Classics that are MUST reads

Something interesting on Facebook caught my eye. It was a list of 100 classics that some Brit said almost no one had read more than six on the list. I've read thirty of them. So I've listed those that I've read and added some more of my own that I believe are must reads.

The Bible

Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye

Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne

Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken

Edgar Allen Poe complete works

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne

Scarlett Pimpernel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain 

Frankenstein by Mary Shelly

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

Kim by Robert Louis Stevenson

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

The Odyssey by Homer

 No Time for Sergeants by Mac Hyman

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

Ben Hur Lew Wallace

The Virginian by Owen Wister

Silas Marner by George Elliot

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemmingway

The Winds of War Herman Wouk

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin

Emma by Jane Austin

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austin

Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

1984 by George Orwell

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis

Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

The Complete novel set of Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Montegomry

Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Lewis Stevenson

Picture of Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde

Dune by Frank Herbert

Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Complete Works of Shakespeare (or at least one of his plays)

Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

By no means classics but still quite interesting:
Star Wars -- various authors
Star Trek novels -- numerous authors
All of Georgette Heyer's novels
 

This is by no means a complete list of must reads. Some deal with some very ugly issues, some are quite thrilling (Ben Hur and Scarlet Pimpernel for example). I am quite intrigued because I know I’ve read quite a few more than these that are considered classics, but I can’t remember their titles or author’s names. If you can’t remember one or the other, then you can’t Google. Perhaps you’ve read some that I don’t have on the list!


What are some classics that you've read and remember fondly?