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The English Teacher's Dark Secret: Big, Important Books He Has Not Read... Yet

Our maverick English Teacher and theatre director comes clean and lists 100 big, important, classic books he has not read. In his defense, he would like to point out that he has been engaged in reading innumerable plays, works of Medieval English Literature, and genre fiction; he also would like to point out that when he was studying literature, a number of these works had not yet been published. Even so, he is chagrined at how well read he... isn't.
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All the Light We Cannot See (Anthony Doerr)
All the Light We Cannot See
1
Anthony Doerr
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Michael Chabon)
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
2
Michael Chabon
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
American Pastoral
3
Philip Roth
Ancient Evenings
Ancient Evenings
4
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl
5
Anne Frank
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
6
Leo Tolstoy
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement
7
Ian McEwan
Barchester Towers (Anthony Trollope)
Barchester Towers
8
Anthony Trollope
Being There
Being There
9
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
10
Sylvia Plath
Billiards at Half-Past Nine (Heinrich Böll)
Billiards at Half-Past Nine
11
Heinrich Böll
Bleak House (Dickens, Charles)
Bleak House
12
Dickens, Charles
The Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe)
The Bonfire of the Vanities
13
Tom Wolfe
Brooklyn
Brooklyn
14
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
15
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Cancer Ward (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
Cancer Ward
16
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle
17
Franz Kafka
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
18
Joseph Heller
The Charterhouse of Parma (Stendhal)
The Charterhouse of Parma
19
Stendhal
Crash (J.G. Ballard)
Crash
20
J.G. Ballard
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
21
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Crying of Lot 49 (Thomas Pynchon)
The Crying of Lot 49
22
Thomas Pynchon
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield
23
Charles Dickens
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
24
Willa Cather
Demian (Herman Hesse)
Demian
25
Herman Hesse
Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee)
Disgrace
26
J. M. Coetzee
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
27
Philip K. Dick
Dr Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
Dr Zhivago
28
Boris Pasternak
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
29
John Steinbeck
Empire of the Sun (J.G. Ballard)
Empire of the Sun
30
J.G. Ballard
Far From the Madding Crowd (Hardy, Thomas)
Far From the Madding Crowd
31
Hardy, Thomas
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
A Farewell to Arms
32
Ernest Hemingway
Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
Fathers and Sons
33
Ivan Turgenev
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
Fight Club
34
Chuck Palahniuk
Finnegans Wake (James Joyce)
Finnegans Wake
35
James Joyce
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
36
Ernest Hemingway
The Forsyte Saga (John Galsworthy)
The Forsyte Saga
37
John Galsworthy
The Fortress of Solitude (Jonathan Lethem)
The Fortress of Solitude
38
Jonathan Lethem
The French Lieutenant's Woman (John Fowles)
The French Lieutenant's Woman
39
John Fowles
Gone With the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
Gone With the Wind
40
Margaret Mitchell
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