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Crimeandpunishment's Favourite Books

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. Silent Cry (Five Star)
by Kenzaburo Oe
  
2. Collected Poems 1947-1997
by Allen Ginsberg
  
3. The Life and Times of Michael K
by J.M. Coetzee
  
4. Barabbas
by Par Lagerkvist
  
5. The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
by Salman Rushdie
  
6. Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
by Walt Whitman
  
7.
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 The Outsider
by Albert Camus
  
8. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Italo Calvino
  
9. Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
by Charles Bukowski
  
10. Great Short Works of Leo Tolstoy (Perennial Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
  
11. Collected Poems, 1909-1962 (The Centenary Edition)
by T. S. Eliot
  
12. The Bridge on the Drina (Phoenix Fiction Series)
by Ivo Andric
  
13. Without Feathers
by Woody Allen
  
14. The Flowers of Evil (Wesleyan Poetry)
by Charles Baudelaire
  
15. Platero and I / Platero y yo: A Dual-Language Book (Dual-Language Books)
by Juan Ramon Jimenez
  
16. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
  
17. A Season in Hell
by Arthur Rimbaud
  
18. A Complicated Kindness
by Miriam Toews
  
19. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
  
20. The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
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Created by crimeandpunishment on Apr 24, 2007.