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Esther Sutter's "Books Worth Reading"

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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1. The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics)
by John Cheever
 
2. The Magus
by John Fowles
 
3. The French Lieutenant's Woman (French Lieutenant's Woman)
by John Fowles
 
4. The Mill on the Floss (Signet Classics (Paperback))
by George Eliot
 
5.
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Soul of Kindness (A Virago modern classic)
by Elizabeth Taylor
 
6. Signature Classics - Pickwick Papers (Signature Classics)
by Charles Dickens
 
7. Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
 
8. Myths to Live By
by Joseph Campbell
 
9. Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Harvest Book)
by C. G. Jung
 
10. The Odd Women (Penguin Classics)
by George Gissing
 
11.
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The WhirlPool
by George Gissing
 
12. Life Lines : Holding On (and Letting Go)
by Forrest Church
 
13. On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy
by Carl Rogers
 
14.
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Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit
by Charles Dickens
 
15. The Wapshot Scandal (Perennial Classics)
by John Cheever
 
16. Wormholes
by John Fowles
 
17. Silas Marner (Signet Classics)
by George eliot
 
18. Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
by George Eliot
 
19. Writing About Your Life: A Journey into the Past
by William Knowlton Zinsser
 
20. French Provincial Cooking (Penguin Classics)
by Elizabeth David
 
21. An Omelette and a Glass of Wine (The Cook's Classic Library)
by Elizabeth David
 
22. Katish: Our Russian Cook (Modern Library Food)
by Wanda Frolov
 
23. Clementine in the Kitchen (Modern Library Food)
by Samuel Chamberlain
 
24. The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection (Modern Library Paperbacks)
by Robert Farrar Capon
 
25. Cooking with Pomiane
by Edouard De Pomiane
 
26. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library)
by Carson Mccullers
 
27. Spoon River Anthology (Hesperus Classics - Poetry)
by Edgar Lee Masters
 
28. The Rebel Angels (Cornish Trilogy)
by Robertson Davies
 
29. Favorite Works of William Blake: Three Full-Color Books (Dover Thrift)
by William Blake
 
30. Come Back to Sorrento
by Dawn Powell
 
31. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
 
32. Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies (Modern Library the Movies)
by James Agee
 
33. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: The American Classic, in Words and Photographs, of Three Tenant Families in the Deep South
by James Agee
 
34. Childhood and Society
by Erik H. Erikson
 
35. Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
 
36. The Unprejudiced Palate: Classic Thoughts on Food and the Good Life (Modern Library Food)
by Angelo M. Pellegrini
 
37. Norwegian Wood
by Haruki Murakami
 
38. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
by Haruki Murakami
 
39. The Black Prince (Penguin Classics)
by Iris Murdoch
 
40. The Bell (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
by Iris Murdoch
 
41.
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The Green Knight
by Iris Murdoch
 
42. The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
by Fernando Pessoa
 
43. The Bookshop: A Novel
by Penelope Fitzgerald
 
44. The New York Trilogy : City of Glass', 'Ghosts' and 'Locked Room
by Paul Auster
 
45. The Book of Illusions: A Novel  
46. Look Homeward, Angel (Scribner Classics)
by Thomas Wolfe
 
47. Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
 
48. Excellent Women
by Barbara Pym
 
49. Daniel Martin
by John Fowles
 
50.
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The Voice of the Master (Works of Gibran)
by Kahlil Gibran
 
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Created by Esther Sutter on May 01, 2006.