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Esther Sutter's "Books Worth Reading"

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I’ve read most of these in the past couple of years. I can’t narrow my favorites down to a certain number. Almost every book on the list has offered me something. Reading gives me access to ideas and perspectives. i couldn’t live without it.

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    The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics)
    by John Cheever

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    The Magus
    by John Fowles

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    The Mill on the Floss (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by George Eliot

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    Soul of Kindness (A Virago modern classic)
    by Elizabeth Taylor

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    Signature Classics - Pickwick Papers (Signature Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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    Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor E. Frankl

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    Myths to Live By
    by Joseph Campbell

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    Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Harvest Book)
    by C. G. Jung

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    The Odd Women (Penguin Classics)
    by George Gissing

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    The WhirlPool
    by George Gissing

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    Life Lines : Holding On (and Letting Go)
    by Forrest Church

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    Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit
    by Charles Dickens

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    The Wapshot Scandal (Perennial Classics)
    by John Cheever

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    Wormholes
    by John Fowles

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    Silas Marner (Signet Classics)
    by George eliot

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    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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    Writing About Your Life: A Journey into the Past
    by William Knowlton Zinsser

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    French Provincial Cooking (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth David

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    An Omelette and a Glass of Wine (The Cook's Classic Library)
    by Elizabeth David

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    Katish: Our Russian Cook (Modern Library Food)
    by Wanda Frolov

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    Clementine in the Kitchen (Modern Library Food)
    by Samuel Chamberlain

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    Cooking with Pomiane
    by Edouard De Pomiane

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    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library)
    by Carson Mccullers

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    Spoon River Anthology (Hesperus Classics - Poetry)
    by Edgar Lee Masters

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    The Rebel Angels (Cornish Trilogy)
    by Robertson Davies

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    Come Back to Sorrento
    by Dawn Powell

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    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

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    Childhood and Society
    by Erik H. Erikson

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    Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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    Norwegian Wood
    by Haruki Murakami

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    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami

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    The Black Prince (Penguin Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch

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    The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch

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    The Green Knight
    by Iris Murdoch

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    The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
    by Fernando Pessoa

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    The Bookshop: A Novel
    by Penelope Fitzgerald

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    The Book of Illusions: A Novel

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    Look Homeward, Angel (Scribner Classics)
    by Thomas Wolfe

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    Salt: A World History
    by Mark Kurlansky

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    Excellent Women
    by Barbara Pym

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    Daniel Martin
    by John Fowles

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    The Voice of the Master (Works of Gibran)
    by Kahlil Gibran

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    Germinal (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola

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

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    The Razor's Edge
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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    The Golem (Dedalus European Classics)
    by Gustav Meyrink

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    Brat Farrar
    by Josephine Tey

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    Timbuktu: A Novel
    by Paul Auster

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    A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
    by Julian Barnes

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    Goodbye Without Leaving
    by Laurie Colwin

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    The Way of All Flesh (The World's Popular Classics)
    by Samuel Butler

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    Purple America: A Novel
    by Rick Moody

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    Demonology
    by k

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    The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

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    The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

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    The Rainbow
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965
    by Dawn Powell

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    Do Not Disturb (1965)
    by Ralph Levy

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