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The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll
Another Country by James Baldwin
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey through Yugoslavia by Rebecca West
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories by Truman Capote
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Candide by Voltaire
Carry On, Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century by Barbara W. Tuchman
The Earthsea Quartet by Ursula K. Le Guin
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version by Philip Pullman
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Charles Perrault
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Faust, Part One by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hašek
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
I, Claudius by Robert Graves
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Iliad by Homer — not in English Common Knowledge
It by Stephen King
Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
Man and His Symbols by Carl Gustav Jung
The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Money: A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Republic by Plato
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Stories by Anton Chekhov
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
The Stranger by Albert Camus
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
The Unconscious (Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts) by Sigmund Freud
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Watt by Samuel Beckett
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë