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Harleth's "My Professor's rec. List"

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This is a list of boooks my creative writing professor recommeded that aspiring writers read. If any other Professor give out a list I’ll update.

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    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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    Libra (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Don DeLillo

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    The Names
    by Don DeLillo

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    The Broom of the System
    by David Foster Wallace

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    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

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    Ava
    by Carole Maso

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    Spanking the Maid (Coover, Robert)
    by Robert Coover

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    Jesus' Son
    by Denis Johnson

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    Great Apes (Self, Will)
    by Will Self

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    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

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  13. 14.
    The Verificationist: A Novel
    by Donald Antrim

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  14. 15.
    CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
    by George Saunders

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    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick

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    The World According to Garp
    by John IRVING

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    Whores for Gloria: A Novel (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by William Vollmann

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    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  19. 21.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  20. 22.
    Juneteenth: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  21. 23.
    The Fall
    by Albert Camus

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  22. 24.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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  23. 25.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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  24. 26.
    The Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka

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  25. 27.
    The Castle
    by Franz Kafka

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  26. 28.
    Ulysses: A Reproduction of the 1922 First Edition
    by James Joyce

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    Dubliners (Oxford World's Classics)
    by James Joyce

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    Finnegans Wake by James Joyce

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  30. 32.
    The Dead (Art of the Novella series, The)
    by James Joyce

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  31. 33.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  32. 34.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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    Absalom, Absalom!
    by William Faulkner

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    In Search of Lost Time (Six Vol. Set) (Folio Society)
    by Marcel Proust

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  35. 37.
    Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    A Moveable Feast
    by Ernest Hemingway

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    Tender Is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  39. 41.
    Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  40. 42.
    Homage to Catalonia (Harvest Book)
    by George Orwell

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    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  43. 45.
    Adventures of Huck Finn
    by Mark Twain

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  44. 46.
    Murphy (Beckett, Samuel)
    by Samuel Beckett

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    Molloy
    by Samuel Beckett

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  46. 48.
    Of Mice and Men: (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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    In Dubious Battle (Penguin Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

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    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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    Franny and Zooey
    by J.D. Salinger

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    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  51. 53.
    Heart of Darkness (Green Integer)
    by Joseph Conrad

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    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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    The Double (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  55. 57.
    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by F.M. Dostoevsky

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  56. 58.
    Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    Pride and Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

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    Bartleby, the Scrivener (Dodo Press)
    by Herman Melville

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    Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Herman Melville

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

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  62. 64.
    Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
    by Walt Whitman

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  63. 65.
    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

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  64. 66.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire

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  65. 67.
    Rhinoceros (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Eugene Ionesco

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  66. 68.
    Siddhartha: Siddhartha (Shambhala Classics)
    by Hermann Hesse

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  67. 69.
    The White Album
    by Joan Didion

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  68. 70.
    Autobiography of A Face
    by Lucy Grealy

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    Motherless Brooklyn
    by Jonathan Lethem

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Created by Harleth on Apr 08, 2007.