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501 Must-Read Books - Modern Fiction

From the "Modern Fiction" section of the book 501 Must-Read Books by Bounty Books.

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1. Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
  
2. Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
by Jorge Amado
  
3. Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain Fournier
  
4. Take a Girl Like You
by Kingsley Amis
  
5. Winesburg, Ohio
by Sherwood Anderson
  
6. Surfacing
by Margaret Atwood
  
7. The New York Trilogy: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Paul Auster
  
8.
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 Tales of Odessa
by Isaak Babel
  
9. Giovanni's Room (Penguin Modern Classics)
by James Baldwin
  
10. The Sweet Hereafter
by Russell Banks
  
11. Regeneration Trilogy
by Pat Barker
  
12. Herzog (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
13. FICCIONES
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
14. Nadja (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
by Andre Breton
  
15. Master and Margarita, The
by Mikhail Afanasevich; Ginsburg, Mirra (translator) Bulgakov
  
16. Naked Lunch
by William S. Burroughs
  
17. Possession
by Antonia S. Byatt
  
18. If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Everyman's Library Classics)
by Italo Calvino
  
19. The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Albert Camus
  
20. Auto-da-Fe
by Elias Canetti
  
21. Oscar and Lucinda: movie tie-in edition
by Peter Carey
  
22. The Kingdom of This World: A Novel
by Alejo Carpentier
  
23. The Bloody Chamber
by Angela Carter
  
24. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
by Raymond Carver
  
25. The Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics)
by Joyce Cary
  
26. Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook)
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  
27. Soldiers of Salamis: A Novel
by Javier Cercas
  
28. The Stories of John Cheever
by John Cheever
  
29. Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
  
30. Cheri (La Collection Francaise de CPI)
by Colette
  
31. Victory (The Modern Library)
by Joseph COnrad
  
32. A House and Its Head (New York Review Books Classics)
by Ivy Compton-Burnett
  
33. Fifth Business
by Robertson Davies
  
34. Captain Corelli's Mandolin
by Louis de Bernieres
  
35. Underworld: A Novel
by Don DeLillo
  
36. Seven Gothic Tales (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Isak Dinesen
  
37. Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story Of Franz Biberkopf (Continuum Impacts)
by Alfred Doblin
  
38. Once Were Warriors
by Alan Duff
  
39. Rebecca
by Daphne Du Maurier
  
40. The Lover
by Marguerite Duras
  
41. The Alexandria Quartet
by Lawrence Durrell
  
42. The Name of the Rose (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Umberto Eco
  
43. The Neverending Story
by Michael Ende
  
44. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
45. The Wars
by Timothy Findley
  
46. The Good Soldier
by Ford Madox Ford
  
47. Wildlife
by Richard Ford
  
48. A Passage to India
by E.M. Forster
  
49. The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
  
50. Birdsong: A Novel of Love and War
by Sebastian Faulks
  
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