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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.

  1. 1.
    The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics)
    by John Cheever
  2. 2.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles
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  4. 4.
    The Mill on the Floss (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by George Eliot
  5. 5.
    ?
    Soul of Kindness (A Virago modern classic)
    by Elizabeth Taylor
  6. 6.
    Signature Classics - Pickwick Papers (Signature Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  7. 7.
    Man's Search for Meaning
    by Viktor E. Frankl
  8. 8.
    Myths to Live By
    by Joseph Campbell
  9. 9.
    Modern Man in Search of a Soul
    by C.G. Jung
  10. 10.
    The Odd Women (Penguin Classics)
    by George Gissing
  11. 11.
    ?
    The WhirlPool
    by George Gissing
  12. 12.
    Life Lines: Holding On (and Letting Go)
    by Forrest Church
  13. 13.
  14. 14.
    ?
    Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit
    by Charles Dickens
  15. 15.
    The Wapshot Scandal (Perennial Classics)
    by John Cheever
  16. 16.
    Wormholes
    by John Fowles
  17. 17.
    Silas Marner (Signet Classics)
    by George eliot
  18. 18.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot
  19. 19.
    Writing About Your Life: A Journey into the Past
    by William Zinsser
  20. 20.
    French Provincial Cooking (Penguin Classics)
    by Elizabeth David
  21. 21.
    An Omelette and a Glass of Wine (The Cook's Classic Library)
    by Elizabeth David
  22. 22.
    Katish: Our Russian Cook (Modern Library Food)
    by Wanda Frolov
  23. 23.
    Clementine in the Kitchen (Modern Library Food)
    by Samuel Chamberlain
  24. 24.
  25. 25.
    Cooking with Pomiane
    by Edouard De Pomiane
  26. 26.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library)
    by Carson McCullers
  27. 27.
    Spoon River Anthology (Hesperus Classics - Poetry)
    by Edgar Lee Masters
  28. 28.
    The Rebel Angels (Cornish Trilogy)
    by Robertson Davies
  30. 30.
    Come Back to Sorrento
    by Dawn Powell
  31. 31.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee
  34. 34.
    Childhood and Society
    by Erik H. Erikson
  35. 35.
    Humboldt's Gift (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Saul Bellow
  37. 37.
    Norwegian Wood
    by Haruki Murakami
  38. 38.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami
  39. 39.
    The Black Prince (Penguin Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch
  40. 40.
    The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch
  41. 41.
    ?
    The Green Knight
    by Iris Murdoch
  42. 42.
    The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
    by Fernando Pessoa
  43. 43.
    The Bookshop
    by Penelope Fitzgerald
  45. 45.
    The Book of Illusions: A Novel

  46. 46.
    Look Homeward, Angel (Scribner Classics)
    by Thomas Wolfe
  47. 47.
    Salt: A World History
    by Mark Kurlansky
  48. 48.
    Excellent Women
    by Barbara Pym
  49. 49.
    Daniel Martin
    by John Fowles
  50. 50.
    ?
    The Voice of the Master (Works of Gibran)
    by Kahlil Gibran
  51. 51.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene
  52. 52.
    The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene
  54. 54.
    Germinal (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola
  55. 55.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  56. 56.
    The Razor's Edge
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  57. 57.
    The Golem (Dedalus European Classics)
    by Gustav Meyrink
  58. 58.
    Brat Farrar
    by Josephine Tey
  59. 59.
    Timbuktu: A Novel
    by Paul Auster
  60. 60.
    A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
    by Julian Barnes
  61. 61.
    Goodbye Without Leaving
    by Laurie Colwin
  62. 62.
    ?
    The Way of All Flesh (The World's Popular Classics)
    by Samuel Butler
  63. 63.
  65. 65.
    Purple America: A Novel
    by Rick Moody
  66. 66.
    Demonology
    by k
  67. 67.
    The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins
  68. 68.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  70. 70.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  71. 71.
    The Rainbow
    by D.H. Lawrence
  72. 72.
    The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965
    by Dawn Powell
  73. 73.
    Do Not Disturb (1965)
    by Ralph Levy
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Created by Esther Sutter on May 01, 2006.
 

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