Great Books Guide - The Art of Fiction: A Ten Year Reading List

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by Ted Gioia

"You get nothing with a college degree." FRANKZAPPA

But a reading list? Ah, that is something else entirely . . .

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  1. 1.
    Things Fall Apart
    by Chinua Achebe

  2. 2.
    ?
    Democracy (Works of Henry Adams)
    by Henry Adams

  3. 3.
    Lucky Jim (Penguin Classics)
    by Kingsley Amis

  4. 4.
    Money
    by Martin Amis

  5. 5.
    Winesburg, Ohio (Signet Classics)
    by Sherwood Anderson

  6. 6.
    The Handmaid's Tale (Everyman's Library)
    by Margaret Atwood

  7. 7.
    Emma
    by Jane Austen

  8. 8.
    Pride and Prejudice (Real Reads)
    by Jane Austen

  9. 9.
    Eugenie Grandet
    by Honroe de Balzac

  10. 10.
    Pere Goriot (Norton Critical Editions)
    by Honoré de Balzac

  11. 11.
    Flaubert's Parrot
    by Julian Barnes

  12. 12.
    The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  13. 13.
    Seize the Day (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  14. 14.
    Herzog (Penguin Classics)
    by Saul Bellow

  15. 15.
    The Savage Detectives: A Novel
    by Roberto Bolano

  16. 16.
    FICCIONES
    by Jorge Luis Borges

  17. 17.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  18. 18.
    The Sleepwalkers
    by Hermann Broch

  19. 19.
    Jane Eyre
    by Charlotte Bronte

  20. 20.
    Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
    by Emily Bronte

  21. 21.
    A Princess of Mars
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs

  22. 22.
    The Way of All Flesh (Giant Thrifts)
    by Samuel Butler

  23. 23.
    The Stranger (Everyman's Library)
    by Albert Camus

  24. 24.
    Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
    by Lewis Carroll

  25. 25.
    ?
    The Horse's Mouth
    by Joyce Cary

  26. 26.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

  27. 27.
    Falconer
    by John Cheever

  28. 28.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane

  29. 29.
    Death Comes for the Archbishop
    by Willa Cather

  30. 30.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

  31. 31.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes

  32. 32.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

  33. 33.
    The Big Sleep
    by Raymond Chandler

  34. 34.
    The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
    by G. K. Chesterton

  35. 36.
    Heart of Darkness
    by Joseph, Conrad

  36. 37.
    Lord Jim (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  37. 39.

  38. 40.
    ?
    Under Western Eyes (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  39. 41.
    The Last of the Mohicans (Signet Classics)
    by James Fenimore Cooper

  40. 44.
    White Noise: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Don DeLillo

  41. 45.
    Underworld
    by Don DeLillo

  42. 46.
    The Man in the High Castle
    by Philip K. Dick

  43. 47.
    Valis
    by Philip K. Dick

  44. 48.
    Bleak House (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  45. 49.
    David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

  46. 50.
    Great Expectations
    by Charles Dickens

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