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170 Books to Read Before You Die - Page 2

170 books that should be on everyone's lifetime reading list. A wide, international and varied range.
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Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
Buddenbrooks
41
Thomas Mann
The Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
The Gulag Archipelago
42
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune
43
Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah
Dune Messiah
44
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
45
George Orwell
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
46
Joseph Conrad
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D. H. Lawrence)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
47
D. H. Lawrence
Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
Song of Solomon
48
Toni Morrison
White Teeth (Zadie Smith)
White Teeth
49
Zadie Smith
The Sea, the Sea (Iris Murdoch)
The Sea, the Sea
50
Iris Murdoch
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (John Le Carré)
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
51
John Le Carré
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Olga Tokarczuk)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
52
Olga Tokarczuk
Supūtoniku No Koibito / Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami)
Supūtoniku No Koibito / Sputnik Sweetheart
53
Haruki Murakami
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea (Yukio Mishima)
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
54
Yukio Mishima
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
55
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
56
Charles Dickens
The House of Mirth (Edith Wharton)
The House of Mirth
57
Edith Wharton
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility
58
Jane Austen
The Once and Future King (T.H. White)
The Once and Future King
59
T.H. White
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
60
Geoffrey Chaucer
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
61
George Orwell
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
62
George Eliot
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
63
William Faulkner
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
64
Ken Kesey
Confessions of a Mask (Yukio Mishima)
Confessions of a Mask
65
Yukio Mishima
Goodbye to Berlin (Christopher Isherwood)
Goodbye to Berlin
66
Christopher Isherwood
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
67
Joan Didion
Being and Time (Martin Heidigger)
Being and Time
68
Martin Heidigger
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
69
Alexandre Dumas
*Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass/USA)
*Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
70
Frederick Douglass/USA
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
71
James Baldwin
Goodbye to All That (Robert Graves)
Goodbye to All That
72
Robert Graves
Cry the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
Cry the Beloved Country
73
Alan Paton
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45 (Władysław Szpilman)
The Pianist: The Extraordinary Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939–45
74
Władysław Szpilman
The Leopard (Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa)
The Leopard
75
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver)
The Signal and the Noise
76
Nate Silver
The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley)
The Doors of Perception
77
Aldous Huxley
Nights at the Circus (Angela Carter)
Nights at the Circus
78
Angela Carter
The Outsider (Albert Camus)
The Outsider
79
Albert Camus
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son
80
Richard Wright
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