What to Read: The Essential Guide

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"Compiled by editor, lecturer, and interviewer Micky Pearlman, What to Read offers a lifetime supply of annotated, intriguing, and original book lists. Designed for reading club members who need new ideas and book lovers who want to know about wonderful contemporary and classic books that they may have missed."

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  1. 1.
    Shadow Play: A Novel (Norton Paperback)
    by Charles Baxter

  2. 2.
    Mystery Ride
    by Robert Boswell

  3. 3.
    The Runaway Soul
    by Harold Brodkey

  4. 4.
    Before and After: A Novel
    by Rosellen Brown

  5. 5.
    My Antonia
    by Willa Cather

  6. 6.
    The Beans of Egypt, Maine
    by Carolyn Chute

  7. 7.
    Mrs. Bridge
    by Evan S. Connell

  8. 8.
    Ragtime: A Novel
    by E.L. Doctorow

  9. 9.
    Geek Love: A Novel
    by Katherine Dunn

  10. 10.
    Middlemarch (Oxford World's Classics)
    by George Eliot

  11. 11.
    Love Medicine: Newly Revised Edition (P.S.)
    by Louise Erdrich

  12. 12.
    The Sound and the Fury (Norton Critical Editions)
    by William Faulkner

  13. 13.
    Are You Mine?: A Novel
    by Abby Frucht

  14. 14.
    Turtle Moon
    by Alice Hoffman

  15. 15.
    Natural History
    by Maureen Howard

  16. 16.
    The Fourteen Sisters of Emilio Montez O'Brien
    by Oscar Hijuelos

  17. 17.
    Very Old Bones (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by William Kennedy

  18. 18.
    Passing On
    by Penelope Lively

  19. 19.
    ?

  20. 20.
    The Member of the Wedding
    by Carson McCullers

  21. 21.
    At Weddings and Wakes
    by Alice Mcdermott

  22. 22.
    ?
    Long Day's Journey Into Night
    by Eugene O'Neill

  23. 23.
    A Suitable Boy: A Novel (Modern Classics)
    by Vikram Seth

  24. 24.
    A Thousand Acres: A Novel
    by Jane Smiley

  25. 25.
    The Man Who Loved Children: A Novel
    by Christina Stead

  26. 26.
    The Kitchen God's Wife
    by Amy Tan

  27. 27.
    Saint Maybe
    by Anne Tyler

  28. 28.
    To The Lighthouse
    by Virginia Woolf

  29. 29.
    Bastard out of Carolina: (Plume Essential Edition)
    by Dorothy Allison

  30. 30.
    Affliction
    by Russell Banks

  31. 31.
    ?
    Violence
    by Richard Bausch

  32. 32.
    Meeting Evil: A Novel
    by Thomas Berger

  33. 33.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

  34. 34.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

  35. 35.
    Falconer
    by John Cheever

  36. 37.
    Heart of Darkness (Arcturus Paperback Classics)
    by Joseph Conrad

  37. 38.
    Deliverance
    by James Dickey

  38. 39.
    Play It As It Lays: A Novel
    by Joan Didion

  39. 40.
    Lord of the Flies (Master Guides)
    by William Golding

  40. 41.
    The Firm: A Novel
    by John Grisham

  41. 42.
    Dogeaters
    by Jessica Hagedorn

  42. 43.
    Damage
    by Josephine Hart

  43. 44.
    Seventh Heaven
    by Alice Hoffman

  44. 45.
    The Remains of the Day
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

  45. 46.
    The Night Manager
    by John Le Carre

  46. 47.
    The Fifth Child
    by Doris Lessing

  47. 48.
    The Butcher Boy
    by Patrick McCabe

  48. 49.
    Remembering Babylon: A Novel
    by David Malouf

  49. 50.
    Billy Budd, Sailor (Enriched Classics (Simon & Schuster))
    by Herman Melville

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