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Goodreads "The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet"

This list truly could serve as a lifetime TBR of the classics, both fiction and non-fiction. And, bucking recent trends, it has more than 10 books on it!
The original instructions to Goodreads users were: 'This is a list, which allows you to vote for the books that you consider as some of "the great classics" but, unfortunately, have never gotten a chance to read.' So it's no surprise that massive tomes have risen to the top of the list.
In contrast, to avoid chaos, my challenge involves checking off works you HAVE READ.
Notes: This list duplicates almost every book on the source list, some of them quite obscure. Inexplicably, this has led to a modest Polish accent/bias in the later works, but I have retained this since I have some Polish ethnic background.
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Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
Les Misérables
1
Victor Hugo
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
2
Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
3
Leo Tolstoy
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
4
Miguel De Cervantes
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
5
James Joyce
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
6
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
7
Alexandre Dumas
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
8
Charles Dickens
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
9
Herman Melville
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
10
Charlotte Brontë
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
11
Fyodor Dostoevsky
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
12
George Orwell
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility
13
Jane Austen
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
14
Mary Shelley
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
15
Harper Lee
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
16
Gustave Flaubert
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
17
Charles Dickens
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
18
George Eliot
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
19
Vladimir Nabokov
The Three Musketeers (Alexandre Dumas)
The Three Musketeers
20
Alexandre Dumas
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
21
Emily Brontë
The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The Scarlet Letter
22
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
23
Ray Bradbury
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
24
Louisa May Alcott
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
25
Jane Austen
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
26
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
27
William Makepeace Thackeray
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
28
Mark Twain
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
29
J.D. Salinger
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
30
Charles Dickens
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom's Cabin
31
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence
32
Edith Wharton
Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy)
Far From the Madding Crowd
33
Thomas Hardy
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
34
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
The Picture of Dorian Gray
35
Oscar Wilde
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
36
Virginia Woolf
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
37
Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
38
Joseph Conrad
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
39
Margaret Mitchell
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
40
Thomas Hardy
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