I'd like to find children's books of as many of the following classics as possible. These should be short, image-driven, and interesting to a child growing up. My goal is to get the kids who've grown-up with and mastered and cherished the children's versions to look ahead to what the classics might hold, rather than nostalgically look to the past. As with all learnt items, the acquisition of knowledge is heavily assisted by familiarity and comfort with the subject matter. I'll be adding extra books periodically to this list, and links to any children's versions I find. And I do realize that most of these books do not have children's equivalents, so maybe I'll just search for stories that mention those characters or concepts or even settings.Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Aeneid by Virgil
Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
Alexandria Quartet, Lawrence Durrell
All the King's Men, Robert Penn Warren
Ambassadors, Henry James
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
Angle of Repose, Wallace Stegner
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
Appointment in Samarra, John O' Hara
Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Anonymous
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Bend in the River, V. S. Naipaul
Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
Blindness (Blindness, #1) by José Saramago
Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
Book of Job by Anonymous
Bostan Saadi
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder
Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
Call of the Wild, Jack London
Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer
Castle by Franz Kafka
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
Children of Gebelawi Naguib Mahfouz
Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
Collected Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
Complete Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Complete Stories by Franz Kafka
Confessions of Zeno Italo Svevo
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dance to the Music of Time (series), Anthony Powell
Darkness at Noon, Arthur Koestler
Day of the Locust, Nathaniel West
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Death Comes to the Archbishop, Willa Cather
Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy
Death of the Heart, Elizabeth Bowen
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Deliverance, James Dickey
Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Devil to Pay in the Backlands João Guimarães Rosa
Diary of a Madman and Other Stories by Lu Xun
Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri
Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
Epic of Gilgamesh Anonymous
Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous
Essays Michel de Montaigne
Fairy tales Hans Christian Andersen
Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust: First Part by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Finnegans Wake, James Joyce
From Here to Eternity, James Jones
Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy
Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
Golden Bowl, Henry James
Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
Good Soldier, Ford Madox Ford
Grande Sertão: Veredas by João Guimarães Rosa
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Great Expectations Charles Dickens
Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
Gypsy Ballads Federico García Lorca
Hamlet William Shakespeare
Handful of Dust, Evelyn Waugh
Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Heart of the Matter, Graham Greene
Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
High Wind in Jamaica, Richard Hughes
History by Elsa Morante
Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien
House for Ms. Biswas, V. S. Naipaul
House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Howards End by E. M. Forster
Hunger by Knut Hamsun
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Iliad Homer
In Search of Lost Time Marcel Proust
Independent People by Halldór Laxness
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Ironweed, William Kennedy
Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Kim, Rudyard Kipling
King Lear William Shakespeare
Le Père Goriot Honoré de Balzac
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel François Rabelais
Light in August, William Faulkner
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
Loving, Henry Green
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
Madman's Diary Lu Xun
Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington
Magus, John Fowles
Mahabharata by Vyasa
Main Street, Sinclair Lewis
Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
Man Without Qualities by Robert Musil
Masnavi by Rumi
Medea by Euripides
Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar
Metamorphoses by Ovid
Middlemarch George Eliot
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Moby-Dick Herman Melville
Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: A Trilogy by Samuel Beckett
Moviegoer, Walker Percy
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
Native Son, Richard Wright
Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell
Njal's Saga by Anonymous
Nostromo by Joseph Conrad
Odyssey Homer
Oedipus the King Sophocles
Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham
Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
Old Wives' Tale, Arnold Bennett
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez
One Thousand and One Nights Anonymous
Orchard: Bostan Of Saadi Of Shiraz by Saadi
Othello William Shakespeare
Pale Fire, Vladimir Nabokov
Parade's End, Ford Madox Ford
Passage to India, E. M. Forster
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Poems Giacomo Leopardi
Poems Of Leopardi by Giacomo Leopardi
Poems of Paul Celan by Paul Celan
Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
Possessed Fyodor Dostoevsky
Postman Always Rings Twice, James M. Cain
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen
Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark
Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
Ragtime, E. L. Doctorow
Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence
Ramayana by William Buck
Recognition of 'Sakuntala: A Play in Seven Acts by Kālidāsa
Red and the Black by Stendhal
Romancero Gitano by Federico García Lorca
Room With a View, E. M. Forster
Scoop, Evelyn Waugh
Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih
Secret Agent, Joseph Conrad
Selected Stories by Anton Chekhov
Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert
Shakuntala Kālidāsa
Sheltering Sky, Paul Bowles
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Sophie's Choice, William Styron
Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
Stories Anton Chekhov
Stories Franz Kafka
Stranger Albert Camus
Studs Lonigan Trilogy, James T. Farrell
Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust
Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Tales Edgar Allan Poe
Tender Is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Tin Drum by Günter Grass
To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
Trial by Franz Kafka
Tristram Shandy Laurence Sterne
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
U.S.A. (trilogy), John Dos Passos
Ulysses, James Joyce
Under the Net, Iris Murdoch
Under the Volcano, Malcolm Lowry
Wapshot Chronicles, John Cheever
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler
Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys
Winesburg, Ohio, Sherwood Anderson
Wings of the Dove, Henry James
Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
Zeno's Conscience by Italo Svevo
Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
Zuleika Dobson, Max Beerbohm