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30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Their 30th Birthday

"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. Siddhartha: Siddhartha (Shambhala Classics)
by Hermann Hesse
  
2.
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 1984
by George Orwell
  
3.
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 To Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper Lee
  
4.
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 A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
  
5. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Scribner Classics)
by Ernest Hemingway
  
6.
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 War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
  
7. Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics)
by Thomas Paine
  
8. The Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
9. One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  
10. The Origin Of Species
by Charles Darwin
  
11. Wisdom of the Desert (New Directions)
by Thomas Merton
  
12. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
by Malcolm Gladwell
  
13. The Wind in the Willows (Signet Classics)
by Kenneth Grahame
  
14. The Art of War
by Sun-tzu
  
15. The Lord of the Rings
by J.R.R. Tolkien
  
16. David Copperfield (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
17. Four Quartets
by T. S. Eliot
  
18. Catch-22: A Novel (Simon & Schuster Classics)
by Joseph Heller
  
19. The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  
20. The Catcher in the Rye
by J.D. Salinger
  
21. Crime and Punishment (Enriched Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
22.
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 The Prince
by Machiavelli
  
23.
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 Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
  
24. Plato: The Republic (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by Plato
  
25. Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
26. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
  
27. How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie
  
28.
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 Lord of the Flies
by William Golding
  
29.
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 THE GRAPES OF WRATH
by John Steinbeck
  
30.
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 The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
  
31. How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food
by Mark Bittman
  
32. Honeymoon with My Brother : A Memoir
by Franz Wisner
  
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Created by Mandy Jo on Aug 12, 2008.