MikeTheReader's "150 Books to improve your mind"

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I started this list by compiling several ‘Best of’ lists for Fiction (American, British, European), Non-Fiction (general), Philosophy, Plays, Collections (Poems, Essays, Complete Works Of-) with the intention of improving my vocabulary and becoming well-read person. This list is by no means final, and I continue to add to it whenever I see fit. If you have any recommendations, please pass them along.

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  1. 101.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  3. 103.
    V. (Perennial Classics)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  4. 104.
    All Quiet on the Western Front
    by Erich Maria Remarque

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  5. 105.
    Cyrano De Bergerac
    by Edmond Rostand

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  6. 106.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

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    Midnight's Children

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  8. 108.
    The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist)
    by Salman Rushdie

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  9. 109.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J.D. Salinger

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  10. 110.
    A Midsummer Night's Dream (Signet Classics)
    by William Shakespeare

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  11. 111.
    Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  12. 112.
    Romeo and Juliet (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  13. 113.
    The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
    by William Shakespeare

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  14. 114.
    Pygmalion (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by George Bernard Shaw

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  15. 115.
    Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
    by Mary Shelley

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  16. 116.
    A Town Like Alice
    by Nevil Shute

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  17. 117.
    Trustee from the Toolroom
    by Nevil Shute

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  18. 118.
    One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich
    by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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  19. 120.
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    The Oedipus Plays of Sophpcles
    by Sophocles

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  20. 121.
    The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck

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  21. 123.
    Treasure Island (Kingfisher Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

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  22. 124.
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    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
    by Tom Stoppard

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  23. 125.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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  24. 126.
    Gulliver's Travels (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Jonathan Swift

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  25. 127.
    Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

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  26. 128.
    The Lord of the Rings
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

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  27. 129.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy

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  28. 131.
    Fathers and Sons
    by Ivan Turgenev

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  29. 133.
    Candide (Modern Library)
    by Voltaire

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  30. 134.
    Slaughterhouse-Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut

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  31. 135.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

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  32. 136.
    A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  33. 137.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh

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  34. 138.
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    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

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  35. 139.
    The Age of Innocence (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  36. 140.
    The House of Mirth (Barnes & Noble Classics)
    by Edith Wharton

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  37. 141.
    The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
    by Eudora Welty

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  38. 142.
    Night

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  39. 143.
    Leaves of Grass
    by Walt Whitman

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    The Bridge of San Louis Rey
    by Thornton Wilder

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  41. 146.
    The Glass Menagerie
    by Tennessee Williams

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  42. 147.
    Jeeves and Wooster Omnibus
    by P.G. Wodehouse

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  43. 148.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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  44. 149.
    Notes of a Native Son (Beacon Paperback)
    by James Baldwin

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