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The Books that shouldn't be missed

This is the list of books that others believe everyone should read. It can be added to, sort of like a recommendation list of the books you absolutely loved and would not want others to miss.

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1. The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
2. The Da Vinci Code
by Dan Brown
  
3. Memoirs of a Geisha (Random House Large Print (Hardcover))
by Arthur Golden
  
4. Harry Potter Hardcover Box Set (Books 1-6)
by J. K. Rowling
  
5. The Hobbit
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
6. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia)
by C. S. Lewis
  
7. Bram Stoker's Dracula
by Bram Stoker
  
8. The Asti Spumante Code: A Parody
by Toby Clements
  
9. The Silmarillion
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
10. Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
11. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
12. The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh/WTP
by A. A. Milne
  
13. Bleak House (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
14. I Capture the Castle
by Dodie Smith
  
15. The Hound of the Baskervilles (Penguin Classics)
by Arthur Conan Doyle
  
16.
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 Barchester Towers (Penguin Classics)
by Anthony Trollope
  
17.
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 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
by Eric Carle
  
18. Howl's Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
  
19. The Lovely Bones
by Alice Sebold
  
20. The Horrendous Heap (A Series of Unfortunate Events, Books 1-12)
by Lemony Snicket
  
21. My Sister's Keeper: A Novel
by Jodi Picoult
  
22. The Chronicles of Amber (Fantasy Masterworks)
by Roger Zelazny
  
23. American Gods
by Neil Gaiman
  
24. Night Watch
by Terry Pratchett
  
25. Life of Pi  
26. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
27. The Joy Luck Club  
28.
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 Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried (Bloom's Guides)  
29. Mrs. Mike
by Benedict Freedman
  
30. Kindred (Bluestreak Black Women Writers)
by Octavia E. Butler
  
31. Gone with the Wind
by Margaret Mitchell
  
32. The Magus
by John Fowles
  
33. Daughter of the Forest (The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Book 1)
by Juliet Marillier
  
34. Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare
  
35. Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
by William Makepeace Thackeray
  
36. Twilight
by Stephenie Meyer
  
37. Secret Sacrament
by Sherryl Jordan
  
38. Time of the Eagle
by Sherryl Jordan
  
39. The Stories of Eva Luna
by Isabel Allende
  
40. Oryx and Crake
by Margaret Atwood
  
41. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
42. Stranger in a Strange Land
by Robert A. Heinlein
  
43. White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club)
by Janet Fitch
  
44. Stuff: The Secret Lives of Everyday Things (New Report, No 4)
by John C. Ryan
  
45. The Golden Compass Deluxe Edition (His Dark Materials)
by Philip Pullman
  
46. The Temple of My Familiar
by Alice Walker
  
47. The Bean Trees
by Barbara Kingsolver
  
48.
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 Carrie
by Stephen King
  
49.
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 Clive Barker: The Books of Blood (1984-1986)  
50. Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
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Created by Kat on May 03, 2006.