
The Bride Wore Black (Woolrich)
The Bride Wore Black (Woolrich)
15
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
16
A Burnt Out Case (Greene)
A Burnt Out Case (Greene)
17
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
18
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
19
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
20
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
21
Cause for Alarm (Ambler)
Cause for Alarm (Ambler)
22
Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)
Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)
23
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
24
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
25
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Ambler)
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Ambler)
26
Collected Ghost Stories (M R James)
Collected Ghost Stories (M R James)
27
Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll (Böll)
Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll (Böll)
28
Collected Stories Richard Matheson (Matheson)
Collected Stories Richard Matheson (Matheson)
29
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Nikolai Gogol)
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Nikolai Gogol)
30
The Comedians (Greene)
The Comedians (Greene)
31
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1 (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1 (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
32
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2 (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2 (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
33
Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino)
Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino)
34
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
35
The Cruel Sea (Nicholas Monsarrat)
The Cruel Sea (Nicholas Monsarrat)
36
Dangerous Visions (Harlan Ellison)
Dangerous Visions (Harlan Ellison)
37
Dark Benediction (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
Dark Benediction (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
38
Darkness at Noon
Darkness at Noon
39
The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
40
Dead Souls (Gogol)
Dead Souls (Gogol)
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