Tania Toma's "My Quest to be Well-Read"

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A mix from several different lists, including Harold Bloom’s Western Canon, Harvard Book Store’s 100 Favorite Titles, Books that Changed the World, 100 Most Meaningful Books of All Time, 100 Books for the Modern Person, and The Well-Stocked Bookcase. And, because it’s hard to find a list of great books released within the last five or ten years, I threw in a few books that everyone I know has read and can’t stop talking about.

I think there’s a pretty good balance of American, British, and world literature, as well as a pretty even balance of women and men. I did my best to cover a wide range of time as well.

It goes without saying that this list is a work in progress, and will probably be frequently added to.

All the lists I took titles from can be found <a href="http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/greatbks.html">here</a>.

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  1. 1.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

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    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

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    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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    Winesburg, Ohio (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

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  5. 5.
    The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born (African Writers)
    by Ayi Kwei Armah

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  6. 6.
    Surfacing
    by Margaret Atwood

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  7. 8.
    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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    Casualties: Poems 1966-68,
    by J. P Clark-Bekederemo

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  9. 10.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  10. 11.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  11. 12.
    The Holy Bible
    by Various Authors

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  12. 13.
    The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
    by Elizabeth Bishop

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  13. 16.
    The Tortilla Curtain
    by T.C. Boyle

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  14. 17.
    Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
    by Ray Bradbury

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  15. 18.
    Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
    by Emily Bronte

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  16. 19.
    Ham on Rye
    by Charles Bukowski

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  17. 20.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  18. 21.
    Anatomy of Melancholy (2 vols.)
    by Robert Burton

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  19. 22.
    The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts)
    by Samuel Butler

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    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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  22. 25.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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    Silent Spring
    by Rachel Carson

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  25. 28.
    Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
    by Raymond Carver

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  26. 29.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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  27. 30.
    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
    by Benvenuto Cellini

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    The Plays of Anton Chekhov
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

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  29. 32.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin

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  30. 33.
    The Nature of the Gods (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Cicero

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  31. 34.
    The House on Mango Street

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  32. 35.
    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

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  33. 36.
    Adolphe and the Red Notebook
    by Benjamin Constant

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    Stories and Collected Poems
    by Stephen Crane

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  35. 38.
    E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
    by E. E. Cummings

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  36. 39.
    House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition
    by Mark Z. Danielewski

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  37. 40.
    The Divine Comedy
    by Dante Alighieri

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    Music of Human Flesh
    by Mahmoud Darwish

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  39. 42.
    The Girl with the Golden Eyes (The Art of the Novella)
    by Honore de Balzac

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  40. 43.
    The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Simone De Beauvoir

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  41. 44.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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  42. 45.
    The Fables Of La Fontaine
    by Jean De LA Fontaine

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    The unknown light: The poems of Fray Luis de León
    by Luis de León

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  44. 47.
    Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
    by Guy de Maupassant

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  45. 48.
    Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas De Quincey

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  46. 49.
    Democracy in America
    by Alexis de Tocqueville

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  47. 50.
    Fuente Ovejuna/Lost in a Mirror
    by Lope de Vega

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