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Where Classic Literature and Needlework Are Sewn Together
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Classic Literature Library
It is hard to define what makes a piece of literature a "classic" because it is very subjective. What may be considered a classic by some, may not be considered a classic by others. But one thing is for certain, the novels listed below are ones that have captured countless readers and continue to be influential works years, decades, and centuries past their publication.
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Please note, some of the novels listed below may include offensive language, themes, and behaviors. Whenever we read classic literature we must expect to encounter things from that past that may upset us. I encourage you to enter each of these works with awareness.
Achebe, Chinua
Things Fall Apart
Adams, Douglas
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Alcott, Louisa May
Little Women
Little Men
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Anand, Mulk Raj
Untouchable
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Andersen, Hans Christian
Fairy Tales
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Angelou, Maya
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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Atwood, Margaret
The Handmaid's Tale
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Austen, Jane
Emma
Lady Susan
Mansfield Park
Northanger Abbey
Persuasion
Pride and Prejudice
Sense and Sensibility
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Barrie, JM
Peter Pan
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Bradbury, Ray
Fahrenheit 451
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Bronte, Anne
Agnes Grey
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Bronte, Charlotte
Jane Eyre
The Professor
Shirley
Villette
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Bronte, Emily
Wuthering Heights
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Baum, L Frank
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
The Lost Princess of Oz
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Ozma of Oz
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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Burgess, Anthony
A Clockwork Orange
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Burnett, Frances Hodgson
The Little Princess
The Secret Garden
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Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Tarzan of the Apes
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Capote, Truman
Breakfast at Tiffany's
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Carroll, Lewis
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Through the Looking Glass
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Cather, Willa
My Antonia
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Cervantes, Miguel de
Don Quixote
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Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
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Chesnutt, Charles W.
The House Behind the Cedars
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Christie, Agatha
And Then There Were None
Murder on the Orient Express
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
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Coelho, Paulo
The Alchemist
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Conrad, Joseph
Heart of Darkness
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Cooper, James Fenimore
The Last of the Mohicans
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Darwin, Charles
On The Origin of Species
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Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
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Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol
A Tale of Two Cities
Bleak House
David Copperfield
Hard Times
Oliver Twist
Great Expectations
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Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Crime and Punishment
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Douglass, Frederick
My Bondage and My Freedom
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Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Lost World
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Rodney Stone
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Dumas, Alexander
The Count of Monte Cristo
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Nutcracker
Ten Years Later
The Three Musketeers
Twenty Years After
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Eliot, George
Middlemarch
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Ellison, Ralph
Invisible Man
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Faulkner, William
The Sound and the Fury
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Fitzgerald, F Scott
The Beautiful and the Damned
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Great Gatsby
This Side of Paradise
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Flaubert, Gustave
Madame Bovary
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Forster, EM
A Room with A View
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Frank, Anne
The Diary of A Young Girl
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Frost, Robert
The Road Not Taken
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Gaskell, Elizabeth
North and South
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Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
The Yellow Wallpaper
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Golding, William
Lord of the Flies
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Grahame, Kenneth
The Wind in the Willows
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Hardy, Thomas
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Far from the Madding Crowd
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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Hawking, Stephen
A Brief History of Time
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Hawthorne, Nathaniel
The Scarlet Letter
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Heller, Joseph
Catch-22
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Hemingway, Ernest
The Old Man and the Sea
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Herbert, Frank
Dune
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Homer
The Odyssey
The Iliad
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Hugo, Victor
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Les Miserables
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Hurston, Zora Neale
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Huxley, Aldous
Brave New World
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Irving, Washington
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Jakes, John
North and South
Love and War
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James, Henry
The Turn of the Screw
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Jerome, K Jerome
Three Men in a Boat
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Joyce, James
Ulysses
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Kawabata, Yasunari
Thousand Cranes
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Kesey, Ken
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Keyes, Damiel
Flowers for Algernon
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Kipling, Rudyard
The Jungle Book
The Man Who Would be King
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L'Amour, Louis
Howe the West Was Won
Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de
Dangerous Liaisons
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Lafayette, Madame de
The Princesse de Cleves
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Lawrence, David Herbert
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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Lee, Harper
To Kill a Mockingbird
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Leroux, Gaston
The Phantom of the Opera
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Lewis, CS
The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Magician's Nephew
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
The Horse and His Boy
Prince Caspian
Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Silver Chair
The Last Battle
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London, Jack
The Call of the Wild
The Road
White Fang
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Lowry, Lois
The Giver
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Machiavelli, Niccolo
The Art of War
The Prince
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Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Maurier, Daphne du
Rebecca
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McEwan, Ian
Atonement
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Melville, Herman
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Miller, Arthur
Death of a Salesman
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Milton, John
Paradise Lost
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Montgomery, LM
Anne of Avonlea
Anne of Green Gables
Anne of Ingleside
Anne of the Island
Anne of Windy Poplars
Anne's House of Dreams
Jane of Lantern Hill
Rainbow Valley
Rilla of Ingleside
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More, Thomas
Utopia
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Morrison, Toni
Beloved
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Northup, Solomon
Twelve Years a Slave
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Orwell, George
1984
Animal Farm
Paine, Thomas
The Age of Reason
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Pasternak, Boris
Doctor Zhivago
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Pirsig, Robert M.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Plath, Sylvia
The Bell Jar
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Poe, Edgar Allen
A Descent into the Maelstrom
The Fall of the House of Usher
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
The Pit and the Pendulum
Shadow
The Tell-Tale Heart
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Remarque, Erich Maria
All Quiet on the Western Front
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Rhys, Jean
Wide Sargasso Sea
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Salinger, JD
The Catcher in the Rye
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Sewell, Anna
Black Beauty
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Shakespeare, William
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Antony and Cleopatra
Hamlet
Henry VIII
King Lear
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
The Tempest
The Winter's Tale
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Shelley, Mary
The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Frankenstein
Mathilda
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Steinbeck, John
The Grapes of Wrath
Of Mice and Men
East of Eden
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Stevenson, Robert Louis
Kidnapped
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Treasure Island
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Stocker, Bram
Dracula
Dracula's Guest
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Swift, Jonathan
Gulliver's Travels
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Thackeray, William Makepeace
Vanity Fair
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Tolkien, JRR
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Two Towers
The Return of the King
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Tolstoy, Leo
Anna Karenina
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Twain, Mark
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Prince and the Pauper
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Tzu, Sun
The Art of War
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Verne, Jules
An Antarctic Mystery
Around the World in Eighty Days
Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Mysterious Island
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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Walker, Alice
The Color Purple
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Waugh, Evelyn
Brideshead Revisited
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Wells, HG
The First Men in the Moon
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Sleeper Awakes
The Star
The Time Machine
The War of the Worlds
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Wharton, Edith
The Age of Innocence
The Touchstone
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White, EB
Charlotte's Web
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Wilde, Oscar
The Canterville Ghost
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Williams, Tennessee
A Streetcar Named Desire
Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
The Glass Menagerie
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Wollstonecraft, Mary
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Woolf, Virginia
A Room of One's Own
Mrs. Dalloway
Night and Day
Orlando
To the Lighthouse
The Voyage Out
The Waves
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Wu Cheng'en
The Journey to the West
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Wyss, Johann David
Swiss Family Robinson
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