250 authors every person should read

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  1. 51.
    City of God
    by E. L. Doctorow

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  2. 52.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  3. 53.
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (Signet Classics)
    by Arthur Conan Doyle

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  4. 55.
    Daphne Du Maurier Three Great Novels
    by Daphne Du Maurier

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  5. 56.
    Foucault's Pendulum
    by Umberto Eco

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  6. 57.
    Silas Marner (Signet Classics)
    by George eliot

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  8. 59.
    Middlesex

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  9. 60.
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    The Complete Poems and Plays 1909-1950
    by T.S. Elliot

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  10. 61.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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  11. 63.
    Tom Jones (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

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  12. 64.
    Time and Again
    by Jack Finney

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  13. 65.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  14. 66.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  15. 67.
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    by Jonathan Safran Foer

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  16. 68.
    Independence Day
    by Richard Ford

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  17. 69.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

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  18. 70.
    The Women's Room (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Marilyn French

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  19. 71.
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    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

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  20. 72.
    The Corrections
    by Jonathan Franzen

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  21. 73.
    The Forsyte Saga (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Galsworthy

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  22. 74.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  23. 75.
    Ellen Foster (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Kaye Gibbons

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  24. 76.
    Faust (Bantam Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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  25. 77.
    Dead Souls (Everyman's Library)
    by Nikolai Gogol

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  26. 79.
    The Wind in the Willows
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  27. 80.
    Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
    by Doris Kearns Goodwin

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  28. 81.
    End of the Affair, The
    by Graham Greene

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  29. 82.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

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  30. 83.
    Snow Falling / Cedars
    by David Guterson

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  31. 84.
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  32. 85.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  33. 86.
    Sacred Time: A Novel
    by Ursula Hegi

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  34. 87.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  35. 88.
    Siddharta
    by Hermann Hesse

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  36. 89.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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  37. 90.
    The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)
    by Khaled Hosseini

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  38. 91.
    The Drowning Tree
    by Carol Goodman

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  39. 92.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  40. 93.
    Catch-22 (1961)
    by Joseph Heller

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  41. 94.
    Dune
    by Frank Herbert

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  42. 95.
    Steppenwolf
    by Herman Hesse

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  43. 96.
    Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, The tie-in: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Oscar Hijuelos

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  44. 97.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  45. 99.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  46. 100.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik Ibsen

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