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Men's Milestone Fiction

Professor Lisa Jardine and Annie Watkins from Queen Mary College at the University of London interviewed men about the novels that had changed their lives.

(found at: http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1747821,00.html)
1. The Outsider
by Albert Camus
  
2. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
3. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
4. One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
5. The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
6. Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
  
7. Nineteen Eighty-four
by George Orwell
  
8. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
9. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan Kundera
  
10. To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
11. Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
12. The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
13. Crime and Punishment (Bantam Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
14. Brighton Rock: (Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Graham Greene
  
15. High Fidelity
by Nick Hornby
  
16. Ulysses
by James Joyce
  
17. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
by Mark Twain
  
18. Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
by Joseph Conrad
  
19. The Metamorphosis
by Franz Kafka
  
20. The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
by John Steinbeck
  
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Created by fox woods on Apr 18, 2006.