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50 Essential Books

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Breakfast of Champions (Kurt Vonnegut)
Breakfast of Champions
Kurt Vonnegut
2
White Noise (Don Delillo)
White Noise
Don Delillo
3
Darkness Take My Hand
Darkness Take My Hand
4
Empire Falls (Richard Russo)
Empire Falls
Richard Russo
5
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
6
The Great Shark Hunt
The Great Shark Hunt
7
America: The Book
America: The Book
8
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (Ernest Hemingway)
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway
9
A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
10
The Idiot (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
The Idiot
Fyodor Dostoevsky
11
Portnoy's Complaint (Philip Roth)
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
12
Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk)
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
13
Needful Things (Stephen King)
Needful Things
Stephen King
14
Welcome to the Monkey House
Welcome to the Monkey House
15
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
Joseph Heller
16
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls
17
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
18
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor (Flannery O'Connor)
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
19
Black Coffee Blues (Henry Rollins)
Black Coffee Blues
Henry Rollins
20
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
21
Our Dumb Century
Our Dumb Century
22
The Prehistory of the Far Side
The Prehistory of the Far Side
23
Last Night at the Lobster
Last Night at the Lobster
24
Naked
Naked
25
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole
26
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
27
The Shining (Stephen King)
The Shining
Stephen King
28
Tishomingo Blues
Tishomingo Blues
29
Freaky Deaky
Freaky Deaky
30
Libra (Don Delillo)
Libra
Don Delillo
31
Our Band Could Be Your Life
Our Band Could Be Your Life
32
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
William Faulkner
33
Light in August (William Faulkner)
Light in August
William Faulkner
34
Ubik (Philip K. Dick)
Ubik
Philip K. Dick
35
Rabbit, Run (John Updike)
Rabbit, Run
John Updike
36
To Hell With Dying
To Hell With Dying
37
The Risk Pool
The Risk Pool
38
Live by Night
Live by Night
39
My Side of the Mountain (Jean Craighead George)
My Side of the Mountain
Jean Craighead George
40
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
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