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  1. Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare, English, c. 1607

Target date: At least 50 completed by Aug 15, 2031

  1. The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton, American, 1920
  2. All the Days and Nights, William Maxwell, American, 1995
  3. The Ambassadors, Henry James, American, 1903
  4. Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Nigerian, 2013
  5. An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro, British, 1986
  6. The Aspern Papers, Henry James, American, 1888
  7. Autobiography, John Stuart Mill, English, 1873
  8. The Awakening, Kate Chopin, American, 1899
  9. The Beauty of the Husband, Anne Carson, Canadian, 2001
  10. The Blue Flower, Penelope Fitzgerald, English, 1995
  11. The Bostonians, Henry James, American, 1886
  12. Cassandra at the Wedding, Dorothy Baker, American, 1962
  13. The Comforters, Muriel Spark, Scottish, 1957
  14. Crime, Ferdinand von Schirach, German, 2009
  15. Crossing to Safety, Wallace Stegner, American, 1987
  16. The Custom of the Country, Edith Wharton, American, 1913
  17. David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair, Irène Némirovsky, French, 1929–1933
  18. The Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen, Irish, 1938
  19. Despair, Vladimir Nabokov, Russian, 1934
  20. East Side Story, Louis Auchincloss, American, 2004
  21. Edith Wharton: A Woman in Her Time, Louis Auchincloss, American, 1971
  22. Everything That Rises Must Converge, Flannery O’Connor, American, 1965
  23. Excellent Women, Barbara Pym, English, 1952
  24. Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays, George Orwell, English, 2008
  25. The Finishing School, Muriel Spark, Scottish, 2004
  26. Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Plato, Greek, c. 399–380 BCE
  27. Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott, English, 1884
  28. A Game of Hide and Seek, Elizabeth Taylor, English, 1951
  29. The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse, German, 1943
  30. The God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza, French, 2006
  31. The Great God Pan, Arthur Machen, Welsh, 1894
  32. The Group, Mary McCarthy, American, 1963
  33. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian, 1890
  34. House of Cards, Michael Dobbs, English, 1989
  35. The House of Five Talents, Louis Auchincloss, American, 1960
  36. The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton, American, 1905
  37. The Human Factor, Graham Greene, English, 1978
  38. The Key, Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese, 1956
  39. The Writer’s People, V. S. Naipaul, British, 2007
  40. King Lear, William Shakespeare, English, c. 1606
  41. Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro, British, 2021
  42. Macbeth, William Shakespeare, English, c. 1606
  43. Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert, French, 1857
  44. Master of the Senate, Robert A. Caro, American, 2002
  45. Means of Ascent, Robert A. Caro, American, 1990
  46. Models of My Life, Herbert A. Simon, American, 1991
  47. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro, British, 2005
  48. The Passage of Power, Robert A. Caro, American, 2012
  49. The Path to Power, Robert A. Caro, American, 1982
  50. Picnic at Hanging Rock, Joan Lindsay, Australian, 1967
  51. The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James, American, 1881
  52. Pragmatism and Other Writings, William James, American, 1907
  53. Public Opinion, Walter Lippmann, American, 1922
  54. The Quiet American, Graham Greene, English, 1955
  55. The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro, British, 1989
  56. The Republic, Plato, Greek, c. 375 BCE
  57. Runaway, Alice Munro, Canadian, 2004
  58. Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen, English, 1811
  59. Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, George Orwell, English, 1950
  60. A Single Man, Christopher Isherwood, English, 1964
  61. The Souls of Black Folk, W. E. B. Du Bois, American, 1903
  62. A Start in Life, Anita Brookner, English, 1981
  63. Talleyrand, Duff Cooper, English, 1932
  64. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, Doris Kearns Goodwin, American, 2005
  65. The Tempest, William Shakespeare, English, c. 1611
  66. Three Tales, Gustave Flaubert, French, 1877
  67. Travels with Charley in Search of America, John Steinbeck, American, 1962
  68. Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare, English, c. 1602
  69. Vertigo, W. G. Sebald, German, 1990
  70. Villette, Charlotte Brontë, English, 1853
  71. A Voice from Old New York, Louis Auchincloss, American, 2010
  72. Washington Square, Henry James, American, 1880
  73. What Maisie Knew, Henry James, American, 1897
  74. The Wingless Victory, Maxwell Anderson, American, 1936
  75. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel, English, 2009
  76. Zorba the Greek, Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek, 1946
  77. Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm, English, 1911