infinitii888's "My Quest to be Well-Read"Much thanks to Emily for starting this list – and hopefully not killing me. I’ve mostly added eastern classics to help get me all Sinicized. The list of lists can be found here: http://www.interleaves.org/~rteeter/greatbks.html |
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
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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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Aristotle's on the Soul
by Aristotle
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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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Collected Poems: Auden
by W. H. Auden
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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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The Origin Of Species
by Charles Darwin
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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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