jayhawktiger's "Interesting Books for Interesting Adults"A list of must-read books |
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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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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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The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
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Blood, Tin, Straw: Poems
by Sharon Olds
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1984
by George Orwell
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The Alchemist (Plus)
by Paulo Coelho
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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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Gargantua and Pantagruel (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Francois Rabelais
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The Lady or the Tiger and Other Stories
by Frank R. Stockton
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
by Hunter S. Thompson
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Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
by Christopher Moore
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Catch 22.
by Joseph Heller
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The Giver
by Lois Lowry
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The Butcher Boy
by Patrick McCabe
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
by Gregory Maguire
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Watership Down: A Novel
by Richard Adams
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Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
by Frank
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The Neverending Story
by Michael Ende
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
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The Chronicles of Narnia
by C. S. Lewis
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
by Irving Stone
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Mythology
by Edith Hamilton
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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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The Secret Life of Lobsters: How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean (P.S.)
by Trevor Corson
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Melmoth the Wanderer (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Robert Maturin
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Silas Crockett
by Mary Ellen Chase
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by Edward Albee
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Go Ask Alice
by Anonymous
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol : (From A to B and Back Again)
by Andy Warhol
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
by Ken Kesey
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
by John Berendt
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Lilith
by George Macdonald
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Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body
by Armand Marie Leroi
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On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
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Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
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