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Cool Books to Read in Public

Here is a list of 50 books that are believed to be good conversation starters and are mostly in good taste.
Some are really niche while others are worthy of cult status, but I think the common theme between them all is that they are pretty badass! These are the books I wish I was reading back in a day when I lived in the city, was single, and rode the subway a lot :))
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The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
The Man Without Qualities (Robert Musil)
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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 Magic Mountain
The Magic Mountain
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
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The Sot-Weed Factor
The Sot-Weed Factor
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The Magus (John Fowles)
The Magus (John Fowles)
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The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov)
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Ulysses (James Joyce)
Ulysses (James Joyce)
9
Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
11
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco)
12
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
13
The Sleepwalkers (Hermann Broch)
The Sleepwalkers (Hermann Broch)
14
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
In Search of Lost Time (Marcel Proust)
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The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata
The Sound of the Mountain Yasunari Kawabata
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The Melancholy of Resistance
The Melancholy of Resistance
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The First Circle
The First Circle
18
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
Midnight's Children (Salman Rushdie)
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Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin, Trans. Michael Hoffman)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (Alfred Döblin, Trans. Michael Hoffman)
20
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
21
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
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Dictionary of the Khazars (Milorad Pavić)
Dictionary of the Khazars (Milorad Pavić)
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Extinction (Thomas Bernhard)
Extinction (Thomas Bernhard)
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Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)
Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar)
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Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
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Lanark (Alasdair Gray)
Lanark (Alasdair Gray)
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The Opposing Shore (Julien Gracq)
The Opposing Shore (Julien Gracq)
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Elementary Particles
Elementary Particles
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The Buddha of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi)
The Buddha of Suburbia (Hanif Kureishi)
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Maldoror (Comte De Lautréamont)
Maldoror (Comte De Lautréamont)
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Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
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The Pale King (David Foster Wallace)
The Pale King (David Foster Wallace)
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Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec, Trans. David Bellos)
Life: A User's Manual (Georges Perec, Trans. David Bellos)
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Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald)
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The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
The Red and the Black (Stendhal)
36
Darconville's Cat (Alexander Theroux)
Darconville's Cat (Alexander Theroux)
37
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
38
Memoirs of Hadrian (Margarite Yourcenar)
Memoirs of Hadrian (Margarite Yourcenar)
39
Germinal (Émile Zola)
Germinal (Émile Zola)
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Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
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