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A collection of books I should’ve read in high school, or wanted to read, that I either never got around to or just flat out avoided.

  1. 1.
    Heart of Darkness (Hesperus Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad
  2. 2.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien
  3. 3.
    ?
    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand
  4. 4.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  5. 5.
    Number the Stars
    by Lois Lowry
  6. 6.
    A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
    by Dave Pelzer
  9. 9.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey
  10. 10.
    Angels & Demons
    by Dan Brown
  11. 11.
    The Shining
    by Stephen King
  12. 12.
    Tommy's Tale: A Novel
    by Alan Cumming
  13. 13.
  14. 14.
    A Density of Souls
    by Christopher Rice
  15. 15.
    The Snow Garden
    by Christopher Rice
  16. 16.
    Light Before Day
    by Christopher Rice
  17. 17.
    In the Miso Soup
    by Ryu Murakami
  18. 18.
    Coin Locker Babies
    by Ryu Murakami
  19. 19.
    Invisible Monsters: A Novel
    by Chuck Palahniuk
  20. 20.
    Haunted: A Novel
    by Chuck Palahniuk
  21. 21.
    Diary
    by Chuck Palahniuk
  22. 22.
    Lullaby
    by Chuck Palahniuk
  23. 23.
    He Still Moves Stones
    by Max Lucado
  24. 24.
    The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
    by J. T. Leroy
  25. 25.
    Harold's End
    by J. T. Leroy
  26. 26.
    Dream Brother
    by David Browne
  27. 27.
    The Trial
    by Franz Kafka
  28. 28.
    Trial and Triumph: Stories from Church History
    by Richard M. Hannula
  29. 29.
    Amerika
    by Franz Kafka
  30. 30.
    Go Ask Alice
    by Anonymous
  31. 31.
    Famous Last Words
    by Timothy Findley
  32. 32.
    Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
    by Joyce Carol Oates
  33. 33.
    Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
    by Tom Robbins
  34. 34.
    In Search of Bisco (Brown Thrasher Books)
    by Erskine Caldwell
  35. 35.
    At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel
    by Jamie O'Neill
  37. 37.
    The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    by Sylvia Plath
  38. 38.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  39. 39.
    Dante's Inferno
    by Marcus Sanders
  40. 40.
    Inferno (v. 1)
    by Dante Alighieri
  41. 41.
    Aristotle's Poetics
    by Stephen Halliwell
  42. 42.
    Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  43. 43.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen
  44. 44.
    War and Peace
    by Leo Tolstoy
  45. 45.
    Remember the Alamo!
    by Robert Penn Warren
  46. 46.
    The People That Time Forgot
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  47. 47.
    The Land That Time Forgot
    by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  48. 48.
  49. 49.
    Don Quixote (Penguin Classics)
    by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  50. 50.
    The Crown of Thorns
    by David Fane
  51. 51.
    The Last of the Mohicans
    by James Fenimore Cooper
  52. 52.
    The Red Badge of Courage
    by Stephen Crane
  53. 53.
    Everybody's Business Is Nobody's Business
    by Daniel Defoe
  54. 54.
    A Journal of the Plague Year (Penguin Classics)
    by Daniel Defoe
  55. 55.
    Great Expectations (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  56. 56.
    A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
    by Charles Dickens
  57. 57.
    The Foolish Virgin
    by Thomas Dixon
  58. 58.
    The Iliad of Homer
    by Homer
  59. 59.
    The Odyssey
    by Homer
  60. 60.
    ?
    Moby Dick
    by Herman Melville
  61. 61.
    Utopia: Thomas More
    by Thomas More
  62. 62.
    Common Sense
    by Thomas Paine
  63. 63.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin (Aladdin Classics)
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  64. 64.
    Gulliver's Travels (Penguin Classics)
    by Jonathan Swift
  66. 66.
    Black Skin, White Masks
    by Frantz Fanon
  67. 67.
    The Man of My Dreams: A Novel
    by Curtis Sittenfeld
  68. 68.
    A Death in Belmont
    by Sebastian Junger
  69. 69.
    It Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks: A Memoir of a Mother and Daughter
    by Catherine Lloyd Burns
  70. 70.
    Like Water for Chocolate
    by Laura Esquivel
  71. 71.
    The Girls: A Novel
    by Lori Lansens
  72. 72.
    50 Boyfriends Worse Than Yours
    by Justin Racz
  73. 73.
    Swapping Lives
    by Jane Green
  74. 74.
    Beautiful Lies: A Novel
    by Lisa Unger
  75. 75.
    Tabloid Love: Looking for Mr. Right in All the Wrong Places
    by Bridget Harrison
  76. 76.
    Anybody Out There?: A Novel
    by Marian Keyes
  77. 77.
    A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy)
    by Libba Bray
  78. 78.
    Twilight (Twilight, Book 1)
    by Stephenie Meyer
  79. 79.
    It's Kind of a Funny Story: A Novel
    by Ned Vizzini
  80. 80.
    The Captain's Verses
    by Pablo Neruda
  81. 81.
    Teasing Secrets from the Dead
    by EMILY PHD CRAIG
  82. 82.
    Gone with the Wind
    by Margaret Mitchell
  83. 83.
    Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind"
    by Alexandria Ripley
  84. 84.
    Lord of the Flies (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by William Golding
  85. 85.
    Of Mice and Men
    by John Steinbeck
  86. 86.
  87. 87.
    The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
    by William Faulkner
  88. 88.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers
  89. 89.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck
  90. 90.
    The Good Soldier: A Tale of Passion
    by Ford Madox Ford
  91. 91.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner
  92. 92.
    Light In August (Picador Classics)
    by William Faulkner
  93. 93.
    The Age of Innocence

  94. 94.
    Of Human Bondage
    by W. Somerset Maugham
  95. 95.
    A Farewell to Arms
    by Ernest Hemingway
  96. 96.
    ?
    The Postman Always Rings Twice
    by James M Cain
  97. 97.
    The Death of the Heart
    by Elizabeth Bowen
  98. 98.
    The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Edith Wharton
  99. 99.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  100. 100.
  101. 101.
    1984
    by George Orwell
  102. 102.
    Ulysses
    by James Joyce
  103. 103.
    A Room With a View
    by E. M. Forster
  104. 104.
  105. 105.
    Sophie's Choice Part 1 Of 2
    by William Styron
  106. 106.
    ?
    Sophie's Choice Part 2 Of 2
    by William Styron
  107. 107.
    Civil Disobedience (Dodo Press)
    by Henry David Thoreau
  108. 108.
  109. 109.
    ?
    SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser

  110. 110.
    True Believer
    by Nicholas Sparks
  111. 111.
    The Modern Girl's Guide to Life
    by Jane Buckingham
  112. 112.
    Dangerous Angels: The Weetzie Bat Books
    by Francesca Lia Block
  113. 113.
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    by Stephen Chbosky
  114. 114.
    Whitechurch
    by Chris Lynch
  115. 115.
    The Pigman
    by Paul Zindel
  116. 116.
    Stargirl (Readers Circle)
    by Jerry Spinelli
  117. 117.
    The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4
    by Sue Townsend
  118. 118.
    Catherine, Called Birdy (rpkg) (Trophy Newbery)
    by Karen Cushman
  119. 119.
    Normal Girl: A Novel
    by Molly Jong-Fast
  120. 120.
    The Lost Girls: A Novel
    by Laurie Fox
  121. 121.
    Shy Girl: A Novel
    by Elizabeth Stark
  122. 122.
    Girl
    by Blake Nelson
  123. 123.
    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry
  124. 124.
    Middlesex: A Novel
    by Jeffrey Eugenides
  125. 125.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger
  126. 126.
    Cold Mountain

  127. 127.
    We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel
    by Lionel Shriver
  128. 128.
    A Where the Sidewalk Ends
    by Shel Silverstein
  129. 129.
    A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children
    by Caroline Kennedy
  130. 130.
  131. 131.
    Charlotte's Web
    by E. B. White
  132. 132.
    James and the Giant Peach
    by Roald Dahl
  133. 133.
    The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    by Mitch Albom
  135. 135.
    The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
    by George Packer
  136. 136.
    The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time
    by Jeffrey Sachs
  137. 137.
  138. 138.
    ?
  139. 139.
  140. 140.
    Baghdad Journal: An Artist in Occupied Iraq
    by Steve Mumford
  143. 143.
    ?
    Blink, The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
    by Malcolm Gladwell
  144. 144.
    1776
    by David McCullough
  145. 145.
    ?
    Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
    by Jared Diamond
  146. 146.
    On Bullshit
    by Harry G. Frankfurt
  147. 147.
    The Historian
    by Elizabeth Kostova
  149. 149.
    The Broker
    by John Grisham
  150. 150.
    The Money Book for the Young, Fabulous & Broke
    by Suze Orman
  151. 151.
    Saturday
    by Ian McEwan
  152. 152.
    The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
    by Ann Brashares
  154. 154.
    The Year of Magical Thinking
    by Joan Didion
  155. 155.
    Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel
    by Jonathan Safran Foer
  156. 156.
    Oh the Glory of It All
    by Sean Wilsey
  157. 157.
    The Tender Bar: A Memoir
    by J. R. Moehringer
  158. 158.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden
  159. 159.
    TENDER IS THE NIGHT
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  161. 161.
    Mao: The Unknown Story
    by Jung Chang
  162. 162.
    When I Knew
    by Robert Trachtenberg
  163. 163.
    Mother of Sorrows
    by Richard McCann
  164. 164.
  165. 165.
    Lolita
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  166. 166.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  167. 167.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler
  168. 168.
    Sons and Lovers (Modern Library Classics)
    by D.H. Lawrence
  169. 169.
    Under the Volcano: A Novel (Perennial Classics)
    by Malcolm Lowry
  170. 170.
    The Way of All Flesh
    by Samuel Butler
  171. 171.
    I, Claudius
    by Robert Graves
  172. 172.
    To the Lighthouse (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf
  173. 173.
    Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel
    by Kurt Vonnegut
  174. 174.
    Invisible Man
    by Ralph Ellison
  175. 175.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright
  176. 176.
    Henderson, the Rain King
    by Saul Bellow
  177. 177.
    Appointment in Samarra: A Novel
    by John O'Hara
  178. 178.
  179. 179.
    Winesburg, Ohio
    by Sherwood Anderson
  180. 180.
    A Passage to India (Penguin Classics)
    by E. M. Forster
  181. 181.
    The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library Classics)
    by Henry James
  182. 182.
    The Ambassadors
    by Henry James
  183. 183.
    Tender Is the Night
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  184. 184.
    Studs Lonigan (Prairie State Books)
    by James T. Farrell
  185. 185.
    Animal Farm
    by George Orwell
  186. 186.
    The Golden Bowl
    by Henry James
  187. 187.
    A Handful of Dust (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Evelyn Waugh
  188. 188.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  189. 189.
    The Bridge of San Luis Rey: A Novel
    by Thornton Wilder
  190. 190.
    Howards End (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by E. M. Forster
  191. 191.
    Go Tell It on the Mountain
    by James Baldwin
  192. 192.
    The Heart of the Matter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    by Graham Greene
  193. 193.
    A Dance to the Music of Time
    by Anthony Powell
  194. 194.
    A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement
    by Anthony Powell
  195. 195.
    A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement
    by Anthony Powell
  196. 196.
    A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement
    by Anthony Powell
  197. 197.
    The Sun Also Rises (Scribner Classics)
    by Ernest Hemingway
  198. 198.
    ?
    Point Counter Point (The Modern Library Edition)
    by Aldous Huxley
  199. 199.
    The Secret Agent
    by Joseph Conrad
  200. 200.
    Nostromo (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Joseph Conrad
  201. 201.
    Rainbow Six
    by Tom Clancy
  202. 202.
    The Rainbow
    by D.H. Lawrence
  203. 203.
    Women in Love (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by D. H. Lawrence
  204. 204.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller
  205. 205.
    The Naked and the Dead (Flamingo Modern Classics)
    by Norman Mailer
  206. 206.
    Portnoy's Complaint
    by Philip Roth
  207. 207.
    ?
    Pale Fire
    by Vladimir Nabakov
  208. 208.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac
  209. 209.
    ?
    The Maltese Falcon
    by Dashiell Hammett
  210. 210.
    Parade's End
    by Ford Madox Ford
  211. 211.
    Zuleika Dobson (Modern Library Paperbacks)
    by Max Beerbohm
  212. 212.
    The Moviegoer
    by Walker Percy
  213. 213.
    From Here to Eternity
    by James Jones
  214. 214.
    The Wapshot Chronicle (Perennial Classics)
    by John Cheever
  215. 215.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  216. 216.
    A Clockwork Orange (Essential.penguin)
    by Anthony Burgess
  217. 217.
    Main Street (Dover Thrift Editions)
    by Sinclair Lewis
  218. 218.
    Alexandria Quartet
    by Lawrence Durrell
  219. 219.
    A High Wind in Jamaica (New York Review Books Classics)
    by Richard Hughes
  220. 220.
    A House for Mr. Biswas
    by V.S. Naipaul
  221. 221.
    The Day of the Locust (Signet Classic)
    by Nathanael West
  222. 222.
    Scoop
    by Evelyn Waugh
  223. 223.
    The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Perennial Classics)
    by Muriel Spark
  224. 224.
    Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)
    by James Joyce
  225. 225.
    ?
    Kim
    by Rudyard Kipling
  226. 226.
    A Room With A View
    by E. M. Forster
  227. 227.
    Brideshead Revisited
    by Evelyn Waugh
  229. 229.
    Angle of Repose (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
    by Wallace Stegner
  230. 230.
    A Bend in the River
    by V.S. Naipaul
  231. 231.
    Lord Jim (Signet Classics (Paperback))
    by Joseph Conrad
  232. 232.
    Ragtime
    by E.L. DOCTOROW
  233. 233.
    The Old Wives' Tale
    by Arnold Bennett
  234. 234.
    The Call of the Wild (Aladdin Classics)
    by Jack London
  235. 235.
    ?
    Loving
    by Henry Green
  236. 237.
    Midnight's Children
    by Salman Rushdie
  237. 238.
    Tobacco Road
    by Erskine Caldwell
  238. 239.
    Ironweed: A Novel
    by William J. Kennedy
  239. 240.
    The Magus
    by John Fowles
  240. 241.
    Wide Sargasso Sea (Penguin Student Editions)
    by Jean Rhys
  241. 242.
    Under the Net
    by Iris Murdoch
  242. 243.
    The Sheltering Sky (P.S.)
    by Paul Bowles
  243. 244.
    The Ginger Man
    by J. P. Donleavy
  244. 245.
    The Magnificent Ambersons (Dover Value Editions)
    by Booth Tarkington
  245. 246.
    An American Tragedy (Signet Classics)
    by Theodore Dreiser
  246. 247.
    The Notebook
    by Nicholas Sparks
  247. 248.
  249. 250.
    All the King's Men
    by Robert Penn Warren
  250. 251.
    ?
    3:16: The Numbers of Hope
    by Max Lucado
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