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maripo322's "If you want to be well read, super smart, and just plain groovy, you need to read these..."

My favorite books might not actually make you any of these things, but they’re the greatest things I’ve ever read. And a new, awesome, unusual read will def make you feel well read, super smart, and crazy groovy. Hope you like!! :p

1. Cien Anos De Soledad / 100 Years of Solitude (Contemporanea)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
2. Love in the Time of Cholera
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
3. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Italo Calvino
 
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
 
5.
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A Madman Dreams of Turning Machines  
6. Autobiography of Red
by Anne Carson
 
7. Eros the Bittersweet
by Anne Carson
 
8. Notes from the Underground: The Most Outrageous Stories from the Alternative Press
by Nancy Armstrong
 
9. Jazz
by Toni Morrison
 
10. Difficult Loves
by Italo Calvino
 
11. A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
 
12. Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
by Julio Cortazar
 
13. Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
 
14. The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
by Salman Rushdie
 
15. Die Unertragliche Leichtigkeit des Seins...The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan Kundera
 
16. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
by Hunter S. Thompson
 
17. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by Tom Wolfe
 
18. Thus Spake Zarathustra
by Friedrich, Nietzsche
 
19. Jorge Luis Borges (3 Volume Set: Collected Fictions, Selected Poems, Selected Non-Fictions)
by Jorge Luis Borges
 
20. The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky
 
21. The Annotated Alice
by Lewis Carroll
 
22. The Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass
 
23. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. ( Fremdsprachentexte). (Lernmaterialien)
by Tom Stoppard
 
24. Dubliners: Text and Criticism; Revised Edition (Viking Critical Library)
by James Joyce
 
25. Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
by Steven D. Levitt
 
26. Black Like Me
by John Howard Griffin
 
27.
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Cien Sonetos De Amor/100 Love Sonnets
by Pablo Neruda
 
28. Giovanni's Room (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
 
29. The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Umberto Eco
 
30. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
31. Art of Seduction
by Robert Greene
 
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Created by maripo322 on Apr 03, 2007.