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Lisa F'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.
1.
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 Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
  
2. The Republic (Penguin Classics)
by Plato
  
3. A Tale of Two Cities (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charles Dickens
  
4.
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 Moby Dick
by Herman Melville
  
5. Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
6. Thus Spake Zarathustra
by Friedrich Nietzsche
  
7. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
8.
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 1984
by George Orwell
  
9. War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
  
10. Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
11.
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 ULYSSES
by James Joyce
  
12. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
13. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
  
14.
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 Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
  
15. Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
16. Science of Hitting
by Ted Williams
  
17. Little Women (Signet Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
  
18.
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 The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
  
19. Ryan White: My Own Story
by Ryan White
  
20. Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
  
21. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
22. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
23.
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 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
  
24.
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 The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm Little
  
25. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
  
26. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
by Hunter S. Thompson
  
27. The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Inferno (Penguin Classics)
by Dante Alighieri
  
28. Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
by John Milton
  
29. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
  
30. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
  
31. The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
by John Irving
  
32. Adventures of Huck Finn
by Mark Twain
  
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Created by Lisa F on Aug 08, 2006.