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Dodgerj's "ever increasing list of must read books!"

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.

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1. Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
  
2. Foucault's Pendulum
by Umberto Eco
  
3. The Egyptologist
by Arthur Phillips
  
4. Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
by Mary Shelley
  
5. Palace Walk (The Cairo Trilogy)
by Naguib Mahfouz
  
6. Snow in August
by Pete Hamill
  
7. Birds Without Wings
by Louis De Bernieres
  
8. The Bone People
by Keri Hulme
  
9. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
  
10. The Soloist
by Mark Salzman
  
11. Leap!: What Will We Do with the Rest of Our Lives?
by Sara Davidson
  
12.
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 Isaac's Storm: The Drowning of Galveston, 8 September 1900
by Erik Larson
  
13. Master and Margarita, The
by Mikhail Afanasevich; Ginsburg, Mirra (translator) Bulgakov
  
14. The Alienist: A Novel
by Caleb Carr
  
15. The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)
by Kate Chopin
  
16. The Moonstone
by Wilkie Collins
  
17. Body and Soul
by Frank Conroy
  
18. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
19. Great Expectations (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Charles Dickens
  
20. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
21. City of God
by E. L. Doctorow
  
22. The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson)
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
23. The Monk Downstairs (Plus)
by Tim Farrington
  
24. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by Jonathan Safran Foer
  
25. Jude the Obscure (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Thomas Hardy
  
26. The Metamorphosis, In The Penal Colony, and Other Stories
by Franz Kafka
  
27. Peace Like a River
by Leif Enger
  
28. Dead Souls
by Nikolai Gogol
  
29. Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
by Elizabeth Gilbert
  
30. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
31. Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel (P.S.)
by Sena Jeter Naslund
  
32. Number the Stars (Laurel Leaf Books)
by Lois Lowry
  
33. Family Matters
by Rohinton Mistry
  
34. The Chosen
by Chaim Potok
  
35. The Old Curiosity Shop (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
36. Snow
by Orhan Pamuk
  
37. The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics)
by Shirley Jackson
  
38. Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel
  
39. My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
by Jodi Picoult
  
40. Atlas Shrugged
by Ayn Rand
  
41. The Reader
by Bernhard Schlink
  
42. The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
by John M. Barry
  
43.
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 Grandmother and the Priests
by Taylor. Caldwell
  
44.
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 The Painted Veil
by W. Somerset Maugham
  
45. The Glass Castle: A Memoir
by Jeannette Walls
  
46. Living with Cannibals and Other Women's Adventures (Adventure Press)
by Michele Slung
  
47. The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)
by Edith Wharton
  
48. The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail
by Margaret Starbird
  
49.
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 Crossing to Safety
by Wallace Stegner
  
50. The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction)
by Wallace Stegner
  
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Created by Dodgerj on Apr 15, 2007.