Timeless Classics
Collected Stories: Member of Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
the Wedding Carson McCullers A High Wind in Jamaica Richard Hughes
A Connecticut Yankee The Hobbit [P] J.R.R. Tolkien
in King Arthur’s Court [NF] Mark Twain The House of Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne
All books are shelved in Fiction, unless noted with The Count of Monte Cristo Alexandre Dumas How Green was My Valley Richard Llewellyn
one of these abbreviations: C = Children’s; CD = CD Book; Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Human Comedy William Saroyan
LP = Large Print; M = Mystery; NF = Non-Fiction; The Crucible [NF] Arthur Miller The Hunchback of Notre Dame Victor Hugo
P = Paperback; SF = Science Fiction; T = Teen; W = Western Cry, The Beloved Country Alan Paton
Cyrano de Bergerac [NF] Edmond Rostand
I Heard the Owl Call My Name [T] Margaret Craven
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain The Iliad [NF] Homer
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Daisy Miller Henry James The Importance of Being
The African Queen C.S. Forester David Copperfield Charles Dickens Earnest [NF] Oscar Wilde
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Death Comes for the Archbishop Willa Cather Inherit the Wind [NF] Jerome Lawrence
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll A Death in the Family [CD] James Agee Ivanhoe Sir Walter Scott
All Creatures Great and Small [NF] James Herriot Death of a Salesman [NF] Arthur Miller
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich M. Remarque The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper
Animal Farm George Orwell The Diary of Anne Frank [NF] Anne Frank Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy The Divine Comedy [NF] Dante Alighieri Johnny Tremain [C] Esther Forbes
Anne of Green Gables [C] Lucy M. Montgomery Doctor Faustus [NF] Christopher Marlowe The Jungle Upton Sinclair
Antigone [NF] Sophocles Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes The Jungle Book [C] Rudyard Kipling
Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne Dracula Bram Stoker
The Autobiography Dubliners James Joyce
of Miss Jane Pittman Ernest J.Gaines Kidnapped Robert L Stevenson
The Awakening: A Solitary Soul Kate Chopin Kim [CD] Rudyard Kipling
East of Eden John Steinbeck King Solomon’s Mines H. Rider Haggard
Emma Jane Austen Kon-Tiki [NF] Thor Heyerdahl
Babbitt Sinclair Lewis Ethan Frome Edith Wharton
Ben-Hur [P] Lew Wallace
Billy Budd [LP] Herman Melville The Last of the Mohicans James F. Cooper
Brave New World Aldous Huxley Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury The Legend of Sleepy Hollow [P] Washington Irving
Brideshead Revisited Evelyn Waugh Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy Les Miserables Victor Hugo
The Bridge of San Luis Rey Thornton Wilder A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway The Little Prince [C] Antoine Saint-Exupery
The Bridge over the River Kwai Pierre Boulle Fathers and Children Ivan Turgenev Little Women [C] Louisa May Alcott
The Bridges at Toko-Ri James Michener Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keys Little Men [C] Louisa May Alcott
The Brothers Karamazov [NF] Fyodor Dostoyevsky For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway Long Day’s Journey Into Night [NF]Eugene O’Neill
The Bull From the Sea Mary Renault Frankenstein Mary W. Shelley Look Homeward Angel Thomas Wolfe
Lord Jim [CD] Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies [P] William Golding
The Caine Mutiny Herman Wouk Giants in the Earth O.E. Rolvaag The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien
The Call of the Wild [NF] Jack London The Glass Menagerie [NF] Tennessee Williams
Canterbury Tales [NF] Geoffrey Chaucer Go Tell it on the Mountain James Baldwin
Catch-22 Joseph Heller Gone with the Wind Margaret Mitchell Main Street & Babbit [NF] Sinclair Lewis
The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger The Good Earth Pearl Buck The Martian Chronicles [SF] Ray Bradbury
The Cherry Orchard [CD] Anton Chekov The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck Moby Dick Herman Melville
The Chosen Chaim Potok Great Expectations Charles Dickens Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Gulliver’s Travels [C] Jonathan Swift Men of Iron [T] Howard Pyle
Cimarron Edna Ferber The Metamorphosis [NF] Franz Kafka
The Moonstone Wilkie Collins
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Le Morte d’Arthur [NF] Sir Thomas Mallory
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower C.S. Forester The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll
Mutiny on the Bounty Charles Nordhoff and Mr. Hyde Robert L Stevenson
My Antonia Willa Cather A Streetcar Named Desire [NF] Tennessee Williams
The Sword in the Stone [C] T.H. White
A Night to Remember [NF] Walter Lord
The Nine Tailors [M] Dorothy Sayers A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens
The Thirty-Nine Steps [CD] John Buchan
The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas
The Odyssey [NF] Homer Through the Looking Glass [C] Lewis Carroll
Of Human Bondage Somerset Maugham The Thurber Carnival [NF] James Thurber
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck The Time Machine H.G. Wells
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway To Kill A Mockingbird Harper Lee
Old Yeller [C] F. Gibson Tortilla Flat [P] John Steinbeck
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens Treasure Island [P] Robert L. Stevenson
On the Road Jack Kerouac A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Betty Smith
Out of Africa [NF] Isak Dinesen The Trial Franz Kafka
The Outsiders [T] S.E. Hinton Twenty Thousand Leagues
Under the Sea Jules Verne
Two Years Before the Mast [NF] Richard Henry Dana
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde The Turn of the Screw Henry James
The Pilgrim’s Progress [P] John Bunyan
The Plague Albert Camus
The Power and the Glory Graham Greene Uncle Tom’s Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
The Prince [NF] Niccolo Machiavelli
Vanity Fair William M. Thackeray
Rabbit Run [LP] John Updike
A Raisin in the Sun [NF] Lorraine Hansberry Waiting for Godot [NF] Samuel Beckett
Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier Walden [NF] Henry David Thoreau
The Red Badge of Courage [T] Stephen Crane The War of the Worlds H.G. Wells
The Robe Lloyd C. Douglas Watership Down Richard Adams
Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe The Way of All Flesh [CD] Samuel Butler
Romeo and Juliet [NF] William Shakespeare White Fang [C] Jack London
Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Pimpernel [T] Baroness Emma Orczy The Yearling [C] Marjorie K. Rawlings
The School for Scandal [NF] Richard B. Sheridan
The Sea Wolf Jack London
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
A Separate Peace John Knowles
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Seventeenth Summer [T] Margaret Daly
Shane Jack Schaefer
Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Siddhartha Herman Hesse Revised November 2016
The Snow Goose Paul Gallico
Sounder [C] William H. Armstrong
