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50 Books You Need to Read

This is a list of fifty incredible books you should definitely read if you haven't read them already.
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In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust
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Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick
Herman Melville
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses
James Joyce
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Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
William Shakespeare
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Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
Miguel De Cervantes
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)
War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
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The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
Homer
10
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
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The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
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Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
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The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
14
Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
17
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
18
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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Alices's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Alices's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
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Iliad (Homer)
Iliad
Homer
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To the Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf)
To the Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf
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Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
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Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
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Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell
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The Sound and the Fury (William Faulkner)
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
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Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
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One Thousand and One Nights (Anonymous)
One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee
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The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
Franz Kafka
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The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
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Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
George Eliot
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Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Gullivers Travels
Jonathan Swift
36
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
Toni Morrison
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Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
38
The Stranger (Albert Camus)
The Stranger
Albert Camus
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Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
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Aeneid (Virgil)
Aeneid
Virgil
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