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  1. 1.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  2. 2.
    The Age of Innocence (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  3. 3.
    The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set
    by Lawrence Durrell

  4. 4.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  5. 5.
    The Ambassadors (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Henry James

  6. 6.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  7. 7.
    Angle of Repose (Modern Library)
    by Wallace Stegner

  8. 8.
    Animal Farm (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

  9. 9.
    Anna Karenina (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  10. 10.
    Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

  11. 11.
    Appointment in Samarra
    by John O'Hara

  12. 12.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner

  13. 13.
    Ask the Dust
    by John Fante

  14. 14.
    The Bell Jar
    by Sylvia Plath

  15. 15.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  16. 16.
    A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul

  17. 17.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  18. 18.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

  19. 19.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

  20. 22.
    The Call of the Wild
    by Jack London

  21. 23.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

  22. 24.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  23. 25.
    The Cherry Orchard (Methuen Modern Plays)
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

  24. 26.
    A Clockwork Orange (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Anthony Burgess

  25. 27.

  26. 28.
    Crime and Punishment (Penguin Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  27. 29.
    A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
    by Anthony Powell

  28. 30.
    A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement
    by Anthony Powell

  29. 31.
    A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement
    by Anthony Powell

  30. 32.
    A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement
    by Anthony Powell

  31. 33.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

  32. 34.
    David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  33. 35.
    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West

  34. 36.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Willa Cather

  35. 37.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

  36. 38.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

  37. 39.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

  38. 40.
    Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

  39. 41.
    East of Eden (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

  40. 42.
    THE ENGLISH PATIENT
    by Michael ONDAATJE

  41. 43.
    A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  42. 44.
    Finnegan's Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

  43. 45.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  44. 46.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones

  45. 47.
    The Ginger Man
    by J.P. Donleavy

  46. 48.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

  47. 49.
    The Golden Bowl (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Henry James

  48. 50.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

  49. 51.
    The Good Soldier (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ford Madox Ford

  50. 52.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by John Steinbeck

  51. 53.
    The Great Gatsby (Essential.penguin S.)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

  52. 54.
    Hamlet (Penguin Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  53. 55.
    A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

  54. 56.
    Heart of Darkness (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  55. 57.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  56. 58.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

  57. 59.
    Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  58. 60.
    A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Richard Hughes

  59. 61.
    The House of Mirth (Modern Library Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  60. 62.
    A House for Mr. Biswas
    by V. S. Naipaul

  61. 63.
    Howard's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

  62. 65.
    Invisible Man (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ralph Ellison

  63. 66.
    Ironweed
    by William Kennedy

  64. 67.
    Journey to the End of the Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  65. 68.
    The Jungle (Modern Library Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

  66. 69.
    Kim (Modern Library Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

  67. 70.
    King Lear (Penguin Shakespeare)
    by William Shakespeare

  68. 71.
    Light in August
    by William Faulkner

  69. 72.
    Lolita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  70. 73.
    The Long Goodbye
    by Raymond Chandler

  71. 74.
    Lord Jim (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  72. 75.
    Lord of The Flies
    by William Golding

  73. 76.
    Loving
    by Henry Green

  74. 78.
    The Magus (Modern Library)
    by John Fowles

  75. 79.
    Main Street (Modern Library)
    by Sinclair Lewis

  76. 80.
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett

  77. 81.
    Metamorphosis (Read Red)
    by Franz Kafka

  78. 82.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

  79. 83.
    Moviegoer, The
    by Walker Percy

  80. 84.
    Mrs. Dalloway (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

  81. 85.
    Naked and the Dead
    by Norman Mailer

  82. 86.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard A. Wright

  83. 87.
    Next of Kin: My Conversations with Chimpanzees
    by Roger Fouts

  84. 88.
    Nightwood (New Edition)
    by Djuna Barnes

  85. 89.
    Nine Stories
    by J.D. Salinger

  86. 90.
    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

  87. 91.
    Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard (Penguin Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  88. 92.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

  89. 93.
    Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  90. 94.
    Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck (Read Red)
    by John Steinbeck

  91. 95.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

  92. 96.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Gabriel Marquez

  93. 97.
    Pale Fire (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  94. 98.
    Parade's End (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Ford Madox Ford

  95. 99.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by E. M. Forster

  96. 101.
    Point Counter Point
    by Aldous Huxley

  97. 102.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James M. Cain

  98. 103.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

  99. 105.
    Pride and Prejudice (Modern Library Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  100. 106.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

  101. 107.
    Ragtime
    by E.L. Doctorow

  102. 108.
    The Rainbow: Cambridge Lawrence Edition (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence

  103. 109.
    A Room with a View (Essential.penguin)
    by E. M. Forster

  104. 110.
    Scoop (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh

  105. 111.
    The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Modern Library Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  106. 112.
    The Sheltering Sky
    by Paul Bowles

  107. 113.
    Sister Carrie (Penguin Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  108. 114.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Duty-Dance with Death
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  109. 115.
    Song of Solomon
    by Toni Morrison

  110. 116.
    Sons and Lovers (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence

  111. 117.
    Sophie's Choice
    by William Styron

  112. 118.
    Sound and the Fury (Vintage Classics)
    by William Faulkner

  113. 119.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

  114. 120.
    Studs Lonigan (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by James T. Farrell

  115. 121.
    The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  116. 122.
    Tender Is the Night (Essential.penguin)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

  117. 123.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  118. 124.
    Things Fall Apart (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Chinua Achebe

  119. 125.
    The Things They Carried (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Tim O'Brien

  120. 126.
    To the Lighthouse (Vintage Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

  121. 127.
    Tobacco Road
    by Erskine Caldwell

  122. 128.
    Tropic of Cancer (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by Henry Miller

  123. 129.
    The 42nd Parallel: Volume One of the U.S.A. Trilogy
    by John Dos Passos

  124. 130.
    1919: Volume Two of the U.S.A. Trilogy
    by John Dos Passos

  125. 131.
    The Big Money: Volume Three of the U.S.A. Trilogy
    by John Roderigo Dos Passos

  126. 132.
    Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

  127. 133.
    Under The Net
    by Iris Murdoch

  128. 134.
    Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

  129. 135.
    The Wapshot Chronicle (Vintage Classics)
    by John Cheever

  130. 136.
    Watermark
    by Joseph Brodsky

  131. 137.
    The Way of All Flesh (Penguin Classics)
    by Samuel Butler

  132. 138.
    Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series
    by John Berger

  133. 139.
    White Noise
    by Don Delillo

  134. 140.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Jean Rhys

  135. 141.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Penguin Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

  136. 142.
    The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry James

  137. 143.
    Women in Love (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence

  138. 144.
    Wuthering Heights (Modern Library Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

  139. 145.
    Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Max Beerbohm

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