<p>This is a tentative list of “The best Classic books” for my book<br />
“500 best books written in English. ;</p>
<p>One of the definitions of “Classics”is “The books which survived the test of time”, but that time itself is hard to define. Therefore, as a matter of convenience, I choose the books which were published before 1960.</p>
<p>Again, this tentative list is made for Japanese audience. I have lists for <a href="http://watanabeyukari.weblogs.jp/yousho/500best-fiction.html" target="_blank">fiction books</a>, <a href="http://watanabeyukari.weblogs.jp/yousho/500best-nonfiction.html" target="_blank">nonfiction<br />
books</a>,and <a href="http://watanabeyukari.weblogs.jp/yousho/500best-children.html" target="_blank">children&#8217;s books</a> separately. </p>
<p>This list is<br />
not completed and I would like your input. </p>
<p>The following are the criteria I used for the tentative list.  ;</p>
<p>1)  ; Relatively easy to read.</p>
<p>2)  ; Enjoyable, fun, or satisfying.</p>
<p>3)  ; Still in print and available in Japan.</p>
<p> ;</p>
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<p><span style="color:#0000bf;">çµµæ¬ï¼å¹¼å ãå°å¦æ ¡ä½å¦å¹´å¯¾è±¡ã®æ¬(Picture Books and books for young children)</span> </p>
<p> ;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1604332379/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=1789&;creative=390957&;creativeASIN=1604332379&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yofaclja-20">The Night Before Christmas</a><img style="border:none !important;margin:0!important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=yofaclja-20&;l=as2&;o=1&;a=1604332379" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><br />
(1869)</p>
<p>The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1902)</p>
<p>The Wind in the Willows (1908)</p>
<p>The Velveteen Rabbit (1922)</p>
<p>Winnie-the-Poohã (1926)</p>
<p>The Little Engine That Could (1930) by Plat &; Munck</p>
<p>Curious George (1941)</p>
<p>Runaway Bunny (1942) by Margaret Wise<br />
Brown</p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="color:#0000bf;">å ç«¥æ¸<br />
(Children’s books)</span></p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>A Christmas Carol* (1843)</p>
<p>Alice&#8217;s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)</p>
<p>Little Women* (1868)</p>
<p>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer * (1876)</p>
<p>Black Beauty (1877)</p>
<p>The Happy Prince **(1892)</p>
<p>The Jungle Books* (1894)</p>
<p>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)</p>
<p>Five Children and It (1902), The Railway Children (1906) by<br />
Nesbit</p>
<p>Peter Pan (1904)</p>
<p>Anne of Green Gables** (1908)</p>
<p>A Little Princess**(1888) &; The Secret Garden** (1911)</p>
<p>Daddy-Long-Legs (1912)</p>
<p>The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922)</p>
<p>Swallows and Amazons (1930) </p>
<p>Mary Poppins (1934)</p>
<p>The Hobbit** ; (1937)</p>
<p>The Black Stallion (1941)</p>
<p>The Chronicles of Narnia** (1948)</p>
<p>Charlotte&#8217;s Web (1952)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0689839901/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=1789&;creative=390957&;creativeASIN=0689839901&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yofaclja-20">Eloise</a><img style="border:none !important;margin:0!important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=yofaclja-20&;l=as2&;o=1&;a=0689839901" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" />
</p>
<p>Old Yeller (1956)</p>
<p>My Side of the Mountain (1959)</p>
<p>Where the Red Fern Grows (1961)</p>
<p>The Phantom Tollbooth (1961)</p>
<p>A Wrinkle in Time (1962)</p>
<p>D&#8217;Aulaires&#8217; Book of Greek Myths (1962)</p>
<p>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964)</p>
<p>The Last Unicorn(1968)</p>
<p>Little House Books (1971) by Laura Ingalls Wilder</p>
<p>The<br />
Dark Is Rising (1973)</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p><span style="color:#0000bf;">大人åãï¼For adult readers)</span></p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>1600s’</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>Hamlet (1601)</p>
<p> ;&; Macbeth, Romeo<br />
and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream*, King Lear, and others by William<br />
Shakespeare</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>1700s’</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>Robinson Crusoe (1719)</p>
<p>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels (1726)</p>
<p>The Monk (1796)</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>1800s’</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice **(1813) </p>
<p> ;&; Masfield Park**,<br />
Sense and Sensibility*, Emma, and others by Jane Austen </p>
<p>Frankenstein* *(1818)</p>
<p>The Last of the Mohicans(1826)</p>
<p>David Copperfield , Little Dorrit, A<br />
Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations (1860) by Charles Dickens </p>
<p>Jane Eyre* *(1847)</p>
<p>Wuthering Heights (1847)</p>
<p>Vanity Fair (1848)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1481233505/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=1789&;creative=390957&;creativeASIN=1481233505&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yofaclja-20">Nature</a><img style="border:none !important;margin:0!important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=yofaclja-20&;l=as2&;o=1&;a=1481233505" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><br />
(1849) by Ralph Waldo Emerson</p>
<p>The Scarlet Letter (1850)</p>
<p>Moby Dick (1851)</p>
<p>Uncle Tom&#8217;s Cabin (1852)</p>
<p>Walden (1854)</p>
<p>North and South (1855)</p>
<p>Leaves of Grass* (1855) poems</p>
<p>Middlemarch (1871)</p>
<p>The Way We Live Now (1875)</p>
<p>Treasure Island (1883)</p>
<p>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886)</p>
<p>A Study in Scarlet** (1887), &; ; other Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan<br />
Doyle</p>
<p>The Portrait of a Lady by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/159.Henry_James">Henry James</a>(1881)</p>
<p>The Picture of Dorian Gray** (1890),  ;The Importance of Being Earnest** (1895) by<br />
Oscar Wilde</p>
<p>The Time Machine (1895)</p>
<p>Dracula (1897)</p>
<p>The Awakening (1899)</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>1900s’</p>
<p>Lord Jim (1900) &; Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad</p>
<p>The Call of the Wild, White Fang and Other Stories by Jack<br />
London (1906)</p>
<p>A Room with a View (1908)</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>1910s’</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) </p>
<p>Pygmalion (1913)<br />
The Moon And Sixpence (1919)</p>
<p>Very Good, Jeeves(1919)</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>1920s’</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>Make Way For Lucia ;<br />
(1920) </p>
<p>The Age of Innocence (1920)</p>
<p>Ulysses(1922)</p>
<p>A Passage to India (1924)</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby<br />
(1925)</p>
<p>Mrs. Dalloway (1925)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1402219474/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=1789&;creative=390957&;creativeASIN=1402219474&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yofaclja-20">These Old Shades</a><img style="border:none !important;margin:0!important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=yofaclja-20&;l=as2&;o=1&;a=1402219474" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><br />
(1926) by Georgette Heyer</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0743297334/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=1789&;creative=390957&;creativeASIN=0743297334&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yofaclja-20">The Sun Also Rises</a><img style="border:none !important;margin:0!important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=yofaclja-20&;l=as2&;o=1&;a=0743297334" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><br />
(1926)</p>
<p>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd* (1926), Murder on the Orient<br />
Express</p>
<p>(1934), ; And Then<br />
There Were None (1939), and other mysteries by Agatha Christie </p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1844083721/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=1789&;creative=390957&;creativeASIN=1844083721&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yofaclja-20">Death Comes for the Archbishop</a><img style="border:none !important;margin:0!important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=yofaclja-20&;l=as2&;o=1&;a=1844083721" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><br />
(1927)</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>1930’s</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>Brave New World (1932)</p>
<p>Cold Comfort Farm (1932)</p>
<p>Gone with the Wind* (1936)</p>
<p>Their Eyes Were Watching God(1937)</p>
<p>Rebecca* (1938)</p>
<p>The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar<br />
Allan Poe* </p>
<p> ;(1839)</p>
<p>The Grapes of Wrath (1939) &; Of Mice and Men</p>
<p>Death of a Salesman (1940)</p>
<p>The Catcher in the Rye  ;(1951)</p>
<p>The Old Man and the Sea (1952),</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies* (1954)</p>
<p>A Fable by William Faulkner (1954)</p>
<p>Lolita (1955)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142437611/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=1789&;creative=390957&;creativeASIN=0142437611&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yofaclja-20">Seize the Day<br />
(Penguin Classics)</a> (1956) </p>
<p>Atlas Shrugged (1957)</p>
<p>Goodbye, Columbus (1958)</p>
<p>***** The classics that are suggested, but didn’t make a<br />
list.*****</p>
<p>A Death in the Family <br />
Go Tell It on the Mountain <br />
Death Comes for the Archbishop <br />
The Canterbury Tales <br />
The Red Badge of Courage <br />
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass <br />
An American Tragedy <br />
The Mill on the Floss </p>
<p>Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
As I Lay Dying</p>
<p>Tess of the d&#8217;Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy</p>
<p>The 39 Steps</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Innocent-Voyage-High-Wind-Jamaica/dp/B002V96A0W/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&;ie=UTF8&;qid=1358799289&;sr=1-1&;keywords=The+Innocent+Voyage">The Innocent<br />
Voyage (a High Wind in Jamaica)</a> by Richard Hughes (Not available)</p>
<p>The Outsiders by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/762707.S_E_Hinton">S.E. Hinton</a>
</p>
<p>The Sound and the Fury <br />
Tom Jones <br />
The Good Soldier <br />
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man <br />
The Woman Warrior <br />
Babbitt <br />
The Crucible <br />
A Good Man is Hard to Find <br />
Long Day&#8217;s Journey into Night <br />
The Crying of Lot 49 <br />
All Quiet on the Western Front <br />
Call It Sleep <br />
Ceremony</p>
<p>The Wind Boy</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>Things Fall Apart </p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>My Family and Other Animals(1956)</p>
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