<p>These are the tentative list of <strong><span style="color:#0000bf;">100</span> Best Classic Books(100 at the moment)</strong> for <strong><em>&#8220;500 Best Books originally written in English for Japanese Audience&#8221;</em></strong>.</p>
<p>One of the definitions of “Classics”is “The books which<br />
survived the test of time”, but that time itself is hard to define. Therefore,<br />
as a matter of convenience, I choose the books which were published before 1950. Some of Science Fiction novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers are introduced in a &#8220;Fiction&#8221; page because they are less known to Japanese audience.</p>
<p>Again, this tentative list is made for Japanese audience. I<br />
have lists for fiction<br />
books, nonfiction<br />
books,and children&#8217;s<br />
books separately. </p>
<p>This list is 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> ;</p>
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<p><br style="color:#033d21;font-size:11pt;" /></p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;"><strong><span style="color:#033d21;">å ç«¥æ¸<br />
(Children’s books)</span></strong></span></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 Brown</p>
<p>Madeline(1939) by<br />
Ludwig Bemelmans</p>
<p>Goodnight Moon (1947)</p>
<p>ï¼ï¼ï¼</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>Peter Pan (1904)</p>
<p>The Railway Children (1906) by<br />
Nesbit</p>
<p>Anne of Green Gables (1908)</p>
<p>A Little Princess(1888) &; The Secret Garden** (1911)</p>
<p>The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (1922)</p>
<p>The Little House books (1932 ãï¼ by Laura Ingalls Wilder</p>
<p>Mary Poppins (1934)</p>
<p>The Black Stallion (1941)</p>
<p> ;</p>
<p><span style="font-size:11pt;"><strong><span style="color:#033d21;">大人åãï¼For<br />
adult readers)</span></strong></span></p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>Hamlet (1601)and others by William Shakespeare</p>
<p>Robinson Crusoe (1719)</p>
<p>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels (1726)</p>
<p>The Monk (1796)</p>
<p>Pride and Prejudice(1813), and others by Jane Austen </p>
<p>Frankenstein(1818)</p>
<p>The Last of the Mohicans (1826)</p>
<p>Great Expectations (1860) and others 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> (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><a href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/0140623752/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=247&;creative=7399&;creativeASIN=0140623752&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yukariscott-22">North and South</a><img style="border:none !important;margin:0!important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.jp/e/ir?t=yukariscott-22&;l=as2&;o=9&;a=0140623752" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><br />
(1855)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/0486456765/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=247&;creative=7399&;creativeASIN=0486456765&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yukariscott-22">Leaves of Grass</a><img style="border:none !important;margin:0!important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.jp/e/ir?t=yukariscott-22&;l=as2&;o=9&;a=0486456765" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><br />
* (1855) by Walt Whitman(å¤ãã®å°èª¬ã§å¼ç¨ããã¦ããä½åï¼</p>
<p>Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/1853262552/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=247&;creative=7399&;creativeASIN=1853262552&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yukariscott-22">The Way We Live Now </a><img style="border:none !important;margin:0!important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.jp/e/ir?t=yukariscott-22&;l=as2&;o=9&;a=1853262552" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><br />
ãby Anthony Trollope (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<br />
Holmes stories by Arthur Conan 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>Three Men in a Boat(1889) by Jerome K. Jerom</p>
<p>The Picture of Dorian Gray** (1890), The Importance of Being<br />
Earnest** (1895) by Oscar Wilde</p>
<p>The Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson(1890)</p>
<p>Tess of the d&#8217;Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy(1891)</p>
<p>The Time Machine (1895)</p>
<p>Dracula (1897)</p>
<p>The Awakening (1899)</p>
<p>Lord Jim (1900) &; Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad</p>
<p>The Best of O&#8217;Henry(1904) by O&#8217;Henry</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>Daddy-Long-Legs (1912) </p>
<p>Pygmalion (1913)</p>
<p>The Moon And Sixpence (1919)</p>
<p>Very Good, Jeeves (1919)</p>
<p>The Age of Innocence (1920)</p>
<p>Ulysses (1922)</p>
<p>The Waste Land (1922) </p>
<p>A Passage to India (1924)</p>
<p>The Great Gatsby (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<br />
Shades</a> (1926) by Georgette Heyer(ç¾ä»£ã®ããã³ã¹å°èª¬å®¶ã®ãææ¬ã¨ãªã£ã¦ããä½å®¶ï¼</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<br />
Rises</a> (1926)</p>
<p>Ashenden (1927) by <span id="freeText8975287396685600095">William Somerset Maugham</span></p>
<p>The Murder of Roger Ackroyd* (1926), and other<br />
mysteries by Agatha Christie</p>
<p>The Roman Hat Mystery (Ellery Queen Detective #1) (1929) by Ellery Queen</p>
<p>The Collected Short Stories of Saki(1930) by Saki</p>
<p>The Maltese Falcon (1930) by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16927.Dashiell_Hammett">Dashiell<br />
Hammett</a></p>
<p>Brave New World (1932)</p>
<p>Gone with the Wind* (1936)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/0060838671/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=247&;creative=7399&;creativeASIN=0060838671&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yukariscott-22">Their Eyes Were Watching God</a><img style="border:none !important;margin:0!important;" src="http://www.assoc-amazon.jp/e/ir?t=yukariscott-22&;l=as2&;o=9&;a=0060838671" border="0" alt="" width="1" height="1" /><br />
(1937)</p>
<p>The Ghost Stories of Edith (1937) Edith Wharton</p>
<p>Rebecca* (1938)</p>
<p>The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) and Other Tales by Edgar<br />
Allan Poe* </p>
<p>The Grapes of Wrath (1939) &; Of Mice and Men</p>
<p>Death of a Salesman (1940)</p>
<p></p>
<p><span style="color:#033d21;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;">è¿ä»£ã¯ã©ã·ãã¯ãModern Classic</span></strong></span> </p>
<p> ;</p>
<p>Animal Farm (1945) by George Orwell</p>
<p> A Streetcar Named Desire(1947) by Tennessee Williams </p>
<p>The Catcher in the Rye  ;(1951) by J. D. Salinger</p>
<p>The Old Man and the Sea (1952) by Ernest Hemingway</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/080214442X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=1789&;creative=390957&;creativeASIN=080214442X&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yofaclja-20">Waiting for<br />
Godot by Samuel Beckett</a> (1952,èæ¬ï¼</p>
<p>Lord of the Flies* (1954) by William Golding</p>
<p>A Fable by William Faulkner (1954) </p>
<p>Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov</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) by Saul Bellow</p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142004413/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=1789&;creative=390957&;creativeASIN=0142004413&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yofaclja-20">My Family and<br />
Other Animals</a> (1956) by Gerald Durrell</p>
<p>Goodbye, Columbus (1958) by Philip Roth</p>
<p>The Bell(1958) by Iris Murdoch</p>
<p>To Kill A Mockingbird**(1960) by ; Harper Lee</p>
<p>Rabbit, Run (1960) John Updike</p>
<p>One Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest *(1962) by Ken Kesey</p>
<p>A Clockwork Orange (1962) Anthony Burgess</p>
<p>On the Road (1967) by Jack Kerouac</p>
<p>The Godfather (1969) by Mario Puzo</p>
<p></p>
<p>***** The following classics are also onsidered.*****</p>
<p>Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand(説æãå¿ è¦ãªæ¬ãªã®ã§ããã£ã¯ã·ã§ã³ã«ç§»åï¼</p>
<p>Ramona Quimby series (1955) by Beverly Cleary</p>
<p>Harry the Dirty Dog(1956) by by Gene Zion, Margaret Bloy Graham</p>
<p>The Dark Is Rising (1973) by Susan Cooper</p>
<p>The Mist of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley</p>
<p>Breakfast at Tiffany&#8217;s by Truman Capote(1958)ï¼ãã§ã«ä»ã®æ¬ãç´¹ä»ãã¦ããããï¼</p>
<p>Cold Comfort Farm (1932)</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<br />
for the Archbishop</a> (1927)</p>
<p>Make Way For Lucia ; (1920) </p>
<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0571086098/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&;camp=1789&;creative=390957&;creativeASIN=0571086098&;linkCode=as2&;tag=yofaclja-20">Alexandria<br />
Quartet</a> (1961)</p>
<p>The Wheels on the Bus by Paul O. Zeilinsky</p>
<p>A Death in the Family <br />
Go Tell It on the Mountain <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 <br />
Selected Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson<br />
As I Lay Dying</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<br />
Before Christmas</a> (1869)</p>
<p>100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)</p>
<p>Great Short Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) ;
</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>Things Fall Apart </p>
<p>
Jenny and the Cat Club by Esther Averill </p>
<p>The Gashlycrumb Tinies(1963) by Edward Gorey</p>
<p>The Rabbits&#8217; Wedding by Garth Williams</p>