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  1. 1.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

  2. 2.
    The Alienist
    by Caleb Carr

  3. 3.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  4. 4.
    Roots: The Saga of an American Family
    by Alex Haley

  5. 5.
    Bad Love (Alex Delaware)
    by Jonathan Kellerman

  6. 6.
    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  7. 7.
    The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family
    by Laurence Leamer

  8. 8.
    Women Who Run with the Wolves
    by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  9. 9.
    Mozart: A Life
    by Maynard Solomon

  10. 10.
    Fatal Vision
    by Joe McGinniss

  11. 11.
    The Tunnel (American Literature Series)
    by William H. Gass

  12. 12.
    Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
    by Jung Chang

  13. 13.
    Eyes of a Child
    by Richard North Patterson

  14. 14.
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    JFK, reckless youth / Nigel Hamilton
    by Nigel Hamilton

  15. 15.
    A Diary of the Century: Tales by America's Greatest Diarist
    by Edward Robb Ellis

  16. 16.
    Lincoln
    by David Herbert Donald

  17. 17.
    Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets
    by David Simon

  18. 18.
    Red Earth and Pouring Rain (Faber Fiction Classics)
    by Vikram Chandra

  19. 19.
    Anne Sexton: A Biography
    by Diane Middlebrook

  20. 20.
    William Trevor: The Collected Stories
    by William Trevor

  21. 22.
    A Civil Action
    by Jonathan Harr

  22. 23.
    The Hellfire Club
    by Peter Straub

  23. 24.
    The Thorn Birds
    by Colleen McCullough

  24. 25.
    A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Rohinton Mistry

  25. 26.
    Antarctic Navigation
    by Elizabeth Arthur

  26. 27.
    Children of the Holocaust (Jewish Lives)
    by Arnost Lustig

  27. 29.
    The Night Stalker (Pinnacle True Crime)
    by Philip Carlo

  28. 31.
    The Life of Emily Dickinson
    by Richard B. Sewall

  29. 32.
    All Souls' Rising: A Novel of Haiti (1)
    by Madison Smartt Bell

  30. 33.

  31. 34.
    Open Heart (Harvest in Translation)
    by A. B. Yehoshua

  32. 35.
    THE UNRULY QUEEN: LIFE OF QUEEN CAROLINE
    by FLORA FRASER

  33. 36.
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    Great Women iN Sports
    by Anne Janette Johnson

  34. 37.
    Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen

  35. 38.
    Napoleon And Josephine: An Improbable Marriage
    by Evangeline Bruce

  36. 39.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville

  37. 40.
    Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    by L. Ron Hubbard

  38. 41.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  39. 42.
    Lincoln: A Novel (The American Chronicle Series)
    by Gore Vidal

  40. 43.
    East of Eden
    by John Steinbeck

  41. 44.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

  42. 45.
    The Prince of Tides: A Novel
    by Pat Conroy

  43. 46.
    The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Fielding

  44. 47.
    Moll Flanders (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Daniel Defoe

  45. 48.
    Women in Love (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence

  46. 49.
    Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson

  47. 50.
    Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by George Eliot

  48. 51.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot

  49. 52.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontƫ

  50. 53.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  51. 54.
    Weaker Vessel (Women in History)
    by Antonia Fraser

  52. 55.
    Sophie's Choice (Modern Library)
    by William Styron

  53. 56.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand

  54. 57.
    The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
    by Flannery O'Connor

  55. 58.
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    The Brontƫs: Charlotte Brontƫ and Her Family.
    by Fraser, Rebecca. Bronte

  56. 59.
    The Burden of Proof
    by Scott Turow

  57. 60.
    Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Thomas Pynchon

  58. 61.
    Circle of Friends
    by Maeve Binchy

  59. 62.
    Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
    by Susan Faludi

  60. 63.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  61. 64.
    Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
    by Franz Kafka

  62. 65.
    The Last Temptation of Christ
    by Nikos Kazantzakis

  63. 66.
    The Cider House Rules: A Novel (Modern Library)
    by John Irving

  64. 67.
    The Feast of All Saints
    by Anne Rice

  65. 68.
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    The Horror Club
    by Mark Morris

  66. 69.
    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal

  67. 70.
    Foucault's Pendulum
    by Umberto Eco

  68. 71.
    The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
    by Gunter Grass

  69. 73.
    The Ghost Book of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax
    by Charles Lindley

  70. 74.
    Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil
    by Rafael Yglesias

  71. 76.
    Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia
    by Jo Ann Kay McNamara

  72. 78.
    Europe: A History
    by Norman Davies

  73. 79.
    The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
    by Robert Hughes

  74. 80.
    Independent Spirit: Essays
    by Hubert Butler

  75. 82.
    The Famished Road
    by Ben Okri

  76. 86.
    The Robber Bride
    by Margaret Atwood

  77. 87.
    Silent Witness
    by Richard North Patterson

  78. 88.
    Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
    by Kenneth V. Iserson

  79. 89.
    The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
    by Philippe Descola

  80. 92.
    The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Murasaki Shikibu

  81. 93.
    One River
    by Wade Davis

  82. 94.
    The Light Bearer
    by Donna Gillespie

  83. 95.
    Stones from the River
    by Ursula Hegi

  84. 96.
    A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
    by Prof. Orlando Figes

  85. 97.
    A Thin Dark Line
    by Tami Hoag

  86. 98.
    Shank
    by Roderick Anscombe

  87. 99.
    LORD OF THE KONGO: A Novel
    by Peter Forbath

  88. 100.

  89. 101.
    The Complete Stories (Vintage International)
    by David Malouf

  90. 102.
    Thirteen
    by Richard K. Morgan

  91. 103.
    The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
    by James Lee Burke

  92. 104.
    The Diana Chronicles
    by Tina Brown

  93. 105.
    Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
    by Eric Jay Dolin

  94. 106.
    The Devil You Know (Felix Castor)
    by Mike Carey

  95. 108.
    Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology
    by Peter Straub

  96. 109.
    The Dark Descent
    by Clive Barker

  97. 110.
    Mount Misery
    by Samuel Shem M.D.

  98. 112.
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    The Hour I First Believed: A Novel
    by Wally Lamb

  99. 113.
    Cook and Peary
    by Robert M. Bryce

  100. 114.
    By Reason of Insanity
    by Shane Stevens

  101. 116.

  102. 117.
    Ivanhoe (Thrift Edition)
    by Sir Walter Scott

  103. 118.
    The Golden Notebook: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Doris Lessing

  104. 119.
    The Stories of John Cheever
    by John Cheever

  105. 120.
    Beguiled
    by Alice Borchardt

  106. 122.
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    Sacrament
    by Clive Barker

  107. 125.
    2666: A Novel
    by Roberto BolaƱo

  108. 126.
    The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel
    by Margaret George

  109. 128.
    London: The Novel
    by Edward Rutherfurd

  110. 129.
    Walker Percy: A Life
    by Patrick H. Samway

  111. 130.
    Shadow Country (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Peter Matthiessen

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