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100 Books You Need to Read to Be Considered Well-Read - Page 2

Here is a list of 100 Books that everyone should read to be considered well-read. This list includes books that are mentioned in almost every single book list. All of them are worth the read and I plan on doing so in the nearest future.
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Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)
Choke
41
Chuck Palahniuk
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
42
Aldous Huxley
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
43
Gabriel García Márquez
Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Doctor Zhivago
44
Boris Pasternak
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
45
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
46
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
47
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Sidharta (Herman Hesse)
Sidharta
48
Herman Hesse
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
49
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
50
Franz Kafka
Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
Faust
51
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea
52
Ernest Hemingway
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
Fight Club
53
Chuck Palahniuk
We (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
We
54
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
55
George Eliot
Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)
Hopscotch
56
Julio Cortázar
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
57
Anthony Burgess
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
The Satanic Verses
58
Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
59
Herman Melville
The Devine Comedy
The Devine Comedy
60
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
61
Franz Kafka
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
62
Philip K. Dick
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
63
Umberto Eco
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
64
Charles Dickens
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
The Sorrows of Young Werther
65
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague
66
Albert Camus
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
67
Charlotte Bronte
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
A Streetcar Named Desire
68
Tennessee Williams
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility
69
Jane Austen
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
70
Jane Austen
Tess of the D'urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'urbervilles
71
Thomas Hardy
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
72
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
73
Virginia Woolf
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
74
Miguel De Cervantes
Candide (Voltaire)
Candide
75
Voltaire
Pnin (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pnin
76
Vladimir Nabokov
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
77
Nikolai Gogol
Snow (Orhan Pamuk)
Snow
78
Orhan Pamuk
A Christmas Carol (Charles Dickens)
A Christmas Carol
79
Charles Dickens
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
80
John Steinbeck
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