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A list of 100 books I haven’t read yet (modern and classic) and think are important for being a well-rounded, educated adult.

  1. 1.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  2. 2.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  3. 3.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

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  4. 5.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers

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  5. 6.
    1984
    by George Orwell

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  6. 7.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  7. 8.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

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  8. 9.
    Secret Life of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd

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  9. 10.
    Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Patrick McCarthy

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  10. 11.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  11. 12.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  12. 13.
    Waiting for Godot
    by Samuel Beckett

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  13. 14.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

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  14. 15.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi

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  15. 16.
    Farenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

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  16. 17.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray - Literary Touchstone
    by Oscar Wilde

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  17. 18.
    The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Cormac McCarthy

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  18. 19.
    Bee Season: A Novel
    by Myla Goldberg

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  19. 20.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

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  20. 21.
    The World According to Garp
    by John IRVING

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  21. 23.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being
    by Milan Kundera

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  22. 25.
    Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  23. 27.
    Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
    by Barbara Ehrenreich

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  24. 28.
    Out of Africa
    by Isak Dinesen

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  25. 29.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

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  26. 30.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  27. 31.
    The Virgin Suicides
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

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  28. 32.
    The House on Mango Street
    by Sandra Cisneros

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  29. 33.
    The Godfather
    by Mario Puzo

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  30. 34.
    One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey

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  31. 35.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand

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  32. 36.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  33. 37.
    The Alchemist (Plus)
    by Paulo Coelho

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  34. 38.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess

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  35. 39.
    The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Barbara Kingsolver

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  36. 40.
    A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Kennedy Toole

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  37. 41.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  38. 42.
    The Last of the Mohicans
    by James Fenimore Cooper

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  39. 43.
    The Cider House Rules
    by John Irving

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  40. 44.
    Me Talk Pretty One Day
    by David Sedaris

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  41. 45.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  42. 46.
    The Namesake
    by Jhumpa Lahiri

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  43. 47.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice (Crime Masterworks)
    by James M. Cain

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  44. 48.
    Ethan Frome (Penguin Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  45. 49.
    The Shining
    by Stephen King

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  46. 50.
    Water for Elephants
    by Sara Gruen

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  47. 51.
    The Time Machine
    by H.G. Wells

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  48. 52.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale
    by Herman Melville

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  49. 53.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

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  50. 54.
    Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintainance
    by Robert M. Pirsig

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  51. 55.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  52. 56.
    THE OX-BOW INCIDENT
    by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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  53. 57.
    Captain Corelli's Mandolin
    by Louis de Bernieres

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  54. 58.
    Cry, the Beloved Country
    by Alan Paton

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  55. 59.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  57. 61.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami

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  58. 62.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

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  59. 63.
    My Name Is Asher Lev
    by Chaim Potok

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  60. 64.
    Kafka on the Shore
    by Haruki Murakami

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  61. 65.
    Anna Karenina (Signet Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  62. 66.
    Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Tastes
    by Terry Southern

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  63. 67.
    Jane Eyre (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Charlotte Bronte

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  64. 68.
    Swann's Way (Modern Library Classics)
    by Marcel Proust

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  65. 69.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

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  66. 70.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

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  67. 71.
    Robinson Crusoe
    by Daniel Defoe

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  68. 72.
    An American Tragedy
    by Theodore Dreiser

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  69. 73.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair

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  70. 74.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger

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  71. 76.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  72. 77.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

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  73. 78.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

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  74. 79.
    Silas Marner (Enriched Classics Series)
    by George Eliot

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  75. 80.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

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  76. 81.
    White Oleander: A Novel
    by Janet Fitch

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  77. 82.
    The Neverending Story
    by Michael Ende

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  78. 83.
    LEAVES OF GRASS
    by Walt, Whitman

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  79. 84.
    Them (Modern Library)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  80. 85.
    Prozac Nation (Movie Tie-In)
    by Elizabeth Wurtzel

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  81. 86.
    A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
    by Ishmael Beah

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  82. 87.
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
    by Tennessee Williams

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  83. 88.
    The Agony and the Ecstasy
    by Irving Stone

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  84. 89.
    Like Water For Chocolate
    by Laura Esquivel

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  85. 90.
    The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
    by Arthur Miller

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  86. 91.
    The Year of Magical Thinking
    by Joan Didion

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  87. 92.
    Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Modern Library)
    by John Berendt

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  88. 93.
    A Room with a View
    by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

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  89. 94.
    Infinite Jest
    by David Foster Wallace

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  90. 95.
    Old School
    by Tobias Wolff

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  91. 96.
    Running with Scissors: A Memoir
    by Augusten Burroughs

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  92. 97.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving

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  93. 98.
    The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  94. 99.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph Conrad

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  95. 100.
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

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Created by freckle717 on Jun 02, 2007.