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keelys's "Books which are important to me"

...and should be to everybody. Some recommendations for a ‘should’ list others on this list changed my life
1. The Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass
  
2. The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
by Salman Rushdie
  
3. Disgrace (Essential Edition): (Penguin Essential Edition) (Penguin Essential Editions)
by J. M. Coetzee
  
4. The Book of Daniel: A Novel (Modern Library)
by E.L. Doctorow
  
5. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
6. Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
  
7. Waiting for the Barbarians (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by J. M. Coetzee
  
8. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
9. Everything Is Illuminated
by Jonathan Safran Foer
  
10.
?
 Looking Through Glass
by Mukul Kesavan
  
11. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
12. Cry, the Beloved Country
by Alan Paton
  
13. The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
  
14. Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
15. Ulysses
by James Joyce
  
16. Pollyanna
by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
  
17.
?
 A Dream of Sadler's Wells (A Piccolo Book)
by Lorna Hill
  
18.
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 Jazz
by Toni Morrison
  
19. A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Anthony Burgess
  
20. Nineteen Eighty-four
by George Orwell
  
21. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
22. The Child in Time
by Ian Mcewan
  
23. Saturday
by Ian Mcewan
  
24.
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 Burger's Daughter
by Nadine Gordimer
  
25. Bitter Fruit: A Novel
by Achmat Dangor
  
26. Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
27. Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
28. Schindlers Ark (Coronet Books)
by Thomas Keneally
  
29. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable (Everyman's Library)
by Samuel Beckett
  
30.
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 The Beach
by Alex Garland
  
31. Baumgartner's Bombay
by Anita Desai
  
32.
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 Finnegans Wake
by James Joyce
  
33. The Diary of Anne Frank
by Anne Frank
  
34. Dog Years
by Gunter Grass
  
35.
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 The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
36. Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
by D. H. Lawrence
  
37. Tom Stoppard: Plays 5 : Arcadia, The Real Thing, Night & Day, Indian Ink, Hapgood
by Tom Stoppard
  
38. Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Thomas Pynchon
  
39. Waiting for Godot (Acting Edition)
by Samuel Beckett
  
40. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
41.
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 Fury
by Salman Rushdie
  
42. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
  
43. Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
by Mary Shelley
  
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Created by keelys on Jan 09, 2007.