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The Adventures of Augie March
The Lion, The Witch and the
Saul Bellow
Wardrobe
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All the King's Men
Robert Penn Warren
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Vladimir Nabokov
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American Pastoral
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Philip Roth
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about the list and shares his John Le William Golding
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» Richard Lacayo lays bare the process J.R.R. Tolkien
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Animal Farm
100 novels.
George Orwell
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Reader's Choice Henry Green
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Appointment in Samarra
2: Watchmen John O'Hara
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4: 1984 Kingsley Amis
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The Man Who Loved Children
Judy Blume
Christina Stead
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Bernard Malamud
Arnold picks Midnight's Children
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Flann O'Brien
Martin Amis
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Ian McEwan
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The Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler Native Son
Where is Ayn Rand and John Irving? I
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you did not list either author.
—Susan Sayfan; Longwood, Fla. The Blind Assassin
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From the TIME Archive Blood Meridian Never Let Me Go

Cormac McCarthy Kazuo Ishiguro
Ernest Hemingway
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somebody; a new, Brideshead Revisited
honest, un-'literary' Evelyn Waugh 1984
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Schickel offer their list Catch-22 Read the Original Review
of 100 great films Joseph Heller
Read the Original Review The Painted Bird
50 Coolest Websites » Jerzy Kosinski
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J.D. Salinger Pale Fire
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A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess A Passage to India
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The Confessions of Nat Turner Play It As It Lays

William Styron Joan Didion
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Portnoy's Complaint
The Corrections Philip Roth
Jonathan Franzen Read the Original Review
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Possession
The Crying of Lot 49 A.S. Byatt
Thomas Pynchon Read the Original Review
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The Power and the Glory

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A Dance to the Music of Time Graham Greene

Anthony Powell
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Muriel Spark
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Nathanael West
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John Updike
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Archbishop
Willa Cather Ragtime
E.L. Doctorow
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A Death in the Family
James Agee
The Recognitions
William Gaddis
The Death of the Heart
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Elizabeth Bowen
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Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett
Deliverance
James Dickey
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Richard Yates

Dog Soldiers
Robert Stone S-T
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Paul Bowles
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Falconer
John Cheever Slaughterhouse-Five
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The French Lieutenant's Woman

John Fowles Snow Crash
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The Golden Notebook The Sot-Weed Factor

Doris Lessing John Barth
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The Sound and the Fury
Go Tell it on the Mountain William Faulkner
James Baldwin
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Richard Ford
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Margaret Mitchell
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Cold
The Grapes of Wrath John le Carre
John Steinbeck Read the Original Review
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The Sun Also Rises

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Gravity's Rainbow Ernest Hemingway

Thomas Pynchon Read the Original Review
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
The Great Gatsby Zora Neale Hurston
F. Scott Fitzgerald Read the Original Review
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Things Fall Apart
H-I Chinua Achebe

A Handful of Dust
Evelyn Waugh To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers To the Lighthouse
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The Heart of the Matter

Graham Greene Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
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Herzog
Saul Bellow
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Ubik
Housekeeping Philip K. Dick
Marilynne Robinson
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Iris Murdoch
A House for Mr. Biswas
V.S. Naipaul Under the Volcano
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I, Claudius
Robert Graves Watchmen
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Infinite Jest White Noise

David Foster Wallace Don DeLillo
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Invisible Man White Teeth

Ralph Ellison Zadie Smith
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Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys

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