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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.
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    The WhirlPool
    by George Gissing

  12. 12.
    Life Lines: Holding On (and Letting Go)
    by Forrest Church

  13. 13.

  14. 14.
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    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

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  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

  29. 30.
    Come Back to Sorrento
    by Dawn Powell

  30. 31.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

  31. 34.
    Childhood and Society
    by Erik H. Erikson

  32. 35.
    Humboldt's Gift (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by Saul Bellow

  33. 37.
    Norwegian Wood
    by Haruki Murakami

  34. 38.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami

  35. 39.
    The Black Prince (Penguin Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch

  36. 40.
    The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Iris Murdoch

  37. 41.
    ?
    The Green Knight
    by Iris Murdoch

  38. 42.
    The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
    by Fernando Pessoa

  39. 43.
    The Bookshop
    by Penelope Fitzgerald

  40. 45.
    The Book of Illusions: A Novel

  41. 46.
    Look Homeward, Angel (Scribner Classics)
    by Thomas Wolfe

  42. 47.
    Salt: A World History
    by Mark Kurlansky

  43. 48.
    Excellent Women
    by Barbara Pym

  44. 49.
    Daniel Martin
    by John Fowles

  45. 50.
    ?
    The Voice of the Master (Works of Gibran)
    by Kahlil Gibran

  46. 51.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene

  47. 52.
    The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene

  48. 54.
    Germinal (Penguin Classics)
    by Émile Zola

  49. 55.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  50. 56.
    The Razor's Edge
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  51. 57.
    The Golem (Dedalus European Classics)
    by Gustav Meyrink

  52. 58.
    Brat Farrar
    by Josephine Tey

  53. 59.
    Timbuktu: A Novel
    by Paul Auster

  54. 60.
    A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters
    by Julian Barnes

  55. 61.
    Goodbye Without Leaving
    by Laurie Colwin

  56. 62.
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    The Way of All Flesh (The World's Popular Classics)
    by Samuel Butler

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  58. 65.
    Purple America: A Novel
    by Rick Moody

  59. 66.
    Demonology
    by k

  60. 67.
    The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

  61. 68.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  62. 70.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

  63. 71.
    The Rainbow
    by D.H. Lawrence

  64. 72.
    The Diaries of Dawn Powell: 1931-1965
    by Dawn Powell

  65. 73.
    Do Not Disturb (1965)
    by Ralph Levy

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Created by Esther Sutter on May 01, 2006.
 

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