<p>There are more classics out there than any one individual will ever be able to read in a lifetime.</p>
<p>However, you might want to see which of the following your school has:</p>
<p>Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Search of Lost Time - Marcel Proust
The Stories of Anton Chekhov - Anton Chekhov
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Divine Comedy - Dante
Ulysses - James Joyce
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoyevsky</p>
<p>Many of these aren’t necessarily “classics”, but I do personally recommend:</p>
<pre><code>Ender’s Game - Orson Scott Card
Rites of Spring - Modris Eksteins (nonfiction)
Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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<p>The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams
1984 - George Orwell
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
The World’s Religions - Huston Smith (nonfiction)
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Notes From Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Things They Carried - Tim O’Brien
Wiseblood - Flannery O’Connor
First Confession - Monserrat Fontes
Sula - Toni Morrison
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami</p>