Rebecca wants to do crazy and amazing things's "List of 100 Must-Read Books"As per my goal on 43 Things (http://www.43things.com/things/view/127445), the 100 books I feel I must read. |
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The Voynich Manuscript: The Unsolved Riddle of an Extraordinary Book Which Has Defied Interpretation for Centuries
by Gerry Kennedy
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It
by Arthur Herman
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How the Irish Saved Civilization (Hinges of History)
by Thomas Cahill
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
by Jon Krakauer
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The Irish Game: A True Story of Crime and Art
by Matthew Hart
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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
by Jonathan Harr
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation | ||
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hardy
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
by David Starkey
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To Marry an English Lord or, How Anglomania Really Got Started
by Gail MacColl
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The Book on the Bookshelf
by Henry Petroski
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Oxford
by Jan Morris
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War and Peace (Modern Library Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
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Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
by Ross King
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Animal Farm and 1984
by George Orwell
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester
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A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
by Nicholas A. Basbanes
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Tales of a Female Nomad: Living at Large in the World
by Rita Golden Gelman
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
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Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
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Candide (Modern Library)
by Voltaire
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Utopia: Thomas More
by Thomas More
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Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
by Victor Hugo
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Les Miserables, French Edition
by Victor Hugo
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Sketches from a Hunter's Album: The Complete Edition (Penguin Classics)
by Ivan Turgenev
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (Oxford World's Classics)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Harry Potter Und Der Feuerkelch
by J. K. Rowling
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