Newsweek's Fifty Books for Our Times

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  1. 1.
    The Way We Live Now (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Anthony Trollope
  2. 2.
    The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
    by Lawrence Wright
  4. 4.
    The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, from Edison to Google
    by Nicholas Carr
  5. 5.
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    The Bear
    by WIlliam Faulkner
  6. 6.
    Winchell: Gossip, Power, and the Culture of Celebrity
    by Neal Gabler
  7. 7.
    Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
    by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
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  9. 9.
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    Predictably Irrational
    by Dan Ariely
  10. 10.
    God: A Biography
    by Jack Miles
  11. 11.
    The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture
    by Wendell Berry
  12. 12.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor
  13. 13.
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    Underground
    by Haruki Murakami
  15. 15.
    Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
    by Dave Hickey
  16. 16.
    Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Walt Whitman
  18. 18.
    City: Rediscovering the Center
    by William H. Whyte
  19. 19.
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    Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    by Philip K. Dick
  20. 20.
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    Benjamin Franklin
    by Edmund S. Morgan
  21. 21.
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    The Mississippi Books
    by Mark Twain
  22. 22.
    Among the Thugs
    by Bill Buford
  23. 23.
    Brooklyn
    by Colm Tóbín
  24. 24.
    Frankenstein (Penguin Classics)
    by Mary Shelley
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  28. 28.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie
  29. 29.
    American Prometheus
    by Kai Bird
  30. 30.
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    The Lost
    by Daniel Mendelsohn
  31. 31.
    Gilead: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson
  33. 33.
    Kim (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling
  34. 34.
    Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
    by John Lewis
  35. 35.
    The Line of Beauty: A Novel
    by Alan Hollinghurst
  36. 36.
    The Dark Is Rising (Dark Is Rising Sequence)
    by Susan Cooper
  37. 37.
    The Complete Persepolis
    by Marjane Satrapi
  38. 38.
    Underworld
    by Don DeLillo
  39. 39.
    Why Evolution Is True
    by Jerry A. Coyne
  40. 40.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth
  41. 41.
    The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
    by Michael Pollan
  42. 42.
    Regeneration Trilogy Pb
    by Pat Barker
  43. 43.
    Senator Joe McCarthy
    by Richard H. Rovere
  44. 44.
    Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague
    by Geraldine Brooks
  45. 45.
    The Elegance of the Hedgehog
    by Muriel Barbery
  46. 46.
    Gone Tomorrow (Jack Reacher, No. 13)
    by Lee Child
  47. 47.
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    Things Fall Apart (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Chinua Achebe
  48. 48.
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    American Journeys
    by Don Watson
  49. 49.
    Cotton Comes to Harlem
    by Chester B. Himes
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