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ShysubGirl's "On My Way to 1,000 Books"

One of my goals is to read 1,000 books. This will eventually be that list. I am of course open to suggestions. I am kind of a surveyor; I want to try to read different kinds of things, great writing, and influential books and authors.

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1. Desecration: Antichrist Takes the Throne (Left Behind No. 9)
by Tim LaHaye
 
2. Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
by Constance Hale
 
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4)
by J.K. Rowling
 
4.
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Otherworld city of the golden shadow  
5. Different Loving: The World of Sexual Dominance and Submission
by William Brame
 
6. Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood
by Laurie Notaro
 
7. Story of O
by Pauline Reage
 
8. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
 
9. Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths & Stories About the Wild Woman Archetype
by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
 
10.
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Preludes and Nocturnes (Sandman, Book 1)
by Neil Gaiman
 
11. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou
 
12. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
 
13.
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The Advesaries
by Jack Cavenaugh
 
14. Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
 
15. One Hundred Years of Solitude (Oprah's Book Club)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
 
16.
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Middlesex  
17. The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
 
18. Atonement: A Novel
by Ian McEwan
 
19. The Wise Wound: menstruation and everywoman
by Penelope Shuttle
 
20. The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions)
by Franz Kafka
 
21.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Novel
by Zora Neale Hurston
 
22. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
by Azar Nafisi
 
23. I, Robot (Bantam Spectra Book)
by Isaac Asimov
 
24. The Picture of Dorian Grey
by Oscar Wilde
 
25. Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
by Henry Miller
 
26. Marvel 1602 TPB (Quill Award Edition)
by Neil Gaiman
 
27. Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
by David Sedaris
 
28.
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love in the time of cholera
by gabriel garcia marquez
 
29. Lolita (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Vladimir Nabokov
 
30. Bastard Out of Carolina (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)
by Dorothy Allison
 
31. Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
by W. Somerset Maugham
 
32. Was (Fantasy Masterworks)
by Geoff Ryman
 
33.
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The collected stories of Philip K. Dick, Vol. 1-5
by Philip K. Dick
 
34. People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)
by Howard Zinn
 
35. Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
 
36. A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster
 
37.
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
 
38. Native Son (Perennial Classics)
by Richard A. Wright
 
39. Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
 
40. The Moviegoer
by Walker Percy
 
41.
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)
 
42. Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
by D.H. Lawrence
 
43. The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
 
44. The Complete Plays of Sophocles
by Sophocles
 
45. Darkness at Noon: A Novel
by Arthur Koestler
 
46. Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
 
47. Crime and Punishment (Penguin Popular Classics)
by F.M. Dostoevsky
 
48. The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
by Elaine N. Aron
 
49. Before Night Falls: A Memoir
by Reinaldo Arenas
 
50. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation  
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Created by ShysubGirl on May 08, 2007.