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170 Books to Read Before You Die

170 books that should be on everyone's lifetime reading list. A wide, international and varied range.
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Wolf Hall (Mantel, Hilary)
Wolf Hall (Mantel, Hilary)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
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Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
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Adam Bede (George Eliot)
Adam Bede (George Eliot)
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Great Expectations
Great Expectations
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Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Svetlana Alexievich,)
Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets (Svetlana Alexievich,)
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Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
Foundation (Isaac Asimov)
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Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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The Other Boleyn Girl (Philippa Gregory)
The Other Boleyn Girl (Philippa Gregory)
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The Plague (Albert Camus)
The Plague (Albert Camus)
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Tess of the D'ubervilles (Thomas Hardy)
Tess of the D'ubervilles (Thomas Hardy)
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
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The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
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The Nature of Things (Lucretius)
The Nature of Things (Lucretius)
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The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
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Bring Up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel)
Bring Up the Bodies (Hilary Mantel)
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Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Harriet Jacobs)
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Moby Dick (Herman Mellville)
Moby Dick (Herman Mellville)
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David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
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V. (Thomas Pynchon)
V. (Thomas Pynchon)
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White Noise by Don Delillo
White Noise by Don Delillo
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The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
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The Handmaid's Tale (Renee Nault)
The Handmaid's Tale (Renee Nault)
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Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
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Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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Alone in Berlin (Hans Fallada)
Alone in Berlin (Hans Fallada)
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Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
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The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
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The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis De Bernieres)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis De Bernieres)
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Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
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A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
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All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
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Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Dee Brown)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Dee Brown)
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The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane)
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Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
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The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
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