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Classics I want to read

A list of classics I would like to read.

My criterion for classics at this time: Must be a title I've heard of, and Must be published 1969 or before. (My birth year)

1984

1984
ByGeorge Orwell

1949 • 5,278 Readers • 352 pages 4.2

A Canticle for Leibowitz

A Canticle for Leibowitz
ByWalter M. Miller Jr.

1959 • 542 Readers • 334 pages 3.9

Around the World in Eighty Days

1872 • 384 Readers • 260 pages 3.7

Arsenic and Old Lace

Arsenic and Old Lace
ByJoseph Kesselring

1939 • 15 Readers • 104 pages 4.4

A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet
ByArthur Conan Doyle

198 • 721 Readers • 123 pages 4

As You Like It

As You Like It
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1599 • 120 Readers • 288 pages 3.8

Babel-17

Babel-17
BySamuel R. Delany

1966 • 170 Readers 3.4

Brave New World

Brave New World
ByAldous Huxley

1930 • 2,788 Readers • 332 pages 3.9

Captain Blood

Captain Blood
ByRafael Sabatini

53 Readers 3.8

Carmilla

Carmilla
ByJ. Sheridan Le Fanu

1872 • 360 Readers • 87 pages 3.8

City

City
ByClifford D. Simak

1944 • 112 Readers • 255 pages 4.2

Cymbeline

Cymbeline
ByWilliam Shakespeare,Gabriele Baldini(Translator)

1610 • 22 Readers • 324 pages 3.2

Doctor Faustus

Doctor Faustus
ByChristopher Marlowe

1589 • 13 Readers • 430 pages 3.8

Don Quixote

Don Quixote
ByMiguel de Cervantes,Edith Grossman

1605 • 53 Readers • 996 pages 4.1

Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz

1908 • 7 Readers • 160 pages 3.5

Emma

Emma
ByJane Austen,Therezinha Monteiro Deutsch(Translator)

1815 • 1,010 Readers • 334 pages 4

Five Little Peppers and How They Grew

1881 • 15 Readers • 352 pages 4

Foundation and Empire

Foundation and Empire
ByIsaac Asimov

1952 • 643 Readers • 244 pages 4.1

From the Earth to the Moon

From the Earth to the Moon
ByJules Verne,Louis Mercier(Translator)

1865 • 76 Readers • 338 pages 3.4

Giovanni's Room

Giovanni's Room
ByJames Baldwin

1956 • 431 Readers • 169 pages 4.4

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels
ByJonathan Swift

198 • 408 Readers • 462 pages 3.5

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

1969 • 546 Readers • 309 pages 4.1

I, Robot

I, Robot
ByIsaac Asimov

1950 • 1,085 Readers • 264 pages 4.1

Ivanhoe

Ivanhoe
ByWalter Scott

1819 • 125 Readers • 594 pages 3.6

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

1864 • 23 Readers • 254 pages 3.7

King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon's Mines
ByH. Rider Haggard

19 • 126 Readers • 354 pages 3.6

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Lest Darkness Fall
ByL. Sprague de Camp

1941 • 23 Readers • 174 pages 3.5

Little men

Little men
ByLouisa May Alcott

1994 • 5 Readers • 332 pages 3

Lysistrata

Lysistrata
ByAristophanes,Sarah Ruden(Translator)

-423 • 64 Readers • 132 pages 3.6

Macbeth

Macbeth
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1606 • 968 Readers • 160 pages 3.9

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary
ByGustave Flaubert,Alan Russell(Translator)

1856 • 543 Readers • 368 pages 3.6

Middlemarch

Middlemarch
ByGeorge Eliot

18 • 432 Readers • 810 pages 4.2

Minority Report

Minority Report
ByPhilip K. Dick

1956 • 145 Readers • 290 pages 3.9

Orlando: A Biography

Orlando: A Biography
ByVirginia Woolf

1919 • 312 Readers • 350 pages 3.8

Ozma of Oz

Ozma of Oz
ByL. Frank Baum

1907 • 66 Readers • 110 pages 3.5

Persuasion

Persuasion
ByJane Austen

1789 • 795 Readers • 324 pages 4.1

Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes
ByPierre Boulle,Xan Fielding(Translator)

1963 • 89 Readers • 128 pages 4

Pygmalion

Pygmalion
ByGeorge Bernard Shaw

1912 • 164 Readers • 133 pages 3.6

Sir Percy Leads the Band

1936 • 3 Readers

Something Wicked This Way Comes

1962 • 525 Readers • 232 pages 3.9

Starship Troopers

Starship Troopers
ByRobert A. Heinlein

1959 • 622 Readers • 353 pages 3.7

Stormbringer

Stormbringer
ByMichael Moorcock

2022 • 46 Readers • 864 pages 4

Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

1875 • 1,038 Readers • 141 pages 3.7

Tarzan of the Apes

Tarzan of the Apes
ByEdgar Rice Burroughs

1912 • 92 Readers • 324 pages 3.4

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

1891 • 373 Readers • 360 pages 3.7

The Canterville Ghost

1887 • 123 Readers • 64 pages 3.8

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The Cask Of Amontillado
ByEdgar Allan Poe

10 Readers 3.8

The Chosen

The Chosen
ByChaim Potok

1966 • 80 Readers • 304 pages 4.1

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo
ByAlexandre Dumas

1830 • 1,627 Readers • 1,276 pages 4.3

The Cricket In Times Square

1960 • 54 Readers • 144 pages 4

The Crucible

The Crucible
ByArthur Miller(Contributor),Gerald Weales(Editor)

1971 • 489 Readers • 484 pages 3.6

The Demolished Man

The Demolished Man
ByAlfred Bester

1951 • 161 Readers • 191 pages 3.6

The Emerald City of Oz

The Emerald City of Oz
ByL. Frank Baum

1910 • 41 Readers • 346 pages 3.1

The Faerie Queene

The Faerie Queene
ByEdmund Spenser

49 Readers 3.3

The Fall of the House of Usher

1839 • 251 Readers • 368 pages 3.9

The First Men in the Moon

The First Men in the Moon
BySteven McLean,H. G. Wells

1901 • 69 Readers • 213 pages 3.6

The Gift Of The Magi

1905 • 96 Readers • 9 pages 4

The Goblin Reservation

The Goblin Reservation
ByClifford D. Simak

1968 • 15 Readers • 170 pages 3.2

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Their Eyes Were Watching God
ByZora Neale Hurston

1937 • 536 Readers • 260 pages 4

The Island of Dr. Moreau

1896 • 312 Readers • 146 pages 3.5

The King of Elfland's Daughter

1924 • 90 Readers • 240 pages 3.7

The Land That Time Forgot

The Land That Time Forgot
ByEdgar Rice Burroughs

1918 • 7 Readers • 78 pages 3

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
ByWashington Irving

1820 • 165 Readers • 24 pages 3.3

The Long Tomorrow

The Long Tomorrow
ByLeigh Brackett

1955 • 33 Readers • 262 pages 3.7

The lost world

The lost world
ByArthur Conan Doyle

1900 • 130 Readers • 348 pages 3.8

The Man in the Brown Suit

The Man in the Brown Suit
ByAgatha Christie

1924 • 122 Readers • 222 pages 3.6

The Man of Property

The Man of Property
ByJohn Galsworthy

1906 • 5 Readers • 398 pages 5

The Mark of Zorro

The Mark of Zorro
ByJohnston McCulley

1919 • 22 Readers • 284 pages 4

The Marvelous Land of Oz

1904 • 10 Readers • 287 pages 3.6

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

1920 • 606 Readers • 121 pages 3.9

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

-500 • 99 Readers • 336 pages 3.9

The Pit and the Pendulum

The Pit and the Pendulum
ByEdgar Allan Poe

1842 • 22 Readers • 19 pages 3.9

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The Poetic Edda: Stories of the Norse Gods and Heroes
ByUnknown,Jackson Crawford(Translator)

1270 • 14 Readers 4.8

The Prince and the Pauper

1881 • 114 Readers • 231 pages 3.6

The Reluctant Dragon

The Reluctant Dragon
ByKenneth Grahame

1898 • 10 Readers • 57 pages 5

The Road To Oz

The Road To Oz
ByL. Frank Baum

1909 • 46 Readers • 255 pages 2.9

The Shape of Things to Come

1933 • 18 Readers • 576 pages 2.5

The Tell-Tale Heart

The Tell-Tale Heart
ByEdgar Allan Poe

1843 • 354 Readers • 25 pages 4.2

The Thirteen Problems

The Thirteen Problems
ByAgatha Christie

1932 • 77 Readers • 14 pages 3.7

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1590 • 4 Readers 3.5

The Turn Of The Screw

1878 • 419 Readers • 161 pages 3.3

The two noble kinsmen

The two noble kinsmen
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1614 • 5 Readers • 412 pages 3.3

The Vampyre

The Vampyre
ByJohn William Polidori

2021 • 53 Readers • 30 pages 3.1

The Woman in White

The Woman in White
ByWilkie Collins

1859 • 16 Readers • 656 pages 4.5

The Yearling

The Yearling
ByMarjorie Kinnan Rawlings

1938 • 46 Readers • 428 pages 3.9

Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida
ByWilliam Shakespeare

1601 • 2 Readers • 258 pages 3

Ubik

Ubik
ByPhilip K. Dick

1969 • 522 Readers • 241 pages 4

Utopia

Utopia
ByThomas More

2004 • 164 Readers 3.2