Crimeandpunishment's Favourite Books

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Top twenty favourite works of fiction, poetry, and drama. (This is not my critical assessment of what are the best works, but simply the ones I enjoyed reading the most.) Also, a maximum of one work per author.

  1. 1.
    Silent Cry (Five Star)
    by Kenzaburo Oe

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  2. 2.
    Collected Poems 1947-1997
    by Allen Ginsberg

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  3. 3.
    The Life and Times of Michael K
    by J.M. Coetzee

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  4. 4.
    Barabbas
    by Par Lagerkvist

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  5. 5.
    The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
    by Salman Rushdie

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  6. 6.
    Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
    by Walt Whitman

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  7. 7.
    The Outsider
    by Albert Camus

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  9. 10.
    Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  10. 11.
    Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition)
    by T. S. Eliot

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  11. 12.
    Arabian Nights and Days: A Novel
    by Naguib Mahfouz

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  12. 13.
    Without Feathers
    by Woody Allen

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  13. 14.
    The Flowers of Evil (Wesleyan Poetry)
    by Charles Baudelaire

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  15. 16.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

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  16. 17.
    A Season in Hell
    by Arthur Rimbaud

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  17. 18.
    A Complicated Kindness
    by Miriam Toews

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  18. 19.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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  19. 20.
    The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Created by crimeandpunishment on Apr 24, 2007.
 

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