Hi, I'm new in this group. So, uhm, sorry if this has been done in another thread.
I'm looking for classic literature recommendations.
What are your favorites?
This list of 250 classics (which I've compiled from heaps of other lists) might help jolt your memory:
1984 by George Orwell
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
A Good Man is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
A Room with a View by E.M. Forster
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
Absalom Absalom! by William Faulkner
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann
Call It Sleep by Henry Roth
Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
Candide by Voltaire
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady by Samuel Richardson
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Dubliners by James Joyce
Dune by Frank Herbert
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Emma by Jane Austen
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Gormenghast Trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Herzog by Saul Bellow
His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Howard's End by E.M. Forster
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Ironweed (Albany Trilogy) by William Kennedy
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Kim by Rudyard Kipling
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Le Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Light in August by William Faulkner
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Molloy; Malone Dies; The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett
Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Native Son by Richard Wright
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguru
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
Persuasion by Jane Austen
Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Possession by A. S. Byatt
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov
Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
Sult by Knut Hamsun
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Ambassadors by Henry James
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The BFG by Roald Dahl
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
The Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell
The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
The Godfather by Mario Puzo
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Good Earth by Oearl S. Buck
The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
The Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hound of Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Illiad by Homer
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
The L.A. Quartet by James Ellroy
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Magus by John Fowles
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton
The Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles
The Sorrows of Young Werther by J. Wolfgang von Goethe
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stand by Stephen King
The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough
The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
The Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
U.S.A. Trilogy by John Dos Passos
Ulysses by James Joyce
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Underworld by Don DeLillo
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Watership Down by Richard Adams
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson
Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
To give you an idea of my tastes, here's some of my favorites:
A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
American Tabloid by James Ellroy
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dune by Frank Herbert
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Laterna Magica by Ingmar Bergman
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Notes From the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hound of Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The L.A. Quartet by James Ellroy
The Locked Room by Paul Auster
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony Berkeley
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
The Stranger AKA The Outsider by Albert Camus
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Thanks!
Oh, and btw, I can't wait for another Filmspotters' Top 100 Books list, Junior