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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
  22. 22.
    A Civil Action
    by Jonathan Harr
  23. 23.
    The Hellfire Club
    by Peter Straub
  24. 24.
    The Thorn Birds
    by Colleen McCullough
  25. 25.
    A Fine Balance (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Rohinton Mistry
  26. 26.
    Antarctic Navigation
    by Elizabeth Arthur
  27. 27.
    Children of the Holocaust (Jewish Lives)
    by Arnost Lustig
  29. 29.
    The Night Stalker (Pinnacle True Crime)
    by Philip Carlo
  31. 31.
    The Life of Emily Dickinson
    by Richard B. Sewall
  32. 32.
    All Souls' Rising: A Novel of Haiti (1)
    by Madison Smartt Bell
  33. 33.
  34. 34.
    Open Heart (Harvest in Translation)
    by A. B. Yehoshua
  35. 35.
    THE UNRULY QUEEN: LIFE OF QUEEN CAROLINE
    by FLORA FRASER
  36. 36.
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    Great Women iN Sports
    by Anne Janette Johnson
  37. 37.
    Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
    by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen
  38. 38.
    Napoleon And Josephine: An Improbable Marriage
    by Evangeline Bruce
  39. 39.
    Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
    by Herman Melville
  40. 40.
    Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000
    by L. Ron Hubbard
  41. 41.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  42. 42.
    Lincoln: A Novel (The American Chronicle Series)
    by Gore Vidal
  43. 43.
    East of Eden
    by John Steinbeck
  44. 44.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright
  45. 45.
    The Prince of Tides: A Novel
    by Pat Conroy
  46. 46.
    The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry Fielding
  47. 47.
    Moll Flanders (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Daniel Defoe
  48. 48.
    Women in Love (Penguin Classics)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  49. 49.
    Pamela: Or Virtue Rewarded (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Samuel Richardson
  50. 50.
    Middlemarch (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by George Eliot
  51. 51.
    The Mill on the Floss (Penguin Classics)
    by George Eliot
  52. 52.
    Jane Eyre (Penguin Classics)
    by Charlotte Brontë
  53. 53.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  54. 54.
    Weaker Vessel (Women in History)
    by Antonia Fraser
  55. 55.
    Sophie's Choice (Modern Library)
    by William Styron
  56. 56.
    Atlas Shrugged
    by Ayn Rand
  57. 57.
    The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
    by Flannery O'Connor
  58. 58.
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    The Brontës: Charlotte Brontë and Her Family.
    by Fraser, Rebecca. Bronte
  59. 59.
    The Burden of Proof
    by Scott Turow
  60. 60.
    Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Thomas Pynchon
  61. 61.
    Circle of Friends
    by Maeve Binchy
  62. 62.
    Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
    by Susan Faludi
  63. 63.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes
  64. 64.
    Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories
    by Franz Kafka
  65. 65.
    The Last Temptation of Christ
    by Nikos Kazantzakis
  66. 66.
    The Cider House Rules: A Novel (Modern Library)
    by John Irving
  67. 67.
    The Feast of All Saints
    by Anne Rice
  68. 68.
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    The Horror Club
    by Mark Morris
  69. 69.
    The Red and the Black (Penguin Classics)
    by Stendhal
  70. 70.
    Foucault's Pendulum
    by Umberto Eco
  71. 71.
    The Tin Drum (Vintage International)
    by Gunter Grass
  73. 73.
    The Ghost Book of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax
    by Charles Lindley
  74. 74.
    Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil
    by Rafael Yglesias
  76. 76.
    Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia
    by Jo Ann Kay McNamara
  78. 78.
    Europe: A History
    by Norman Davies
  79. 79.
    The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia's Founding
    by Robert Hughes
  80. 80.
    Independent Spirit: Essays
    by Hubert Butler
  82. 82.
    The Famished Road
    by Ben Okri
  86. 86.
    The Robber Bride
    by Margaret Atwood
  87. 87.
    Silent Witness
    by Richard North Patterson
  88. 88.
    Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
    by Kenneth V. Iserson
  89. 89.
    The Spears of Twilight: Life and Death in the Amazon Jungle
    by Philippe Descola
  92. 92.
    The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Murasaki Shikibu
  93. 93.
    One River
    by Wade Davis
  94. 94.
    The Light Bearer
    by Donna Gillespie
  95. 95.
    Stones from the River
    by Ursula Hegi
  96. 96.
    A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution: 1891-1924
    by Prof. Orlando Figes
  97. 97.
    A Thin Dark Line
    by Tami Hoag
  98. 98.
    Shank
    by Roderick Anscombe
  99. 99.
    LORD OF THE KONGO: A Novel
    by Peter Forbath
  100. 100.
  101. 101.
    The Complete Stories (Vintage International)
    by David Malouf
  102. 102.
    Thirteen
    by Richard K. Morgan
  103. 103.
    The Tin Roof Blowdown (Dave Robicheaux Mysteries)
    by James Lee Burke
  104. 104.
    The Diana Chronicles
    by Tina Brown
  105. 105.
    Leviathan: The History of Whaling in America
    by Eric Jay Dolin
  106. 106.
    The Devil You Know (Felix Castor)
    by Mike Carey
  108. 108.
    Poe's Children: The New Horror: An Anthology
    by Peter Straub
  109. 109.
    The Dark Descent
    by Clive Barker
  110. 110.
    Mount Misery
    by Samuel Shem M.D.
  112. 112.
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    The Hour I First Believed: A Novel
    by Wally Lamb
  113. 113.
    Cook and Peary
    by Robert M. Bryce
  114. 114.
    By Reason of Insanity
    by Shane Stevens
  116. 116.
  117. 117.
    Ivanhoe (Thrift Edition)
    by Sir Walter Scott
  118. 118.
    The Golden Notebook: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Doris Lessing
  119. 119.
    The Stories of John Cheever
    by John Cheever
  120. 120.
    Beguiled
    by Alice Borchardt
  122. 122.
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    Sacrament
    by Clive Barker
  125. 125.
    2666: A Novel
    by Roberto Bolaño
  126. 126.
    The Memoirs of Cleopatra: A Novel
    by Margaret George
  128. 128.
    London: The Novel
    by Edward Rutherfurd
  129. 129.
    Walker Percy: A Life
    by Patrick H. Samway
  130. 130.
    Shadow Country (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Peter Matthiessen
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