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Avery's Highly Subjective 100 Favorite Books

This was really hard to narrow down. A lot of books I wanted to include but couldn't. Organized alphabetically so I wouldn't have to rank them.
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2666 (Roberto Bolaño)
2666
1
Roberto Bolaño
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
2
William Faulkner
The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
3
Virgil
The Age of Extremes a History of the World 1914 - 1991 (Eric Hobsbawm)
The Age of Extremes a History of the World 1914 - 1991
4
Eric Hobsbawm
The Age of Innocence (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocence
5
Edith Wharton
The Ambassadors (Henry James)
The Ambassadors
6
Henry James
American Pastoral (Philip Roth)
American Pastoral
7
Philip Roth
Ancient Light (John Banville)
Ancient Light
8
John Banville
Ariel (Sylvia Plath)
Ariel
9
Sylvia Plath
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
10
William Faulkner
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz
11
W.G. Sebald
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
12
Toni Morrison
The Black Jacobins
The Black Jacobins
13
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 (W.E.B. Du Bois)
Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880
14
W.E.B. Du Bois
Black Skin, White Masks (Frantz Fanon)
Black Skin, White Masks
15
Frantz Fanon
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Blood Meridian
16
Cormac McCarthy
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
The Brothers Karamazov
17
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Butcher's Crossing (John Williams)
Butcher's Crossing
18
John Williams
Capital Volume 1 (Karl Marx)
Capital Volume 1
19
Karl Marx
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (Mike Davis)
City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
20
Mike Davis
Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas (Dylan Thomas)
Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
21
Dylan Thomas
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (W.B. Yeats)
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
22
W.B. Yeats
Compass (Mathias Énard)
Compass
23
Mathias Énard
The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot
The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot
24
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
A Confederacy of Dunces
25
John Kennedy Toole
Correction
Correction
26
The Day of the Locust (Nathanael West)
The Day of the Locust
27
Nathanael West
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Leo Tolstoy)
The Death of Ivan Ilych
28
Leo Tolstoy
The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri)
The Divine Comedy
29
Dante Alighieri
The Door (Magda Szabó)
The Door
30
Magda Szabó
Dubliners (James Joyce)
Dubliners
31
James Joyce
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune
32
Frank Herbert
Eighteenth Brumaire (Karl Marx)
Eighteenth Brumaire
33
Karl Marx
Fearful Symmetry (Northrop Frye)
Fearful Symmetry
34
Northrop Frye
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History' (Michael Löwy)
Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin's 'On the Concept of History'
35
Michael Löwy
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose
36
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Giovanni's Room (James Baldwin)
Giovanni's Room
37
James Baldwin
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The God of Small Things
38
Arundhati Roy
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
Gravity's Rainbow
39
Thomas Pynchon
Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
Hamlet
40
William Shakespeare
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