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Roadside Picnic (Arkady & Boris Strugatsky)
Roadside Picnic
161
Arkady & Boris Strugatsky
Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
Romeo and Juliet
162
William Shakespeare
The Savage Detectives (Roberto Bolaño)
The Savage Detectives
163
Roberto Bolaño
Seeing
Seeing
164
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Siddhartha
165
Hermann Hesse
Silence (Shūsaku Endō)
Silence
166
Shūsaku Endō
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Silmarillion
167
J.R.R. Tolkien
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
168
Kurt Vonnegut
Solaris (Stanislaw Lem)
Solaris
169
Stanislaw Lem
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
170
William Faulkner
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf
171
Hermann Hesse
Stoner (Williams)
Stoner
172
Williams
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
173
Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
The Sun Also Rises
174
Ernest Hemingway
Suttree
Suttree
175
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
176
Charles Dickens
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
177
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Friedrich Nietzsche)
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
178
Friedrich Nietzsche
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
179
Harper Lee
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
180
Virginia Woolf
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
181
Franz Kafka
The Tunnel (William Gass)
The Tunnel
182
William Gass
Twelfth Night (William Shakespeare)
Twelfth Night
183
William Shakespeare
Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
Ubik
184
Philip K. Dick
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
185
James Joyce
The Unconsoled
The Unconsoled
186
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
187
Malcolm Lowry
The Unknown Masterpiece (Honoré De Balzac)
The Unknown Masterpiece
188
Honoré De Balzac
The Unnamable (Samuel Beckett)
The Unnamable
189
Samuel Beckett
V (Thomas Pynchon)
V
190
Thomas Pynchon
VALIS
VALIS
191
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Walden
192
Henry David Thoreau
War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
193
Leo Tolstoy
Wasp Factory
Wasp Factory
194
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land
195
T.S. Eliot
The Waves (Virginia Woolf)
The Waves
196
Virginia Woolf
White Noise (Don Delillo)
White Noise
197
Don Delillo
Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen
Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen
198
Winesburg, Ohio (Sherwood Anderson)
Winesburg, Ohio
199
Sherwood Anderson
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
200
Emily Bronte
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