30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Their 30th Birthday

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"The Web is grand. With its fame for hosting informative, easy-to-skim textual snippets and collaborative written works, people are spending more and more time reading online. Nevertheless, the Web cannot replace the authoritative transmissions from certain classic books that have delivered (or will deliver) profound ideas around the globe for generations.

The 30 books listed here are of unparalleled prose, packed with wisdom capable of igniting a new understanding of the world. Everyone should read these books before their 30th birthday."

http://www.brazencareerist.com/2008/08/11/30-books-everyone-should-read-before-their-30th-birthday/

  1. 1.
    Siddhartha: Siddhartha (Shambhala Classics)
    by Hermann Hesse

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  2. 2.
    1984
    by George Orwell

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  3. 3.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

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  4. 4.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  5. 5.
    For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  6. 6.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  8. 8.
    The Social Contract
    by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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  9. 9.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  10. 10.
    The Origin Of Species
    by Charles Darwin

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    Wisdom of the Desert (New Directions)
    by Thomas Merton

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  12. 12.
    The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
    by Malcolm Gladwell

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  13. 13.
    The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
    by Kenneth Grahame

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  14. 14.
    The Art of War
    by Sun-tzu

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  15. 15.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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    David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  17. 17.
    Four Quartets
    by T. S. Eliot

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  18. 18.
    Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
    by Joseph Heller

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  19. 19.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

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  20. 20.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  21. 21.
    Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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  22. 22.
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    The Prince
    by Machiavelli

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  23. 23.
    Walden
    by Henry David Thoreau

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  25. 25.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    How to Win Friends & Influence People
    by Dale Carnegie

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  28. 28.
    Lord of the Flies
    by William Golding

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    THE GRAPES OF WRATH
    by John Steinbeck

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    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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  31. 31.
    How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
    by Mark Bittman

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  32. 32.
    Honeymoon with My Brother : A Memoir
    by Franz Wisner

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