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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 (Mark Twain)
2
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid (Virgil)
3
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
4
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf (Tr. Seamus Heaney)
5
The Bostonians (Henry James)
The Bostonians (Henry James)
6
The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov
7
Candide (Voltaire, Trans. Theo Cuffe)
Candide (Voltaire, Trans. Theo Cuffe)
8
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
9
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
10
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
Death in Venice (Thomas Mann)
11
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
12
Dubliners (Joyce)
Dubliners (Joyce)
13
Emma
Emma
14
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
15
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)
16
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
17
Genesis (Mitchell)
Genesis (Mitchell)
18
Gilgamesh (Tr. Stephen Mitchell)
Gilgamesh (Tr. Stephen Mitchell)
19
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
20
The Histories (Herodotus)
The Histories (Herodotus)
21
The House of Mirth
The House of Mirth
22
The House of the Seven Gables
The House of the Seven Gables
23
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad (Homer)
24
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
25
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
26
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
The Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
27
Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Kidnapped (Robert Louis Stevenson)
28
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
29
Mahabharata
Mahabharata
30
The Man Who Would Be King (Rudyard Kipling)
The Man Who Would Be King (Rudyard Kipling)
31
Metamorphosis (Ovid)
Metamorphosis (Ovid)
32
Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick
33
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
34
Parzival (Wolfram Von Eschenbach)
Parzival (Wolfram Von Eschenbach)
35
The Prince
The Prince
36
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
37
The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories (Stephen Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage & Other Stories (Stephen Crane)
38
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
39
She (Haggard - Penguin Classics)
She (Haggard - Penguin Classics)
40
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Anonymous)
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