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40 Books K Should Have Read Before Turning 40

Some books are just so famous, so celebrated, and you have wanted to read them for years and... it just has not happened. Here is a list of 40 books I wish I had read but have somehow never picked up. If you have read 1 or more congratulations!
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The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare)
2
Catch 22 (Τζόζεφ Χέλερ)
Catch 22 (Τζόζεφ Χέλερ)
3
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
4
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
5
The Awakening
The Awakening
6
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
7
Rob Roy (Walter Scott)
Rob Roy (Walter Scott)
8
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
9
The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene
10
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
11
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas)
12
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
13
Wise Blood
Wise Blood
14
The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
The Turn of the Screw (Henry James)
15
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
16
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
17
A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
A Passage to India (E. M. Forster)
18
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
19
Norwegian Wood
Norwegian Wood
20
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
21
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Márquez)
22
The Red and the Black
The Red and the Black
23
Corinne, or Italy (Madame De Staël)
Corinne, or Italy (Madame De Staël)
24
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro)
25
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Emma Orczy)
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Emma Orczy)
26
The Sea, the Sea (Iris Murdoch)
The Sea, the Sea (Iris Murdoch)
27
War and Peace
War and Peace
28
The Tin Drum
The Tin Drum
29
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
30
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Ernest Hemingway)
31
Castle Rackrent (Maria Edgeworth)
Castle Rackrent (Maria Edgeworth)
32
Dead Souls
Dead Souls
33
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
Lady Chatterley's Lover (D.H. Lawrence)
34
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
35
Bel-Ami
Bel-Ami
36
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
37
The Golden Notebook
The Golden Notebook
38
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)
39
Melmoth (Maturin)
Melmoth (Maturin)
40
Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne)
Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne)
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