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accumulative's "books I love"

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. The Hours: A Novel
by Michael Cunningham
  
2. Borges: Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
3. Grendel
by John Gardner
  
4. Underworld: Scribner Classic Edition
by Don DeLillo
  
5. White Noise: (Great Books Edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Don DeLillo
  
6.
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 The Things They Carried
by Tim O'BRIEN
  
7.
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 The Stranger
by Albert Camus (Tr. Matthew Ward)
  
8. Lyrical and Critical Essays
by Albert Camus
  
9.
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 The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
  
10. Mind, Language, and Society : Philosophy in the Real World
by John R. Searle
  
11. Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories
by Raymond Carver
  
12. Suttree
by Cormac Mccarthy
  
13. Independence Day
by Richard Ford
  
14. DOCTOR SLEEP.
by Madison. Smartt Bell
  
15. A Death in the Family
by James Agee
  
16. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
  
17. Blindness (Harvest Book)
by Jose Saramago
  
18. Herzog (Penguin Classics)
by Saul Bellow
  
19. Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories
by E. L. Doctorow
  
20.
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 Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction
by Charles Baxter
  
21. On the Road (Penguin Classics)
by Jack Kerouac
  
22. Timequake
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
23. Cat's Cradle
by Kurt Vonnegut
  
24. Modernism: The Thrill of Heresy
by Peter Gay
  
25. The Sound and the Fury
by William Faulkner
  
26. The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
by Thomas Pynchon
  
27. Trainspotting
by Irvine Welsh
  
28. On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil (Oxford World's Classics)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
  
29. The Complete Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
  
30. The Denial of Death
by Ernest Becker
  
31.
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 WAITING FOR GODOT-TRAGICOMEDY IN 2 ACTS
by Samuel Beckett
  
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Created by accumulative on May 11, 2008.