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A list of must-read books

  1. 1.
    Penguin Island
    by Anatole France
  2. 2.
    The American Dream and Zoo Story
    by Edward Albee
  3. 3.
    Islandia
    by Austin Tappan Wright
  4. 4.
    Candide (Modern Library)
    by Voltaire
  5. 5.
    The Time Machine (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells
  6. 6.
    Scoop
    by Evelyn Waugh
  7. 7.
    How I Became Stupid
    by Martin Page
  8. 8.
    Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence
    by Nick Bantock
  9. 9.
    Time's Arrow
    by Martin Amis
  10. 10.
    Orlando: A Biography
    by Virginia Woolf
  11. 11.
    The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
    by Nikolai Gogol
  12. 12.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  13. 13.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger
  14. 14.
    Blood, Tin, Straw: Poems
    by Sharon Olds
  15. 15.
    1984
    by George Orwell
  16. 16.
    The Alchemist
    by Paulo Coelho
  17. 17.
    Dinotopia

  18. 18.
    A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    by Jules Verne
  19. 19.
    The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  21. 21.
    The Lady or the Tiger and Other Stories
    by Frank R. Stockton
  22. 22.
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Hunter S. Thompson
  23. 23.
    Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
    by Christopher Moore
  24. 24.
    Catch 22.
    by Joseph Heller
  25. 25.
    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry
  26. 26.
    The Butcher Boy
    by Patrick McCabe
  27. 27.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde
  28. 28.
    Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    by Gregory Maguire
  29. 29.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams
  30. 30.
    Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
    by Frank
  31. 31.
    The Neverending Story
    by Michael Ende
  32. 32.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams
  33. 33.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C. S. Lewis
  34. 34.
    The Agony and the Ecstasy
    by Irving Stone
  35. 35.
    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton
  36. 36.
    The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
  37. 37.
    ?
    Girl Who Would Be Russian and Other Stories
    by Willis Johnson
  39. 39.
    Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Robert Maturin
  40. 40.
    ?
    Silas Crockett
    by Mary Ellen Chase
  41. 41.
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    by Edward Albee
  42. 42.
    Go Ask Alice
    by Anonymous
  43. 43.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  44. 44.
  45. 45.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey
  46. 46.
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
    by John Berendt
  47. 47.
    Lilith
    by George Macdonald
  48. 48.
    Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
    by Armand Marie Leroi
  49. 49.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac
  50. 50.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  51. 51.
    The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
    by Homer
  52. 52.
    The Iliad: The Fitzgerald Translation
    by Homer
  53. 53.
    Alaska: A Novel
    by James A. Michener
  55. 55.
    Big Fish (movie tie-in): A Novel of Mythic Proportions
    by Daniel Wallace
  56. 56.
    James and the Giant Peach
    by Roald Dahl
  57. 57.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  58. 58.
    The Electric Michelangelo
    by Sarah Hall
  59. 59.
    The Phantom Tollbooth
    by Norton Juster
  60. 60.
    Running with Scissors: A Memoir
    by Augusten Burroughs
  61. 61.
    When Rabbit Howls
    by Truddi Chase
  62. 62.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath
  63. 63.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
    by L. M. Montgomery
  64. 64.
    The Crucible
    by Arthur Miller
  65. 65.
  66. 66.
    The Dress Lodger (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Sheri Holman
  67. 67.
    The Flounder (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book)
    by Gunter Grass
  68. 68.
    Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pisarro
    by Irving Stone
  69. 69.
    Captain January
    by Laura E. Richards
  70. 70.
    Giles Goat Boy (The Anchor Literary Library)
    by John Barth
  71. 71.
    The Black Dahlia
    by James Ellroy
  72. 72.
    ?
    Lisa, Bright and Dark
    by john neufeld
  73. 73.
    Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist
    by Townsend Ludington
  74. 74.
    Doodaaa : The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge
    by Ralph Steadman
  75. 75.
    Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)
    by Hunter S. Thompson
  76. 76.
  77. 77.
    Servant of the Bones
    by Anne Rice
  78. 78.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  79. 79.
    The Mammoth Cheese
    by Sheri Holman
  80. 80.
    Dante's Inferno
    by Marcus Sanders
  81. 81.
    Dante's Purgatorio
    by Marcus Sanders
  82. 82.
    Dante's Paradiso
    by Marcus Sanders
  83. 83.
    ?
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison
  84. 84.
    Selected Poems (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Edwin Arlington Robinson
  85. 85.
    Diary
    by Chuck Palahniuk
  86. 86.
    The Revolt of the Cockroach People
    by Oscar Zeta Acosta
  87. 87.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver
  88. 88.
    Lullaby
    by Chuck Palahniuk
  89. 89.
    Satan Says (Pitt Poetry Series)
    by Sharon Olds
  90. 90.
    Valley of the Dolls
    by Jacqueline Susann
  91. 91.
    The Counterfeiters: A Novel
    by Andre Gide
  92. 92.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo
  93. 93.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon
  95. 95.
    For One More Day
    by Mitch Albom
  96. 96.
    Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn
    by Hannah Holmes
  97. 97.
  98. 98.
    Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
    by Art Spiegelman
  99. 99.
    The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian By
    by marco.polo
  100. 100.
    Ironweed: A novel
    by William J. Kennedy
  101. 101.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves
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