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I try only to recommend books that I've read. Quite a few of these are difficult in terms of their subject matter, but it seems better to know than not to know. Keep on reading, everyone!

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Beloved (Toni Morrison)

Beloved

41

Toni Morrison

Beowulf (Anonymous)

Beowulf

42

Anonymous

Bernini (Howard Hibbard)

Bernini

43

Howard Hibbard

Bleak House (Charles Dickens)

Bleak House

44

Charles Dickens

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

45

Dee Brown

Candide (Voltaire)

Candide

46

Voltaire

Cannery Row (John Steinbeck)

Cannery Row

47

John Steinbeck

Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)

Canterbury Tales

48

Geoffrey Chaucer

Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

Catch-22

49

Joseph Heller

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Lord Byron)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

50

Lord Byron

Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)

Cold Comfort Farm

51

Stella Gibbons

Collected Poems Vol. 1 (William Carlos Williams)

Collected Poems Vol. 1

52

William Carlos Williams

Collected Poems Vol. 2 (William Carlos Williams)

Collected Poems Vol. 2

53

William Carlos Williams

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science (Atul Gawande)

Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

54

Atul Gawande

Cyrano De Bergerac (Edmond Rostand)

Cyrano De Bergerac

55

Edmond Rostand

Darkness at Noon (Arthur Koestler)

Darkness at Noon

56

Arthur Koestler

Dead Souls (Gogol)

Dead Souls

57

Gogol

Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)

Death Comes for the Archbishop

58

Willa Cather

Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)

Death of a Salesman

59

Arthur Miller

Don Juan (Lord Byron)

Don Juan

60

Lord Byron

Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)

Don Quixote

61

Miguel De Cervantes

Doubt: A Parable (John Patrick Shanley)

Doubt: A Parable

62

John Patrick Shanley

Dune (Frank Herbert)

Dune

63

Frank Herbert

East of Eden (John Steinbeck)

East of Eden

64

John Steinbeck

Ecce Homo (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Ecce Homo

65

Friedrich Nietzsche

Eichmann in Jerusalem (Hannah Arendt)

Eichmann in Jerusalem

66

Hannah Arendt

Emma (Jane Austen)

Emma

67

Jane Austen

Equus (Peter Shaffer)

Equus

68

Peter Shaffer

Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)

Ethan Frome

69

Edith Wharton

Eugene Onegin (Aleksandr Pushkin)

Eugene Onegin

70

Aleksandr Pushkin

Ever Since Darwin (Stephen Jay Gould)

Ever Since Darwin

71

Stephen Jay Gould

Excellent Women (Barbara Pym)

Excellent Women

72

Barbara Pym

Existentialism Is a Humanism (Jean-Paul Sartre)

Existentialism Is a Humanism

73

Jean-Paul Sartre

Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy)

Far From the Madding Crowd

74

Thomas Hardy

Farewell to Manzanar (Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston)

Farewell to Manzanar

75

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Faust (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

Faust

76

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Four Quartets (T.S. Eliot)

Four Quartets

77

T.S. Eliot

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

Frankenstein

78

Mary Shelley

Globish (McCrum)

Globish

79

McCrum

Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)

Go Tell It on the Mountain

80

James Baldwin

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