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I know I’m on here to track music……….but…………….I can’t resist making this list. Simply because these are the books that have had the most impact on my life. Every title here was or still is necessary to my development in some profound way, even if it’s vaguely humiliating at times to think back on.

  1. 1.
    The Hours: A Novel
    by Michael Cunningham

  2. 2.
    Collected Fictions
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  3. 3.
    Grendel
    by John Gardner

  4. 4.
    Underworld
    by Don DeLillo

  5. 6.
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    The Things They Carried
    by Tim O'BRIEN

  6. 7.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)

  7. 8.
    Lyrical and Critical Essays
    by Albert Camus

  8. 9.
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    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

  9. 10.
    Mind, Language, and Society : Philosophy in the Real World
    by John R. Searle

  10. 11.
    Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
    by Raymond Carver

  11. 12.
    Suttree
    by Cormac McCarthy

  12. 13.
    Independence Day: Bascombe Trilogy (2)
    by Richard Ford

  13. 14.
    DOCTOR SLEEP.
    by Madison. Smartt Bell

  14. 15.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

  15. 16.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

  16. 17.
    Blindness (Harvest Book)
    by Jose Saramago

  17. 18.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  18. 19.
    Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories
    by E. L. Doctorow

  19. 20.
    Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
    by Charles Baxter

  20. 21.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

  21. 22.
    Timequake
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  22. 23.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  23. 24.
    Modernism: The Thrill of Heresy
    by Peter Gay

  24. 25.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner

  25. 26.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon

  26. 27.
    Trainspotting
    by Irvine Welsh

  27. 29.
    The Complete Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

  28. 30.
    The Denial of Death
    by Ernest Becker

  29. 31.
    WAITING FOR GODOT-TRAGICOMEDY IN 2 ACTS
    by Samuel Beckett

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Created by accumulative on May 11, 2008.
 

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