List of Classic Books

Books listed in red print are books I have read and remember well.

  1. The Bridge to San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
  2. Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
  3. Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
  4. Death Be No Proud by John Gunther
  5. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  6. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
  7. Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds
  8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
  9. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
  10. Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
  11. Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
  12. Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
  13. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  14. The Member of the Wedding by Carson McCullers
  15. National Velvet by Enid Bagnold
  16. A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
  17. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Clark
  18. Rebecca by Daphne duMaurier
  19. The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emma Orezy
  20. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  21. Shane by Jack Schaefer
  22. The Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas
  23. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
  24. Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington
  25. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells

26. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

  1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
  2. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  3. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  4. Drums by James Boyd
  5. The Good Earth by Peal Buck
  6. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
  7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  8. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  9. Munity on the Bounty by Charles Nardhoff and James N. Hall
  10. My Antonia by Willa Cather
  11. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
  12. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
  13. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  14. The Sea Wolf by Jack London
  15. Silas Marner by George Eliot
  16. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
  17. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  18. Tow Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
  19. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
  20. The Virginian by Owen Wister
  21. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
  22. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
  1. Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
  2. All Things Bright and Beautiful by James Herriot
  3. The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm/Haley
  4. Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley
  5. Christy by Catherine Marshall
  6. Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Burns
  7. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  8. Go Ask Alice
  9. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
  10. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
  11. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
  12. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
  13. Karen by Marie Killilea
  14. Last of the Breed by Louis L’ Amour
  15. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
  16. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  17. The Once and Future King by T.H. White
  18. The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman
  19. The Pearl by John Steinbeck
  20. Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
  21. Rescue by Milton Meltzer
  22. Shabanu by Suzanna Staples
  23. To Be a Slave by Julius Lester
  24. To Sir With Love by E.R. Braithwaite
  25. While My Pretty One Sleep by Marry Higgins Clark

73.All Creatures Great and Small by James Herriot

  1. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  2. April Morning by Howard Fast
  3. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
  4. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
  5. Born Free by Joy Adamson
  6. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
  7. Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
  8. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
  9. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  10. The Fellowship of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
  11. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  12. Giants in the Earth by O.E. Rolvaag
  13. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
  14. The Hiding Place by Corrie TenBoom
  15. Lillies of the Field by William Barrett
  16. Lisa Bright and Dark by John Neufeld
  17. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  18. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson
  19. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
  20. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
  21. A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins
  22. Watership Down by Richard Adams
  23. When the Legends Die by Hal Borland
  1. Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz
  2. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
  3. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
  4. Dracula by Bram Stoker

1.Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon by Paul Zindel

  1. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  2. Exodus by Leon Uris
  3. Future Shock by Alvin Toffler
  4. Go Tell It On The Mountain by James Baldwin
  5. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  6. Hiroshima by John Hersey
  7. Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
  8. Joy in the Morning by Betty Smith
  9. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
  10. Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
  11. Night Thoreau Spent In Jail by Lawrence/Lee
  12. Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
  13. Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
  14. Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  15. Pygmalion by George Shaw
  16. River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
  17. Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman
  18. War and Peace by Tolstoy
  19. War and Remembrance by Herman Wouk
  20. Wind of War by Herman Wouk

22. Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

  1. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  3. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
  4. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
  5. Farwell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
  6. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
  7. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg
  8. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
  9. In Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by May Angelou
  10. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  11. Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  12. Mythology by Edith Hamilton
  13. O’ Pioneers by Will Cather
  14. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  15. On the Beach by Nevil Shute
  16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  17. Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  18. Power and Glory by Graham Greene
  19. QB VII by Leon Uris
  20. Roots by Alex Haley
  21. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
  22. Temple of My Familiar by Alice Walker
  23. Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerld
  24. Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart
  1. Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  2. All the King’s Men by Robert Warren
  3. Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
  4. Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
  5. Bell for Adano by John Hersey
  6. Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
  7. Cain Mutiny by Herman Wouk
  8. Confederacy of Dunces by John Toole
  9. Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron
  10. Death in the Family by James Agee
  11. Fixer by Bernard Malamud
  12. Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
  13. House Made of Dawn by N. Momaday
  14. Killer Angels by Michael Shaara
  15. Laughing Boy by Oliver LaFarge
  16. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  17. One of Ours by Willa Cather
  18. Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty
  19. Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
  20. Reivers by William Faulkner
  21. Shipping News by E. Proulx
  22. So Big by Edna Ferber
  23. Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
  24. Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
  25. Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener
  26. Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
  1. 1984 by George Orwell
  2. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
  3. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  4. Chosen by Chaim Potok
  5. Death of A Salesman by Arthur Miller
  6. Friendly Persuasion by Jessamyn West
  7. Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
  8. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  9. Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle
  10. Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo
  11. Ivanhoe by Scott
  12. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
  13. Jungle by Upton Sinclair
  14. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
  15. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  16. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
  17. Native Son by Richard Wright
  18. Odyssey by Homer
  19. Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
  20. Our Town by Thronton Wilder
  21. Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
  22. Stanger by Albert Camus
  23. Tess of the D’Ubervilles by Thoms Hardy
  24. Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  25. Walden by Henry Thoreau
  1. Beowulf
  2. Black Boy by Richard Wright
  3. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

100.The Cross and The Switchblade by David Wilkerson

  1. Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton
  2. Don Quixote by Cervantes/Smollett
  3. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
  4. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
  5. Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
  6. Goodbye, Mr. Chips by James Hilton
  7. House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  8. Iilad by Homer
  9. Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
  10. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
  11. Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
  12. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
  13. Pudd’nhead Wilson by Mark Twain
  14. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
  15. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
  16. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  17. Shogun by James Clavell
  18. Sound and Fury by William Faulkner
  19. Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
  20. Time Machine by H.G. Wells
  21. Ugly America by Lederer/Burdick

Accepted Classics

  1. Clay’s Quilt by Silas House
  2. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
  3. October Sky by Homer Hickman