This is a list of 300 “classic” books that I will be working through for the next several years. I will link to my reviews of the books as I complete them. My five favorite books (so far) are in blue.

1. 1984 – George Orwell
2. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne
3. Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
4. Adam Bede – George Eliot
5. The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
6. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
7. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
9. The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
10. The Age of Reason – Jean Paul Sartre
11. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass – Lewis Carroll
12. All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
13. All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren
14. An American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
15. And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
16. Andersonville – MacKinlay Kantor
17. Angels in America – Tony Kushner
18. Animal Farm – George Orwell
19. Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
20. Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
21. Arrowsmith – Sinclair Lewis
22. As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
23. As You Like It – William Shakespeare
24. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
25. Atonement – Ian McEwan
26. The Awakening – Kate Chopin
27. Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
28. Bartleby the Scrivener – Herman Melville
29. The Beautiful and Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald
30. Being and Nothingness – Jean-Paul Sartre
31. The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
32. Beloved – Toni Morrison
33. Black Boy – Richard Wright
34. The Black Sheep – Honore de Balzac
35. Black Sheep – Georgette Heyer
36. Bleak House – Charles Dickens
37. Blood Meridian – Cormac McCarthy
38. The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
39. Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
40. Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut
41. Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
42. The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thorton Wilder
43. A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
44. The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
45. Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
46. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
47. The Caine Mutiny – Herman Wouk
48. Candide – Voltaire
49. The Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
50. Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
51. The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
52. Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
53. The Cherry Orchard – Anton Chekhov
54. The Chosen – Chaim Potok
55. A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
56. City of Glass – Paul Aster
57. A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
58. The Code of the Woosters – P. G. Wodehouse
59. The Color Purple – Alice Walker
60. A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
61. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court – Mark Twain
62. The Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
63. Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
64. The Crucible – Arthur Miller
65. Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
66. The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
67. Cyrano de Bergerac – Edmond Rostand
68. The Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
69. David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
70. Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
71. Death of a Salesman – Arthur Miller
72. A Death in the Family – James Agee
73. The Death of the Heart – Elizabeth Bowen
74. The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
75. The Deerslayer – James F. Cooper
76. Deliverance – James Dickey
77. Diary of a Nobody – George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
78. The Divine Comedy – Dante
79. Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
80. A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
81. Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
82. Dracula – Bram Stoker
83. Dubliners – James Joyce
84. Dune – Frank Herbert
85. East of Eden – John Steinbeck
86. Emma – Jane Austin
87. Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
88. The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer
89. Exodus – Leon Uris
90. Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
91. The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
92. Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
93. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
94. Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
95. Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
96. Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
97. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
98. The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
99. Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
100. From Here to Eternity – James Jones
101. The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams
102. Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
103. The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
104. Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
105. The Good Earth – Pearl S. Buck
106. A Good Man is Hard to Find – Flannery O’Connor
107. The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
108. The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
109. Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
110. Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
111. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
112. Gulliver’s Travels – Johnathan Swift
113. Hamlet – William Shakespeare
114. The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
115. Hard Times – Charles Dickens
116. Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
117. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter – Carson McCullers
118. Henry V – Shakespeare
119. Herzog – Saul Bellow
120. Hiroshima – John Hersey
121. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
122. The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
123. The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
124. The House of Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
125. How Green was My Valley – Richard Llewellyn
126. Howards End – E. M. Forster
127. The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
128. I, Claudius – Robert Graves
129. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
130. The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
131. The Iliad – Homer
132. The Importance of Being Ernest – Oscar Wilde
133. In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
134. In Search of Lost Time – Marcel Proust
135. Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
136. Ivanhoe – Walter Scott
137. Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
138. Journey to the Center of the Earth – Jules Verne
139. The Joy Luck Club – Amy Tan
140. Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
141. Julius Caesar – William Shakespeare
142. The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
143. King Lear – William Shakespeare
144. Labyrinths – Jorge Luis Borges
145. Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
146. The Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
147. The Last Tycoon – F. Scott Fitzgerald
148. The Learning Tree – Gordon Parks
149. Les Miserables – Victor Hugo
150. Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
151. The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
152. Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
153. Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
154. Lonesome Dove – Larry McMurtry
155. Long Day’s Journey into Night – Eugene O’Neill
156. Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
157. Lord of the Flies – William Golding
158. Lorna Doone – R. D. Blackmore
159. Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
160. Macbeth – William Shakespeare
161. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
162. The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
163. Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
164. The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
165. The Merchant of Venice – William Shakespeare
166. Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
167. The Metamorphosis – Franz Kafka
168. Middlemarch – George Eliot
169. Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
170. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
171. The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
172. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
173. A Moveable Feast – Ernest Hemingway
174. Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
175. Much Ado about Nothing – William Shakespeare
176. Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
177. Mutiny on the Bounty – Charles Nordhoff
178. My Antonia – Willa Cather
179. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Frederick Douglass
180. Native Son – Richard Wright
181. Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
182. Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
183. A Night to Remember – Walter Lord
184. The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail – Robert Edwin Lee and Jerome Lawrence
185. North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
186. Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
187. O Pioneers! – Willa Cather
188. The Odyssey – Homer
189. Oedipus Rex – Sophocles
190. Of Human Bondage – W. Somerset  Maugham
191. Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
192. The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
193. Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
194. On the Beach – Nevil Shute
195. The Road – Cormac McCarthy
196. On the Road – Jack Kerouac
197. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Axelxander Solzhenitsyn
198. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
199. One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
200. The Optimist’s Daughter – Eudora Welty
201. Othello – William Shakespeare
202. Our Town – Thornton Wilder
203. The Outsiders – S.E. Hinton
204. The Ox-Bow Incident – Walter Clark
205. Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
206. A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
207. Paradise Lost – John Milton
208. The Pearl – John Steinbeck
209. Persuasion – Jane Austen
210. The Phantom of the Opera – Gaston Leroux
211. The Pickwick Papers – Charles Dickens
212. The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
213. Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
214. The Pillars of the Earth – Ken Follett
215. The Plague – Albert Camus
216. Point Counter Point – Aldous Huxley
217. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
218. The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
219. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
220. A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
221. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
222. Pygmalion – Bernard Shaw
223. QB VII – Leon Uris
224. The Quiet American – Graham Greene
225. Rabbit, Run – John Updike
226. The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
227. A Raisin in the Sun – Lorraine Hansberry
228. The Razor’s Edge – W. Somerset Maugham
229. Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
230. The Red Badge of Courage – Stephen Crane
231. The Reivers – William Faulkner
232. The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
233. The Republic – Plato
234. The Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
235. Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
236. Romeo and Juliet – William Shakespeare
237. A Room with a View – E.M. Forster
238. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead – Tom Stoppard
239. The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
240. The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
241. The Scarlet Pimpernel – Emma B. Orczy
242. Scoop – Evelyn Waugh
243. The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
244. Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
245. A Separate Peace – John Knowles
246. Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
247. Silas Marner – George Eliot
248. Silent Spring – Rachel Carson
249. Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut
250. Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
251. Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
252. The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
253. The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
254. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
255. The Stranger – Albert Camus
256. Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
257. Sula – Toni Morrison
258. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
259. A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
260. The Taming of the Shrew – William Shakespeare
261. The Tempest – William Shakespeare
262. Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
263. Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
264. Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
265. Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
266. This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
267. Three Men in a Boat – Jerome K. Jerome
268. The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
269. Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Friedrich Nietzsche
270. The Time Machine – H. G. Wells
271. To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
272. To the Lighthouse –  Virginia Woolf
273. Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
274. Travels with Charlie – John Steinbeck
275. Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
276. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn – Betty Smith
277. The Trial – Franz Kafka
278. Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
279. The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
280. Twelfth Night – William Shakespeare
281. Twelve Angry Men – Reginald Rose
282. The Two Gentlemen of Verona – William Shakespeare
283. Ulysses – James Joyce
284. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
285. V. – Thomas Pynchon
286. Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
287. Waiting for Godot – Samuel Beckett
288. Walden – Henry David Thoreau
289. War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
290. War and Remembrance – Herman Wouk
291. The War of the Worlds – H. G. Wells
292. Watchmen – Alan Moore
293. Watership Down – Richard Adams
294. The Way of All Flesh – Samuel Butler
295. Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
296. Winseburg, Ohio – Sherwood Anderson
297. The World According to Garp – John Irving
298. Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
299. The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
300. You Can’t Go Home Again – Thomas Wolfe