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Great Fiction Everyone Needs to Read

A personal and idiosyncratic list of great novels and short fiction ( no drama or poetry ; those would be separate lists) by a former teacher of writing and literature. Some may be surprised by what is on this list ( and by what is NOT!), but these are the classics, literary fiction, and genre fiction that matter to me. The list should not be taken as exhaustive or authoritative.
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11/22/63 (Stephen King)
11/22/63 (Stephen King)
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1984 (Orwell)
1984 (Orwell)
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The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes/The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle)
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Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë)
Agnes Grey (Anne Brontë)
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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 (Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Remarque)
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American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
American Gods (Neil Gaiman)
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American Tabloid
American Tabloid
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Ancient Sorceries (Algernon Blackwood)
Ancient Sorceries (Algernon Blackwood)
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And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie)
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
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August 1914 (Solzhenitsyn)
August 1914 (Solzhenitsyn)
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Background to Danger (Ambler)
Background to Danger (Ambler)
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Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
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Ben-Hur (Lew Wallace)
Ben-Hur (Lew Wallace)
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin, Trans. Michael Hoffman)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin, Trans. Michael Hoffman)
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The Big Clock (Kenneth Fearing)
The Big Clock (Kenneth Fearing)
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The Big Nowhere (James Ellroy)
The Big Nowhere (James Ellroy)
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The Big Sleep (Chandler)
The Big Sleep (Chandler)
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Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
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Billy Budd, Sailor (Herman Melville)
Billy Budd, Sailor (Herman Melville)
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Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
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The Bostonians (Henry James)
The Bostonians (Henry James)
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Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Thornton Wilder)
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Brighton Rock
Brighton Rock
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The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
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A Burnt Out Case (Greene)
A Burnt Out Case (Greene)
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The Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk)
The Caine Mutiny (Herman Wouk)
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Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
A Canticle for Leibowitz (Miller)
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Captain Blood (Rafael Sabatini)
Captain Blood (Rafael Sabatini)
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Carrion Comfort (Simmons)
Carrion Comfort (Simmons)
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The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
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