tknowlton's "200 Books to Read in a Lifetime"

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loosely based off several "best of" lists, and colored by my own experience and opinions

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  1. 1.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  2. 2.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren

  3. 3.
    American Pastoral
    by Philip Roth

  4. 4.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser

  5. 5.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

  6. 6.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara

  7. 7.
    Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
    by JUDY BLUME

  8. 8.
    The Assistant: A Novel
    by Bernard Malamud

  9. 9.
    At Swim-Two-Birds (Irish Literature Series)
    by Flann O'Brien

  10. 10.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan

  11. 11.
    The Berlin Stories
    by Christopher Isherwood

  12. 12.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

  13. 13.
    The Blind Assassin: A Novel
    by Margaret Atwood

  14. 14.
    Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
    by Cormac McCarthy

  15. 15.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Perennial Classics)
    by Thornton Wilder

  16. 16.
    Call It Sleep: A Novel
    by Henry Roth

  17. 17.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  18. 18.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  19. 19.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  20. 20.
    Farewell To Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway

  21. 21.
    The Jungle Book (Sterling Classics)
    by Rudyard Kipling

  22. 22.
    The Confessions of Nat Turner
    by William Styron

  23. 23.
    The Corrections: A Novel
    by Jonathan Franzen

  24. 24.
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    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

  25. 25.
    A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
    by Anthony Powell

  26. 26.
    Day of the Locust
    by Nathanael West

  27. 27.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop (Virago Modern Classics)
    by Willa Cather

  28. 28.
    A Death in the Family (Penguin Classics)
    by James Agee

  29. 29.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen

  30. 30.
    Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (Signet Classics)
    by Robert Louis Stevenson

  31. 31.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

  32. 32.
    Dog Soldiers
    by Robert Stone

  33. 33.
    Falconer
    by John Cheever

  34. 34.
    The French Lieutenant's Woman
    by John Fowles

  35. 35.
    The Golden Notebook: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Doris Lessing

  36. 36.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin

  37. 37.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell

  38. 38.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck

  39. 39.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  40. 40.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift

  41. 41.
    A Handful of Dust (Everyman's Library)
    by Evelyn Waugh

  42. 42.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Modern Library)
    by Carson McCullers

  43. 43.
    The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene

  44. 44.
    Housekeeping: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

  45. 45.
    A House for Mr. Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul

  46. 47.
    Infinite Jest: A Novel
    by David Foster Wallace

  47. 48.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison

  48. 49.
    Light in August (The Corrected Text)
    by William Faulkner

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Created by tknowlton on Nov 18, 2009.
 

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