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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
1
Anthony Doerr
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)
2
Enrich Maria Remarque
Ancient Sorceries (Algernon Blackwood)
Ancient Sorceries
3
Algernon Blackwood
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
And Then There Were None
4
Agatha Christie
August 1914 (Solzhenitsyn)
August 1914
5
Solzhenitsyn
Background to Danger (Ambler)
Background to Danger
6
Ambler
Beowulf (Crossley-Holland)
Beowulf
7
Crossley-Holland
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf
8
Tr. Seamus Heaney
Beowulf (Wright -Trans)
Beowulf
9
Wright -Trans
Best of R.A. Lafferty (R.A. Lafferty)
Best of R.A. Lafferty
10
R.A. Lafferty
The Best of Richard Matheson (Matheson)
The Best of Richard Matheson
11
Matheson
The Big Sleep (Chandler)
The Big Sleep
12
Chandler
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
13
Heinrich Böll
The Bride Wore Black (Woolrich)
The Bride Wore Black
14
Woolrich
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
15
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Burnt Out Case (Greene)
A Burnt Out Case
16
Greene
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
17
Geoffrey Chaucer
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
A Canticle for Leibowitz
18
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
19
Franz Kafka
Cat's Cradle (Kurt Vonnegut)
Cat's Cradle
20
Kurt Vonnegut
Cause for Alarm (Ambler)
Cause for Alarm
21
Ambler
Childhood's End (Arthur C. Clarke)
Childhood's End
22
Arthur C. Clarke
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol
23
Charles Dickens
Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
Cloud Atlas
24
David Mitchell
A Coffin for Dimitrios (Ambler)
A Coffin for Dimitrios
25
Ambler
Collected Ghost Stories (M R James)
Collected Ghost Stories
26
M R James
Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll (Böll)
Collected Stories of Heinrich Böll
27
Böll
Collected Stories Richard Matheson (Matheson)
Collected Stories Richard Matheson
28
Matheson
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Nikolai Gogol)
The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
29
Nikolai Gogol
The Comedians (Greene)
The Comedians
30
Greene
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1 (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. 1
31
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2 (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Vol. 2
32
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Cosmicomics (Italo Calvino)
Cosmicomics
33
Italo Calvino
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
34
Alexandre Dumas
The Cruel Sea (Nicholas Monsarrat)
The Cruel Sea
35
Nicholas Monsarrat
Dangerous Visions (Harlan Ellison)
Dangerous Visions
36
Harlan Ellison
Dark Benediction (Walter M. Miller, Jr.)
Dark Benediction
37
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)
Darkness at Noon
38
Arthur Koestler
The Day of the Triffids (John Wyndham)
The Day of the Triffids
39
John Wyndham
Dead Souls (Gogol)
Dead Souls
40
Gogol
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