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. 151.
    The Complete Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  2. 152.
    Them (Modern Library)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  3. 153.
    1984: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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  4. 154.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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  5. 155.
    Ovid: The Art of Love
    by Ovid

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  6. 156.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

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  7. 157.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

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  8. 158.
    The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Sylvia Plath

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  9. 159.
    The Republic (Penguin Classics)
    by Plato

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  10. 160.
    Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  11. 161.
    An Essay On Criticism
    by Alexander Pope

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  12. 162.
    The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Ezra Pound

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  13. 163.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  14. 164.
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    A Dress of Fire
    by Dalia Ravikovitch

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  15. 165.
    Rimbaud: Complete Works, Selected Letters
    by Wallace Fowlie

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  16. 166.
    The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke
    by Theodore Roethke

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  17. 167.
    Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti
    by Christina Georgina Rossetti

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  18. 168.
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    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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  19. 169.
    Confessions (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  20. 170.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

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  21. 171.
    Empire Falls (HBO Tie-in)
    by Richard Russo

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  22. 172.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  23. 173.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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  24. 174.
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    Naive and Sentimental Poetry, and on the Sublime; Two Essays
    by Johann Christoph Friedrich Von Schiller

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  25. 175.
    Pygmalion (Penguin Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  26. 176.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  27. 178.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair

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  28. 180.
    Spenser: Faerie Queene
    by A. Hamilton

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  29. 181.
    Tender Buttons (Dodo Press)
    by Gertrude Stein

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  30. 182.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  31. 183.
    Love (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

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  32. 185.
    Bram Stoker's Dracula
    by Bram Stoker

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  33. 186.
    Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
    by Patrick Suskind

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  34. 187.

  35. 188.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

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  36. 189.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  37. 191.
    Civil Disobedience (Dodo Press)
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  38. 192.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  39. 193.
    The Torah

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  40. 194.
    Civilization on Trial
    by Arnold J Toynbee

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  41. 195.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  42. 196.
    The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
    by Amos Tutuola

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  43. 197.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

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  44. 198.
    Witches of Eastwick
    by John Updike

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  45. 199.
    Candide (Modern Library)
    by Voltaire

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  46. 200.
    Cat's Cradle
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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