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

  2. 4.
    The Nibelungenlied
    by Traditional

  3. 6.
    Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ludovico Ariosto

  4. 7.
    The Confessions of St. Augustine
    by Augustine

  5. 9.
    The Sea
    by John Banville

  6. 10.
    Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
    by William Barrett

  7. 11.
    The Culture We Deserve : A Critique of Disenlightenment
    by Jacques Barzun

  8. 12.
    The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics)
    by Jacques Barzun

  9. 13.
    ?
    Goethe and the Novel
    by Eric A. Blackall

  10. 14.
    The Decameron (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

  11. 15.
    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

  12. 16.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Bunyan

  13. 17.
    The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Anthony Burgess

  14. 18.
    Nothing Like the Sun (Norton Paperback Fiction)
    by Anthony Burgess

  15. 19.
    A Dead Man in Deptford (Burgess, Anthony)
    by Anthony Burgess

  16. 20.
    Possession
    by A.S. Byatt

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

  18. 22.
    The Baron In The Trees
    by Italo Calvino

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

  20. 24.
    Journey to the End of the Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  21. 25.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  22. 26.
    The Riverside Chaucer
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

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

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

  27. 34.
    Foucault's Pendulum
    by Umberto Eco

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

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

  30. 38.
    Middlemarch
    by George Eliot

  31. 39.
    ?
    UnsĂĽhnbar (Kritische Texte und Deutungen / Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
    by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

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

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

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

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

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

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

  38. 50.
    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

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

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

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

  42. 54.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  43. 55.
    ?
    Herodotus: The Histories
    by John Herodutus; Marincola

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

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

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

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

  48. 60.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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

  50. 62.
    Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by James Joyce

  51. 63.
    Amerika
    by Franz Kafka

  52. 64.
    ODYSSEY: A MODERN SEQUEL (Touchstone Books)
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

  53. 67.
    Mann: Buddenbrooks (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Hugh Ridley

  54. 68.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

  55. 69.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  56. 70.
    Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  57. 71.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  58. 72.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Modern Library Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  59. 73.
    The Riverside Milton
    by John Milton

  60. 74.
    The Misanthrope and Tartuffe
    by Moliere

  61. 75.
    The Complete Essays of Montaigne
    by Michel de Montaigne

  62. 76.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  63. 77.
    Pnin (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  64. 78.
    Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  65. 79.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi

  66. 81.
    Mason & Dixon: A Novel
    by Thomas Pynchon

  67. 82.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

  68. 83.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Everyman's Library Classics)
    by Francois Rabelais

  69. 85.
    Everyman
    by Philip Roth

  70. 86.
    Blindness (Harvest Book)
    by Jose Saramago

  71. 87.
    The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition
    by William Shakespeare

  72. 88.
    The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics)
    by Stendhal

  73. 89.
    The Red and the Black (Modern Library)
    by Stendhal

  74. 91.
    A Sentimental Journey
    by Laurence Sterne

  75. 92.
    ?

  76. 93.
    Treasure Island (Unabridged Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  77. 94.
    ?
    The strange case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde (Modern authors' library)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  78. 95.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  79. 96.
    War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  80. 97.
    Childhood, Boyhood & Youth
    by Leo Tolstoy (Tolstoi)

  81. 98.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

  82. 99.
    Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
    by Vincent van Gogh

  83. 100.
    The Aeneid
    by Virgil

  84. 101.
    Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse, Vol. 1
    by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

  85. 102.
    St Petersburg: A Cultural History
    by Solomon Volkov

  86. 103.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  87. 104.
    The Metamorphoses of Ovid
    by Ovid

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