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
  2. 2.
    Collected Poems 1947-1997
    by Allen Ginsberg
  3. 3.
    The Life and Times of Michael K
    by J.M. Coetzee
  4. 4.
    Barabbas
    by Par Lagerkvist
  5. 5.
    The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
    by Salman Rushdie
  6. 6.
    Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
    by Walt Whitman
  7. 7.
    The Outsider
    by Albert Camus
  10. 10.
    Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy
  12. 12.
    The Bridge on the Drina (Phoenix Fiction)
    by Ivo Andric
  13. 13.
    Without Feathers
    by Woody Allen
  14. 14.
    The Flowers of Evil (Wesleyan Poetry)
    by Charles Baudelaire
  16. 16.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath
  17. 17.
    A Season in Hell
    by Arthur Rimbaud
  18. 18.
    A Complicated Kindness
    by Miriam Toews
  19. 19.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  20. 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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