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30 Must-Read Books

Real Simple website asked 31 noted authors what they would put on a list of books you absolutely have to read.
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
1
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A House for Mr. Biswas (V.S. Naipaul)
A House for Mr. Biswas
2
V.S. Naipaul
A Tale for the Time Being (Ruth Ozeki)
A Tale for the Time Being
3
Ruth Ozeki
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
4
Charles Dickens
Charlotte's Web (E. B. White)
Charlotte's Web
5
E. B. White
The Wisdom of No Escape (Pema Chodron)
The Wisdom of No Escape
6
Pema Chodron
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ben Fountain)
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
7
Ben Fountain
True Grit
True Grit
8
The Light Between Oceans (M.L. Stedman)
The Light Between Oceans
9
M.L. Stedman
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
10
Leo Tolstoy
The Information (James Gleich)
The Information
11
James Gleich
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Karen Russell)
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
12
Karen Russell
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
13
Toni Morrison
Kindly Bent to Ease Us (Longchenpa)
Kindly Bent to Ease Us
14
Longchenpa
The Eight
The Eight
15
Wave
Wave
16
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence (Richard W. Wrangham, Dale Peterson)
Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence
17
Richard W. Wrangham, Dale Peterson
Middlesteins
Middlesteins
18
Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
Flow
19
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Fault in Our Stars (John Green)
The Fault in Our Stars
20
John Green
Howards End (E.M. Forster)
Howards End
21
E.M. Forster
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
22
Ken Kesey
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Anthony Marra)
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
23
Anthony Marra
My Stroke of Insight
My Stroke of Insight
24
Telegraph Avenue
Telegraph Avenue
25
In Our Time (Ernest Hemingway)
In Our Time
26
Ernest Hemingway
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
27
Virginia Woolf
Girls Like Us
Girls Like Us
28
Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas)
Count of Monte Cristo
29
Alexander Dumas
The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame)
The Wind in the Willows
30
Kenneth Grahame
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