Jane Mallison's "Book Smart: Your Essential Reading List for Becoming a Literary Genius in 365 Days"

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  1. 2.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  2. 3.
    The Canterbury Tales: In Modern English (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

  3. 4.
    The Inferno
    by Dante

  4. 5.
    The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation
    by Homer

  5. 6.
    The Metamorphosis (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Franz Kafka

  6. 7.
    The Tale of Genji: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Murasaki Shikibu

  7. 8.
    Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
    by Ted Hughes

  8. 11.
    Flaubert's Parrot
    by Julian Barnes

  9. 12.
    The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1)
    by Robert A. Caro

  10. 13.
    Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
    by Frederick Douglass

  11. 14.
    The Autobiography of Ben Franklin
    by Benjamin Franklin

  12. 15.
    Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley
    by Peter Guralnick

  13. 16.
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    W E B Dubois Biography of Race 1868 1919
    by David Leverin Lewis

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  15. 19.
    The Life and Times of Cotton Mather
    by Kenneth Silverman

  16. 20.
    Eminent Victorians
    by Lytton Strachey

  17. 21.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain (Modern Library)
    by James Baldwin

  18. 22.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  20. 24.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  21. 25.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  22. 26.
    Cold Mountain: A Novel
    by Charles Frazier

  23. 27.
    Jude the Obscure (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Thomas Hardy

  24. 28.
    The Assistant: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud

  25. 29.
    The Magic Mountain (Everyman's Library)
    by Thomas Mann

  26. 30.
    Walden: A Fully Annotated Edition
    by Henry D. Thoreau

  27. 31.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Eleanor Atwood

  28. 32.
    Jane Eyre
    by Charlotte Bronte

  29. 33.
    Moll Flanders (Modern Library Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe

  30. 34.
    Medea and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Euripides

  31. 35.
    The Odd Woman: A Novel
    by Gail Godwin

  32. 36.
    Vanity Fair (movie tie-in)
    by William Makepeace Thackeray

  33. 37.
    Anna Karenina (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Leo Tolstoy

  34. 38.
    Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Sigrid Undset

  35. 39.
    The House of Mirth (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Edith Wharton

  36. 40.
    A Room of One's Own (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

  37. 41.
    Continental Drift (P.S.)
    by Russell Banks

  38. 42.
    The Master and Margarita (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Mikhail Bulgakov

  39. 43.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

  40. 44.
    Crime and Punishment
    by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  41. 45.
    The Scarlet Letter (Penguin Classics)
    by Nathaniel Hawthorne

  42. 46.
    Atonement
    by Ian McEwan

  43. 47.
    Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics)
    by John Milton

  44. 48.
    Early Autumn
    by Robert B. Parker

  45. 49.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe

  46. 50.
    The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
    by Tom Wolfe

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