I picked lots of alternates because sometimes it was really hard to choose. I didn't want to have to go back and find them if I changed my mind. And I'd like to read all of them eventually.
Rules and everything
1. A 19th Century Classic - North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola
2. A 20th Century Classic - The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
3. A classic by a woman author. Passing by Nella Larsen
The Fountain Overflows by Rebecca West
My Antonia by Willa Cather
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
4. A classic in translation. Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz
The Fortune of the Rougons by Emile Zola
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
5. A classic published before 1800. The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
Utopia by Thomas More
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
6. An romance classic. The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer
The Scarlet Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
The Painted Veil by M. Somerset Maugham
7. A Gothic or horror classic. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe
Dragonwyck by Anya Seton
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
8. A classic with a number in the title. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
1984 by George Orwell
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Day in the Life of Ivan Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
9. A classic about an animal or which includes the name of an animal in the title. The Leopard by Guiseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
10. A classic set in a place you'd like to visit. Spring Snow by Yukio Mishima
A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
The Octopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris
Gentle Infidel by Lawrence Schoonover
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
11. An award-winning classic. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
Advise and Consent by Allen Drury
A Death in the Family by James Agee
12. A Russian Classic. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Golovlyov Family byMikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
