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BeautifulMogadishu's "100 Books to Read"

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  1. 1.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  2. 2.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  3. 3.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

  4. 4.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck

  5. 5.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi

  6. 6.
    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  7. 7.
    Infidel
    by Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  8. 8.
    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    by Jared Diamond

  9. 9.
    The Joy Luck Club

  10. 10.
    Tar Baby
    by Toni Morrison

  11. 11.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster

  12. 13.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

  13. 14.
    The Alchemist
    by Paulo Coelho

  14. 15.
    ?
    My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

  15. 16.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

  16. 17.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

  17. 18.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

  18. 19.
    March
    by Geraldine Brooks

  19. 20.
    Vanishing Acts: A Novel
    by Jodi Picoult

  20. 21.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger

  21. 22.
    The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)
    by Khaled Hosseini

  22. 23.
    Sophie's Choice
    by William Styron

  23. 24.
    The Painted Veil
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  24. 25.

  25. 26.
    Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
    by Joseph Conrad

  26. 28.
    Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
    by Alison Bechdel

  27. 29.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

  28. 30.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  29. 31.
    A Town Like Alice
    by Nevil Shute

  30. 32.
    Prodigal Summer: A Novel
    by Barbara Kingsolver

  31. 34.
    The Princess Bride (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by William Goldman

  32. 35.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

  33. 36.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  34. 37.
    Sula
    by Toni Morrison

  35. 38.
    Jazz
    by Toni Morrison

  36. 39.
    An Unfinished Life
    by Mark Spragg

  37. 40.
    ROPE BURNS: Stories from the Corner
    by F. X. Toole

  38. 41.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  39. 42.
    The Constant Gardener: A Novel
    by John le Carre

  40. 43.
    The Virgin Suicides
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

  41. 44.
    Running with Scissors: A Memoir
    by Augusten Burroughs

  42. 45.
    The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
    by Jeffrey Sachs

  43. 47.
    The Rapture of Canaan
    by Sheri Reynolds

  44. 48.
    The History of Love
    by Nicole Krauss

  45. 49.
    Unburnable: A Novel
    by Marie-Elena John

  46. 50.
    The Sea
    by John Banville

  47. 51.
    The Thirteenth Tale
    by Diane Setterfield

  48. 52.
    Water for Elephants: A Novel
    by Sara Gruen

  49. 53.
    Tangerine Dream
    by Ken Douglas

  50. 55.
    Emma's War
    by Deborah Scroggins

  51. 56.
    What Is the What
    by Dave Eggers

  52. 57.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

  53. 58.

  54. 59.
    East of Eden
    by John Steinbeck

  55. 60.
    Something Blue
    by Emily Giffin

  56. 61.
    Baby Proof
    by Emily Giffin

  57. 62.
    Norwegian Wood
    by Haruki Murakami

  58. 63.
    The Bridges of Madison County
    by Robert James Waller

  59. 64.
    Absurdistan: A Novel
    by Gary Shteyngart

  60. 65.
    Anna Karenina
    by Leo Tolstoy

  61. 66.
    Miranda's Vines
    by Kimberly Kafka

  62. 67.
    Digging to America
    by Anne Tyler

  63. 68.
    The Emperor's Children
    by Claire Messud

  64. 69.
    Suite Francaise
    by Irene Nemirovsky

  65. 70.
    Sharp Objects: A Novel
    by Gillian Flynn

  66. 71.
    The Road
    by Cormac McCarthy

  67. 72.
    The Children's Hospital
    by Chris Adrian

  68. 73.
    Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
    by Geraldine Brooks

  69. 74.
    Love in the Time of Cholera
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  70. 75.
    Out of Africa
    by Isak Dinesen

  71. 77.
    Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
    by Alexandra Fuller

  72. 78.
    Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
    by Isak Dinesen

  73. 80.
    Love: A Novel
    by Toni Morrison

  74. 82.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair

  75. 84.
    The River Between
    by Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

  76. 85.
    So Long a Letter (African Writers Series)
    by Mariama Ba

  77. 87.
    Girl with a Pearl Earring, Deluxe Edition
    by Tracy Chevalier

  78. 88.
    The Secret Life of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd

  79. 89.
    The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
    by Pearl S. Buck

  80. 90.
    Plain Truth
    by Jodi Picoult

  81. 91.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  82. 92.
    House of Sand and Fog (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Andre Dubus

  83. 93.
    Charity Girl
    by Michael Lowenthal

  84. 94.
    White Oleander: A Novel
    by Janet Fitch

  85. 95.
    The Keep
    by Jennifer Egan

  86. 96.
    Ender's Game Gift Edition (Ender Quartet)
    by Orson Scott Card

  87. 97.
    ?
    middlesex by jeffrey eugenides

  88. 98.
    The Other Boleyn Girl
    by Philippa Gregory

  89. 99.
    The Glass Castle: A Memoir
    by Jeannette Walls

  90. 100.
    The Year of Magical Thinking
    by Joan Didion

  91. 101.
    My Father's Keeper
    by Kip Vander Hyde

  92. 102.
    The Angela's Ashes/'Tis Boxed Set
    by Frank McCourt

  93. 103.
    Teacher Man: A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

  94. 104.
    Sink Reflections
    by Marla Cilley

  95. 105.
    The Horse Whisperer (Penguin Readers, Level 3)
    by Evans

  96. 106.
    The Teahouse Fire
    by Ellis Avery

  97. 107.
    Fieldwork: A Novel
    by Mischa Berlinski

  98. 108.
    B-Mother
    by Maureen O'Brien

  99. 110.
    The Saffron Kitchen
    by Yasmin Crowther

  100. 111.
    The Friday Night Knitting Club
    by Kate Jacobs

  101. 112.

  102. 113.
    Little Earthquakes
    by Jennifer Weiner

  103. 114.
    A Spot of Bother
    by Mark Haddon

  104. 115.
    Rise and Shine: A Novel
    by Anna Quindlen

  105. 116.
    On Beauty
    by Zadie Smith

  106. 117.
    Little Children: A Novel
    by Tom Perrotta

  107. 119.
    The Place of Dead Roads: A Novel
    by William S. Burroughs

  108. 120.
    The Butcher Boy
    by Patrick McCabe

  109. 121.
    The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
    by Salman Rushdie

  110. 122.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess

  111. 123.
    The House of the Spirits: A Novel
    by Isabel Allende

  112. 124.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  113. 126.
    Girl, Interrupted (Faber and Faber Screenplays)
    by James Mangold

  114. 127.

  115. 128.
    The Hours
    by Michael Cunningham

  116. 129.
    A Man Named Dave: A Story of Triumph and Forgiveness
    by Dave Pelzer

  117. 130.
    Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
    by Julie Gregory

  118. 132.
    Me Talk Pretty One Day
    by David Sedaris

  119. 133.
    Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
    by David Sedaris

  120. 134.
    She's Come Undone
    by Wally Lamb

  121. 135.
    I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Wally Lamb

  122. 137.
    White Teeth: A Novel
    by Zadie Smith

  123. 138.
    Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In)
    by Elizabeth Wurtzel

  124. 139.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  125. 140.
    Fight Club: A Novel
    by Chuck Palahniuk

  126. 141.
    A Gracious Plenty: A Novel
    by Sheri Reynolds

  127. 142.
    A Home at the End of the World: A Novel
    by Michael Cunningham

  128. 143.
    Something Borrowed
    by Emily Giffin

  129. 144.
    Last Chance Saloon
    by Marian Keyes

  130. 145.
    Magical Thinking: True Stories
    by Augusten Burroughs

  131. 146.
    Dry
    by Augusten Burroughs

  132. 147.
    The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa
    by Alexander Mccall Smith

  133. 148.
    Sellevision: A Novel
    by Augusten Burroughs

  134. 149.
    The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
    by Ben Sherwood

  135. 150.
    The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency 5-Book Boxed Set
    by Alexander McCall Smith

  136. 151.
    Bergdorf Blondes
    by Plum Sykes

  137. 152.

  138. 153.
    The Interruption of Everything
    by Terry McMillan

  139. 154.
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    The Jane Austen Book Club
    by Karen Joy Fowler

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