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250 authors every person should read

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1. Rabbit Angstrom : The Four Novels : Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest (Everyman's Library)
by John Updike
  
2. Sophie's Choice
by William Styron
  
3. Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  
4. Fathers and Sons
by Ivan Turgenev
  
5. The Color Purple
by Alice Walker
  
6. Night (Oprah's Book Club)
by Elie Wiesel
  
7. The Once and Future King
by T.H. White
  
8. The Picture of Dorian Gray
by Oscar Wilde
  
9. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
  
10. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero (The Centenary Edition de Luxe of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (The Harry Furniss Centenary Edition), Volume 1)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
11. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
12. Watership Down: A Novel
by Richard Adams
  
13. Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
by Aesop
  
14.
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 Arabian Nights: Tales from the Thousand and One Nights (Great Illustrated Classics)  
15. Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
16. The Book of Illusions: A Novel  
17. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
18. Talk Before Sleep: A Novel
by Elizabeth Berg
  
19. Midwives (Oprah's Book Club)
by Chris Bohjalian
  
20. Tortilla Curtain
by T. Coraghessan Boyle
  
21. Jane Eyre (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charlotte Brontë
  
23. Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)
by Emily Bronte
  
24. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
  
25. The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)
by Pearl S. Buck
  
26. A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
by Robert Olen Butler
  
27. The Pilgrim's Progress (Dover Thrift Editions)
by John Bunyan
  
28. The Plague
by Albert Camus
  
29. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
  
30. The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
31. Alice in Wonderland (Norton Critical Edition Ser.)
by Lewis Carroll
  
32. The Alienist: A Novel
by Caleb Carr
  
33. The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
  
34.
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 Cold Sassy Tree
by Olive Ann Burns
  
35. My Antonia
by Willa Cather
  
36.
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 The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
  
37. 2001: A Space Odyssey
by Arthur C. Clarke
  
38. Body and Soul
by Frank Conroy
  
39. The Prince of Tides
by Pat Conroy
  
40. James Fenimore Cooper : The Leatherstocking Tales I: The Pioneers, The Last of the Mohicans, The Prairie (Library of America)
by James Fenimore Cooper
  
41. Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  
42. Fanny Hill (Penguin Popular Classics)
by John Cleland
  
43. The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
by Wilkie Collins
  
44. The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely (Modern Library)
by Raymond Chandler
  
45. Slow Man
by J.M. Coetzee
  
46. Birds Without Wings
by Louis De Bernieres
  
47. Robinson Crusoe (Norton Critical Editions)
by Daniel Defoe
  
48. The Red Tent
by Anita Diamant
  
49. Great Expectations (The Classic Collection)
by Charles Dickens
  
50. Fifty Poems Emily Dickenson
by Emily Dickinson
  
51.
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 Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
  
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Created by Dodgerj on Mar 23, 2007.