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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1939) by James Agee
Money: A Suicide Note (1984) by Martin Amis
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963) by Hannah Arendt
Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen
Another Country (1962) by James Baldwin
Lost Illusions (1837) by Honoré de Balzac
Story of the Eye (1928) by Georges Bataille
Watt (1953) by Samuel Beckett
Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury
Wuthering Heights (1847) by Emily Brontë
The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1951) by Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories (1958) by Truman Capote
The Path to Power (1982) by Robert A. Caro
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (1865) by Lewis Carroll
Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson
The Magic Toyshop (1967) by Angela Carter
The Long Goodbye (1953) by Raymond Chandler
Stories (1889) by Anton Chekhov
Journey to the End of the Night (1983) by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (1977) by Roald Dahl
The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin
Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe
Our Mutual Friend (1865) by Charles Dickens
The Man in the High Castle (1962) by Philip K. Dick
The Idiot (1867) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Rebecca (1938) by Daphne Du Maurier
Middlemarch (1871) by George Eliot
Tender is the Night (1934) by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert
The Diary of a Young Girl (1947) by Anne Frank
The Unconscious (Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts) (2005) by Sigmund Freud
The Affluent Society (1958) by John Kenneth Galbraith
One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Faust, Part One (1808) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I, Claudius (1934) by Robert Graves
The Fault in Our Stars (2012) by John Green
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy
The Good Soldier Svejk (1922) by Jaroslav Hašek
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes (1988) by Stephen Hawking
The Sun Also Rises (1926) by Ernest Hemingway
Leviathan (1651) by Thomas Hobbes
The Iliad (750 BCE) by Homer
The Shock of the New (1980) by Robert Hughes
A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) by John Irving
Goodbye to Berlin (1939) by Christopher Isherwood
The Remains of the Day (1989) by Kazuo Ishiguro
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) by James Joyce
Man and His Symbols (1964) by Carl Gustav Jung
The Metamorphosis (1912) by Franz Kafka
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) by Ken Kesey
It (1986) by Stephen King
The Earthsea Quartet (1968) by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Call of the Wild (1903) by Jack London
The Prince (1513) by Niccolò Machiavelli
The Naked and the Dead (1948) by Norman Mailer
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy (1857) by Karl Marx
Moby Dick (1851) by Herman Melville
A Fine Balance (1995) by Rohinton Mistry
Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
The English Patient (1992) by Michael Ondaatje
Homage to Catalonia (1938) by George Orwell
Bel Canto (2001) by Ann Patchett
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (1977) by Charles Perrault
The Republic (380 BCE) by Plato
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version (2012) by Philip Pullman
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, Book 1) (1995) by Philip Pullman
Portnoy's Complaint (1967) by Philip Roth
Midnight's Children (1981) by Salman Rushdie
Orientalism (1978) by Edward W. Said
Franny and Zooey (1955) by J. D. Salinger
A Suitable Boy (1993) by Vikram Seth
The Complete Maus (1973) by Art Spiegelman
Ethics (1677) by Baruch Spinoza
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck
The Red and the Black (1830) by Stendhal
Sophie's Choice (1979) by William Styron
The Secret History (1992) by Donna Tartt
Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau
Resurrection (1899) by Leo Tolstoy
A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) by John Kennedy Toole
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century (1978) by Barbara W. Tuchman
The Art of War (500 BCE) by Sun Tzu
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) by Kurt Vonnegut
The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia (1941) by Rebecca West
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde
Carry On, Jeeves (1925) by P. G. Wodehouse
A Room of One's Own (1929) by Virginia Woolf
Thérèse Raquin (1867) by Émile Zola
The Book Thief (2005) by Markus Zusak

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