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Classics I want to read

A list of classics I would like to read.

My criterion for classics at this time: Must be a title I've heard of, and Must be published 1969 or before. (My birth year)

This will be a dynamic list. I will delete these as I read, and add more once I've managed to get through a good number.

1984

1984
ByGeorge Orwell

1949 • 6,846 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

A Canticle for Leibowitz

#1 of 2 in St. Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz
ByWalter M. Miller Jr.

1959 • 743 Readers • 334 pages 3.9

Around the World in Eighty Days

31 Peter Pan

1872 • 568 Readers • 260 pages 3.7

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace
ByJoseph Kesselring

1939 • 22 Readers • 104 pages 4.5

A Study in Scarlet

#1 of 39 in Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet
ByArthur Conan Doyle

198 • 901 Readers • 123 pages 4

As You Like It

As You Like It
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1599 • 155 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

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Babel-17

Babel-17
BySamuel R. Delany

1966 • 224 Readers 3.5

Brave New World

Brave New World
ByAldous Huxley

1900 • 3,555 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

Captain Blood

Captain Blood
ByRafael Sabatini

76 Readers 3.8

Carmilla

#1 of 1 in Karstein Chronicles

Carmilla
ByJ. Sheridan Le Fanu

1872 • 706 Readers • 108 pages 3.8

City

City
ByClifford D. Simak

1944 • 139 Readers • 255 pages 3.9

Classics Illustrated (#12) The Island of Doctor Moreau

1896 • 396 Readers • 44 pages 3.5

Cymbeline

6 Graphic Shakespeare

Cymbeline
ByWilliam Shakespeare,Gabriele Baldini(Translator)

1610 • 28 Readers • 324 pages 3.5

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus
ByChristopher Marlowe

1589 • 18 Readers • 430 pages 3.9

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
ByMiguel de Cervantes,Edith Grossman

1605 • 72 Readers • 996 pages 4.1

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

#4 of 14 in Oz

1908 • 8 Readers • 160 pages 3.5

Emerald City of Oz

#6 of 14 in Oz

Emerald City of Oz
ByL. Frank Baum

1910 • 52 Readers • 299 pages 3.2

Emma

16 Manga Classics

Emma
ByJane Austen,Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch(Translator)

6 • 1,258 Readers • 334 pages 4

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Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

#1 of 12 in Five Little Peppers

1880 • 19 Readers • 352 pages 4.3

Foundation and Empire

#2 of 9 in Foundation (Publication Order)

Foundation and Empire
ByIsaac Asimov

1945 • 842 Readers • 244 pages 4

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Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room
ByJames Baldwin

1956 • 531 Readers • 169 pages 4.4

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels
ByJonathan Swift

198 • 592 Readers • 462 pages 3.4

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

#1 of 7 in Maya Angelou's Autobiography

1969 • 716 Readers • 309 pages 4.2

I, Robot

#0.1 of 4 in Robot

I, Robot
ByIsaac Asimov

1950 • 1,425 Readers • 304 pages 4.1

Ivanhoe

#5 of 3 in Waverley Novels

Ivanhoe
ByWalter Scott

1800 • 163 Readers • 496 pages 3.5

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Lest Darkness Fall
ByL. Sprague de Camp

1941 • 25 Readers • 174 pages 3.3

Little men

Little men
ByLouisa May Alcott

1994 • 5 Readers • 332 pages 3

Lysistrata

Lysistrata
ByAristophanes,Sarah Ruden(Translator)

-423 • 92 Readers • 140 pages 3.6

Macbeth

3 Coles Notes

Macbeth
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1606 • 1,198 Readers • 160 pages 3.9

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary
ByGustave Flaubert,Sérgio Duarte(Translator)

19 • 703 Readers • 256 pages 3.6

Middlemarch

#2 of 2 in Middlemarch (2 volumes)

Middlemarch
ByGeorge Eliot

1831 • 630 Readers • 840 pages 4.2

Minority Report

#4 of 1 in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick

Minority Report
ByPhilip K. Dick

1956 • 180 Readers • 290 pages 3.8

Orlando

Orlando
ByVirginia Woolf

1919 • 419 Readers • 333 pages 3.8

Planet of the Apes

#1 of 6 in Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes
ByPierre Boulle,Xan Fielding(Translator)

1963 • 110 Readers • 128 pages 4

Pygmalion

Pygmalion
ByGeorge Bernard Shaw

1912 • 204 Readers • 133 pages 3.6

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Second Foundation

#3 of 9 in Foundation (Publication Order)

Second Foundation
ByIsaac Asimov

1953 • 754 Readers • 254 pages 4.1

Sir Percy Leads the Band

#2 of 10 in The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order)

1936 • 3 Readers

Something Wicked This Way Comes

10 Green Town

1962 • 668 Readers • 232 pages 3.9

Starship Troopers

23 Heinlein's Juveniles

Starship Troopers
ByRobert A. Heinlein

1959 • 798 Readers • 353 pages 3.7

Stormbringer

Stormbringer
ByMichael Moorcock

2022 • 53 Readers • 864 pages 4.2

Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

2 Bullseye Chillers

1875 • 1,335 Readers • 141 pages 3.7

Tarzan of the Apes

#1 of 14 in Tarzan

Tarzan of the Apes
ByEdgar Rice Burroughs,Maura Spiegel

1912 • 110 Readers • 278 pages 3.4

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

1891 • 466 Readers • 360 pages 3.6

The Canterville Ghost

1887 • 164 Readers • 64 pages 3.8

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The Cask Of Amontillado
ByEdgar Allan Poe

14 Readers 4

The Chosen

#1 of 1 in Reuven Malther

The Chosen
ByChaim Potok

1966 • 111 Readers • 304 pages 4.1

The Count of Monte Cristo

6 Le Comte de Monte-Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo
ByAlexandre Dumas

1830 • 2,085 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

The Cricket In Times Square

#1 of 4 in Chester Cricket and His Friends

1960 • 73 Readers • 144 pages 4

The Crucible

The Crucible
ByArthur Miller(Contributor),Gerald Weales(Editor)

1971 • 636 Readers • 484 pages 3.6

The Demolished Man

The Demolished Man
ByAlfred Bester

1951 • 212 Readers • 191 pages 3.6

The Faerie Queene

2 The Faerie Queene Books

The Faerie Queene
ByEdmund Spenser

1590 • 62 Readers • 866 pages 3.4

The Fall of the House of Usher

1839 • 310 Readers • 368 pages 3.9

The First Men in the Moon

The First Men in the Moon
BySteven McLean,H. G. Wells

1901 • 84 Readers • 213 pages 3.5

The Gift Of The Magi

1905 • 129 Readers • 9 pages 4

The Goblin Reservation

The Goblin Reservation
ByClifford D. Simak

1968 • 22 Readers • 170 pages 3.1

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God
ByZora Neale Hurston

1937 • 714 Readers • 260 pages 3.9

The King of Elfland's Daughter

1924 • 111 Readers • 240 pages 3.7

The Land That Time Forgot

#1 of 3 in Caspak

The Land That Time Forgot
ByEdgar Rice Burroughs

1918 • 8 Readers • 78 pages 3

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
ByWashington Irving

1820 • 213 Readers • 24 pages 3.4

The Long Tomorrow

The Long Tomorrow
ByLeigh Brackett

1955 • 38 Readers • 262 pages 3.4

The Lost World

#1 of 5 in Professor Challenger

The Lost World
ByArthur Conan Doyle

1900 • 164 Readers • 224 pages 3.8

The Man in the Brown Suit

#1 of 4 in Colonel Race

The Man in the Brown Suit
ByAgatha Christie

1924 • 159 Readers • 280 pages 3.7

The Man of Property

#1 of 8 in The Forsyte Chronicles

The Man of Property
ByJohn Galsworthy

1906 • 5 Readers • 398 pages 5

The Mark of Zorro

#1 of 2 in Zorro

The Mark of Zorro
ByJohnston McCulley

1919 • 29 Readers 4.1

The Marvelous Land of Oz

#2 of 14 in Oz

1904 • 18 Readers • 352 pages 3.3

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

#1 of 3 in Oresteia

-500 • 124 Readers • 336 pages 3.8

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum
ByEdgar Allan Poe

1842 • 25 Readers • 34 pages 3.9

The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes

The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
ByUnknown,Jackson Crawford(Translator)

1270 • 18 Readers • 394 pages 4.4

The Reluctant Dragon

The Reluctant Dragon
ByKenneth Grahame

1898 • 12 Readers • 57 pages 5

The Road To Oz

#5 of 14 in Oz

The Road To Oz
ByL. Frank Baum

1909 • 57 Readers • 255 pages 3

The Shape of Things to Come

1933 • 25 Readers • 576 pages 2.5

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart
ByEdgar Allan Poe

1843 • 452 Readers • 25 pages 4.2

The Thirteen Problems

#1.1 of 18 in Miss Marple

The Thirteen Problems
ByAgatha Christie

1932 • 114 Readers • 250 pages 3.8

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1590 • 4 Readers 3.5

The Turn Of The Screw

1878 • 533 Readers • 161 pages 3.3

The two noble kinsmen

The two noble kinsmen
ByJohn Fletcher,William Shakespeare

1614 • 7 Readers • 395 pages 3

The Vampyre

The Vampyre
ByJohn William Polidori

2021 • 67 Readers • 30 pages 3.2

The Woman in White

The Woman in White
ByWilkie Collins

1859 • 392 Readers • 336 pages 4

The Yearling

The Yearling
ByMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1938 • 60 Readers • 428 pages 4

Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1601 • 4 Readers • 258 pages 2.7

Ubik

Ubik
ByPhilip K. Dick

1969 • 678 Readers • 285 pages 4

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