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kurage's "Books I Will Read Again"

Honestly, I’m not sure how they did it. Could you write any of these books? Of course not. You’d have to spend an entire lifetime secluded in your hermetically sealed room that protects you from allergens and the other pitfalls of the outside world dreaming of walking the streets and falling in love with a girl (or boy) in a sweater set to even have the nerve.
1. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
  
2. Mason and Dixon
by Thomas Pynchon
  
3. Middlesex
by Jeffrey Eugenides
  
4. Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
by Neal Stephenson
  
5. The Confusion (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 2)
by Neal Stephenson
  
6. The System of the World (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 3)
by Neal Stephenson
  
7. Later Novels and Other Writings: The Lady in the Lake / The Little Sister / The Long Goodbye / Playback /Double Indemnity / Selected Essays and Letters (Library of America)
by Raymond Chandler
  
8. Stories and Early Novels: Pulp Stories / The Big Sleep / Farewell, My Lovely / The High Window (Library of America)
by Raymond Chandler
  
9. Mother Night
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
10.
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 The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
by Phillip K Dick
  
11. Count Zero
by William Gibson
  
12. Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World
by Haruki Murakami
  
13. Coin Locker Babies
by Ryu Murakami
  
14.
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 Against the Day
by Thomas Pynchon
  
15. Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth  
16. Grass
by Sheri S. Tepper
  
17. The Cat Who Walks Through Walls
by Robert A. Heinlein
  
18. Dune
by Frank Herbert
  
19. Butcher Boy, the
by Patrick McCabe
  
20.
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 The Tin Drum
by Gunter Grass
  
21. Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids
by Kenzaburo Oe
  
22. A Personal Matter (Oe, Kenzaburo)
by Kenzaburo Oë
  
23. High Society (Cerebus, Volume 2)
by Dave Sim
  
24. Church & State I (Cerebus, Volume 3)
by Dave Sim
  
25. Church & State II (Cerebus, Volume 4)
by Dave Sim
  
26. Baudolino
by Umberto Eco
  
27. Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Panther)
by Haruki Murakami
  
28. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
by Dave Eggers
  
29. Infinite Jest
by David Foster Wallace
  
30.
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 The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea
by Yukio Mishima
  
31. A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition
by Bill Bryson
  
32. Solaris
by Stanislaw Lem
  
33. Selected Stories
by Theodore Sturgeon
  
34. Perfume (MTI)
by Patrick Suskind
  
35. The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
by Salman Rushdie
  
36. Midnight's Children
by Salman Rushdie
  
37. Blue Spring, Volume 1 (Blue Spring)  
38. No. 5, Volume 2  
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Created by kurage on Sep 18, 2007.