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  1. 1.
    How German Is It
    by Abish Walter

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

  3. 3.
    A Death in the Family
    by James Agee

  4. 4.
    Lucky Jim
    by Kingsley Amis

  5. 5.
    ?
    Money: A suicide note
    by Martin Amis

  6. 6.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Worlds Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

  7. 7.
    The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
    by Margaret Atwood

  8. 8.
    The Confessions of Saint Augustine
    by St. Augustine of Hippo

  9. 9.
    Emma (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  10. 10.
    Pride And Prejudice
    by Jane Austen

  11. 11.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

  12. 12.
    Le Pere Goriot
    by Honore De Balzac

  13. 13.
    Nightwood (New Edition)
    by Djuna Barnes

  14. 15.
    Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
    by Samuel Beckett

  15. 16.
    ?
    Murphy
    by Samuel Beckett

  16. 17.
    Zulieka Dobson (Green Integer)
    by Max Beerbohm

  17. 18.
    Henderson the Rain King (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  18. 19.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  19. 20.
    Adventures of Augie March, The (50th Anniv. Edition)
    by Saul Bellow

  20. 21.
    The Old Wives' Tale (Penguin Classics)
    by Arnold Bennett

  21. 22.
    The Decameron (Penguin Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

  22. 23.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

  23. 24.
    The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)
    by Paul Bowles

  24. 25.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë

  25. 26.
    ?
    Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Emily Bronte

  26. 27.
    The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
    by John Bunyan

  27. 28.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  28. 29.
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler

  29. 30.
    Possession : A Romance (Modern Library)
    by A.S. Byatt

  30. 31.
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James Mallahan Cain

  31. 32.
    Tobacco Road
    by Erskine Caldwell

  32. 33.
    If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
    by Italo Calvino

  33. 34.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

  34. 35.

  35. 36.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

  36. 37.
    Alice in Wonderland (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Lewis Carroll

  37. 38.
    DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP
    by Willa Cather

  38. 39.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

  39. 40.
    Journey to the End of the Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

  40. 41.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  41. 42.
    The Big Sleep (Penguin Fiction)
    by Raymond Chandler

  42. 43.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  43. 45.
    Seven Short Novels
    by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

  44. 46.
    Stories of Anton Chekhov
    by Anton Chekhov

  45. 47.
    The Man Who Was Thursday
    by G. K. Chesterton

  46. 48.
    The Awakening (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Kate Chopin

  47. 50.
    The Moonstone (Modern Library Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

  48. 51.
    The Woman in White (Penguin Classics)
    by Wilkie Collins

  49. 52.
    The Way of the World
    by William Congreve

  50. 53.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph, Conrad

  51. 54.
    Lord Jim
    by Joseph Conrad

  52. 55.
    Conrad: Nostromo (Landmarks of World Literature)
    by Ian Watt

  53. 56.
    The Secret Agent (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  54. 57.
    The Public Burning (Coover, Robert)
    by Robert Coover

  55. 58.

  56. 59.
    Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  57. 60.
    Robinson Crusoe (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  58. 62.
    The Man in the High Castle (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Philip K. Dick

  59. 63.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  60. 64.
    Bleak House (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  61. 65.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  62. 66.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  63. 67.
    Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  64. 68.
    Hard Times, Third Edition (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Charles Dickens

  65. 69.
    ?
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

  66. 70.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

  67. 71.
    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

  68. 72.
    The Ginger Man
    by J. P. Donleavy

  69. 73.
    Crime and Punishment (Signet Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  70. 74.
    The Brothers Karamazov (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  71. 75.
    The Idiot
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

  72. 76.
    Life & Times of Frederick Douglas (Classics Library)
    by Frederick Douglass

  73. 77.

  74. 78.
    ?

  75. 79.
    Alexandria Quartet
    by Lawrence Durrell

  76. 80.
    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

  77. 81.
    Silas Marner: 150th Anniversary Edition (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

  78. 82.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis

  79. 83.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

  80. 84.
    Studs Lonigan (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by James T. Farrell

  81. 85.
    Absalom, Absalom! (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  82. 86.
    As I Lay Dying (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  83. 87.
    Light in August (Modern Library)
    by William Faulkner

  84. 89.
    The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  85. 90.
    Tender is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  86. 91.
    The Great Gatsby (Wordsworth Classics)
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  87. 92.
    Madame Bovary (Penguin Classics)
    by Gustave Flaubert

  88. 93.
    Parade's End
    by Ford Madox Ford

  89. 94.
    The Good Soldier (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by Ford Madox Ford

  90. 95.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster

  91. 96.
    A Room With a View
    by E. M. Forster

  92. 97.
    Howards End (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by E.M. Forster

  93. 98.

  94. 99.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles

  95. 100.
    The Corrections
    by Jonathan Franzen

  96. 101.
    The Recognitions (Penguin Classics)
    by William Gaddis

  97. 102.
    Omensetter's Luck (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by William H. Gass

  98. 103.
    The Thief's Journal
    by Jean Genet

  99. 104.
    Neuromancer
    by William Gibson

  100. 105.
    The Immoralist (Penguin Classics)
    by Andre Gide

  101. 106.
    Faust: A Tragedy (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  102. 107.
    The Sorrows of Young Werther (Modern Library Classics)
    by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  103. 108.
    Dead Souls
    by Nikolai Gogol

  104. 109.

  105. 110.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding

  106. 111.
    The Tin Drum
    by Gunter Grass

  107. 112.
    Lanark (Canongate Classic)
    by Alasdair Gray

  108. 114.
    The Heart of the Matter
    by Graham Greene

  109. 115.
    The Power and the Glory (Penguin Classics)
    by Graham Greene

  110. 116.

  111. 117.
    Jude the Obscure
    by Thomas, Hardy

  112. 119.
    The Mayor of Casterbridge (Modern Library Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  113. 120.
    The Scarlet Letter (Enriched Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  114. 121.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  115. 122.
    A Farewell to Arms (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

  116. 123.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

  117. 124.
    Siddharta
    by Hermann Hesse

  118. 125.
    Leviathan
    by Thomas Hobbes

  119. 126.
    The Iliad of Homer
    by Homer

  120. 127.
    The Odyssey of Homer
    by Homer

  121. 128.
    A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Richard Hughes

  122. 129.
    Les Miserables
    by Victor Hugo

  123. 130.
    The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
    by Victor Hugo

  124. 131.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  125. 132.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  126. 133.
    A Doll's House
    by Henrik, Ibsen

  127. 134.
    Peer Gynt
    by Henrik Ibsen

  128. 135.
    The Complete Tales Of Washington Irving
    by Washington Irving

  129. 136.
    The World According to Garp (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

  130. 138.
    The Portrait of a Lady
    by Henry James

  131. 139.
    The Ambassadors
    by Henry James

  132. 140.
    The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry James

  133. 141.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones

  134. 142.

  135. 143.
    Dubliners (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Joyce

  136. 144.
    Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by James Joyce

  137. 145.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce

  138. 146.
    The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text
    by Franz Kafka

  139. 147.
    Ironweed: A novel
    by William J. Kennedy

  140. 148.
    On the Road (Penguin Classics)
    by Jack Kerouac

  141. 149.
    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling

  142. 150.
    Darkness at Noon: A Novel
    by Arthur Koestler

  143. 151.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

  144. 152.
    Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by D. H. Lawrence

  145. 153.
    The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
    by John le Carre

  146. 154.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  147. 155.

  148. 156.
    The Periodic Table
    by Primo Levi

  149. 157.
    Lewis: Main Street and Babbitt (Library of America)
    by Sinclair Lewis

  150. 158.
    The Call of the Wild
    by Jack London

  151. 159.
    Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

  152. 160.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

  153. 161.
    Fountain and Tomb: Hakayat Haretna (Three Continents Press)
    by Naguib Mahfouz

  154. 162.
    The Naked and the Dead: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Norman Mailer

  155. 163.
    The Magic Mountain
    by Thomas Mann

  156. 164.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  157. 165.
    Of Human Bondage
    by W. Somerset Maugham

  158. 166.
    The Best Short Stories (Classics Library)
    by Guy de Maupassant

  159. 167.

  160. 168.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
    by Carson McCullers

  161. 169.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  162. 170.
    Death of a Salesman (Viking Critical Library)
    by Arthur Miller

  163. 171.
    Tropic of Cancer, Cover Illustration By Richard Merkin
    by Henry Miller

  164. 172.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

  165. 174.
    Utopia (Penguin Classics)
    by Thomas More

  166. 175.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  167. 176.
    Under the Net
    by Iris Murdoch

  168. 177.
    ?
    The Man Without Qualities
    by Robert Musil

  169. 178.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  170. 179.
    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

  171. 180.
    A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul

  172. 181.
    The English Teacher
    by R.K. Narayan

  173. 182.
    At Swim-Two-Birds (Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien

  174. 184.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

  175. 185.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

  176. 186.
    Long Day's Journey into Night
    by Eugene O'Neill

  177. 187.
    The Iceman Cometh
    by Eugene O'Neill

  178. 188.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  179. 189.
    Nineteen Eighty-four
    by George Orwell

  180. 190.
    Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics)
    by Ovid

  181. 191.
    Doctor Zhivago
    by Boris Pasternak

  182. 192.
    Nightmare Abbey (Dodo Press)
    by Thomas Love Peacock

  183. 193.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy

  184. 194.
    The Bell Jar : A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Sylvia Plath

  185. 196.
    ?
    A Dance to the Music of Time (series)
    by Anthony Powell

  186. 197.
    ?
    Remembrance of Things Past
    by Marcel Proust

  187. 198.
    Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin

  188. 199.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

  189. 200.
    The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)
    by Thomas Pynchon

  190. 201.
    The Fountainhead (Centennial Edition Hardcover)
    by Ayn Rand

  191. 202.
    All Quiet on the Western Front: The Illustrated Edition
    by Erich Maria Remarque

  192. 203.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)
    by Jean Rhys

  193. 205.
    Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

  194. 206.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

  195. 207.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

  196. 208.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

  197. 209.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  198. 210.
    No Exit and Three Other Plays
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

  199. 211.
    Ivanhoe: A Romance
    by Walter, Sir Scott

  200. 212.
    The Complete Works of Shakespeare
    by David Bevington

  201. 213.
    Heartbreak House
    by Bernard Shaw

  202. 214.
    Pygmalion (Enriched Classics Series)
    by George Bernard Shaw

  203. 215.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

  204. 216.
    The Jungle (Enriched Classics)
    by Upton Sinclair

  205. 217.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  206. 219.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
    by Muriel Spark

  207. 220.
    Three Lives (Introduction by Carl Van Vechten)
    by Gertrude Stein

  208. 221.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck

  209. 225.
    Dracula
    by Bram Stoker

  210. 226.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  211. 228.
    Sophie's Choice (Modern Critical Interpretations Series)
    by William Styron

  212. 229.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  213. 230.
    The Magnificent Ambersons (Dodo Press)
    by Booth Tarkington

  214. 231.
    Vanity Fair (Penguin Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  215. 233.
    Lord of the Rings H/B Slipcased
    by J R R Tolkien

  216. 234.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  217. 235.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

  218. 236.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

  219. 237.
    Cane
    by Jean Toomer

  220. 238.
    Way We Live Now (Wordsworth Classics) (Wordsworth Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope

  221. 239.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

  222. 240.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics)
    by Mark Twain

  223. 241.
    The Aeneid
    by Virgil

  224. 242.
    Candide (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Voltaire

  225. 243.
    Cat's Cradle: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  226. 244.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut

  227. 245.
    Omeros
    by Derek Walcott

  228. 246.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  229. 247.
    A Handful of Dust
    by Evelyn Waugh

  230. 248.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

  231. 249.
    Five Great Science Fiction Novels
    by H. G. Wells

  232. 250.
    Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West

  233. 251.
    The Age of Innocence (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

  234. 252.
    The Importance of Being Earnest
    by Oscar Wilde

  235. 254.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder

  236. 255.
    A Streetcar Named Desire (New Directions Paperbook)
    by Tennessee Williams

  237. 256.
    Look Homeward, Angel
    by Thomas Wolfe

  238. 257.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
    by Tom Wolfe

  239. 258.
    Mrs. Dalloway
    by Virginia Woolf

  240. 259.
    To the Lighthouse (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

  241. 260.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

  242. 261.
    Beowulf: A Dual-Language Edition
    by Howell D. Chickering

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