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Books You Ought to Have Read by the Time You're 21 - Page 3

By the time you're 21 years old you're officially an adult and have little time for reading really challenging novels. So this brief selection covers some of what you ought to have read before you reach majority.
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
81
Charles Dickens
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Poisonwood Bible
82
Barbara Kingsolver
Memoirs of a Geisha (Arthur Golden)
Memoirs of a Geisha
83
Arthur Golden
Wild Swans (Jung Chang)
Wild Swans
84
Jung Chang
Hallucinating Foucault
Hallucinating Foucault
85
The Ghost Road Pat Barker
The Ghost Road Pat Barker
86
Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
Birdsong
87
Sebastian Faulks
The Girl at the Lion D'Or
The Girl at the Lion D'Or
88
Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray
89
Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
Cold Comfort Farm
90
Stella Gibbons
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis De Bernieres)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
91
Louis De Bernieres
Bad Dirt
Bad Dirt
92
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
93
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
94
Margaret Mitchell
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
The Things They Carried
95
Tim O'Brien
Like Water for Chocolate (Laura Esquivel)
Like Water for Chocolate
96
Laura Esquivel
I Am Charlotte Simmons
I Am Charlotte Simmons
97
Cider With Rosie
Cider With Rosie
98
The Darling Buds of May
The Darling Buds of May
99
The Red Queen (Philippa Gregory)
The Red Queen
100
Philippa Gregory
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
101
Alice Walker
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
102
J.D. Salinger
The House of the Spirits (Isabel Allende)
The House of the Spirits
103
Isabel Allende
Watership Down (Richard Adams)
Watership Down
104
Richard Adams
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
Slaughterhouse-Five
105
Kurt Vonnegut
Fear of Flying (Erica Jong)
Fear of Flying
106
Erica Jong
Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
Labyrinths
107
Jorge Luis Borges
In Cold Blood (Truman Capote)
In Cold Blood
108
Truman Capote
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
109
Vladimir Nabokov
The Time Machine (H.G. Wells)
The Time Machine
110
H.G. Wells
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
111
Evelyn Waugh
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
Lady Chatterley's Lover
112
D.H. Lawrence
The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)
The Yellow Wallpaper
113
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
114
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
115
Mark Twain
The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
The Mill on the Floss
116
George Eliot
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
117
Gustave Flaubert
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Brontë)
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
118
Anne Brontë
The Fall of the House of Usher (Edgar Allan Poe)
The Fall of the House of Usher
119
Edgar Allan Poe
Fanny Hill
Fanny Hill
120
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