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Cool Books to Read in Public

Here is a list of 50 books that are believed to be good conversation starters and are mostly in good taste.
Some are really niche while others are worthy of cult status, but I think the common theme between them all is that they are pretty badass! These are the books I wish I was reading back in a day when I lived in the city, was single, and rode the subway a lot :))
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The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities
1
Robert Musil
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
2
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Magic Mountain (Thomas Mann)
The Magic Mountain
3
Thomas Mann
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
4
Charles Dickens
The Sot-Weed Factor (John Barth)
The Sot-Weed Factor
5
John Barth
The Magus (John Fowles)
The Magus
6
John Fowles
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
7
Mikhail Bulgakov
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
8
James Joyce
Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Brothers Karamazov
9
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
10
Franz Kafka
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Foucault's Pendulum
11
Umberto Eco
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Italo Calvino)
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
12
Italo Calvino
The Sleepwalkers (Hermann Broch)
The Sleepwalkers
13
Hermann Broch
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
14
Marcel Proust
The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata
The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata
15
The Melancholy of Resistance
The Melancholy of Resistance
16
The First Circle (Solzhenitsyn)
The First Circle
17
Solzhenitsyn
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children
18
Salman Rushdie
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin, Trans. Michael Hoffman)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
19
Alfred Döblin, Trans. Michael Hoffman
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure
20
Thomas Hardy
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf
21
Hermann Hesse
Dictionary of the Khazars (Milorad Pavić)
Dictionary of the Khazars
22
Milorad Pavić
Extinction (Thomas Bernhard)
Extinction
23
Thomas Bernhard
Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)
Hopscotch
24
Julio Cortázar
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Sentimental Education
25
Gustave Flaubert
Lanark (Alasdair Gray)
Lanark
26
Alasdair Gray
The Opposing Shore (Julien Gracq)
The Opposing Shore
27
Julien Gracq
Elementary Particles
Elementary Particles
28
The Buddha of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi)
The Buddha of Suburbia
29
Hanif Kureishi
Maldoror (Comte De Lautréamont)
Maldoror
30
Comte De Lautréamont
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations
31
Marcus Aurelius
The Pale King (David Foster Wallace)
The Pale King
32
David Foster Wallace
Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec, Trans. David Bellos)
Life: A User's Manual
33
Georges Perec, Trans. David Bellos
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz
34
W.G. Sebald
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
35
Stendhal
Darconville's Cat (Alexander Theroux)
Darconville's Cat
36
Alexander Theroux
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Walden
37
Henry David Thoreau
Memoirs of Hadrian (Margarite Yourcenar)
Memoirs of Hadrian
38
Margarite Yourcenar
Germinal (Émile Zola)
Germinal
39
Émile Zola
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
40
Herman Melville
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