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These are the top 100 books that I recommend in no particular order. That is until I read more … The following is a wide assortment of fiction, poetry, short stories, children’s literature, and a few non-fiction pieces. And don’t forget drama!

  1. 1.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  2. 2.
    Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  3. 3.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

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  4. 4.
    A Seperate Peace
    by John Knowles

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  5. 5.
    Brideshead Revisited (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  6. 6.
    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  7. 7.
    Three Tragedies: Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alba
    by Federico Garcia Lorca

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  8. 8.
    Fear of Flying
    by Erica Jong

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  9. 9.
    Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude (Contemporanea)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  10. 10.
    Anne Frank: The Biography
    by Melissa Muller

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  11. 11.
    Pride and Prejudice (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  12. 12.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  13. 13.
    Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  14. 14.
    Wuthering Heights (Courage Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

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  15. 15.
    Richard III (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  16. 16.
    The Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  17. 18.
    Alice in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

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  18. 20.
    The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories
    by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  19. 22.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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  20. 23.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  22. 25.
    The Flowers of Evil (Wesleyan Poetry)
    by Charles Baudelaire

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  23. 26.
    Lord Byron: The Major Works (Oxford World's Classics)
    by George Gordon Byron

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  24. 29.
    A Streetcar Named Desire.
    by Tennessee Williams

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  25. 30.
    The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
    by Christina Rossetti

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  26. 31.
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde

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  27. 32.
    Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books)
    by Lois Lowry

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  28. 33.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi

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  29. 34.
    Beatrix Potter Complete Tales R/I
    by Beatrix Potter

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  30. 35.
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    Big Bear's Book
    by Christina Bjork

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  31. 36.
    Ozma of Oz
    by L. Frank Baum

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  32. 37.
    And Then There Were None
    by Agatha Christie

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  33. 38.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown

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  34. 39.
    Greater Than Angels
    by Carol Matas

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  35. 40.
    The SHORT STORIES OF F SCOTT FITZGERALD
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  36. 41.
    Audrey Hepburn, An Elegant Spirit: A Son Remembers
    by Sean Hepburn Ferrer

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  37. 42.
    Teacher Man: A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

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  38. 43.
    Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
    by Edgar Allan Poe

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  39. 44.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  40. 46.
    Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes
    by Edith Hamilton

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  41. 47.
    Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  42. 48.
    E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
    by E. E. Cummings

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  43. 49.
    Our Town: A Play in Three Acts (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

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  44. 50.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  45. 51.
    Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
    by Ben Hamper

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  46. 52.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  47. 53.
    The Problem of Pain
    by C.S. Lewis

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  48. 54.
    The Screwtape Letters (Gift Edition)
    by C. S. Lewis

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  49. 56.
    Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3)
    by J.K. Rowling

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  50. 57.
    Anne of Green Gables (Signet Classics)
    by L. M. Montgomery

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  51. 59.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  53. 62.
    The Wild Duck: Play in Five Acts
    by Henrik Ibsen

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  54. 63.
    Endgame and Act Without Words
    by Samuel Beckett

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  55. 64.
    The Poetry of Robert Frost
    by Robert Frost

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  56. 65.
    The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: A Facsimile in Full Color
    by William Blake

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  57. 67.
    The Bad Beginning - Book 1 of A Series of Unfortunate Events
    by Lemony Snicket

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  58. 68.
    Phantom Tollbooth
    by Norton Juster

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  59. 69.
    The Queen of Spades and Other Stories : A New Translation
    by Alexander Pushkin

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  60. 71.
    Speak
    by Laurie Anderson

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  61. 72.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  62. 73.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden

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  63. 74.
    The Witch of Blackbird Pond (Collins Modern Classics)
    by Elizabeth George Speare

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  64. 76.
    Matilda
    by Roald Dahl

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  65. 78.
    Interview With The Vampire
    by Anne Rice

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  66. 79.
    The Outsiders (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by S.E. Hinton

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  67. 80.
    Bridge to Terabithia (rack)
    by Katherine Paterson

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  68. 81.
    Many Waters
    by Madeleine L'Engle

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  69. 82.
    An Acceptable Time
    by Madeleine L'Engle

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  70. 83.
    The Halloween Tree

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  71. 84.
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    by Edward Albee

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  72. 85.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  74. 87.
    Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
    by Julio Cortazar

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  75. 89.
    Waiting for the Barbarians
    by J M Coetzee

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  76. 90.
    A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems (New Directions Paperback No. 74)
    by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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  77. 91.
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    Starting From San Francisco - Poems by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
    by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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  78. 92.
    The Hours
    by Michael Cunningham

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  79. 93.
    The Green House
    by Mario Vargas Llosa

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  80. 94.
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    The Golden Name Day
    by Jennie D Lindquist

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  82. 96.
    Kafka's Selected Stories (Norton Critical Edition)
    by Franz Kafka

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  83. 97.
    Daisy Miller
    by Henry James

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  84. 98.
    Pygmalion (Enriched Classics)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  85. 99.
    Petrarch: The Canzoniere, or Rerum vulgarium fragmenta
    by Francesco Petrarca

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  86. 100.
    Sonnets From the Portuguese
    by E. B. Browning

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