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bloomsday616's "100 Books to Read"

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100 books I should have read, or only read parts of, that I need to get through before I die. Mostly classics, some history and philosophy, all worthwhile reads.

  1. 1.
    In the Land of White Death
    by Valerian Albanov

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  2. 2.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  3. 4.
    The Nibelungenlied
    by Traditional

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  4. 6.
    Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ludovico Ariosto

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  5. 7.
    The Confessions of St. Augustine
    by Augustine

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  6. 9.
    The Sea
    by John Banville

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  7. 10.
    Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
    by William Barrett

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  8. 11.
    The Culture We Deserve : A Critique of Disenlightenment
    by Jacques Barzun

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  9. 12.
    The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics)
    by Jacques Barzun

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    Goethe and the novel
    by Eric A Blackall

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  11. 14.
    The Decameron (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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  12. 15.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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  13. 16.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Bunyan

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  14. 17.
    The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Anthony Burgess

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  15. 19.
    A Dead Man in Deptford
    by Anthony Burgess

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  16. 20.
    Possession: A Romance
    by A.S. Byatt

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  17. 21.
    Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by George Gordon Byron

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  18. 22.
    The Baron in the Trees
    by Italo Calvino

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  19. 23.
    The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
    by Albert Camus

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  20. 24.
    Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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  21. 25.
    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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  22. 26.
    The Riverside Chaucer
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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  23. 27.
    The Temptation to Exist
    by E. M. Cioran

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  24. 29.
    Slow Man
    by J. M. Coetzee

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  25. 31.
    Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  26. 32.
    Moll Flanders (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Daniel Defoe

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  27. 34.
    Foucault's Pendulum
    by Umberto Eco

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  28. 35.
    The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
    by Umberto Eco

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  29. 36.
    Silas Marner (Enriched Classics Series)
    by George Eliot

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  30. 38.
    Middlemarch
    by George Eliot

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    Unsühnbar (Kritische Texte und Deutungen / Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
    by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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  32. 41.
    Howards End (Norton Critical Editions)
    by E. M. Forster

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  33. 42.
    Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849
    by Joseph Frank

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  34. 45.
    Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871
    by Joseph Frank

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  35. 46.
    Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881
    by Joseph Frank

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  36. 47.
    The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  37. 48.
    Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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  38. 50.
    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

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  39. 51.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  40. 52.
    The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  41. 53.
    Far from the Madding Crowd (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  42. 54.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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    Herodotus: The Histories
    by John Herodutus; Marincola

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  44. 56.
    The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse

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  45. 57.
    Russia and the Russians: A History
    by Geoffrey Hosking

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  46. 58.
    Point Counter Point (British Literature)
    by Aldous Huxley

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  47. 59.
    Island (Perennial Classics)
    by Aldous Huxley

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  48. 60.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  49. 61.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  50. 62.
    Finnegans Wake (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  51. 63.
    Amerika
    by Franz Kafka

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    The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel (Touchstone Books (Paperback))
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

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  54. 67.
    Mann: Buddenbrooks (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Hugh Ridley

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  55. 68.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

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  56. 69.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  57. 70.
    Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  58. 71.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  59. 72.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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  60. 73.
    The Riverside Milton
    by John Milton

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  61. 74.
    The Misanthrope and Tartuffe
    by Moliere

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  62. 75.
    Complete Essays of Montaigne
    by Michel De Montaigne

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  63. 76.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  64. 77.
    Pnin (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  65. 78.
    Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  66. 79.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi

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    2 Novels: A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  68. 81.
    Mason & Dixon
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  69. 82.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  70. 83.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Francois Rabelais

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  71. 85.
    Everyman
    by Philip Roth

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  72. 86.
    Blindness (Harvest Book)
    by Jose Saramago

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  73. 87.
    The Riverside Shakespeare
    by William Shakespeare

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  74. 88.
    The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics)
    by Stendhal

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  75. 89.
    The Red and the Black (Modern Library)
    by Stendhal

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  76. 91.
    A Sentimental Journey
    by Laurence Sterne

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  78. 93.
    Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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    The strange case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde (Modern authors' library)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  80. 95.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  81. 96.
    War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  82. 97.
    Childhood, Boyhood & Youth
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  83. 98.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  84. 99.
    Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
    by Vincent van Gogh

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  85. 100.
    The Aeneid: Virgil
    by Virgil

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  86. 101.
    Eugene Onegin
    by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

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  87. 102.
    St. Petersburg: A Cultural History
    by Solomon Volkov

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  88. 103.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  89. 104.
    The Metamorphoses of Ovid
    by Ovid

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