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Make a list of 50 classic 'must reads' - and read them
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1) As You Like It--William Shakespeare
2) Little Women--Louisa May Alcott
3) The Count of Monte Cristo--Alexandre Dumas
4) Around the World in 80 Days--Jules Verne
5) The Mark of Zorro--Johnston McCulley
6) Little Men--Louisa May Alcott
7) Lord Edgeware Dies--Agatha Christie
8) Murder on the Orient Express--Agatha Christie
9) Middlemarch--George Eliot
10) Giovanni's Room--James Baldwin
11) Three Act Tragedy--Agatha Christie
12) Death in the Clouds--Agatha Christie
13) Babel-17--Samuel R Delany
14) The ABC Murders--Agatha Christie
15) A Study in Scarlet--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16) Murder in Mesopotamia--Agatha Christie
17) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow--Washington Irving
18) The Fall of the House of Usher--Edgar Allan Poe
19) The Pit and the Pendulum--Edgar Allan Poe
20) The Tell-Tale Heart--Edgar Allan Poe
21) The Cask of Amontillado--Edgar Allan Poe
22) Jo's Boys--Louisa May Alcott
23) The Crucible--Arthur Miller
24) An Ideal Husband--Oscar Wilde
25) Eight Cousins--Louisa May Alcott
26) Jamaica Inn--Daphne du Maurier
27) Eight Cousins
28) An Ideal Husband
29) The Land that Time Forgot
30) The Sign of Four
31) Gift of the Magi
32) Cards on the Table
33) Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
34) Murder in the Mews
35) Scaramouche
36) The Sleeper Awakes
37) My Cousin Rachel
38) Dumb Witness
39) Tarzan of the Apes
40) Death on the Nile
41) Much Ado About Nothing
42) Aesop's Fables
43) Northanger Abby
44) Second Foundation
45) Lady Susan
46) Orlando
1) As You Like It--William Shakespeare
2) Little Women--Louisa May Alcott
3) The Count of Monte Cristo--Alexandre Dumas
4) Around the World in 80 Days--Jules Verne
5) The Mark of Zorro--Johnston McCulley
6) Little Men--Louisa May Alcott
7) Lord Edgeware Dies--Agatha Christie
8) Murder on the Orient Express--Agatha Christie
9) Middlemarch--George Eliot
10) Giovanni's Room--James Baldwin
11) Three Act Tragedy--Agatha Christie
12) Death in the Clouds--Agatha Christie
13) Babel-17--Samuel R Delany
14) The ABC Murders--Agatha Christie
15) A Study in Scarlet--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
16) Murder in Mesopotamia--Agatha Christie
17) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow--Washington Irving
18) The Fall of the House of Usher--Edgar Allan Poe
19) The Pit and the Pendulum--Edgar Allan Poe
20) The Tell-Tale Heart--Edgar Allan Poe
21) The Cask of Amontillado--Edgar Allan Poe
22) Jo's Boys--Louisa May Alcott
23) The Crucible--Arthur Miller
24) An Ideal Husband--Oscar Wilde
25) Eight Cousins--Louisa May Alcott
26) Jamaica Inn--Daphne du Maurier
27) Eight Cousins
28) An Ideal Husband
29) The Land that Time Forgot
30) The Sign of Four
31) Gift of the Magi
32) Cards on the Table
33) Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
34) Murder in the Mews
35) Scaramouche
36) The Sleeper Awakes
37) My Cousin Rachel
38) Dumb Witness
39) Tarzan of the Apes
40) Death on the Nile
41) Much Ado About Nothing
42) Aesop's Fables
43) Northanger Abby
44) Second Foundation
45) Lady Susan
46) Orlando
1) Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - Read
2) The Little Prince by Antoine - Read
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A Christmas Carol ✓
Alice in Wonderand ✓
And Then There Were None ✓
Anna Karenina ✓
Anne of Green Gables ✓
Around the World in Eighty Days ✓
A Christmas Carol ✓
A Little Princess ✓
A Tale of Two Cities
Black Beauty ✓
Dracula ✓
Frankenstein
Gone with the Wind
Grimm's Fairy Tales ✓
Little Women ✓
Jane Eyre
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Lady Audley's Secret ✓
Les Miserables
Lord of the Flies
North and South ✓
Oliver Twist
Peter Pan ✓
Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca
The Bell Jar
The Count of Monte Cristo ✓
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Fellowship of the Ring ✓
The Hobbit ✓
The Invisible Man
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Phantom of the Opera
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Princess Bride
The Railway Children
The Return of the King ✓
The Secret Garden ✓
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Thirty-nine Steps
The Three Musketeers ✓
The Time Machine ✓
The Turn of the Screw
The Two Towers ✓
The Wind in the Willows ✓
The Woman in White
To Kill a Mockingbird
White Fang ✓
Wuthering Heights
Alice in Wonderand ✓
And Then There Were None ✓
Anna Karenina ✓
Anne of Green Gables ✓
Around the World in Eighty Days ✓
A Christmas Carol ✓
A Little Princess ✓
A Tale of Two Cities
Black Beauty ✓
Dracula ✓
Frankenstein
Gone with the Wind
Grimm's Fairy Tales ✓
Little Women ✓
Jane Eyre
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Lady Audley's Secret ✓
Les Miserables
Lord of the Flies
North and South ✓
Oliver Twist
Peter Pan ✓
Pride and Prejudice
Rebecca
The Bell Jar
The Count of Monte Cristo ✓
The Complete Sherlock Holmes
The Fellowship of the Ring ✓
The Hobbit ✓
The Invisible Man
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Phantom of the Opera
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Princess Bride
The Railway Children
The Return of the King ✓
The Secret Garden ✓
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hide
The Swiss Family Robinson
The Thirty-nine Steps
The Three Musketeers ✓
The Time Machine ✓
The Turn of the Screw
The Two Towers ✓
The Wind in the Willows ✓
The Woman in White
To Kill a Mockingbird
White Fang ✓
Wuthering Heights
49: The Aeneid, Virgil
50: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, with Pearl and Sir Orfeo, J.R.R. Tolkien
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Old Man and the Sea
Old Man and the Sea
Old Man and the Sea
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