The Guardian's Top 100 Books of All Time
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Chinua
Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), Things Fall Apart |
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Hans
Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), Fairy Tales and Stories |
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Jane Austen,
England, (1775-1817), Pride and Prejudice |
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Honore
de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), Old Goriot |
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Samuel
Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy:Molloy,Malone
Dies, The Unnamable |
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Giovanni
Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), Decameron |
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Jorge
Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), Collected Fictions |
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Emily
Bronte, England, (1818-1848), Wuthering Heights |
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Albert
Camus, France, (1913-1960), The Stranger |
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Paul
Celan, Romania/France, (1920-1970), Poems |
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Louis-Ferdinand
Celine, France, (1894-1961), Journey to the End of the Night |
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Miguel
de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), Don Quixote |
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Geoffrey
Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), Canterbury Tales |
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Anton
Checkov, Russia, (1860-1904), Selected Stories |
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Joseph
Conrad, England,(1857-1924), Nostromo |
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Dante
Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), The Divine Comedy |
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Charles
Dickens, England, (1812-1870), Great Expectations |
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Denis
Diderot, France, (1713-1784), Jacques the Fatalist and His Master |
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Alfred
Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), Berlin Alexanderplatz |
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881),Crime and Punishment;The Idiot;The Possessed; The Brothers Karamazov |
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George
Eliot, England, (1819-1880), Middlemarch |
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Ralph
Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), Invisible Man |
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Euripides,
Greece, (c 480-406 BC), Medea |
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William
Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962),Absalom,
Absalom;
The Sound and the Fury |
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Gustave
Flaubert, France, (1821-1880),Madame
Bovary;
A Sentimental Education |
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Federico
Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), Gypsy Ballads |
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Gabriel
Garcia-Marquez, Colombia, (b. 1928),One
Hundred Years of Solitude;
Love in the Time of Cholera |
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Gilgamesh,
Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC). |
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Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), Faust |
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Nikolai Gogol,
Russia, (1809-1852), Dead Souls |
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Gunter
Grass, Germany, (b.1927), The Tin Drum |
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Joao
Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), The Devil to Pay in the Backlands |
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Knut
Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), Hunger |
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Ernest
Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), The Old Man and the Sea |
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Homer,
Greece, (c 700 BC), The Iliad and The Odyssey |
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Henrik
Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), A Doll's House |
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James
Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), Ulysses |
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Franz
Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924),The
Complete Stories;The
Trial;
The Castle Bohemia |
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Kalidasa,
India, (c. 400), The Recognition of Sakuntala |
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Yasunari
Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), The Sound of the Mountain |
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Nikos
Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), Zorba the Greek |
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Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), Sons and Lovers |
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Halldor
K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), Independent People |
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Giacomo
Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), Complete Poems |
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Doris
Lessing, England, (b.1919), The Golden Notebook |
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Astrid
Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), Pippi Longstocking |
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Lu
Xun, China, (1881-1936), Diary of a Madman and Other Stories |
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Mahabharata,
India, (c 500 BC) |
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Naguib
Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), Children of Gebelawi |
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Thomas
Mann, Germany, (1875-1955),Buddenbrook;
The Magic Mountain |
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Herman
Melville, United States, (1819-1891), Moby Dick |
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Michel
de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), Essays. |
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Elsa
Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), History |
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Toni
Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), Beloved |
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Shikibu
Murasaki, Japan, (N/A), The Tale of Genji Genji |
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Robert
Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), The Man Without Qualities |
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Vladimir
Nabokov, Russia/United States, (1899-1977), Lolita |
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Njaals
Saga, Iceland, (c 1300). |
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George
Orwell, England, (1903-1950), 1984 |
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Fernando
Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), The Book of Disquiet |
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Ovid,
Italy, (c 43 BC), Metamorphoses |
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Edgar
Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), The Complete Tales |
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Marcel
Proust, France, (1871-1922), Remembrance of Things Past |
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Francois
Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), Gargantua and Pantagruel |
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Juan
Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), Pedro Paramo |
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Jalal
ad-din Rumi, Afghanistan, (1207-1273), Mathnawi |
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Salman
Rushdie, India/Britain, (b. 1947), Midnight's Children |
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Sheikh
Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), The Orchard |
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Tayeb
Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), Season of Migration to the North |
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Jose
Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), Blindness |
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William
Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), Hamlet;
King
Lear; Othello |
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Sophocles,
Greece, (496-406 BC), Oedipus the King |
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Stendhal,
France, (1783-1842), The Red and the Black |
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Laurence
Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy |
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Italo
Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), Confessions of Zeno |
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Jonathan
Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), Gulliver's Travels |
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Leo
Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), War
and Peace; Anna
Karenina; The
Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories |
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Thousand
and One Nights, India/Iran/Iraq/Egypt, (700-1500). |
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Mark
Twain, United States, (1835-1910), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
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Valmiki,
India, (c 300 BC), Ramayana |
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Virgil,
Italy, (70-19 BC), The Aeneid |
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Walt
Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), Leaves of Grass |
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Virginia
Woolf, England, (1882-1941),Mrs.
Dalloway;
To the Lighthouse |
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Marguerite
Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), Memoirs of Hadrian |
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The
Book of Job, Israel. (600-400 BC). |
The Modern Library Association Top 100 Novels (subtracted from the above)
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THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce |
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BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley |
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CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller |
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DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler |
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THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck |
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UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry |
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THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler |
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I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves |
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AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser |
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THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers |
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SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut |
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NATIVE SON by Richard Wright |
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HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow |
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APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA by John O'Hara |
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U.S.A. (trilogy) by John Dos Passos |
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WINESBURG, OHIO by Sherwood Anderson |
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A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster |
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THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James |
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THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James |
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TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald * |
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THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell |
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THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford |
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ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell |
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THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James |
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SISTER CARRIE by Theodore Dreiser |
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A HANDFUL OF DUST by Evelyn Waugh |
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AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner |
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ALL THE KING'S MEN by Robert Penn Warren |
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THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder |
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HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster |
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GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin |
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THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene |
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LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding |
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DELIVERANCE by James Dickey |
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A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series) by Anthony Powell |
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POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley |
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THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway |
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THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad |
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THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence |
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WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence |
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TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller |
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THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer |
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PORTNOY'S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth |
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PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov |
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LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner |
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ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac |
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THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett |
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PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford |
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THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton |
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ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm |
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THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy |
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DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather |
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FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones |
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THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever |
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THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger |
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A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess |
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HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad |
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OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham |
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MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis |
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THE HOUSE OF MIRTH by Edith Wharton |
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THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTET by Lawrence Durell |
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A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICA by Richard Hughes |
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A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by V.S. Naipaul |
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THE DAY OF THE LOCUST by Nathanael West |
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A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway |
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SCOOP by Evelyn Waugh |
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THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE by Muriel Spark |
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FINNEGANS WAKE by James Joyce |
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KIM by Rudyard Kipling |
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A ROOM WITH A VIEW by E.M. Forster |
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BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh |
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THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCH by Saul Bellow |
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ANGLE OF REPOSE by Wallace Stegner |
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A BEND IN THE RIVER by V.S. Naipaul |
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THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen |
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LORD JIM by Joseph Conrad |
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RAGTIME by E.L. Doctorow |
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THE OLD WIVES' TALE by Arnold Bennett |
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THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London |
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LOVING by Henry Green |
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TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell |
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IRONWEED by William Kennedy |
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THE MAGUS by John Fowles |
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WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys |
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UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch |
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SOPHIE'S CHOICE by William Styron |
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THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles |
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THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain |
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THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy |
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THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington |
*I
cannot believe Tender Is the Night is on this list!