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Classic Books In Order Printable List PDF
Classic Books In Order
- To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
- Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
- 1984 – George Orwell
- Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
- The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Animal Farm – George Orwell
- The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
- The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
- The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
- The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
- Hamlet – William Shakespeare
- Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
- Lord of the Flies – William Golding
- Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
- Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
- Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
- The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
- Dracula – Bram Stoker
- Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
- A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
- Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
- Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
- Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
- The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – J.K. Rowling
- A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
- Persuasion – Jane Austen
- The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
- Emma – Jane Austen
- Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
- Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
- The Odyssey – Homer
- The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
- Macbeth – William Shakespeare
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
- Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
- The Chronicles of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
- The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery
- Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
- War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
- The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
- Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
- Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
- The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
- Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
- The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
- A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
- The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Iliad – Homer
- All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
- The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde
- Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
- Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
- East of Eden – John Steinbeck
- Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
- Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
- Watership Down – Richard Adams
- Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
- One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez
- Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
- Night – Elie Wiesel
- The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
- The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri
- Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
- Much Ado About Nothing – William Shakespeare
- The Holy Bible: King James Version – Anonymous
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis
- Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
- The Crucible – Arthur Miller
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
- Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
- The Fellowship of the Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
- Charlotte’s Web – E.B. White
- The Stranger – Albert Camus
- Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
- Aesop’s Fables – Aesop
- Wuthering Heights, Agnès Grey & Villette – Emily Brontë
- The Godfather – Mario Puzo
- The Scarlet Pimpernel – Emmuska Orczy
- The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
- The Giver – Lois Lowry
- The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
- The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories – Jack London
- The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales – Edgar Allan Poe
- Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
- Bleak House – Charles Dickens
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz – L. Frank Baum
- The Awakening – Kate Chopin
- Winnie-the-Pooh – A.A. Milne
- Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
- American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
- David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
- The Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony, and Other Stories – Franz Kafka
- Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
- Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll (Adapted by Jane Carruth)
- The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Jacob Grimm
- The Jungle Books – Rudyard Kipling
- The Call of the Wild – Jack London
- North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
- Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
- Requiem for a Dream – Hubert Selby Jr.
- The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
- Candide – Voltaire
- Fight Club – Chuck Palahniuk
- Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Green Eggs and Ham – Dr. Seuss
- The Zombie Room – R.D. Ronald
- The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien
- Lunar Park – Bret Easton Ellis
- Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
- The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
- Factotum – Charles Bukowski
- Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
- A Wrinkle in Time – Madeleine L’Engle
- The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
- Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk
- Skagboys – Irvine Welsh
- Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
- Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
- Beowulf – Unknown
- The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle
- In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
- The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
- The Trial – Franz Kafka
- A Little Princess – Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Antigone – Sophocles
- Othello – William Shakespeare
- Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
- The Hunchback of Notre-Dame – Victor Hugo
- Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
- Little House in the Big Woods – Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
- The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
- Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
- Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
- Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
- The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
- The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
- Middlemarch – George Eliot
- Ulysses – James Joyce
- The Chosen – Chaim Potok
- Middlemarch/Silas Marner/Amos Barton – George Eliot
- The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Color Purple – Alice Walker
- Walden & Civil Disobedience – Henry David Thoreau
- A Room with a View – E.M. Forster
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak
- Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
- Paradise Lost – John Milton
- Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
- The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Martian Chronicles – Ray Bradbury
- The Aeneid – Virgil
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass
- And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
- The Once and Future King – T.H. White
- The Plague – Albert Camus
- My Ántonia – Willa Cather
- The Arabian Nights – Anonymous
- Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
- The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
- A Separate Peace – John Knowles
- Inferno – Dante Alighieri
- The Art of War – Sun Tzu
- The Giving Tree – Shel Silverstein
- A Study in Scarlet – Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – Patrick Süskind
- The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare
- King Lear – William Shakespeare
- The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
- Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit – Beatrix Potter
- Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
- Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
- The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
- The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
- Shakespeare’s Sonnets – William Shakespeare
- Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
- To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
- Faust, First Part – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Tempest – William Shakespeare
- Peter Pan – J.M. Barrie
- Ender’s Game – Orson Scott Card
- The Phantom Tollbooth – Norton Juster
- Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
- The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
- The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
- Dubliners – James Joyce
- Angle of Repose – Wallace Stegner
- Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
- Blindness – José Saramago
- The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
- Native Son – Richard Wright
- Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
- The Stand – Stephen King
- White Fang – Jack London
- On the Road – Jack Kerouac
- The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
- Worm Holes – Kyle Keyes
- The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Scopas Factor – Vincent Panettiere
- Richard III – William Shakespeare
- The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
- The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
- The Blue Castle – L.M. Montgomery
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
- Crossing to Safety – Wallace Stegner
- The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson – Emily Dickinson
- The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
- Anthem – Ayn Rand
- Hunger – Knut Hamsun
- The Shadow Girl – Misty Mount
- Little Dorrit – Charles Dickens
- The Little Mermaid – Hans Christian Andersen
- The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Island of the Blue Dolphins – Scott O’Dell
- How Green Was My Valley – Richard Llewellyn
- The Complete Fairy Tales – Hans Christian Andersen
- The Candidate and other stories – Samuel R. George
- Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
- Notes from Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
- The Red and the Black – Stendhal
- My Name Is Asher Lev – Chaim Potok
- The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
- The Shining – Stephen King
- The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
- Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
- A Scanner Darkly – Philip K. Dick
- I Capture the Castle – Dodie Smith
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience – William Blake
- An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
- Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
- The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
- Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Tender Is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
- The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
- The Goldfinch – Donna Tartt
- Foundation – Isaac Asimov
- Villette – Charlotte Brontë
- Haunted – Chuck Palahniuk
- The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
- Naked Lunch – William S. Burroughs
- The Prophet – Kahlil Gibran
- The Sign of Four – Arthur Conan Doyle
- The Complete Stories and Poems – Edgar Allan Poe
- Beloved – Toni Morrison
- The Princess Bride – William Goldman
- Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
- Metamorphoses – Ovid
- Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
- Brainwalker – Robyn Mundell
- I, the Sun – Janet E. Morris
- Shōgun – James Clavell
- A Room of One’s Own – Virginia Woolf
- Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
- Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
- Stones – L.C. Conn
- A Lesson Before Dying – Ernest J. Gaines
- Harold and the Purple Crayon – Crockett Johnson
- Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
- Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
- Les Fleurs du Mal – Charles Baudelaire
- Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset Maugham
- Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
- Just So Stories – Rudyard Kipling
- Novel with Cocaine – M. Ageyev
- Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
- A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
- Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
- The Tell-Tale Heart – Edgar Allan Poe
- Heidi – Johanna Spyri