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A list of must-read books

  1. 1.
    Penguin Island
    by Anatole France

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    The American Dream and Zoo Story
    by Edward Albee

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    Islandia
    by Austin Tappan Wright

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    Candide (Modern Library)
    by Voltaire

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    The Time Machine
    by H.G. Wells

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    Scoop
    by Evelyn Waugh

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    How I Became Stupid
    by Martin Page

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    Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence
    by Nick Bantock

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    Time's Arrow
    by Martin Amis

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  10. 10.
    Orlando: A Biography
    by Virginia Woolf

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    The Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
    by Nikolai Gogol

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    Cat's Cradle
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  13. 13.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger

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  14. 14.
    Blood, Tin, Straw: Poems
    by Sharon Olds

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    1984
    by George Orwell

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  16. 16.
    The Alchemist (Plus)
    by Paulo Coelho

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  17. 17.
    Dinotopia

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    A Journey to the Center of the Earth
    by Jules Verne

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    The Yellow Wallpaper (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  20. 20.
    Gargantua and Pantagruel (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Francois Rabelais

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  21. 21.
    The Lady or the Tiger and Other Stories
    by Frank R. Stockton

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  22. 22.
    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Hunter S. Thompson

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  23. 23.
    Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
    by Christopher Moore

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  24. 24.
    Catch 22.
    by Joseph Heller

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  25. 25.
    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry

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  26. 26.
    The Butcher Boy
    by Patrick McCabe

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  27. 27.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde

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  28. 28.
    Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
    by Gregory Maguire

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  29. 29.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

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  30. 30.
    Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
    by Frank

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  31. 31.
    The Neverending Story
    by Michael Ende

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  32. 32.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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  33. 33.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C. S. Lewis

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    The Agony and the Ecstasy
    by Irving Stone

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  35. 35.
    Mythology
    by Edith Hamilton

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  36. 36.
    The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956
    by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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    Girl Who Would Be Russian and Other Stories
    by Willis Johnson

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  38. 39.
    Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Robert Maturin

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    Silas Crockett
    by Mary Ellen Chase

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  40. 41.
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    by Edward Albee

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  41. 42.
    Go Ask Alice
    by Anonymous

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  42. 43.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  44. 45.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

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  45. 46.
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
    by John Berendt

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  46. 47.
    Lilith
    by George Macdonald

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  47. 48.
    Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
    by Armand Marie Leroi

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  48. 49.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  49. 50.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

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  50. 51.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer

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  51. 52.
    The Iliad
    by Homer

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  52. 53.
    Alaska: A Novel
    by James A. Michener

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  53. 55.
    Big Fish (movie tie-in): A Novel of Mythic Proportions
    by Daniel Wallace

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  54. 56.
    James and the Giant Peach
    by Roald Dahl

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  55. 57.
    Goethe's Faust
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  56. 58.
    The Electric Michelangelo (P.S.)
    by Sarah Hall

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  57. 59.
    The Phantom Tollbooth
    by Norton Juster

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  58. 60.
    Running with Scissors: A Memoir
    by Augusten Burroughs

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  59. 61.
    When Rabbit Howls
    by Truddi Chase

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  60. 62.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  61. 63.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
    by L. M. Montgomery

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  62. 64.
    The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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  64. 66.
    The Dress Lodger (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Sheri Holman

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  65. 67.
    The Flounder (Helen & Kurt Wolff Book)
    by Gunter Grass

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    Depths of Glory: A Biographical Novel of Camille Pisarro
    by Irving Stone

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  67. 69.
    Captain January
    by Laura E. Richards

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  68. 70.
    Giles Goat Boy (The Anchor Literary Library)
    by John Barth

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  69. 71.
    The Black Dahlia
    by James Ellroy

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    Lisa, Bright and Dark
    by john neufeld

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  71. 73.
    Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist
    by Townsend Ludington

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  72. 74.
    Doodaaa : The Balletic Art of Gavin Twinge
    by Ralph Steadman

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  73. 75.
    Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga (Modern Library)
    by Hunter S. Thompson

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    Servant of the Bones
    by Anne Rice

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  76. 78.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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    The Mammoth Cheese
    by Sheri Holman

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  78. 80.
    Dante's Inferno
    by Marcus Sanders

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  79. 81.
    Dante's Purgatorio
    by Marcus Sanders

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  80. 82.
    Dante's Paradiso
    by Marcus Sanders

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    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

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  82. 84.
    Robinson: Selected Poems (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Edward Arlington Robinson

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  83. 85.
    Diary
    by Chuck Palahniuk

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  84. 86.
    The Revolt of the Cockroach People
    by Oscar Zeta Acosta

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  85. 87.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  86. 88.
    Lullaby
    by Chuck Palahniuk

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  87. 89.
    Satan Says (Pitt Poetry (Paperback))
    by Sharon Olds

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  88. 90.
    Valley of the Dolls (Susann, Jacqueline)
    by Jacqueline Susann

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  89. 91.
    The Counterfeiters: A Novel
    by Andre Gide

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  90. 92.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo

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  91. 93.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

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  92. 95.
    For One More Day
    by Mitch Albom

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  93. 96.
    Suburban Safari: A Year on the Lawn
    by Hannah Holmes

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  95. 98.
    Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
    by Art Spiegelman

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  96. 99.
    The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian By
    by marco.polo

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  97. 100.
    Ironweed
    by William J. Kennedy

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  98. 101.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves

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