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Todd Gehman's "Bookish Friends' Must-Reads"

I compiled this list by asking all my smartypants friends to recommend one book that they felt I should read. Happily, I got no duplicates. Less happily, it’s going to take me eons to plow through this list.

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1. 101 Reykjavik
by Hallgrimur Helgason
  
2. Among the Thugs
by Bill Buford
  
3. The Book of Illusions: A Novel  
4. The Book of Salt : A Novel
by Monique Truong
  
5. The DENIAL OF DEATH
by Ernest Becker
  
6. Drinking, Smoking, and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times
by Sara Nickles
  
7.
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 Enders Game
by Orson Scott Card
  
8. The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
  
9. Going Sane: Maps of Happiness
by Adam Phillips
  
10. The Human Condition (2nd Edition)
by Hannah Arendt
  
11. Intruder in the Dust (Vintage International)
by William Faulkner
  
12. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
13. Lonesome Dove
by Larry McMurtry
  
14. A Lover's Discourse: Fragments
by Roland Barthes
  
15. Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun)
by Gene Wolfe
  
16. Sword & Citadel: The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun' (New Sun)
by Gene Wolfe
  
17. The Triumph of Vulgarity: Rock Music in the Mirror of Romanticism
by Robert Pattison
  
18. An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas
by Diane Wilson
  
19. White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Don DeLillo
  
20. Almanac of the Dead
by Leslie Marmon Silko
  
21. Cryptonomicon
by Neal Stephenson
  
22. East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
by John Steinbeck
  
23. The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion (Oxford World's Classics)
by Ford Madox Ford
  
24. If on a winter's night a traveler
by Italo Calvino
  
25. Letters to a Young Poet
by Rainer Maria Rilke
  
26. The Queen's Gambit: A Novel
by Walter Tevis
  
This is Todd Gehman's list. Only Todd Gehman can edit it. You can make your own version of this list.
Created by Todd Gehman on Nov 29, 2005.