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toutesweet's "100 must-read books pt. 2"

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My goal is to make a list of 100 must-read books and then read them.

  1. 1.
    Invisible Cities
    by Italo Calvino

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  2. 2.
    Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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    The Easter Parade
    by Richard Yates

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    Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Truman Capote

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  5. 6.
    On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Jack Kerouac

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  6. 7.
    What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
    by Raymond Carver

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  7. 8.
    The Sound and the Fury
    by William Faulkner

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  8. 9.
    Edie: American Girl
    by Jean Stein

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    The Beautiful and Damned
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald

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  10. 11.
    Lost Daughter
    by Elena Ferrante

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  11. 12.
    French Milk
    by Lucy Knisley

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  12. 13.
    Of Human Bondage
    by W. Somerset; Calder, Robert Maugham

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  13. 14.
    The Essentials of Psycho-analysis (Vintage Classics)
    by Sigmund Freud

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  14. 15.
    Timequake
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  15. 16.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  16. 17.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth

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  17. 18.
    The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    by Sylvia Plath

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  18. 19.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

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  19. 20.
    The Scarlet Letter (Vintage Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  20. 21.
    Couch
    by Benjamin Parzybok

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  21. 22.
    The Origin of Species (Vintage Classics)
    by Charles Darwin

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  22. 23.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

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  23. 24.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Vintage Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  24. 25.
    John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes
    by John Peel

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  25. 26.
    Old Goriot
    by Honore Balzac

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  26. 27.
    Le Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Henri Alain-Fournier

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  27. 28.
    Broken: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Daniel Clay

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  28. 29.
    Seven Gothic Tales (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Isak Dinesen

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  29. 30.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
    by Milan Kundera

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  30. 31.
    Cousin Bette: Poor Relations, part one (Penguin Classics)
    by Honore De Balzac

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  31. 32.
    In Search of the Missing Eyelash
    by Karen Mcleod

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  32. 33.
    Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets Series)
    by Allen Ginsberg

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  33. 34.
    Animal Farm (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell

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  34. 35.
    The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: A Novel
    by Michael Chabon

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  35. 36.
    Things Fall Apart: A Novel
    by Chinua Achebe

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  36. 37.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus

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  37. 38.
    My Life (The Art of the Novella series)
    by Anton Chekhov

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  38. 39.
    Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin

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  39. 40.
    Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
    by Haruki Murakami

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  40. 41.
    A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Peter Handke

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  41. 42.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike

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  42. 43.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  43. 44.
    The Complete Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  44. 45.
    Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry

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  45. 46.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck "Essentials")
    by John Steinbeck

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  46. 47.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

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  47. 48.
    Frankenstein: A Cultural History
    by Susan Tyler Hitchcock

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  48. 49.
    The Driver's Seat
    by Muriel Spark

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  49. 50.
    The Wrecking Ball: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Christiana Spens

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  50. 51.
    Independent People
    by Halldor Laxness

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  51. 52.
    The Girl on the Fridge: Stories
    by Etgar Keret

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  52. 53.
    The Magic Mountain (Everyman's Library)
    by Thomas Mann

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  53. 54.
    Liars in Love
    by Richard Yates

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  54. 55.
    The Age of Innocence
    by Edith Wharton

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  55. 56.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

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  56. 57.
    Wuthering Heights (Modern Library)
    by Emily Bronte

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  57. 58.
    The Reader
    by Bernhard Schlink

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  58. 59.
    Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
    by Richard Yates

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  59. 60.
    Birds of America: Stories
    by Lorrie Moore

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  60. 61.
    Ask the Dust (P.S.)
    by John Fante

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  61. 62.
    Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  62. 63.
    Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
    by Haruki Murakami

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  63. 64.
    The Second Sex
    by SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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  64. 65.
    Expletives Deleted
    by Angela Carter

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  65. 66.
    2666: A Novel
    by Roberto Bolano

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  66. 67.
    The Flying Troutmans
    by Miriam Toews

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  67. 68.
    Dance Night
    by Dawn Powell

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  68. 69.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin

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  69. 71.
    Main Street (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Sinclair Lewis

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  70. 72.
    The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Alexandre Dumas

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  71. 73.
    Cold Spring Harbor (Vintage Classic)
    by Richard Yates

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  72. 74.
    BUtterfield 8
    by John O'Hara

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  73. 75.
    Stories in the Worst Way
    by Gary Lutz

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  74. 76.
    Young Hearts Crying (Vintage Classic)
    by Richard Yates

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  75. 77.
    Pippi Longstocking (PMC) (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Astrid Lindgren

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  76. 78.
    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  78. 80.
    The Age of Reason (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Jean-Paul Sartre

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  79. 81.
    Youth in Revolt
    by C.D. Payne

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  80. 82.
    The Secret Garden (Puffin Classics)
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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  81. 83.
    Passing (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Nella Larsen

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  82. 84.
    Baudelaire Rimbaud Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems
    by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

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  83. 85.
    The Pleasure of the Text
    by Roland Barthes

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  84. 86.
    Existentialism Is a Humanism
    by Jean Paul Sartre

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  85. 87.
    The Portrait of a Lady
    by Henry James

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  86. 88.
    Life
    by Georges Perec

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  87. 89.
    What Is the What
    by Dave Eggers

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  88. 90.
    Faces in the Water
    by Janet Frame

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  89. 91.
    What Am I Doing Here?
    by Bruce Chatwin

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  90. 92.
    Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
    by Christopher Moore

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  91. 93.
    Naked
    by David Sedaris

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  92. 94.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

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  94. 96.
    Girl Factory
    by Jim Krusoe

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  95. 97.
    Pinball, 1973
    by Haruki MURAKAMI

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  96. 98.
    Epileptic
    by David B.

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  97. 99.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers

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  98. 100.
    Doghead: A Novel
    by Morten Ramsland

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