Dispensable Reads

Some real gems and some lesser known ones. I have included non-fiction too. Yes, I know, no female authors. Still trying to plough through middlemarch. I have read jean rhys 'wide sargasso sea'.

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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The Great Gatsby

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Book of Disquiet (Fernando Pessoa)

The Book of Disquiet

2

Fernando Pessoa

Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)

Great Expectations

3

Charles Dickens

The Complete Novels of George Orwell (George Orwell)

The Complete Novels of George Orwell

4

George Orwell

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Crime and Punishment

5

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Notes From Underground & the Double (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

Notes From Underground & the Double

6

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)

A Hero of Our Time

7

Mikhail Lermontov

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

8

The Diary of a Nobody (G.& W. Grossmith)

The Diary of a Nobody

9

G.& W. Grossmith

Ham on Rye (Charles Bukowski)

Ham on Rye

10

Charles Bukowski

Dickens (Peter Ackroyd)

Dickens

11

Peter Ackroyd

The Victorians (A.N. Wilson)

The Victorians

12

A.N. Wilson

Essays and Aphorisms

Essays and Aphorisms

13

The Black Jacobins (C.L.R. James)

The Black Jacobins

14

C.L.R. James

Mayhew's Characters (Henry Mayhew)

Mayhew's Characters

15

Henry Mayhew

Prufrock and Other Observations (T. S. Eliot)

Prufrock and Other Observations

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T. S. Eliot

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