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#Markd9528's Filling in the Gaps

These are fiction books that I have not yet read but appear on numerous "How to Be Well-Read" list challenges.
This could best be described as a heavyweight challenge. Perhaps a decade is a realistic time frame for completing most of these.
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2666 (Roberto Bolano)
2666
1
Roberto Bolano
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
2
William Faulkner
The Adventures of Augie March (Saul Bellow)
The Adventures of Augie March
3
Saul Bellow
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
4
Virgil
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence
5
Edith Wharton
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
All the King's Men
6
Robert Penn Warren
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
7
Michael Chabon
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
8
Henry James
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
American Pastoral
9
Philip Roth
An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
10
Theodore Dreiser
Arabian Nights' Entertainments (Anonymous)
Arabian Nights' Entertainments
11
Anonymous
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
12
Ayn Rand
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz
13
W.G. Sebald
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
14
Sylvia Plath
Beowulf (Anonymous)
Beowulf
15
Anonymous
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
16
Charles Dickens
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
17
Cormac McCarthy
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
18
Evelyn Waugh
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Junot Díaz)
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
19
Junot Díaz
Buddenbrooks (Thomas Mann)
Buddenbrooks
20
Thomas Mann
The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
The Canterbury Tales
21
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
22
Franz Kafka
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
The Charterhouse of Parma
23
Stendhal
Chronicles of Narnia Series (C.S. Lewis)
Chronicles of Narnia Series
24
C.S. Lewis
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
25
Anthony Burgess
Collected Fictions (Jorge Luis Borges)
Collected Fictions
26
Jorge Luis Borges
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe (Edgar Allen Poe)
The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
27
Edgar Allen Poe
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections
28
Jonathan Franzen
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo
29
Alexandre Dumas
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
30
Charles Dickens
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
31
Nikolai Gogol
The Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
The Decameron
32
Giovanni Boccaccio
Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Demons
33
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
34
Dante Alighieri
Doctor Faustus (Thomas Mann)
Doctor Faustus
35
Thomas Mann
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago
36
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
37
Miguel De Cervantes
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula
38
Bram Stoker
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune
39
Frank Herbert
Faust (Goethe)
Faust (Goethe)
40
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