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The English Teacher Reflects: 100 Books He Never Read (But Probably Should Have)

The title says it all. Our Maverick English Teacher and compiler offers no excuses for his negligence. He had other things to do, like study all those plays, theatre history, and tech theatre books for his career as a theatre director. And read all those mysteries, thrillers, horror, and SF books that he liked so much more than the ones listed here. So there.
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An American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
An American Tragedy
1
Theodore Dreiser
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl
2
Anne Frank
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
3
Leo Tolstoy
Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Atlas Shrugged
4
Ayn Rand
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
5
Ian McEwan
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
6
Kate Chopin
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers
7
Anthony Trollope
Being There
Being There
8
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
9
Sylvia Plath
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
10
Heinrich Böll
Bleak House (Dickens, Charles)
Bleak House
11
Dickens, Charles
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
12
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward
13
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
14
Franz Kafka
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
The Charterhouse of Parma
15
Stendhal
Chronicles of Narnia (C S Lewis)
Chronicles of Narnia
16
C S Lewis
Crash (J.G. Ballard)
Crash
17
J.G. Ballard
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
18
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49
19
Thomas Pynchon
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
20
Charles Dickens
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
21
Willa Cather
Demian (Herman Hesse)
Demian
22
Herman Hesse
Demons (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Demons
23
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Dr. Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Dr. Zhivago
24
Boris Pasternak
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
25
John Steinbeck
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
26
Jane Austen
Empire of the Sun (J.G. Ballard)
Empire of the Sun
27
J.G. Ballard
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome
28
Edith Wharton
Far From the Madding Crowd (Hardy, Thomas)
Far From the Madding Crowd
29
Hardy, Thomas
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
30
Ernest Hemingway
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
31
Ivan Turgenev
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
32
James Joyce
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
33
Ernest Hemingway
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)
The Forsyte Saga
34
John Galsworthy
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
35
Margaret Mitchell
The Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck)
The Good Earth
36
Pearl S. Buck
The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford)
The Good Soldier
37
Ford Madox Ford
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
38
John Steinbeck
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
39
Thomas Pynchon
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
40
Charles Dickens
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