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Essential Books I'm Told I've Gotta Read

According to lists I've completed on this site, I'm supposed to read these books in school or before I turn 20 or 30 or 50 or before I die.
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... Not So Quiet (Helen Zenna Smith)
... Not So Quiet
1
Helen Zenna Smith
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
2
George Orwell
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
3
William Faulkner
Actual Air - David Berman
Actual Air - David Berman
4
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
5
Mark Twain
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
6
Virgil
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence
7
Edith Wharton
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
8
Lewis Carroll
Alien vs. Predator - Michael Robbins
Alien vs. Predator - Michael Robbins
9
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
10
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
11
Erich Maria Remarque
Allen Steele (Coyote)
Allen Steele
12
Coyote
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
13
Michael Chabon
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
14
Henry James
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
15
Theodore Dreiser
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
16
George Orwell
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
17
Leo Tolstoy
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
Another Bullshit Night in Suck City
18
The Arabian Nights: One Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
The Arabian Nights: One Thousand and One Nights
19
Anonymous
Artemis Fowl Series (Eoin Colfer)
Artemis Fowl Series
20
Eoin Colfer
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
21
William Faulkner
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
22
Ayn Rand
Atomised
Atomised
23
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz
24
W.G. Sebald
The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein
The Autobiography of Alice B. Tokias by Gertrude Stein
25
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
26
Kate Chopin
Babbitt (Sinclair Lewis)
Babbitt
27
Sinclair Lewis
Bartimaeus Trilogy
Bartimaeus Trilogy
28
The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Beautiful and Damned
29
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
30
Sylvia Plath
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
31
Toni Morrison
A Bend in the River (V.S. Naipaul)
A Bend in the River
32
V.S. Naipaul
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
33
Anonymous
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin)
Berlin Alexanderplatz
34
Alfred Döblin
The Betrothed
The Betrothed
35
The Bible (Anonymous)
The Bible
36
Anonymous
Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
Birdsong
37
Sebastian Faulks
The Black Arrow (Robert Louis Stevenson)
The Black Arrow
38
Robert Louis Stevenson
Black Beauty (Anna Sewell)
Black Beauty
39
Anna Sewell
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
40
Charles Dickens
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