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The Well-Read Retiree: Classics

Our retired maverick English Teacher comes up with 51 classics of literature he feels should be read and reread. He set 50 as the list limit with only one title per author, but could not decide between "Dubliners" and "Ulysses", so he changed the limit to 51, with 2 works by Joyce.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1
Mark Twain
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
2
Virgil
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers
3
Anthony Trollope
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf
4
Tr. Seamus Heaney
The Bostonians (Henry James)
The Bostonians
5
Henry James
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
6
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Candide (Voltaire, Trans. Theo Cuffe)
Candide
7
Voltaire, Trans. Theo Cuffe
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
8
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
9
Nikolai Gogol
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
Death in Venice
10
Thomas Mann
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
11
Bram Stoker
Dubliners (Joyce)
Dubliners
12
Joyce
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
13
Jane Austen
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
14
Ivan Turgenev
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)
The Forsyte Saga
15
John Galsworthy
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
16
Mary Shelley
Genesis (Mitchell)
Genesis
17
Mitchell
Gilgamesh (Tr. Stephen Mitchell)
Gilgamesh
18
Tr. Stephen Mitchell
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
19
Joseph Conrad
The Histories (Herodotus)
The Histories
20
Herodotus
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
The House of Mirth
21
Edith Wharton
The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
The House of the Seven Gables
22
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
23
Homer
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
24
Charlotte Bronte
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure
25
Thomas Hardy
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
The Jungle
26
Upton Sinclair
Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Kidnapped
27
Robert Louis Stevenson
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
28
Victor Hugo
Mahabharata (Anonymous; Trans. John D. Smith)
Mahabharata
29
Anonymous; Trans. John D. Smith
The Man Who Would Be King (Rudyard Kipling)
The Man Who Would Be King
30
Rudyard Kipling
Metamorphosis (Ovid)
Metamorphosis
31
Ovid
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
32
Herman Melville
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
33
John Milton
Parzival (Wolfram Von Eschenbach)
Parzival
34
Wolfram Von Eschenbach
The Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The Prince
35
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
36
Stendhal
The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories (Stephen Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories
37
Stephen Crane
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe
38
Daniel Defoe
She (Haggard - Penguin Classics)
She
39
Haggard - Penguin Classics
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
40
Anonymous
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