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apeejam's "Personal 100 Must-Read Books"

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As in "books I must read, someday," rather than "books one MUST read."

A list in progress, both in consumption and production.

  1. 2.
    White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings
    by Iain Sinclair

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  2. 3.
    The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
    by Homer

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    Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov

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    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

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    Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
    by George Eliot

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  7. 8.
    One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
    by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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  8. 9.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
    by Joan Didion

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  9. 10.
    Ficciones
    by Jorge Luis Borges

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  10. 11.
    A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
    by Flannery O'Connor

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  11. 12.
    Hawksmoor
    by Peter Ackroyd

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  12. 13.
    Jacob's Room
    by Virginia Woolf

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  13. 14.
    Orlando: A Biography
    by Virginia Woolf

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  14. 16.
    Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Jane Austen

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  15. 17.
    Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
    by Michel Foucault

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  16. 18.
    From Hell
    by Alan Moore

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  17. 19.
    A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
    by Samantha Power

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  18. 20.
    Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
    by Lyndall Gordon

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  19. 21.
    Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
    by John le Carre

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  20. 22.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

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  21. 23.
    The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Simone De Beauvoir

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  22. 24.
    Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past
    by Marcel Proust

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  23. 25.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller

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  24. 26.
    Darkness at Noon
    by Arthur Koestler

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  25. 27.
    On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
    by Jack Kerouac

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  26. 28.
    The Crying of Lot 49
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  27. 29.
    Gravity's Rainbow
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  28. 30.
    V. (Perennial Classics)
    by Thomas Pynchon

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  29. 31.
    Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Classics)
    by W. Somerset Maugham

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  30. 32.
    The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
    by Katherine Mansfield

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  31. 33.
    The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel
    by V.S. Naipaul

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  32. 34.
    Rodinsky's Room
    by Rachel Lichtenstein

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  33. 35.
    The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
    by Henry James

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  34. 36.
    The Virgin Suicides
    by Jeffrey Eugenides

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  36. 38.
    Midnight's Children: A Novel
    by Salman Rushdie

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  37. 39.
    Invisible Man: A Novel
    by Ralph Ellison

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  39. 41.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  40. 42.
    The Man Who Loved Children: A Novel
    by Christina Stead

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  42. 44.
    The Plague
    by Albert Camus

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  43. 46.
    David Copperfield (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by Charles Dickens

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  44. 47.
    The Shining
    by Stephen King

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  45. 48.
    The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall
    by Anne Bronte

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  46. 50.
    A Clockwork Orange
    by Anthony Burgess

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  47. 51.
    Smiley's People
    by John le Carre

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  48. 52.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi

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  49. 53.
    The Waves (Annotated)
    by Virginia Woolf

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Created by apeejam on Jul 14, 2006.