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Official List of Classics to Read

Y'all should read these before you die. They're really influential throughout history, and are well worth your time. And yes, they are in alphabetical order by name of the author. It goes from the letters of Peter Abelard and Heloise to Anonymous Writings.
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Letters of Abelard & Heloise (Peter Abelard/Heloise)
Letters of Abelard & Heloise (Peter Abelard/Heloise)
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Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
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Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
Agamemnon (Aeschylus)
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Prometheus Bound
Prometheus Bound
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Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
Aesop's Fables (Aesop)
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Requiem (Anna Akhmatova)
Requiem (Anna Akhmatova)
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The Inheritance
The Inheritance
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Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
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Little Men (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Men (Louisa May Alcott)
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Jo's Boys (Louisa May Alcott)
Jo's Boys (Louisa May Alcott)
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An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott)
An Old-Fashioned Girl (Louisa May Alcott)
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Ragged Dick &Struggling Upward (Horatio Alger Jr.)
Ragged Dick &Struggling Upward (Horatio Alger Jr.)
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Inferno
Inferno
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Purgatorio (Dante)
Purgatorio (Dante)
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Paradiso (Dante)
Paradiso (Dante)
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Vita Nuova (Dante Alighieri)
Vita Nuova (Dante Alighieri)
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Andersen's Fairy Tales
Andersen's Fairy Tales
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
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Argonautica (Apollonius of Rhodes)
Argonautica (Apollonius of Rhodes)
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The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
The Golden Ass (Apuleius)
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The Birds
The Birds
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The Clouds (Aristophanes)
The Clouds (Aristophanes)
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The Frogs (Aristophanes)
The Frogs (Aristophanes)
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De Anima
De Anima
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Metaphysics
Metaphysics
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Aristotle--Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle--Nicomachean Ethics
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Poetics
Poetics
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Politics
Politics
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Rhetoric
Rhetoric
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Foundation (Iaac Asimov)
Foundation (Iaac Asimov)
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I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
I, Robot (Isaac Asimov)
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Pebble in the Sky
Pebble in the Sky
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The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
The Blind Assassin (Margaret Atwood)
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The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
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City of God
City of God
36
Confessions
Confessions
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Meditations
Meditations
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Emma
Emma
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Lady Susan/The Watsons/Sanditon (Jane Austen)
Lady Susan/The Watsons/Sanditon (Jane Austen)
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
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