{"id":983,"date":"2012-02-16T03:27:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T17:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?page_id=983"},"modified":"2014-08-16T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-16T23:41:08","slug":"classic-books-list","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/?page_id=983","title":{"rendered":"Mal&#8217;s Classic Books List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the list of books that I am classifying as the &#8220;Classics&#8221;.  Its been put together by scouring the net for some lists (there doesn&#8217;t seem to be one definitive list) and some opinions from friends &#038; family as well.  If you think something is missing, please say so and I might just add it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sherlock Holmes &#8211; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Hound of the Baskervilles &#8211; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes &#8211; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>War &#038; Peace &#8211; Leo Tolstoy<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Art of Warfare &#8211; Sun Tzu<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Hobbit &#8211; JRR Tolkien<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Moby-Dick &#8211; Herman Melville<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Adventures of Huckleberry Finn &#8211; Mark Twain<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer &#8211; Mark Twain<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>1984 &#8211; George Orwell<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Oliver Twist &#8211; Charles Dickens<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Brave New World &#8211; Aldous Huxley<\/strong><br \/>\nDon Quixote &#8211; Miguel de Cervantes<br \/>\nGulliver\u2019s Travels &#8211; Jonathan Swift<br \/>\nPride and Prejudice &#8211; Jane Austen<br \/>\nThe Scarlet Letter &#8211; Nathaniel Hawthorne<br \/>\nMadame Bovary &#8211; Gustave Flaubert<br \/>\nCrime and Punishment &#8211; Fyodor Dostoevsky<br \/>\nAnna Karenina &#8211; Leo Tolstoy<br \/>\nThe Trial &#8211; Franz Kafka<br \/>\nThe Histories &#8211; Herodotus<br \/>\nThe Republic &#8211; Plato<br \/>\nUtopia &#8211; Sir Thomas More<br \/>\nAgamemnon &#8211; Aeschylus<br \/>\nOedipus the King &#8211; Sophocles<br \/>\nMedea &#8211; Euripides<br \/>\nThe Birds &#8211; Aristophanes<br \/>\nPoetics &#8211; Aristotle<br \/>\nRichard III &#8211; William Shakespeare<br \/>\nA Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream &#8211; William Shakespeare<br \/>\nHamlet &#8211; William Shakespeare<br \/>\nTartuffe &#8211; Moliere<br \/>\nThe Way of the World &#8211; William Congreve<br \/>\nA Doll\u2019s House &#8211; Henrik Ibsen<br \/>\nSaint Joan &#8211; George Bernard Shaw<br \/>\nNo Exit &#8211; Jean Paul Sartre<br \/>\nThe Iliad &#8211; Homer<br \/>\nThe Odyssey &#8211; Homer<br \/>\nOdes &#8211; Horace<br \/>\nInferno -Dante Alighieri<br \/>\nThe Canterbury Tales &#8211; Geoffrey Chaucer<br \/>\nSonnets &#8211; William Shakespeare<br \/>\nThe Great Gatsby &#8211; F. Scott Fitzgerald<br \/>\nThe Prince &#8211; Niccolo Machiavelli<br \/>\nSlaughterhouse-Five &#8211; Kurt Vonnegut<br \/>\nBrothers Karamazov &#8211; Fyodor Dostoevsky<br \/>\nThe Catcher in the Rye &#8211; J.D. Salinger<br \/>\nFor Whom the Bell Tolls &#8211; Ernest Hemingway<br \/>\nThe Picture of Dorian Gray &#8211; Oscar Wilde<br \/>\nThe Grapes of Wrath &#8211; John Steinbeck<br \/>\nCall of the Wild &#8211; Jack London<br \/>\nHow To Win Friends And Influence People &#8211; Dale Carnegie<br \/>\nThe Rise of Theodore Roosevelt &#8211; Edmund Morris<br \/>\nSwiss Family Robinson &#8211; Johann David Wyss<br \/>\nDharma Bums &#8211; Jack Kerouac<br \/>\nCatch-22 &#8211; Joseph Heller<br \/>\nWalden &#8211; Henry David Thoreau<br \/>\nLord of the Flies &#8211; William Golding<br \/>\nThe Master and Margarita &#8211; Mikhail Bulgakov<br \/>\nBluebeard &#8211; Kurt Vonnegut<br \/>\nAtlas Shrugged &#8211; Ayn Rand<br \/>\nUlysses &#8211; James Joyce<br \/>\nBlood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West &#8211; Cormac McCarthy<br \/>\nInto the Wild &#8211; Jon Krakauer<br \/>\nThe Divine Comedy &#8211; Dante Alighieri<br \/>\nThe Rough Riders &#8211; Theodore Roosevelt<br \/>\nThe Thin Red Line &#8211; James Jones<br \/>\nLeviathan &#8211; Thomas Hobbes<br \/>\nThe Politics &#8211; Aristotle<br \/>\nThe Naked and The Dead &#8211; Norman Mailer<br \/>\nHatchet &#8211; Gary Paulsen<br \/>\nAnimal Farm &#8211; George Orwell<br \/>\nBeyond Good and Evil &#8211; Freidrich Nietzsche<br \/>\nFrankenstein &#8211; Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly<br \/>\nA Farewell To Arms &#8211; Ernest Hemingway<br \/>\nRobinson Crusoe &#8211; Daniel Dafoe<br \/>\nTreasure Island &#8211; Robert Louis Stevenson<br \/>\nThe Great Railway Bazaar &#8211; Paul Theroux<br \/>\nCannery Row &#8211; John Steinbeck<br \/>\nThe Idiot &#8211; Fyodor Dostoevsky<br \/>\nThe Island of Dr. Moreau &#8211; H.G. Wells<br \/>\nThe Count of Monte Cristo &#8211; Alexandre Dumas<br \/>\nAll Quiet on The Western Front &#8211; Erich Maria Remarq<br \/>\nThe Bible<br \/>\nThe Maltese Falcon &#8211; Dashiell Hammett<br \/>\nTo Kill a Mockingbird &#8211; Harper Lee<br \/>\nPride and Prejudice &#8211; Jane Austen<br \/>\nSense and Sensibility &#8211; Jane Austen<br \/>\nThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz &#8211; L. Frank Baum<br \/>\nWuthering Heights &#8211; Emily Bront\u00eb<br \/>\nTales from the Arabian Nights &#8211; Richard Francis Burton<br \/>\nAlice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland &#8211; Lewis Carroll<br \/>\nThrough the Looking-Glass &#8211; Lewis Carroll<br \/>\nThe Man Who Was Thursday &#8211; G.K. Chesterton<br \/>\nThe Napoleon of Notting Hill &#8211; G.K. Chesterton<br \/>\nThe Last of the Mohicans &#8211; James Fenimore Cooper<br \/>\nThe Red Badge of Courage &#8211; Stephen Crane<br \/>\nBleak House &#8211; Charles Dickens<br \/>\nA Christmas Carol &#8211; Charles Dickens<br \/>\nDavid Copperfield &#8211; Charles Dickens<br \/>\nGreat Expectations &#8211; Charles Dickens<br \/>\nA Tale of Two Cities &#8211; Charles Dickens<br \/>\nCrime and Punishment &#8211; Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br \/>\nThe Man in the Iron Mask &#8211; Alexandre Dumas<br \/>\nMiddlemarch &#8211; George Eliot<br \/>\nSilas Marner &#8211; \tGeorge Eliot<br \/>\nThe Diary of a Nobody &#8211; George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith<br \/>\nAllan Quatermain &#8211; Henry Rider Haggard<br \/>\nKing Solomon&#8217;s Mines &#8211; Henry Rider Haggard<br \/>\nFar from the Madding Crowd &#8211; Thomas Hardy<br \/>\nTess of the D&#8217;Urbervilles &#8211; Thomas Hardy<br \/>\nThe Scarlet Letter &#8211; Nathaniel Hawthorne<br \/>\nThe Four Million &#8211; O. Henry<br \/>\nThe Hunchback of Notre-Dame &#8211; Victor Hugo<br \/>\nLes Mis\u00e9rables &#8211; Victor Hugo<br \/>\nThe Turn of the Screw &#8211; Henry James<br \/>\nThe Jungle Book &#8211; Rudyard Kipling<br \/>\nThe Man Who Would Be King &#8211; Rudyard Kipling<br \/>\nThe Call of the Wild &#8211; Jack London<br \/>\nWhite Fang &#8211; Jack London<br \/>\nRights of Man &#8211; Thomas Paine<br \/>\nTales of Mystery &#038; Imagination &#8211; Edgar Allan Poe<br \/>\nIvanhoe &#8211; Sir Walter Scott<br \/>\nWaverley &#8211; Sir Walter Scott<br \/>\nBlack Beauty &#8211; Anna Sewell<br \/>\nMacBeth &#8211; William Shakespeare<br \/>\nOthello, The Moor of Venice &#8211; William Shakespeare<br \/>\nRomeo and Juliet &#8211; William Shakespeare<br \/>\nThe Taming of the Shrew &#8211; William Shakespeare<br \/>\nThe Tempest &#8211; William Shakespeare<br \/>\nThe Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde &#8211; Robert Louis Stevenson<br \/>\nKidnapped &#8211; Robert Louis Stevenson<br \/>\nDracula &#8211; Bram Stoker<br \/>\nUncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin &#8211; Harriet Beecher Stowe<br \/>\nVanity Fair &#8211; William Makepeace Thackeray<br \/>\nBarchester Towers &#8211; Anthony Trollope<br \/>\nA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#8217;s Court &#8211; Mark Twain<br \/>\nJourney to the Center of the Earth &#8211; Jules Verne<br \/>\n20,000 Leagues Under the Sea &#8211; Jules Verne<br \/>\nThe Time Machine &#8211; H.G. Wells<br \/>\nThe Age of Innocence &#8211; Edith Wharton<br \/>\nThe Importance of Being Earnest &#8211; Oscar Wilde<br \/>\nThe Picture of Dorian Gray &#8211; Oscar Wilde<\/p>\n<p>Bold &#8211; Books Completed<br \/>\nItalic &#8211; Currently Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the list of books that I am classifying as the &#8220;Classics&#8221;. Its been put together by scouring the net for some lists (there doesn&#8217;t seem to be one definitive list) and some opinions from friends &#038; family as well. If you think something is missing, please say so and I might just add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-983","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P49RU0-fR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5704,"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/983\/revisions\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigmal.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}