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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
  2. 2.
    Tender Is the Night (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  3. 3.
    The Easter Parade
    by Richard Yates
  5. 5.
    Breakfast at Tiffany's (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Truman Capote
  6. 6.
    On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition
    by Jack Kerouac
  7. 7.
    What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories
    by Raymond Carver
  8. 8.
    Sound and the Fury (Vintage Classics)
    by William Faulkner
  9. 9.
    Edie: American Girl
    by Jean Stein
  10. 10.
    The Beautiful and Damned
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  11. 11.
    The Lost Daughter
    by Elena Ferrante
  12. 12.
    French Milk
    by Lucy Knisley
  13. 13.
    OF HUMAN BONDAGE
    by w. somerset Maugham
  14. 14.
    The Essentials of Psycho-analysis (Vintage Classics)
    by Sigmund Freud
  15. 15.
    Timequake
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  16. 16.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque
  17. 17.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth
  18. 18.
    The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    by Sylvia Plath
  19. 19.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright
  20. 20.
    The Scarlet Letter (Vintage Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  21. 21.
    Couch
    by Benjamin Parzybok
  23. 23.
    To the Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf
  24. 24.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Vintage Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  25. 25.
    John Peel: Margrave of the Marshes
    by John Peel
  26. 26.
    Old Goriot
    by Honore Balzac
  27. 27.
    Grand Meaulnes (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Henri Alain-Fournier
  28. 28.
    Broken: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Daniel Clay
  29. 29.
    Seven Gothic Tales (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Isak Dinesen
  30. 30.
    The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
    by Milan Kundera
  31. 31.
    Cousin Bette: Poor Relations, part one (Penguin Classics)
    by Honore De Balzac
  32. 32.
    In Search of the Missing Eyelash
    by Karen Mcleod
  33. 33.
    Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Pocket Poets, No. 4)
    by Allen Ginsberg
  34. 34.
    Animal Farm (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by George Orwell
  35. 35.
    The Mysteries of Pittsburgh: A Novel
    by Michael Chabon
  36. 36.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe
  37. 37.
    The Stranger
    by Albert Camus
  38. 38.
    My Life (The Art of the Novella series)
    by Anton Chekhov
  39. 39.
    Eugene Onegin (Penguin Classics)
    by Alexander Pushkin
  40. 40.
    Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
    by Haruki Murakami
  41. 41.
    A Sorrow Beyond Dreams (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Peter Handke
  42. 42.
    Rabbit, Run
    by John Updike
  43. 43.
    The Old Man and the Sea
    by Ernest Hemingway
  44. 44.
    The Complete Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor
  45. 45.
    Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry
  46. 46.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck "Essentials")
    by John Steinbeck
  47. 47.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Saul Bellow
  48. 48.
    Frankenstein: A Cultural History
    by Susan Tyler Hitchcock
  49. 49.
    The Driver's Seat
    by Muriel Spark
  50. 50.
    The Wrecking Ball: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Christiana Spens
  51. 51.
    Independent People
    by Halldor Laxness
  52. 52.
    The Girl on the Fridge: Stories
    by Etgar Keret
  53. 53.
    The Magic Mountain (Everyman's Library)
    by Thomas Mann
  54. 54.
    Liars in Love
    by Richard Yates
  55. 55.
    The Age of Innocence (Vintage Classics)
    by Edith Wharton
  56. 56.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  57. 57.
    Wuthering Heights (Modern Library)
    by Emily Bronte
  58. 58.
    The Reader
    by Bernhard Schlink
  59. 59.
    Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
    by Richard Yates
  60. 60.
    Birds of America: Stories
    by Lorrie Moore
  61. 61.
    Ask the Dust
    by John Fante
  62. 62.
    The Sun Also Rises
    by Ernest Hemingway
  63. 63.
    Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
    by Haruki Murakami
  64. 64.
    The Second Sex
    by Simone de Beauvoir
  65. 65.
    Expletives Deleted
    by Angela Carter
  66. 66.
    2666: A Novel
    by Roberto Bolano
  67. 67.
    The Flying Troutmans
    by Miriam Toews
  68. 68.
    Dance Night
    by Dawn Powell
  69. 69.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by James Baldwin
  70. 70.
    The New York Trilogy (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Paul Auster
  71. 71.
    Main Street (Signet Classics)
    by Sinclair Lewis
  72. 72.
    The Three Musketeers (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Alexandre Dumas
  73. 73.
    Cold Spring Harbor (Vintage Classic)
    by Richard Yates
  74. 74.
    BUtterfield 8
    by John O'Hara
  75. 75.
    Stories in the Worst Way
    by Gary Lutz
  76. 76.
    Young Hearts Crying (Vintage Classic)
    by Richard Yates
  77. 77.
    Pippi Longstocking (Puffin Modern Classics)
    by Astrid Lindgren
  78. 78.
    God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  79. 79.
  80. 80.
    The Age of Reason (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Jean-Paul Sartre
  81. 81.
    Youth in Revolt
    by C.D. Payne
  82. 82.
    The Secret Garden (Puffin Classics)
    by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  83. 83.
    Passing (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Nella Larsen
  84. 84.
    Baudelaire Rimbaud Verlaine: Selected Verse and Prose Poems
    by Charles-Pierre Baudelaire
  85. 85.
    The Pleasure of the Text
    by Roland Barthes
  86. 86.
    Existentialism Is a Humanism
    by Jean Paul Sartre
  87. 87.
    The Portrait of a Lady
    by Henry James
  88. 88.
    Life: A User's Manual
    by Georges Perec
  89. 89.
    What Is the What
    by Dave Eggers
  90. 90.
    Faces in the Water
    by Janet Frame
  91. 91.
    What Am I Doing Here?
    by Bruce Chatwin
  92. 92.
    Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
    by Christopher Moore
  93. 93.
    Naked
    by David Sedaris
  94. 94.
    Farewell to Arms (Vintage Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  95. 95.
    White Walls: Collected Stories (New York Review Books)
    by Tatyana Tolstaya
  96. 96.
    Girl Factory
    by Jim Krusoe
  97. 97.
    Pinball, 1973
    by Haruki Murakami
  98. 98.
    Epileptic
    by David B.
  99. 99.
    A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
    by Dave Eggers
  100. 100.
    Doghead: A Novel
    by Morten Ramsland
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