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bloomsday616's "100 Books to Read"

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.

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1. In the Land of White Death
by Valerian Albanov
  
2. Little Women (Signet Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
  
3. The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights (Modern Library MM)  
4. The Nibelungenlied
by Traditional
  
5. The Sagas of Icelanders: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition (World of the Sagas)  
6. Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics)
by Ludovico Ariosto
  
7. The Confessions of St. Augustine
by Augustine
  
8. Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by St. Augustine
  
9. The Sea
by John Banville
  
10. Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
by William Barrett
  
11. The Culture We Deserve : A Critique of Disenlightenment
by Jacques Barzun
  
12. The House of Intellect (Perennial Classics)
by Jacques Barzun
  
13.
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 Goethe and the novel
by Eric A Blackall
  
14. The Decameron (Oxford World's Classics)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
  
15. The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
16. The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
by John Bunyan
  
17. The Wanting Seed (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Anthony Burgess
  
18. Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life (Norton Paperback Fiction)
by Anthony Burgess
  
19. A Dead Man in Deptford
by Anthony Burgess
  
20. Possession: A Romance
by A.S. Byatt
  
21. Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
by George Gordon Byron
  
22. The Baron in the Trees
by Italo Calvino
  
23. The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
by Albert Camus
  
24. Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  
25. Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
26. The Riverside Chaucer
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
27. The Temptation to Exist
by E. M. Cioran
  
28. Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by J. M. Coetzee
  
29. Slow Man
by J. M. Coetzee
  
30. The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)
by Dante Alighieri
  
31. Robinson Crusoe (Penguin Classics)
by Daniel Defoe
  
32. Moll Flanders (Norton Critical Editions)
by Daniel Defoe
  
33. Memoirs from the House of the Dead (Oxford World's Classics (Oxford University Press).)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
34. Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
  
35. The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
by Umberto Eco
  
36. Silas Marner (Enriched Classics Series)
by George Eliot
  
37. The Mill on the Floss: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Contemporary Reactions Criticism (Norton Critical Editions)
by George Eliot
  
38. Middlemarch
by George Eliot
  
39.
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 Unsühnbar (Kritische Texte und Deutungen / Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  
40. A Sentimental Education: The Story of a Young Man (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
  
41. Howards End (Norton Critical Editions)
by E. M. Forster
  
42. Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849
by Joseph Frank
  
43. Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal , 1850-1859 (Dostoevsky (Frank, Joseph))
by Joseph Frank
  
44. Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865 (Dostoevsky (Frank, Joseph))
by Joseph Frank
  
45. Dostoevsky: The Miraculous Years, 1865-1871
by Joseph Frank
  
46. Dostoevsky: The Mantle of the Prophet, 1871-1881
by Joseph Frank
  
47. The Song of Roland (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
48. Faust I & II (Goethe : The Collected Works, Vol 2)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
49. Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Goethe: The Collected Works, Vol. 9)
by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  
50. Hunger
by Knut Hamsun
  
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Created by bloomsday616 on Aug 04, 2006.