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TS's 50 Essential Novels

Seems like 50 essential novels... now I just have to read them. A little bit of a cherry-picked list but hey, here it is
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1984 (George Orwell)
1984
1
George Orwell
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
2
Mark Twain
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
American Pastoral
3
Philip Roth
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
4
Leo Tolstoy
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
5
Sylvia Plath
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
6
Toni Morrison
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
Brave New World
7
Aldous Huxley
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
8
J.D. Salinger
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Charlotte's Web
9
E.B. White
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple
10
Alice Walker
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
11
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
12
Miguel De Cervantes
Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
Fahrenheit 451
13
Ray Bradbury
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
14
Mary Shelley
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
The Grapes of Wrath
15
John Steinbeck
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
16
Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
17
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Gulliver's Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gulliver's Travels
18
Jonathan Swift
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
19
Margaret Atwood
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
20
Joseph Conrad
His Dark Materials Series (Phillip Pullman)
His Dark Materials Series
21
Phillip Pullman
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
22
Douglas Adams
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest
23
David Foster Wallace
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
24
Ralph Ellison
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
Jane Eyre
25
Charlotte Brontë
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
26
Harper Lee
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
27
Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
Lord of the Flies
28
William Golding
The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R.Tolkien)
The Lord of the Rings
29
J.R.R.Tolkien
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
30
Gustave Flaubert
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
31
George Eliot
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
32
Herman Melville
Native Son (Richard Wright)
Native Son
33
Richard Wright
Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Neuromancer
34
William Gibson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
35
Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
36
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
37
James Joyce
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
38
Jane Austen
The Shining (Stephen King)
The Shining
39
Stephen King
The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
40
William Faulkner
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