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relientkayla's "requisite reads"

these are all the books i want to read, should have already read, didn’t read close enough the first time, or have an obligation to read before i die.

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1. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 
2. The Secret Life of Bees
by Sue Monk Kidd
 
3. The Time Traveler's Wife
by Audrey Niffenegger
 
4. The English Patient
by Michael Ondaatje
 
5. The Fountainhead
by Ayn Rand
 
6. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis Stevenson
 
7. Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
 
8. 1984 (Signet Classics)
by George Orwell
 
9. Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
 
10. Things Fall Apart: A Novel
by Chinua Achebe
 
11. Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
 
12. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Pernnial Moderns Classics)
by Harper Lee
 
13. The Crucible (Penguin Classics)
by Arthur Miller
 
14. War and Peace (Penguin Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
 
15. Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
by Leo Tolstoy
 
16. On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Jack Kerouac
 
17. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
 
18. Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
by Gustave Flaubert
 
19. The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
by Guy de Maupassant
 
20. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
 
21. Les Miserables (Penguin Classics)
by Victor Hugo
 
22. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
23. Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
24. A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
25. Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
 
26. The Comedy of Errors (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
 
27. Shakespeare's Sonnets (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
 
28. The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
 
29. Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
by Charlotte Brontë
 
30. The Portable Dorothy Parker (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
by Dorothy Parker
 
31. Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
 
32.
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The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
 
33. A Streetcar Named Desire.
by Tennessee Williams
 
34. The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
by Alexandre Dumas père
 
35. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
 
36. Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
 
37. Oliver Twist (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
38. Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
 
39. The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
 
40. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
41. Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
42. Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
 
43. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
by Victor Hugo
 
44. Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
 
45. Wuthering Heights (Signet Classics)
by Emily Bronte
 
46. Moby Dick (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Herman Melville
 
47. A Farewell To Arms
by Ernest Hemingway
 
48. The Kite Runner (Riverhead Essential Editions)
by Khaled Hosseini
 
49. A Thousand Splendid Suns
by Khaled Hosseini
 
50. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
by John Allen Paulos
 
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Created by relientkayla on Jul 18, 2007.