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  1. 1.

  2. 2.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

  3. 3.
    ?
    Democracy (Works of Henry Adams)
    by Henry Adams

  4. 4.
    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

  5. 5.
    Money
    by Martin Amis

  6. 6.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Signet Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

  7. 7.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  8. 8.
    Pride and Prejudice (Vintage Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  9. 9.
    Flaubert's Parrot (Picador Thirty)
    by Julian Barnes

  10. 10.
    Adventures of Augie March, The (50th Anniv. Edition)
    by Saul Bellow

  11. 11.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  12. 12.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  13. 13.
    The Savage Detectives: A Novel
    by Roberto Bolano

  14. 14.
    FICCIONES
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  15. 15.
    The Sleepwalkers
    by Hermann Broch

  16. 16.
    Jane Eyre (Broadview Literary Texts)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  17. 17.
    ?
    Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

  18. 18.
    A Princess of Mars
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs

  19. 19.
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler

  20. 20.
    ?
    Albert Camus's The stranger (Monarch notes)
    by Laurie Rozakis

  21. 21.
    Alice in Wonderland (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Lewis Carroll

  22. 22.
    The Horse's Mouth (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Joyce Cary

  23. 23.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

  24. 24.
    Falconer
    by John Cheever

  25. 25.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane

  26. 26.

  27. 27.
    My Antonia (Signet Classics)
    by Willa Cather

  28. 28.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  29. 29.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

  30. 30.
    The Big Sleep (The Best Mysteries of All Time)
    by Raymond Chandler

  31. 31.
    The Man Who Was Thursday
    by G. K. Chesterton

  32. 33.
    Heart of Darkness (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

  33. 34.
    Lord Jim: A Tale (Penguin Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  34. 35.
    Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad

  35. 36.
    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  36. 37.
    Under Western Eyes
    by Joseph Conrad

  37. 38.
    The Last of the Mohicans
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  38. 39.
    Moll Flanders (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  39. 40.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  40. 42.
    Underworld: A Novel
    by Don DeLillo

  41. 43.
    The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Philip K. Dick

  42. 44.
    Valis
    by Philip K. Dick

  43. 45.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  44. 46.
    Bleak House
    by Charles Dickens

  45. 47.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  46. 48.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  47. 49.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  48. 50.
    A Christmas Carol
    by Charles Dickens

  49. 51.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  50. 52.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  51. 53.
    The Gambler (Modern Library Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  52. 54.
    Notes from Underground
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  53. 55.

  54. 56.
    Justine (Alexandria Quartet)
    by Lawrence Durrell

  55. 57.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

  56. 58.
    Silas Marner
    by George Eliot

  57. 59.
    The Invisible Man (Signet Classics)
    by H.G. Wells

  58. 60.
    Middlesex: A Novel
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

  59. 62.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  60. 63.
    Go Down, Moses
    by William Faulkner

  61. 64.
    Light in August
    by William Faulkner

  62. 65.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  63. 66.
    Tom Jones (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  64. 67.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  65. 68.
    Madame Bovary (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  66. 69.
    Bouvard And Pecuchet
    by Gustave Flaubert

  67. 70.
    From Russia with Love (James Bond Novels)
    by Ian Fleming

  68. 71.
    The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by Ford Madox Ford

  69. 72.
    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster

  70. 73.
    A Passage to India
    by E.M. Forster

  71. 74.

  72. 75.
    The Corrections
    by Jonathan Franzen

  73. 76.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

  74. 77.
    The Immoralist (Penguin Classics)
    by Andre Gide

  75. 78.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

  76. 79.
    Riders of the Purple Sage
    by Zane Grey

  77. 80.
    The Sorrows of Young Werther and Selected Writings (Signet Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  78. 81.
    Brighton Rock (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene

  79. 82.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

  80. 83.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene

  81. 84.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

  82. 85.
    The Old Man & The Sea
    by E. Hemingway

  83. 86.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London

  84. 87.
    To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

  85. 88.
    The Portrait of A Lady (Signet Classics)
    by Henry James

  86. 89.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

  87. 90.
    The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

  88. 91.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  89. 92.
    A Room With a View
    by E. M. Forster

  90. 93.
    Lord of the Rings H/B Slipcased
    by J R R Tolkien

  91. 94.
    Schindler's List (Penguin Joint Venture Readers)
    by Thomas Keneally

  92. 95.
    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton

  93. 96.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand

  94. 97.
    Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by James Joyce

  95. 98.
    The Jungle: The Uncensored Original Edition
    by Upton Sinclair

  96. 99.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

  97. 100.
    The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder)
    by L. Frank Baum

  98. 101.

  99. 102.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  100. 103.
    The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Kate Chopin

  101. 104.
    Franny and Zooey
    by J. D. Salinger

  102. 106.
    Sophies Choice
    by William Styron

  103. 107.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
    by Tom Wolfe

  104. 108.
    A Separate Peace
    by John Knowles

  105. 109.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne du Maurier

  106. 111.
    Naked Lunch (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
    by William S. Burroughs

  107. 113.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

  108. 114.
    The War of the Worlds (Modern Library Classics)
    by H. G. Wells

  109. 115.

  110. 116.
    The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

  111. 117.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand

  112. 118.
    Babbitt
    by Sinclair Lewis

  113. 119.
    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling

  114. 120.
    Where Angels Fear to Tread (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster

  115. 121.
    Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    by L. Ron Hubbard

  116. 122.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

  117. 124.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  118. 125.

  119. 126.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

  120. 127.
    Dune, 40th Anniversary Edition (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

  121. 128.
    The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  122. 129.
    Stranger in a Strange Land
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  123. 130.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

  124. 131.
    Shane
    by Jack Schaefer

  125. 132.
    The Worm Ouroboros
    by E. R. Eddison

  126. 133.
    Trustee from the Toolroom
    by Nevil Shute

  127. 134.
    Moonheart
    by Charles de Lint

  128. 135.
    Of Human Bondage (Signet Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  129. 136.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

  130. 137.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Malcolm Lowry

  131. 138.
    Fifth Business (Penguin Classics)
    by Robertson Davies

  132. 139.
    Someplace To Be Flying (Newford)
    by Charles de Lint

  133. 140.
    Parade's End
    by Ford Madox Ford

  134. 141.
    Zuleika Dobson
    by Max Beerbohm

  135. 142.
    Yarrow
    by Charles de Lint

  136. 144.
    ?
    One Lonely Night (Mike Hammer Series)
    by Mickey Spillane

  137. 145.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

  138. 146.
    The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

  139. 147.
    Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
    by Cormac McCarthy

  140. 148.
    Ender's Game
    by Orson Scott Card

  141. 149.
    The Door into Summer
    by Robert A. Heinlein

  142. 150.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles

  143. 151.
    The Wood Wife
    by Terri Windling

  144. 152.
    Something Wicked This Way Comes
    by Ray Bradbury

  145. 153.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

  146. 154.
    Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Wallace Stegner

  147. 155.
    A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul

  148. 156.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

  149. 157.
    The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)
    by Arnold Bennett

  150. 158.
    Farenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  151. 159.
    Watership Down: A Novel
    by Richard Adams

  152. 160.
    Guilty Pleasures
    by Laurell K. Hamilton

  153. 161.
    The Sheltering Sky
    by Paul Bowles

  154. 162.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James Mallahan Cain

  155. 163.
    Mythago Wood
    by Robert Holdstock

  156. 164.
    Suttree
    by Cormac McCarthy

  157. 165.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  158. 166.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    by Betty Smith

  159. 167.
    Exodus (Modern Classics)
    by Leon Uris

  160. 168.
    All quiet on the Western front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  161. 169.
    Possession : A Romance (Modern Library)
    by A.S. Byatt

  162. 171.
    Dangerous Liasons (Classic Fiction)
    by Choderlos de Laclos

  163. 172.
    Frankenstein (Signet Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  164. 173.
    The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexandre Dumas père

  165. 175.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  166. 176.
    The Scarlet Letter (Enriched Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  167. 177.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  168. 178.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

  169. 179.
    The Way We Live Now (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

  170. 180.
    Anna Karenina (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  171. 181.
    Daniel Deronda (Modern Library Classics)
    by George Eliot

  172. 184.
    The Diary of a Nobody (Prion Humour Classics)
    by George Grossmith

  173. 185.
    Jude the Obscure (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Thomas Hardy

  174. 186.
    Scoop
    by Evelyn Waugh

  175. 187.
    The Quiet American (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene

  176. 188.
    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
    by John le Carre

  177. 190.
    The Kreutzer Sonata (Modern Library Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  178. 191.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

  179. 192.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

  180. 193.
    Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
    by Mark Twain

  181. 194.
    The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Unabridged Classics)
    by Mark J. Twain

  182. 196.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

  183. 197.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  184. 198.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  185. 199.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  186. 200.
    Oblivion: Stories
    by David Foster Wallace

  187. 201.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

  188. 202.
    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West

  189. 204.
    Ethan Frome (Signet Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  190. 205.
    The Virginian (Scribner Classics)
    by Owen Wister

  191. 206.
    Native Son (Abridged)
    by Richard A. Wright

  192. 207.
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  193. 208.
    The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  194. 209.
    Tess of the Durbervilles (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  195. 210.
    The House of the Seven Gables (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  196. 211.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

  197. 212.
    A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  198. 213.
    FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
    by Ernest Hemingway

  199. 214.
    Demian (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Hermann Hesse

  200. 215.
    Steppenwolf: A Novel
    by Hermann Hesse

  201. 216.
    Steppenwolf (Modern Library, 334.1)
    by Hermann Hesse

  202. 217.
    Les Misérables (Signet Classics)
    by Victor Hugo

  203. 218.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  204. 219.
    The Ambassadors
    by Henry James

  205. 220.
    The Golden Bowl
    by Henry James

  206. 221.
    Wings of the Dove (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Henry James

  207. 222.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka

  208. 223.
    The Dharma Bums (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

  209. 224.
    One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest : A Play in Two Acts
    by Dale Wasserman

  210. 225.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

  211. 226.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
    by John le Carre

  212. 227.
    His Master's Voice
    by Stanislaw Lem

  213. 228.
    Solaris
    by Stanislaw Lem

  214. 229.
    ?
    Fortress of Solitude
    by Jonathon Lethem

  215. 230.
    The Chronicles of Narnia
    by C. S. Lewis

  216. 231.
    The Feast of the Goat
    by Mario Vargas Llosa

  217. 232.
    The Storyteller: A Novel
    by Mario Vargas Llosa

  218. 233.
    The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
    by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  219. 234.

  220. 235.
    Death in Venice
    by Thomas Mann

  221. 236.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

  222. 237.
    Chronicle of a Death Foretold
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  223. 238.
    Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  224. 239.
    All the Pretty Horses (Bloom's Guides)
    by Harold Bloom

  225. 240.
    The Road (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Cormac McCarthy

  226. 241.
    Atonement (MTI)
    by Ian Mcewan

  227. 242.
    Billy Budd and Other Tales
    by Herman Melville

  228. 243.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  229. 245.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  230. 246.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  231. 247.
    Guerrillas
    by V.S. Naipaul

  232. 248.
    The English Patient
    by Michael Ondaatje

  233. 249.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  234. 250.
    1984 (Signet Classics)
    by George Orwell

  235. 251.
    The Bell Jar : A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Sylvia Plath

  236. 252.
    Remembrance of Things Past, Vol. 1
    by Marcel Proust

  237. 253.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon

  238. 254.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

  239. 255.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

  240. 256.
    The Human Stain: A Novel American Trilogy (3)
    by Philip Roth

  241. 257.
    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Book 1)
    by J. K. Rowling

  242. 258.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  243. 259.
    White Teeth
    by Zadie Smith

  244. 260.
    Cancer Ward
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  245. 261.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  246. 262.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  247. 263.
    Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

  248. 264.
    The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics)
    by Stendhal

  249. 265.
    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

  250. 266.
    Snow Crash (Bantam Spectra Book)
    by Neal Stephenson

  251. 268.
    Treasure Island (Enriched Classics Series)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  252. 269.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  253. 270.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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