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apeejam's "Personal 100 Must-Read Books"

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

A list in progress, both in consumption and production.

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1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Modern Library Classics)
by Laurence Sterne
  
2. White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings
by Iain Sinclair
  
3. The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer
  
4. Pale Fire (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Vladimir Nabokov
  
5. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Italo Calvino
  
6. A Confederacy of Dunces
by John Kennedy Toole
  
7. Middlemarch (Signet Classics)
by George Eliot
  
8. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Novel
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  
9. Slouching Towards Bethlehem: Essays
by Joan Didion
  
10. Ficciones
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
11. A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
  
12. Hawksmoor
by Peter Ackroyd
  
13. Jacob's Room
by Virginia Woolf
  
14. Orlando: A Biography
by Virginia Woolf
  
15. The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue (Penguin Classics)
by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  
16. Emma (Oxford World's Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
17. Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault
  
18. From Hell
by Alan Moore
  
19. A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power
  
20. Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft
by Lyndall Gordon
  
21. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
by John le Carre
  
22. In Cold Blood
by Truman Capote
  
23. The Second Sex (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
by Simone De Beauvoir
  
24. Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past
by Marcel Proust
  
25. Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller
  
26. Darkness at Noon
by Arthur Koestler
  
27. On the Road (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Jack Kerouac
  
28. The Crying of Lot 49
by Thomas Pynchon
  
29. Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon
  
30. V. (Perennial Classics)
by Thomas Pynchon
  
31. Of Human Bondage (Modern Library Classics)
by W. Somerset Maugham
  
32. The Garden Party and Other Stories (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Katherine Mansfield
  
33. The Enigma of Arrival: A Novel
by V.S. Naipaul
  
34. Rodinsky's Room
by Rachel Lichtenstein
  
35. The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
by Henry James
  
36. The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
  
37. The French Lieutenant's Woman (French Lieutenant's Woman)
by John Fowles
  
38. Midnight's Children: A Novel
by Salman Rushdie
  
39. Invisible Man: A Novel
by Ralph Ellison
  
40. The Third Policeman (John F. Byrne Irish Literature Series)
by Flann O'Brien
  
41. Beloved
by Toni Morrison
  
42. The Man Who Loved Children: A Novel
by Christina Stead
  
43. The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition
by Milan Kundera
  
44. The Plague
by Albert Camus
  
45. Brighton Rock: (Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition) (Penguin Classics Deluxe Editio)
by Graham Greene
  
46. David Copperfield (Penguin Popular Classics)
by Charles Dickens
  
47. The Shining
by Stephen King
  
48. The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall
by Anne Bronte
  
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (Great Books edition) (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Ken Kesey
  
50. A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
  
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Created by apeejam on Jul 14, 2006.