250 authors every person should read

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  1. 101.
    The World According to Garp A Novel
    by John Irving

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  2. 102.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

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  3. 103.
    The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
    by Shirley Jackson

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  4. 105.
    The Known World
    by Edward P. Jones

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    Andersonville
    by MacKinlay Kantor

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  7. 109.
    Schindler's List (Penguin Joint Venture Readers)
    by Thomas Keneally

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  8. 110.
    Ironweed
    by William Kennedy

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  9. 111.
    Selected Short Stories (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Guy de Maupassant

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  10. 112.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  11. 113.
    One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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  12. 114.
    The Secret Life of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd

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  13. 115.
    The Shining
    by Stephen King

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  14. 116.
    Prodigal Summer: A Novel
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  15. 117.
    Just So Stories
    by Rudyard Kipling

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  16. 118.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

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  17. 119.
    Watchers
    by Dean Koontz

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  18. 120.
    Into the Wild
    by Jon Krakauer

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  19. 121.
    The Namesake
    by Jhumpa Lahiri

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  20. 122.
    To Kill a Mockingbird (slipcased edition)
    by Harper Lee

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  21. 124.
    A Wrinkle in Time
    by Madeleine L'Engle

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  22. 126.
    The Complete C.S. Lewis Signature Classics
    by C. S. Lewis

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  23. 127.
    Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (Library of America)
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  24. 128.
    The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Norman Mailer

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  25. 129.
    Gift from the Sea: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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  26. 131.
    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry

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    Late George Apley
    by John Phillips Marquand; Illustrator Jeffrey W. Cornell

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  28. 134.
    The Fixer: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud

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  29. 135.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

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  30. 136.
    The Road (rough cut)
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  31. 137.
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    Of Human Bondage
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  32. 138.
    The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition
    by James McBride

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  33. 140.
    The Thorn Birds
    by Colleen McCullough

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  34. 141.
    John Adams
    by David McCullough

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  35. 142.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan

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  36. 143.
    Lonesome Dove: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Larry McMurtry

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  37. 145.
    Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Henry Miller

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  38. 146.
    Hawaii: A Novel
    by James A. Michener

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  39. 147.
    Winnie-the-Pooh
    by A. A. Milne

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  40. 148.
    Family Matters
    by Rohinton Mistry

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  41. 149.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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  42. 150.
    Gone with The Wind: Complete and Unabridged Mitchell
    by Margaret Mitchell

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