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Elfflame

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 • 7,405 Readers • 328 pages 4.2

A Canticle for Leibowitz

#1 of 2 in St. Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz
ByWalter M. Miller Jr.

1959 • 808 Readers • 334 pages 3.9

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace
ByJoseph Kesselring

1939 • 23 Readers • 104 pages 4.5

A Study in Scarlet

#1 of 37 in Sherlock Holmes

A Study in Scarlet
ByArthur Conan Doyle

198 • 986 Readers 4

Babel-17

Babel-17
BySamuel R. Delany

1966 • 241 Readers 3.5

Brave New World

Brave New World
ByAldous Huxley

1900 • 3,840 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

Captain Blood

Captain Blood
ByRafael Sabatini

79 Readers 3.8

Carmilla

#1 of 1 in Karstein Chronicles

Carmilla
ByJ. Sheridan Le Fanu

1872 • 771 Readers • 108 pages 3.8

City

City
ByClifford D. Simak

1944 • 148 Readers • 255 pages 3.8

Classics Illustrated (#12) The Island of Doctor Moreau

1896 • 414 Readers • 44 pages 3.5

Cymbeline

6 Graphic Shakespeare

Cymbeline
ByWilliam Shakespeare,Gabriele Baldini(Translator)

1610 • 29 Readers • 324 pages 3.5

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus
ByChristopher Marlowe

1589 • 19 Readers • 430 pages 3.8

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
ByMiguel de Cervantes,Edith Grossman

1605 • 86 Readers • 996 pages 3.9

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

#4 of 14 in Oz

1908 • 10 Readers • 160 pages 3.3

Emerald City of Oz

#6 of 14 in Oz

Emerald City of Oz
ByL. Frank Baum

1910 • 54 Readers • 299 pages 3.2

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

#1 of 12 in Five Little Peppers

1880 • 21 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room
ByJames Baldwin

1956 • 567 Readers • 268 pages 4.4

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels
ByJonathan Swift

198 • 631 Readers • 462 pages 3.4

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

#1 of 7 in Maya Angelou's Autobiography

1969 • 757 Readers • 309 pages 4.1

I, Robot

#0.1 of 4 in Robot

I, Robot
ByIsaac Asimov

1950 • 1,537 Readers • 304 pages 4.1

Ivanhoe

#5 of 3 in Waverley Novels

Ivanhoe
ByWalter Scott

1800 • 174 Readers • 496 pages 3.5

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Lest Darkness Fall
ByL. Sprague de Camp

1941 • 27 Readers • 174 pages 3.3

Little Men

#2 of 3 in Little Women

Little Men
ByLouisa May Alcott,Anna Marie Magagna,+1 more

1869 • 108 Readers • 319 pages 3.8

Lysistrata and Other Plays

Lysistrata and Other Plays
ByAristophanes,Alan H. Sommerstein(Translator)

-423 • 96 Readers • 241 pages 3.6

Macbeth

2 Shakespeare Retellings

Macbeth
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1606 • 1,262 Readers • 160 pages 3.9

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary
ByGustave Flaubert,Sérgio Duarte(Translator)

19 • 743 Readers • 256 pages 3.6

Middlemarch

#2 of 2 in Middlemarch (2 volumes)

Middlemarch
ByGeorge Eliot

1831 • 669 Readers • 840 pages 4.2

Minority Report

#4 of 2 in The Collected Stories of Philip K. Dick

Minority Report
ByPhilip K. Dick

1956 • 193 Readers • 290 pages 3.9

Orlando

Orlando
ByVirginia Woolf

1919 • 457 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 • 117 Readers • 128 pages 4

Second Foundation

#3 of 8 in Foundation (Publication Order)

Second Foundation
ByIsaac Asimov

1953 • 824 Readers • 254 pages 4.2

Sir Percy Leads the Band

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

1936 • 3 Readers

Something Wicked This Way Comes

11 Green Town

1962 • 707 Readers • 232 pages 3.9

Starship Troopers

21 Heinlein's Juveniles

Starship Troopers
ByRobert A. Heinlein

1959 • 873 Readers • 292 pages 3.8

Stormbringer

Stormbringer
ByMichael Moorcock

2022 • 59 Readers • 864 pages 4.2

Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

2 Bullseye Chillers

1875 • 1,405 Readers • 141 pages 3.7

Tarzan of the Apes

#1 of 15 in Tarzan

Tarzan of the Apes
ByEdgar Rice Burroughs,Maura Spiegel

1912 • 125 Readers • 278 pages 3.5

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

1891 • 481 Readers • 360 pages 3.7

The Canterville Ghost

1887 • 176 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 • 122 Readers • 304 pages 4.1

The Cricket In Times Square

#1 of 4 in Chester Cricket and His Friends

1960 • 77 Readers • 144 pages 4

The Crucible

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

1971 • 658 Readers • 484 pages 3.6

The Demolished Man

The Demolished Man
ByAlfred Bester

1951 • 236 Readers • 191 pages 3.6

The Faerie Queene

2 The Faerie Queene Books

The Faerie Queene
ByEdmund Spenser

1590 • 67 Readers • 866 pages 3.4

The Fall of the House of Usher

1839 • 342 Readers • 368 pages 3.9

The First Men in the Moon

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

1901 • 88 Readers • 213 pages 3.5

The Gift Of The Magi

1905 • 134 Readers • 9 pages 4

The Goblin Reservation

The Goblin Reservation
ByClifford D. Simak

1968 • 23 Readers • 170 pages 3.1

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God
ByZora Neale Hurston

1937 • 747 Readers • 260 pages 3.9

The King of Elfland's Daughter

1924 • 116 Readers • 240 pages 3.7

The Land That Time Forgot

#1 of 3 in Caspak

The Land That Time Forgot
ByEdgar Rice Burroughs

1918 • 9 Readers • 78 pages 3

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
ByWashington Irving

1820 • 228 Readers • 24 pages 3.4

The Long Tomorrow

The Long Tomorrow
ByLeigh Brackett

1955 • 43 Readers • 262 pages 3.4

The Man in the Brown Suit

#1 of 4 in Colonel Race

The Man in the Brown Suit
ByAgatha Christie

1924 • 165 Readers • 280 pages 3.7

The Man of Property

#1 of 8 in The Forsyte Chronicles

The Man of Property
ByJohn Galsworthy

1906 • 6 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 • 19 Readers • 352 pages 3.2

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

#1 of 3 in Oresteia

-500 • 138 Readers • 336 pages 3.8

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum
ByEdgar Allan Poe

1842 • 26 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 • 19 Readers • 394 pages 4.5

The Reluctant Dragon

The Reluctant Dragon
ByKenneth Grahame

1898 • 13 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 • 26 Readers • 576 pages 2.5

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart
ByEdgar Allan Poe

1843 • 485 Readers • 25 pages 4.2

The Thirteen Problems

#1.1 of 18 in Miss Marple

The Thirteen Problems
ByAgatha Christie

1932 • 119 Readers • 250 pages 3.8

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1590 • 4 Readers 3.5

The Turn Of The Screw

1878 • 569 Readers • 161 pages 3.2

The two noble kinsmen

The two noble kinsmen
ByJohn Fletcher,William Shakespeare

1614 • 8 Readers • 395 pages 3

The Vampyre

The Vampyre
ByJohn William Polidori

2021 • 68 Readers • 30 pages 3.2

The Woman in White

The Woman in White
ByWilkie Collins

1859 • 407 Readers • 336 pages 4

The Yearling

The Yearling
ByMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1938 • 70 Readers • 428 pages 3.8

Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1601 • 4 Readers • 258 pages 2.7