[Diana in Wisconsin]

Interesting list at the link. I've read quite a few of them, but I'm thinking this would be a good Summer Reading Project to check out some of the other recommended books.

And the reader comments at the end give you an even longer reading list to choose from! :)

[Scrambler Bob]

Mark 4 later

[crusty old prospector]

I’ll still need the Cliff Notes.

[MtnClimber]

Thanks, I copied the list for consideration.

[Responsibility2nd]

Here are the 50 novels from Literary Hub’s list, in the order shown on the page.

The Invention of Morel — Adolfo Bioy Casares

Of Mice and Men — John Steinbeck

Animal Farm — George Orwell

The Hound of the Baskervilles — Arthur Conan Doyle

The Postman Always Rings Twice — James M. Cain

Passing — Nella Larsen

The Stranger — Albert Camus

Pedro Páramo — Juan Rulfo

The Cloven Viscount — Italo Calvino

The Awakening — Kate Chopin

The Death of Ivan Ilyich — Leo Tolstoy

In Watermelon Sugar — Richard Brautigan

The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man — James Weldon Johnson

Death in Venice — Thomas Mann

We Have Always Lived in the Castle — Shirley Jackson

A Single Man — Christopher Isherwood

Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky

Ice — Anna Kavan

Cane — Jean Toomer

The Drowned World — J.G. Ballard

Hunger — Knut Hamsun

Giovanni’s Room — James Baldwin

O Pioneers! — Willa Cather

Bonjour Tristesse — Françoise Sagan

Billy Budd, Sailor — Herman Melville

The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon

The Trial — Franz Kafka

A Personal Matter — Kenzaburo Oe

Nightwood — Djuna Barnes

Snow Country — Yasunari Kawabata

Wide Sargasso Sea — Jean Rhys

Silas Marner — George Eliot

The Girls of Slender Means — Muriel Spark

Jakob von Gunten — Robert Walser

Breakfast at Tiffany’s — Truman Capote

Things Fall Apart — Chinua Achebe

Fat City — Leonard Gardner

House Made of Dawn — N. Scott Momaday

If He Hollers Let Him Go — Chester Himes

The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Pnin — Vladimir Nabokov

Norwood — Charles Portis

Ubik — Philip K. Dick

Near to the Wild Heart — Clarice Lispector

A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess

Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead — Barbara Comyns

Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston

Ethan Frome — Edith Wharton

Picnic at Hanging Rock — Joan Lindsay

The Magic Toyshop — Angela Carter

[goodnesswins]

.I am still trying to put in my garden and you do THIS???

[yuleeyahoo]

Modern authors pad their word count without adding much substance to the story. I have read many books of around 700 pages that would have been much more memorable and enjoyable at less than 300 pages.

[MarDav]

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad needs to be on that list

[wardaddy]

Classics Ilustrated ran about 30-40 pages
Don’t laugh

Gave me an overview few of my peers had of classic lit

[Psalm 73]

Nice!

Sadly, I started keeping a spread sheet of books I'm reading about 25 years ago - now I can't stop. History, classics, religion, science, it's all in there. I'm addicted, and hard-core (books on-dead-tree only).

I'm sure to start working off of this list, too. Thank you.

[MayflowerMadam]

I really liked Ethan Frome. Depressing, though.

I was hoping “How Much Land Does A Man Need” by Tolstoy was in the list. We read it in junior high school and it made an impression.

[montag813]

Steinbeck’s The Pearl also a shorty but goody.

[Blogatron]

How about The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway?

[texanyankee]

The Call Of The Wild

[decal]

“The Cincinnati Kid”

[Bullish]

Thanks for posting this. I will be pouring over this list to find some more good reads.

[algore]

do you know if these are on kindle unlimited

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[catnipman]

i highly recommend “O Pioneers!” [& My Antonia], “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, and “Silas Marner” ...

[Susquehanna Patriot]

Thanks for this!!!!

Many classics here ... some read, some not, those already read ... hope to re-read some of them again. Great books never have to be relegated to the “one-and-done” list or pile.

[FamiliarFace]

Great stuff! Thanks for posting!