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Books That Had an Impact on Me

A list of 100 books that had some sort of impact on my thinking, world view, or understanding. There are many more, but I figured 100 was a reasonable place to stop.
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#1
Iliad
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#2
Odyssey
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#3
Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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#4
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
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#5
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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#6
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (1953)
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#7
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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#8
The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot
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#9
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
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#10
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
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#11
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
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#12
A Raisin in the Sun
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#13
Me Talk Pretty One Day (David Sedaris)
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#14
Oxford English Dictionary
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#15
A Room of One's Own (Virginia Woolf)
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#16
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
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#17
A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole)
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#18
Complete Works Edgar Allen Poe
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#19
Nineteen Eighty-Four
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#20
Animal Farm
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#21
Collected Poems by Keats
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#22
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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#23
Love in the Time of Cholera
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#24
A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
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#25
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
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#26
The Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie)
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#27
Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats
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#28
Long Day's Journey Into Night
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#29
The Hairy Ape (Eugene O'Neil)
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#30
The Compleate Calvin and Hobbes (Hardcover and Paperback)
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#31
Waiting for Godot
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#32
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
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#33
Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
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#34
The World According to Garp
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#35
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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#36
Shelley's Poetry and Prose (Percey Shelley)
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#37
James Joyce Ulysses
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#38
Dubliners
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#39
To the Lighthouse
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#40
The Waves
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#41
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
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#42
Sylvia Plath
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#43
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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#44
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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#45
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
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#46
Girl With Curious Hair (David Foster Wallace)
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#47
The Adventures of Augie March
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#48
Herzog
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#49
Humboldt's Gift
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#50
Mr. Sammler's Planet
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#51
Seize the Day
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#52
All the Pretty Horses
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#53
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
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#54
Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon)
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#55
Poisonwood Bible
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#56
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
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#57
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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#58
The Sound and the Fury
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#59
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
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#60
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
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#61
Song of Solomon
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#62
The Bluest Eye
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#63
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
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#64
Ceremony
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#65
Slaughterhouse-Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
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#66
Aeneid
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#67
Nine Stories
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#68
Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
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#69
The Grapes of Wrath
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#70
For Whom the Bell Tolls
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#71
A Farewell to Arms (By Ernest Hemingway)
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#72
The Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
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#73
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (Raymond Carver)
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#74
Dance of the Happy Shades (Alice Munro)
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#75
The Progress of Love
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#76
Collected Stories
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#77
The Poems of Dylan Thomas
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#78
The Pugilist at Rest
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#79
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine (Thom Jones)
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#80
The Association of Small Bombs (Karan Mahajan)
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#81
The Prehistory of the Far Side
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#82
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
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#83
Quicksand and Passing - Nella Larsen
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#84
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
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#85
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Edward Albee)
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#86
The Trial of God (Elie Wiesel)
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#87
The Bald Soprano (Eugene Ionesco)
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#88
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
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#89
Complete Poems and Major Prose: Milton (John Milton)
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#90
Divine Comedy
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#91
A Passage to India (E.M. Forster)
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#92
War of the Worlds (H.G. Wells)
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#93
Sixty Stories
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#94
Sons and Lovers (D.H. Lawrence)
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#95
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original (Robin D. G. Kelley)
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#96
The Collected Stories (William Trevor) (William Trevor)
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#97
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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#98
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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#99
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
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#100
Howards End by E.M. Forster
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