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Like Southernbohemian, I’ve kept a list of books I NEED to read for a long time. This list grows much faster than I can read.

  1. 1.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  2. 2.
    Foucault's Pendulum
    by Umberto Eco
  3. 3.
    The Egyptologist
    by Arthur Phillips
  4. 4.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
  5. 5.
    Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy)
    by Naguib Mahfouz
  6. 6.
    Snow in August
    by Pete Hamill
  7. 7.
    Birds Without Wings
    by Louis de Bernières
  8. 8.
    The Bone People
    by Keri Hulme
  9. 9.
    A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
    by Ishmael Beah
  10. 10.
    The Soloist
    by Mark Salzman
  11. 11.
    Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?
    by Sara Davidson
  12. 12.
  13. 13.
    Master and Margarita (Read Red)
    by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
  14. 14.
    The Alienist
    by Caleb Carr
  15. 15.
    The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Kate Chopin
  16. 16.
    The Moonstone
    by Wilkie Collins
  17. 17.
    Body and Soul
    by Frank Conroy
  18. 18.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  19. 19.
    Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Charles Dickens
  20. 20.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  21. 21.
    City of God
    by E. L. Doctorow
  22. 22.
    The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Belknap Press)
    by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  23. 23.
    The Monk Downstairs (Plus)
    by Tim Farrington
  24. 24.
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
  25. 25.
    Jude the Obscure (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy
  26. 26.
  27. 27.
    Peace Like a River
    by Leif Enger
  28. 28.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol
  30. 30.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  31. 31.
    Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Sena Jeter Naslund
  32. 32.
    Number the Stars
    by Lois Lowry
  33. 33.
    Family Matters
    by Rohinton Mistry
  34. 34.
    The Chosen
    by Chaim Potok
  35. 35.
    The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  36. 36.
    Snow
    by Orhan Pamuk
  37. 37.
    The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
    by Shirley Jackson
  39. 39.
    My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
    by Jodi Picoult
  40. 40.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand
  41. 41.
    The Reader
    by Bernhard Schlink
  43. 43.
    Grandmother and the Priests
    by Taylor Caldwell
  44. 44.
    The Painted Veil
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  45. 45.
    The Glass Castle: A Memoir
    by Jeannette Walls
  47. 47.
    The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  48. 48.
  49. 49.
    Crossing to Safety
    by Wallace Stegner
  50. 50.
    The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Wallace Stegner
  51. 52.
    The House of the Spirits: A Novel
    by Isabel Allende
  52. 53.
    Walden: (Writings of Henry D. Thoreau)
    by Henry David Thoreau
  53. 54.
    The Optimist's Daughter: A Novel By
    by Eudora Welty
  54. 55.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf
  55. 56.
    The Shadow of the Wind
    by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  56. 57.
    God Of Small Things
    by Arundhati Roy
  57. 58.
    And Ladies of the Club
    by Helen Hooven Santmyer
  58. 59.
    A Three Dog Life
    by Abigail Thomas
  59. 60.
    The Eternal Husband and Other Stories
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  61. 62.
    The Golden Notebook: Perennial Classics edition
    by Doris Lessing
  62. 63.
    Gnostic Gospels
    by Elaine Pagels
  63. 64.
    To Say Nothing of the Dog
    by Connie Willis
  65. 66.
    The Sea
    by John Banville
  66. 67.
    The Saffron Kitchen
    by Yasmin Crowther
  67. 68.
    Oyster: A Novel
    by John Biguenet
  68. 69.
  69. 70.
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    by Khaled Hosseini
  70. 71.
  72. 73.
    Pere Goriot (Signet Classics)
    by Honore de Balzac
  73. 74.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany (Modern Library)
    by John Irving
  74. 75.
    The Outsider
    by Albert Camus
  75. 76.
    One Mississippi: A Novel
    by Mark Childress
  76. 77.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie
  79. 81.
  80. 82.
    Infidel
    by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  81. 83.
    Heir to the Glimmering World
    by Cynthia Ozick
  82. 84.
    The Persistence of Memory: A Novel
    by Tony Eprile
  83. 85.
    The Book of Lost Things
    by John Connolly
  84. 86.
    The Stolen Child
    by Keith Donohue
  85. 87.
    Hawaii: A Novel
    by James A. Michener
  86. 88.
    Loving Frank: A Novel
    by Nancy Horan
  87. 91.
    Middlesex: A Novel (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Jeffrey Eugenides
  88. 92.
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    Chasing Fireflies
    by Charles Martin
  89. 93.
    Leap of Faith: Memoirs of an Unexpected Life
    by Queen Noor
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Created by Dodgerj on Apr 15, 2007.
 

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