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Essential Books to Read Before You Die

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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
1
Leo Tolstoy
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
Buddenbrooks
2
Thomas Mann
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
3
Herman Melville
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
4
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Memoirs of Hadrian (Marguerite Yourcenar)
Memoirs of Hadrian
5
Marguerite Yourcenar
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
6
Vladimir Nabokov
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
7
Alexandre Dumas
Don Chisciotte Della Mancia (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Chisciotte Della Mancia
8
Miguel De Cervantes
To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
9
Virginia Woolf
The Leopard (Giuseppe Di Lampedusa)
The Leopard
10
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
11
Franz Kafka
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
12
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
13
Emily Brontë
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
14
George Orwell
La Storia (Elsa Morante)
La Storia
15
Elsa Morante
Il Barone Rampante
Il Barone Rampante
16
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
17
Stendhal
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
18
Gustave Flaubert
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
19
Charles Dickens
Swann's Way (Marcel Proust)
Swann's Way
20
Marcel Proust
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