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Books You Would Have Already Read If You Weren't Such a Disappointing Failure - Page 2

Whether because they're established classics, volumes that have been collecting dust on my shelves for years, or books I'm sure I'd love if I simply got around to reading them... these are the most prominent skeletons (or spines, at least) in my literary closet.
Nothing like a good ol' public shaming to get you to finally put down that paranormal romance and pick up Infinite Jest.
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Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond)
Guns, Germs, and Steel
41
Jared Diamond
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
42
Charles Dickens
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Joan Didion)
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
43
Joan Didion
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
44
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
45
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca
46
Daphne Du Maurier
Justine (Lawrence Durrell)
Justine
47
Lawrence Durrell
The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco)
The Name of the Rose
48
Umberto Eco
A Visit From the Goon Squad (Jennifer Egan)
A Visit From the Goon Squad
49
Jennifer Egan
Nickel and Dimed (Barbara Ehrenreich)
Nickel and Dimed
50
Barbara Ehrenreich
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
51
George Eliot
The Waste Land (T.S. Eliot)
The Waste Land
52
T.S. Eliot
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
53
Ralph Ellison
The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)
The Virgin Suicides
54
Jeffrey Eugenides
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
My Brilliant Friend
55
Elena Ferrante
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
A Passage to India
56
E.M. Forster
Man's Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
Man's Search for Meaning
57
Viktor Frankl
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections
58
Jonathan Franzen
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
59
Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
Sophie's World
60
Jostein Gaarder
Outlander (Diana Gabaldon)
Outlander
61
Diana Gabaldon
Neverwhere (Neil Gaiman)
Neverwhere
62
Neil Gaiman
Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
Cold Comfort Farm
63
Stella Gibbons
The Quiet American (Graham Greene)
The Quiet American
64
Graham Greene
The Maltese Falcon (Dashiell Hammett)
The Maltese Falcon
65
Dashiell Hammett
A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)
A Brief History of Time
66
Stephen Hawking
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
67
Joseph Heller
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Zora Neale Hurston)
Their Eyes Were Watching God
68
Zora Neale Hurston
Les Miserables (Victor Hugo)
Les Miserables
69
Victor Hugo
Against Nature
Against Nature
70
The Lottery and Other Stories (Shirley Jackson)
The Lottery and Other Stories
71
Shirley Jackson
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
72
James Joyce
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
73
James Joyce
Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Metamorphosis
74
Franz Kafka
Tigana
Tigana
75
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
76
Ken Kesey
The Stand (Stephen King)
The Stand
77
Stephen King
The Poisonwood Bible (Barbara Kingsolver)
The Poisonwood Bible
78
Barbara Kingsolver
The Sixth Extinction (Elizabeth Kolbert)
The Sixth Extinction
79
Elizabeth Kolbert
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (Milan Kundera)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
80
Milan Kundera
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