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Southern Living's 50 Books Everyone Should Read

This is a list compiled by Southern Living that they think everyone should read. I've read quite a few on this list. Some I enjoyed a lot, a few are some of my favorites. Others I dislike.
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984
1
George Orwell
A House for Mr. Biswas (V.S. Naipaul)
A House for Mr. Biswas
2
V.S. Naipaul
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
3
Betty Smith
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
4
Leo Tolstoy
Cane (Jean Toomer)
Cane
5
Jean Toomer
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
6
Jane Austen
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
7
Mary Shelley
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
8
James Baldwin
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
9
Charles Dickens
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
10
Joseph Conrad
Howard's End (E. M. Forster)
Howard's End
11
E. M. Forster
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
12
Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
13
Charlotte Brontë
Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
14
Louisa May Alcott
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
15
George Eliot
Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby-Dick
16
Herman Melville
My Antonia (Willa Cather)
My Antonia
17
Willa Cather
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son
18
Richard Wright
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Frederick Douglass)
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
19
Frederick Douglass
Night (Elie Wiesel)
Night
20
Elie Wiesel
Pale Fire (Vladimir Nabokov)
Pale Fire
21
Vladimir Nabokov
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
22
John Milton
Rebecca (Daphne Du Maurier)
Rebecca
23
Daphne Du Maurier
Siddhartha (Hermann Hesse)
Siddhartha
24
Hermann Hesse
Song of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
Song of Solomon
25
Toni Morrison
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence
26
Edith Wharton
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
27
Kate Chopin
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
28
Sylvia Plath
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
29
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
30
The Oxford Shakespeare (Stanley Wells)
The Oxford Shakespeare
31
Stanley Wells
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Conner (Flannery O'Conner)
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Conner
32
Flannery O'Conner
The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)
The Glass Menagerie
33
Tennessee Williams
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The God of Small Things
34
Arundhati Roy
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
35
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
36
Carson McCullers
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Cooper)
The Last of the Mohicans
37
James Fenimore Cooper
The Metamorphoses (Ovid)
The Metamorphoses
38
Ovid
The Moviegoer (Walker Percy)
The Moviegoer
39
Walker Percy
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
40
Homer
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