Must Read list for writers

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Most of these I believe are from Jon Franklin’s "must read" list.

  1. 1.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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    King Rat
    by James Clavell

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  4. 4.
    The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet)
    by Lawrence Durrell

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  5. 5.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  7. 7.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

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  8. 8.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  9. 9.
    The Cruel Sea (Classics of War)
    by Nicholas Monsarrat

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  10. 10.
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    The Last Hurrah
    by Edwin O'Conner

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  11. 11.
    1984
    by George Orwell

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  12. 12.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell

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    John Steinbeck's Masterpiece: The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck

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  14. 14.
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

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  15. 15.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  16. 16.
    Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton

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    The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism
    by Madeleine Blais

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  18. 18.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  19. 19.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem
    by Nina Coltart

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    At the Heart of It: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
    by Walt Harrington

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  21. 21.
    Death in the Afternoon
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  22. 22.
    Hiroshima
    by John Hersey

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    The Last Cowboy
    by Jane Kramer

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  25. 26.
    The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972
    by William Manchester

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  26. 27.
    Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
    by James Tobin

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  27. 28.
    Brave Men
    by Ernie Pyle

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  28. 30.
    Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
    by David Simon

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  29. 32.
    Life on the Mississippi (Signet Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  30. 33.
    The Right Stuff
    by Tom Wolfe

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  31. 34.
    Growing Up
    by Russell Baker

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  32. 35.
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    The Good Times
    by Russell Baker

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  33. 37.
    The Boys on the Bus
    by Timothy Crouse

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  34. 39.
    A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
    by Ben Bradlee

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  35. 40.
    The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  36. 41.
    News of a Kidnapping (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Created by AFriendlyMonster on Oct 13, 2006.
 

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