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50 Very Good Books

Here are 50 very good books, plays and poems. Some of them are very well-known, others are a bit more obscure.
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
1
William Golding
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
2
Virginia Woolf
Lanark (Alasdair Gray)
Lanark
3
Alasdair Gray
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
4
William Faulkner
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
5
Alice Walker
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Things Fall Apart
6
Chinua Achebe
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
7
Anthony Burgess
Silas Marner (George Eliot)
Silas Marner
8
George Eliot
The Rainbow (D.H. Lawrence)
The Rainbow
9
D.H. Lawrence
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Siddhartha
10
Hermann Hesse
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf
11
Hermann Hesse
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
12
George Orwell
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
13
Aldous Huxley
Jesus' Son (Denis Johnson)
Jesus' Son
14
Denis Johnson
And the Mountains Echoed (Khaled Hosseini)
And the Mountains Echoed
15
Khaled Hosseini
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
16
Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums (Jack Kerouac)
The Dharma Bums
17
Jack Kerouac
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land
18
T.S. Eliot
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners
19
James Joyce
The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata
The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata
20
In the Miso Soup (Ryu Murakami)
In the Miso Soup
21
Ryu Murakami
From the Fatherland With Love (Ryu Murakami)
From the Fatherland With Love
22
Ryu Murakami
The Monk (Matthew Lewis)
The Monk
23
Matthew Lewis
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Haruki Murakami
24
1Q84 (Haruki Murakami)
1Q84
25
Haruki Murakami
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories - Ryunosuke Akutagawa
26
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
27
Joseph Heller
Gods Without Men (Hari Kunzru)
Gods Without Men
28
Hari Kunzru
Zofloya (Charlotte Dacre)
Zofloya
29
Charlotte Dacre
Othello (William Shakespeare)
Othello
30
William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
Twelfth Night
31
William Shakespeare
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
32
Anonymous
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
33
Charles Dickens
The Outsider (Albert Camus)
The Outsider
34
Albert Camus
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
35
Sylvia Plath
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Poisonwood Bible
36
Barbara Kingsolver
Pere Goriot (Honore De Balzac)
Pere Goriot
37
Honore De Balzac
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
38
Mary Shelley
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
39
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hills Like White Elephants
Hills Like White Elephants
40
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