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Must Read list for writers

Most of these I believe are from Jon Franklin’s "must read" list.
1. The Plague
by Albert Camus
  
2. Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)STUDY GUIDE
by Patrick McCarthy
  
3. King Rat
by James Clavell
  
4. The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set (Alexandria Quartet)
by Lawrence Durrell
  
5. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
6. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
7. Darkness at Noon: A Novel
by Arthur Koestler
  
8. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
9. The Cruel Sea (Classics of War)
by Nicholas Monsarrat
  
10.
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 The Last Hurrah
by Edwin O'Conner
  
11.
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 1984
by George Orwell
  
12. Animal Farm
by George Orwell
  
13.
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 John Steinbeck's Masterpiece: The Grapes of Wrath
by John Steinbeck
  
14. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark Twain
  
15. All the King's Men
by Robert Penn Warren
  
16. Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton
  
17.
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 The Heart Is an Instrument: Portraits in Journalism
by Madeleine Blais
  
18. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
  
19. Slouching Towards Bethlehem
by Nina Coltart
  
20.
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 At the Heart of It: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives
by Walt Harrington
  
21. Death in the Afternoon
by Ernest Hemingway
  
22. Hiroshima
by John Hersey
  
23.
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 The Last Cowboy
by Jane Kramer
  
24. The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History
by Norman Mailer
  
25.
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 Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken (Commonwealth Classics in Biography)
by William Raymond Manchester
  
26. The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972
by William Manchester
  
27. Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
by James Tobin
  
28. Brave Men
by Ernie Pyle
  
29. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, a History of Nazi Germany  
30. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
by David Simon
  
31. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
by Cliff Stoll
  
32. Life on the Mississippi (Signet Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
33. The Right Stuff
by Tom Wolfe
  
34. Growing Up
by Russell Baker
  
35.
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 The Good Times
by Russell Baker
  
36. The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat
by Edna Buchanan
  
37. The Boys on the Bus
by Timothy Crouse
  
38. The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World
by Gay Talese
  
39. A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
by Ben Bradlee
  
40. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
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.