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"The Year of Reading Dangerously" List of Betterment

Upon realizing that the only book he'd finished reading in the three years since having a child was The Da Vinci Code, writer/editor Andy Miller began a yearlong odyssey into the books he'd always wanted to read (or had lied to friends about). The following list includes books from his "list of betterment" plus a couple that were discussed at length in the book.
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The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita
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Mikhail Bulgakov
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
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George Eliot
Post Office
Post Office
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The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)
The Communist Manifesto
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (Robert Tressell)
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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Robert Tressell
The Sea, the Sea (Iris Murdoch)
The Sea, the Sea
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Iris Murdoch
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
7
John Kennedy Toole
The Unnamable
The Unnamable
8
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (Patrick Hamilton)
Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky
9
Patrick Hamilton
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
10
Herman Melville
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
11
Leo Tolstoy
Of Human Bondage (W. Somerset Maugham)
Of Human Bondage
12
W. Somerset Maugham
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
13
Jane Austen
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
14
Charlotte Brontë
Everyman
Everyman
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Absolute Beginners (Colin Macinnes)
Absolute Beginners
16
Colin Macinnes
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
17
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
18
Miguel De Cervantes
The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
19
Anonymous
I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith)
I Capture the Castle
20
Dodie Smith
The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
The Da Vinci Code
21
Dan Brown
The Leopard (Giuseppe Di Lampedusa)
The Leopard
22
Giuseppe Di Lampedusa
Under the Volcano (Malcolm Lowry)
Under the Volcano
23
Malcolm Lowry
Wide Sargasso Sea (Jean Rhys)
Wide Sargasso Sea
24
Jean Rhys
On the Road (Jack Kerouac)
On the Road
25
Jack Kerouac
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
26
Hunter S. Thompson
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
American Psycho
27
Bret Easton Ellis
The Dice Man
The Dice Man
28
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost
29
John Milton
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
30
Joseph Heller
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
31
William Golding
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
32
Mary Shelley
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
33
Homer
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
34
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
35
Carson McCullers
Vanity Fair (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Vanity Fair
36
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Diary of a Nobody
The Diary of a Nobody
37
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
38
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
39
Margaret Atwood
The Portrait of a Lady (Henry James)
The Portrait of a Lady
40
Henry James
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