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500 Books to Read Before Turning 50

A collection of books from a variety of lists that I want to read in the next 20 years, before turning 50.
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A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway)
A Moveable Feast
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Ernest Hemingway
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
2
James Joyce
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving)
A Prayer for Owen Meany
3
John Irving
A Short History of Nearly Everything (Bill Bryson)
A Short History of Nearly Everything
4
Bill Bryson
A Tale of Love and Darkness (Amos Oz)
A Tale of Love and Darkness
5
Amos Oz
A Wizard of Earthsea (Ursula K. Le Guin)
A Wizard of Earthsea
6
Ursula K. Le Guin
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
7
William Faulkner
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
8
Erich Maria Remarque
All the King's Men (Robert Penn Warren)
All the King's Men
9
Robert Penn Warren
All the President's Men (Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward)
All the President's Men
10
Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward
An Inconvenient Truth
An Inconvenient Truth
11
Analects of Confucius
Analects of Confucius
12
Andersen's Fairy Tales
Andersen's Fairy Tales
13
Animal Farm (George Orwell)
Animal Farm
14
George Orwell
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Anne of Green Gables
15
L.M. Montgomery
Bestiario
Bestiario
16
Birdsong (Sebastian Faulks)
Birdsong
17
Sebastian Faulks
Blindness (José Saramago)
Blindness
18
José Saramago
Bostan
Bostan
19
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
20
Evelyn Waugh
Buddenbrooks
Buddenbrooks
21
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
22
Dee Brown
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Louis De Bernieres)
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
23
Louis De Bernieres
Charlotte's Web (E.B. White)
Charlotte's Web
24
E.B. White
Children of Gebelawi
Children of Gebelawi
25
Complete Tales and Poems, by Edgar Allan Poe
Complete Tales and Poems, by Edgar Allan Poe
26
Confessions of Zeno
Confessions of Zeno
27
Dangerous Liaisons (Pierre Choderlos De Laclos)
Dangerous Liaisons
28
Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
29
Nikolai Gogol
Death Comes for the Archbishop (Willa Cather)
Death Comes for the Archbishop
30
Willa Cather
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
31
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune
32
Frank Herbert
El Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges
El Aleph, by Jorge Luis Borges
33
Essays
Essays
34
Far From the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy)
Far From the Madding Crowd
35
Thomas Hardy
Findings
Findings
36
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Frankenstein
37
Mary Shelley
Freakonomics (Steven D. Levitt)
Freakonomics
38
Steven D. Levitt
Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
Gargantua and Pantagruel
39
François Rabelais
Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
Go Tell It on the Mountain
40
James Baldwin
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