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BooberFraggle's "Reading List - 52 Important Books"

By important I mean books that talking heads and historians consider signifigant. Both Fiction and Non-fiction.

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1.
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 On the Origin of Species (1859)
by Charles Darwin
  
2.
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 SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE
by Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut
  
3.
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 Homer-The Iliad  
4.
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 The Odyssey
by Homer
  
5. The Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
  
6. The Theory of Moral Sentiments - Adam Smith
by Adam Smith
  
7.
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 Walden
by Henry David Thoreau
  
8. Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
by L. Ron Hubbard
  
9.
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 The Communist Manifesto (Pocket Books)  
10.
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 Mein Kampf  
11. The Holy Bible King James Version: 1611 Edition  
12. The Art of War (Shambhala Classics)
by Sun Tzu
  
13. The Road to Serfdom (Routledge Classics S.)
by Frie von Hayek
  
14. Silent Spring
by Rachel Carson
  
15. Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
by Richard Phillips Feynman
  
16.
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 Rumi: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets
by Rumi
  
17.
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 Qu'ran  
18.
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 Candide - Voltaire  
19.
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 An Autobiography or The Story of My Experiments with Truth (Abridged)
by M.K. Gandhi
  
20.
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 The Bhagavad Gita
by Eknath Easwaran (Editor)
  
21.
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 Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
22.
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 One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel García Márquez
  
23.
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 the name of the rose
by Umberto Eco
  
24.
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 Little Red Book
by Mao Tsetung
  
25.
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 War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy
  
26.
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 Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)
by George Eliot
  
27.
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 The Sun Also Rises
by Ernest Hemingway
  
28.
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 The Tale of Genji
by Shikibu Murasaki
  
29.
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 The Brothers Kamarazov
by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  
30.
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 Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
  
31. Siddhartha: Siddhartha (Shambhala Classics)
by Hermann Hesse
  
32.
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 Dream of the Red Chamber
by Cao Xuegin
  
33. Their Eyes Were Watching God
by Zora Neale Hurston
  
34.
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 Native Son
by Richard Wright
  
35. The Motorcycle Diaries
by Ernesto Che Guevara
  
36. On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
  
37. Ten Little Indians
by Sherman Alexie
  
38.
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 Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown
  
39.
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 The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
  
40. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
  
41.
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 THE SECOND WORLD WAR
by Winston Churchill
  
42. Book of Negroes
by Lawrence Hill
  
43.
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 Studies in Iconology - Erwin Panofksy  
44. A People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
  
45.
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 All quiet on the western front  
46.
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 Cooper, James Fenimore-The Last Of The Mohicans  
47. The Social Contract
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  
48.
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 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
by Hume
  
49. Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition
by Milton Friedman
  
50.
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 The Pilgrim’s Progress
by John Bunyan
  
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Created by BooberFraggle on Aug 22, 2008.