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  1. 1.
    How German Is It
    by Abish Walter

  2. 2.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

  3. 4.
    Aesop's Fables (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Aesop

  4. 5.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

  5. 6.
    Lucky Jim
    by Kingsley Amis

  6. 7.
    ?
    Money: A suicide note
    by Martin Amis

  7. 8.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Worlds Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

  8. 9.
    The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
    by Margaret Atwood

  9. 10.
    The Confessions of Saint Augustine
    by St. Augustine of Hippo

  10. 11.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  11. 12.
    Pride And Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

  12. 13.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

  13. 14.
    Le Pere Goriot
    by Honore De Balzac

  14. 15.
    Nightwood (New Edition)
    by Djuna Barnes

  15. 16.
    The Sot-Weed Factor (Anchor Literary Library)
    by John Barth

  16. 18.
    Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
    by Samuel Beckett

  17. 19.
    ?
    Murphy
    by Samuel Beckett

  18. 20.
    Zulieka Dobson (Green Integer)
    by Max Beerbohm

  19. 21.
    Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  20. 22.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  21. 23.
    Adventures of Augie March, The (50th Anniv. Edition)
    by Saul Bellow

  22. 24.
    The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)
    by Arnold Bennett

  23. 25.
    The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

  24. 26.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

  25. 27.
    The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)
    by Paul Bowles

  26. 28.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  27. 29.
    ?
    Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

  28. 30.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Bunyan

  29. 31.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  30. 32.
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler

  31. 33.
    Possession : A Romance (Modern Library)
    by A.S. Byatt

  32. 34.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James Mallahan Cain

  33. 35.
    Tobacco Road
    by Erskine Caldwell

  34. 36.
    If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
    by Italo Calvino

  35. 37.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

  36. 38.

  37. 39.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

  38. 40.
    Alice in Wonderland (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Lewis Carroll

  39. 41.
    DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
    by Willa Cather

  40. 42.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

  41. 43.
    Journey to the End of the Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  42. 44.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  43. 45.
    The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction)
    by Raymond Chandler

  44. 46.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  45. 48.
    Seven Short Novels
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

  46. 49.
    Stories of Anton Chekhov
    by Anton Chekhov

  47. 50.
    The Man Who Was Thursday
    by G. K. Chesterton

  48. 51.
    The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Kate Chopin

  49. 53.
    The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

  50. 54.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

  51. 55.
    The Way of the World
    by William Congreve

  52. 56.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph, Conrad

  53. 57.
    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad

  54. 58.
    Conrad: Nostromo (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Ian Watt

  55. 59.
    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  56. 60.
    The Deerslayer
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  57. 61.
    The Public Burning (Coover, Robert)
    by Robert Coover

  58. 62.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane

  59. 63.

  60. 64.
    Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  61. 65.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  62. 67.
    The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Philip K. Dick

  63. 68.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  64. 69.
    Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  65. 70.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  66. 71.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  67. 72.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  68. 73.
    Hard Times, Third Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

  69. 74.
    ?
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

  70. 75.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

  71. 76.
    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

  72. 77.
    The Ginger Man
    by J. P. Donleavy

  73. 79.
    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  74. 80.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  75. 81.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  76. 82.
    Life & Times of Frederick Douglas (Classics Library)
    by Frederick Douglass

  77. 83.

  78. 84.
    ?

  79. 85.
    Alexandria Quartet
    by Lawrence Durrell

  80. 86.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

  81. 87.
    Silas Marner: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

  82. 88.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis

  83. 89.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

  84. 90.
    Studs Lonigan (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by James T. Farrell

  85. 91.
    Absalom, Absalom! (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  86. 92.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  87. 93.
    Light in August (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  88. 95.
    The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  89. 96.
    Tender is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  90. 97.
    The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  91. 98.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  92. 99.
    Parade's End
    by Ford Madox Ford

  93. 100.
    The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by Ford Madox Ford

  94. 101.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster

  95. 102.
    A Room With a View
    by E. M. Forster

  96. 103.
    Howards End (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

  97. 104.

  98. 105.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles

  99. 106.
    The Corrections
    by Jonathan Franzen

  100. 107.
    The Recognitions (Penguin Classics)
    by William Gaddis

  101. 108.
    Omensetter's Luck (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by William H. Gass

  102. 109.
    The Thief's Journal
    by Jean Genet

  103. 110.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

  104. 111.
    The Immoralist (Penguin Classics)
    by Andre Gide

  105. 112.
    Faust: A Tragedy (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  106. 113.
    The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  107. 114.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

  108. 115.

  109. 116.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

  110. 117.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

  111. 119.
    Lanark (Canongate Classic)
    by Alasdair Gray

  112. 121.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

  113. 122.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene

  114. 123.

  115. 124.
    Jude the Obscure
    by Thomas, Hardy

  116. 126.
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  117. 127.
    The Scarlet Letter (Enriched Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  118. 128.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  119. 129.
    A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  120. 130.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  121. 131.
    Siddharta
    by Hermann Hesse

  122. 132.
    Leviathan
    by Thomas Hobbes

  123. 133.
    The Iliad of Homer
    by Homer

  124. 134.
    The Odyssey of Homer
    by Homer

  125. 135.
    A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Richard Hughes

  126. 136.
    Les Miserables
    by Victor Hugo

  127. 137.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
    by Victor Hugo

  128. 138.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  129. 139.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  130. 140.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik, Ibsen

  131. 141.
    Peer Gynt
    by Henrik Ibsen

  132. 142.
    The Complete Tales Of Washington Irving
    by Washington Irving

  133. 143.
    The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

  134. 145.
    The Portrait of a Lady
    by Henry James

  135. 146.
    The Ambassadors
    by Henry James

  136. 147.
    The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry James

  137. 148.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones

  138. 149.

  139. 150.
    Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

  140. 151.
    Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by James Joyce

  141. 152.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  142. 153.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka

  143. 154.
    Ironweed: A novel
    by William J. Kennedy

  144. 155.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

  145. 156.
    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling

  146. 157.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

  147. 158.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

  148. 159.
    Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by D. H. Lawrence

  149. 160.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
    by John le Carre

  150. 161.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  151. 162.

  152. 163.
    The Periodic Table
    by Primo Levi

  153. 164.
    Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (Library of America)
    by Sinclair Lewis

  154. 165.
    The Call of the Wild
    by Jack London

  155. 166.
    Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

  156. 167.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  157. 168.
    Fountain and Tomb: Hakayat Haretna (Three Continents Press)
    by Naguib Mahfouz

  158. 169.
    The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Norman Mailer

  159. 170.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

  160. 171.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  161. 172.
    Of Human Bondage
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  162. 173.
    The Best Short Stories (Classics Library)
    by Guy de Maupassant

  163. 174.

  164. 175.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  165. 176.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  166. 177.
    Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library)
    by Arthur Miller

  167. 178.
    Tropic of Cancer, Cover Illustration By Richard Merkin
    by Henry Miller

  168. 179.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

  169. 181.
    Utopia (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas More

  170. 182.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  171. 183.
    Under the Net
    by Iris Murdoch

  172. 184.
    ?
    The Man Without Qualities
    by Robert Musil

  173. 185.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  174. 186.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  175. 187.
    A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul

  176. 188.
    The English Teacher
    by R.K. Narayan

  177. 189.
    At Swim-Two-Birds (Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien

  178. 191.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

  179. 192.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

  180. 193.
    Long Day's Journey into Night
    by Eugene O'Neill

  181. 194.
    The Iceman Cometh
    by Eugene O'Neill

  182. 195.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  183. 196.
    Nineteen Eighty-four
    by George Orwell

  184. 197.
    Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

  185. 198.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

  186. 199.
    Nightmare Abbey (Dodo Press)
    by Thomas Love Peacock

  187. 200.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

  188. 201.
    The Bell Jar : A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Sylvia Plath

  189. 203.
    ?
    A Dance to the Music of Time (series)
    by Anthony Powell

  190. 204.
    ?
    Remembrance of Things Past
    by Marcel Proust

  191. 205.
    Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin

  192. 206.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

  193. 207.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon

  194. 208.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand

  195. 209.
    All Quiet on the Western Front: The Illustrated Edition
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  196. 210.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)
    by Jean Rhys

  197. 212.
    Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

  198. 213.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

  199. 214.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

  200. 215.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

  201. 216.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  202. 217.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  203. 218.
    Ivanhoe: A Romance
    by Walter, Sir Scott

  204. 219.
    The Complete Works of Shakespeare
    by David Bevington

  205. 220.
    Heartbreak House
    by Bernard Shaw

  206. 221.
    Pygmalion (Enriched Classics Series)
    by George Bernard Shaw

  207. 222.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  208. 223.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

  209. 224.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  210. 226.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

  211. 227.
    Three Lives (Introduction by Carl Van Vechten)
    by Gertrude Stein

  212. 228.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck

  213. 232.
    Dracula
    by Bram Stoker

  214. 233.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  215. 235.
    Sophie's Choice (Modern Critical Interpretations Series)
    by William Styron

  216. 236.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  217. 237.
    The Magnificent Ambersons (Dodo Press)
    by Booth Tarkington

  218. 238.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  219. 240.
    Lord of the Rings H/B Slipcased
    by J R R Tolkien

  220. 241.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  221. 242.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

  222. 243.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

  223. 244.
    Cane
    by Jean Toomer

  224. 245.
    Way We Live Now (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

  225. 246.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

  226. 247.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  227. 248.
    The Aeneid
    by Virgil

  228. 249.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire

  229. 250.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  230. 251.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  231. 252.
    Omeros
    by Derek Walcott

  232. 253.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  233. 254.
    A Handful of Dust
    by Evelyn Waugh

  234. 255.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

  235. 256.
    Five Great Science Fiction Novels
    by H. G. Wells

  236. 257.
    Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West

  237. 258.
    The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  238. 259.
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde

  239. 261.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder

  240. 262.
    A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Tennessee Williams

  241. 263.
    Look Homeward, Angel
    by Thomas Wolfe

  242. 264.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
    by Tom Wolfe

  243. 265.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

  244. 266.
    To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

  245. 267.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

  246. 268.
    Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
    by Howell D. Chickering

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