 | The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.09 This is my favorite novel of all time. Many will tell you it's "slow" or "boring". To those sceptics I say, "You don't know what you're missing!"
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 | Little Women (Unabridged Classics) by Louisa May Alcott
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $2.39 |
 | Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.99 It might be a children's novel, but it's a classic nonetheless. Start your kids out early - You won't be sorry!
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 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $7.90 Many people forget that this was a book before it was a movie. Read it - You won't be disappointed.
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 | This Side of Paradise by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.91 It's not as well known as "The Great Gatsby", but many would argue that it's an even greater literary masterpiece.
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 | Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $3.69 |
 | Animal Farm by George Orwell
Buy used from: $2.45 |
 | Fairy Tales from Hans Christian Andersen: A Classic Illustrated Edition (Classics Illustrated) by Hans Christian Andersen
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $6.67 So many people forget that fairy tales were written stories before companies like Disney could make them into animated hits. What's amazing is how different some of these stories are, in their original forms, from how we all know them now...
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 | The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, Deluxe Edition (Literary Classics (Gramercy Books)) by Jacob Grimm
Buy used from: $99.95 |
 | Aesop's Fables: A Classic Illustrated Edition by Aesop
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $2.83 |
 | Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: $9.35 / Used from: $6.00 We musn't forget the original Master of Suspense...
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 | Iliad by Homer
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $4.93 Mythology set the table for Western Civilization as we know it. Trust me when I tell you that it is not painful to sit down and read these epics.
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 | The Odyssey by Homer
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $4.00 |
 | The Aeneid by Virgil
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $0.40 |
 | The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri
Buy new: $12.35 / Used from: $7.99 The Inferno is the most famous section of this work by Dante, but it's worth it to read Purgatorio and Paradiso as well.
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 | Macbeth (Folger Shakespeare Library) by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 What's a list of Classics without some Shakespeare? Personally, I feel that MacBeth is his greatest tragedy. So that's the choice you're getting here. (But, don't be afraid to go out and find some of his other works on your own - You might just be surprised at how much you like them.)
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 | Dracula (Norton Critical Editions) by Bram Stoker
Buy new: $11.69 / Used from: $5.99 |
 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Buy used from: $3.54 |
 | The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Buy new: $7.88 / Used from: $0.01 I've always had a soft spot for this oft forgotten Williams play. That's why I'm ending my list with it now. Call it a tribute.
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