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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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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The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born (African Writers)
by Ayi Kwei Armah
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Surfacing
by Margaret Atwood
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: And a Selection from the Letters of Marcus and Fronto (Oxford World's Classics)
by Marcus Aurelius Antonius
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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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Herzog (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
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Seize the Day (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Saul Bellow
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The Holy Bible
by Various Authors
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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
by Elizabeth Bishop
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The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, New and Revised edition
by William Blake
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (New Directions Paperbook, 186)
by Jorge Luis Borges
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The Tortilla Curtain
by T.C. Boyle
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Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
by Ray Bradbury
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Wuthering Heights (Classic Novels Series)
by Emily Bronte
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Ham on Rye
by Charles Bukowski
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
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Anatomy of Melancholy (2 vols.)
by Robert Burton
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The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts)
by Samuel Butler
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Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion (2 Volume Set)
by John Calvin
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
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Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
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Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
by Raymond Carver
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My Antonia
by Willa Cather
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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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The Awakening
by Kate Chopin
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The Nature of the Gods (Oxford World's Classics)
by Cicero
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The House on Mango Street
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The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
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Adolphe and the Red Notebook
by Benjamin Constant
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Stories and Collected Poems
by Stephen Crane
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E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962
by E. E. Cummings
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House of Leaves: The Remastered Full-Color Edition
by Mark Z. Danielewski
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
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Music of Human Flesh
by Mahmoud Darwish
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The Girl with the Golden Eyes (The Art of the Novella)
by Honore de Balzac
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The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Simone De Beauvoir
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Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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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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Selected Stories of Guy de Maupassant
by Guy de Maupassant
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas De Quincey
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Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
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Fuente Ovejuna/Lost in a Mirror
by Lope de Vega
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