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A Bucket of Books (414 Novels, Books, Plays, Sports Stories and Science Fiction Classics to Read in Your Lifetime) - Page 5

I tried to get something from every genre and only included the first few books for series. List was created by taking 15 best of lists. I then added 2 years of recommended books from The Week and Guardian and added my favorites to the list--if they weren't already there.
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
161
William Golding
Lost in Shangri-La (Papua New Guinea)
Lost in Shangri-La (Papua New Guinea)
162
Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel García Márquez)
Love in the Time of Cholera
163
Gabriel García Márquez
Lucky Jim (Kingsley Amis)
Lucky Jim
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Kingsley Amis
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
165
William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
166
Gustave Flaubert
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Manning Marable)
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
167
Manning Marable
Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
Man's Search for Meaning
168
Viktor Frankl
Mao II (Don Delillo)
Mao II
169
Don Delillo
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War
170
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations
171
Marcus Aurelius
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Memoirs of a Geisha
172
Arthur Golden
Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)
Mere Christianity
173
C.S. Lewis
Microserfs
Microserfs
174
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
175
George Eliot
Middlesex (Jeffrey Eugenides)
Middlesex
176
Jeffrey Eugenides
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
177
Salman Rushdie
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
178
Herman Melville
Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs. Dalloway
179
Virginia Woolf
Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare)
Much Ado About Nothing
180
William Shakespeare
My Name Is Asher Lev (Chaim Potok)
My Name Is Asher Lev
181
Chaim Potok
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
182
Frederick Douglass
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son
183
Richard Wright
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Neuromancer
184
William Gibson
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Never Let Me Go
185
Kazuo Ishiguro
Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere
Neil Gaiman: Neverwhere
186
Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
Oedipus at Colonus
187
Sophocles
Oedipus the King (Sophocles)
Oedipus the King
188
Sophocles
Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
Of Mice and Men
189
John Steinbeck
Olive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)
Olive Kitteridge
190
Elizabeth Strout
On the Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
On the Origin of Species
191
Charles Darwin
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
192
Jack Kerouac
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
193
Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
194
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
One Thousand and One Nights
195
Anonymous
Operating Instructions (Anne Lamott)
Operating Instructions
196
Anne Lamott
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victor (Ben Macintyre)
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victor
197
Ben Macintyre
Out of Africa (Isak Dinesen)
Out of Africa
198
Isak Dinesen
Peace Like a River
Peace Like a River
199
Play It as It Lays (Joan Didion)
Play It as It Lays
200
Joan Didion
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