AlbinoMexican's "My Quest to be Well-Read"

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A mix from several different lists, including Harold Bloom’s Western Canon, Harvard Book Store’s 100 Favorite Titles, Books that Changed the World, 100 Most Meaningful Books of All Time, 100 Books for the Modern Person, and The Well-Stocked Bookcase. And, because it’s hard to find a list of great books released within the last five or ten years, I threw in a few books that everyone I know has read and can’t stop talking about.

I think there’s a pretty good balance of American, British, and world literature, as well as a pretty even balance of women and men. I did my best to cover a wide range of time as well.

It goes without saying that this list is a work in progress, and will probably be frequently added to.

All the lists I took titles from can be found <a href="http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/greatbks.html">here</a>.

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  1. 101.
    Treatise of Human Nature
    by David Hume

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  2. 102.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  3. 103.
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    An Egyptian Childhood (Modern Arabic Writing)
    by Taha Hussein

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  4. 104.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  5. 105.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  6. 106.
    In Parenthesis (New York Review Books)
    by David Jones

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  7. 107.

  8. 108.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka

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  9. 110.
    Schindler's List
    by Thomas Keneally

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  10. 111.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  11. 114.
    Rudyard Kipling: Complete Verse
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  12. 115.
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    Season on Earth (Poets, Penguin)
    by Kenneth Koch

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  13. 116.
    The Koran (Penguin Classics)
    by Anonymous

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  14. 117.

  15. 119.
    Essays of Elia: The Works of Charles Lamb
    by Charles Lamb

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  16. 120.
    Selected Short Stories of D.H. Lawrence (Modern Library)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  17. 121.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  18. 122.
    If Not Now, When? (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Primo Levi

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  19. 123.
    Collected Poems by Vachel Lindsay
    by Vachel Lindsay

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  20. 125.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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  21. 126.
    The Assistant: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud

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  22. 127.
    An Imaginary Life
    by David Malouf

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  23. 128.

  24. 129.
    Death in Venice: And Seven Other Stories
    by Thomas Mann

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  25. 130.
    The Collected Poems of Christopher Marlowe
    by Christopher Marlowe

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  26. 131.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  27. 132.
    Life of Pi: Student Edition
    by Yann Martel

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  28. 133.
    The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Classics)
    by Karl Marx

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  29. 134.
    Of Human Bondage (Bantam Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  30. 135.
    Angela's Ashes
    by Frank McCourt

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  31. 136.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers

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  32. 137.
    The Egoist
    by George Meredith

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  33. 138.
    Death of a Salesman
    by Arthur Miller

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  34. 139.
    Selected Poems: 1931-2004
    by Czeslaw Milosz

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  35. 140.
    Don Juan
    by Moliere

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  36. 141.
    Complete Poems (Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Marianne Moore

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  37. 142.
    Utopia (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas More

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  38. 143.
    The Good Apprentice
    by Iris Murdoch

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  39. 144.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  40. 145.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  41. 146.
    A Bend in the River
    by V. S. Naipaul

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  42. 148.
    Beyond Good And Evil
    by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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  43. 149.
    Delta of Venus
    by Anais Nin

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  44. 150.
    The Octopus
    by Frank Norris

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