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toutesweet's "100 must-read books"

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  1. 1.
    The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Novel
    by Haruki Murakami

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    If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
    by Italo Calvino

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    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    The Master and Margarita
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

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    Cold Comfort Farm (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Stella Gibbons

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    Dead Souls: A Novel
    by Nikolai Gogol

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    Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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    Ficciones (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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  9. 10.
    Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
    by Angela Carter

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    Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Hans Christian Andersen

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    The Elegance of the Hedgehog (Paperback)
    by Alison Anderson (Translator) Muriel Barbery (Author)

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    I Looked Alive: Stories
    by Gary Lutz

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    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library)
    by Carson Mccullers

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    Trainspotting
    by Irvine Welsh

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    Emma (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Jane Austen

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    The Peacock Manifesto
    by Stuart David

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    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

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    Nineteen Eighty-four (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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    Pastoralia
    by George Saunders

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    The Holy Barbarians
    by Lawrence Lipton

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  22. 23.
    The Jungle (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Upton Sinclair

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  23. 24.
    The Fortress of Solitude: A Novel
    by Jonathan Lethem

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  24. 26.
    A Rage to Live (Modern Library Classics)
    by John O'Hara

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  25. 27.
    Novels in Three Lines
    by Felix Feneon

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  26. 28.
    Oliver Twist
    by Charles Dickens

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  27. 29.
    Mrs. Dalloway (Vintage Classics)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  28. 30.
    Women In Love (Vintage Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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  29. 31.
    Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  30. 32.
    Zeno's Conscience: A Novel
    by Italo Svevo

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  31. 33.
    Miss Lonelyhearts & the Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West

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  32. 34.
    The Nimrod Flipout: Stories
    by Etgar Keret

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  33. 35.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

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    A Void
    by Georges Perec

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  36. 38.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

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  37. 39.
    Kafka on the Shore
    by Haruki Murakami

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  38. 40.
    Geek Love: A Novel
    by Katherine Dunn

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  39. 42.
    Wise Blood: A Novel
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  40. 43.
    The Illustrated Jane Eyre
    by Charlotte Bronte

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  41. 44.
    Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Vintage Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

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  42. 45.
    Sixty Stories (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics)
    by Donald Barthelme

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  43. 46.
    Pnin (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics)
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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  44. 47.
    Persuasion (Vintage Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  45. 48.
    Home Land: A Novel
    by Sam Lipsyte

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  46. 49.
    Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
    by Chris Ware

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  47. 50.
    Northanger Abbey (Vintage Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  48. 51.
    Revolutionary Road
    by Richard Yates

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  49. 52.
    The Dharma Bums (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  50. 53.
    The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be God & Other Stories
    by Etgar Keret

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  51. 54.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie

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  52. 55.
    Lady Chatterley's Lover (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by D.H. Lawrence

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    Candide: Or, Optimism (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Francois Voltaire

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  55. 58.
    Margherita Dolce Vita
    by Stefano Benni

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  56. 59.
    Metamorphosis
    by Franz Kafka

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  57. 60.
    post office: A Novel
    by Charles Bukowski

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  58. 61.
    Beloved (Vintage Classics)
    by Toni Morrison

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  59. 62.
    White Noise (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Don DeLillo

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  60. 63.
    Atomised
    by Michel Houellebecq

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  61. 64.
    Middlemarch (Vintage Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  62. 65.
    Crime and Punishment
    by F.M. Dostoevsky

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  63. 66.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (P.S.)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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  64. 67.
    Gulliver's Travels
    by Jonathan Swift

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  65. 68.
    The Complete Fairy Tales
    by Brothers Grimm

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  66. 69.
    The Picture of Dorian Gray
    by Oscar Wilde

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  67. 70.
    Cigarettes (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
    by Harry Mathews

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  68. 71.
    Complete Short Stories
    by Franz Kafka

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  69. 72.
    The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Classics)
    by Fernando Pessoa

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  70. 73.
    The Little Girl and The Cigarette
    by Benoit Duteurtre

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  71. 74.
    South of the Border, West of the Sun
    by Haruki Murakami

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  72. 75.
    White Teeth: A Novel
    by Zadie Smith

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  73. 76.
    Moby Dick : or the Whale (Modern Library)
    by HERMAN MELVILLE

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  74. 77.
    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton

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  75. 78.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph, Conrad

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  76. 79.
    The Wild Palms: [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem]
    by William Faulkner

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  77. 80.
    Stranger Things Happen: Stories
    by Kelly Link

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  78. 81.
    Inferno
    by Dante Alighieri

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  79. 82.
    Bed
    by Tao Lin

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  80. 83.
    War and Peace (Modern Library)
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  81. 84.
    The Slynx: A Novel
    by Tatyana Tolstaya

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  82. 85.
    Journey to the End of the Night
    by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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  83. 86.
    Black Hole
    by Charles Burns

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  84. 87.
    Eeeee Eee Eeee
    by Tao Lin

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  85. 88.
    Little Women and Good Wives (Vintage Classic)
    by Louisa May Alcott

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  86. 90.
    Trial, The
    by Franz Kafka

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  87. 91.
    Another Country (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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  88. 92.
    The Brothers Karamazov
    by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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  89. 93.
    Hunger
    by Knut Hamsun

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  90. 94.
    Catch 22
    by Joseph Heller

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  91. 95.
    Ulysses (Modern Library)
    by James Joyce

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  92. 96.
    Moravagine (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Blaise Cendrars

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  93. 98.
    Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life (Everyman's Library)
    by Gustave Flaubert

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  94. 99.
    Hopscotch (Pantheon Modern Writers Series)
    by Julio Cortazar

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  95. 100.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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