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Read Like a Writer

I found this list in the back of Francine Prose's book and was compelled, not only to read each and every one, but to share it as well.
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Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
Little Women
1
Louisa May Alcott
The Song of Roland (Anonymous)
The Song of Roland
2
Anonymous
Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Pride and Prejudice
3
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Sense and Sensibility
4
Jane Austen
Isaac Babel
Isaac Babel
5
James Baldwin
James Baldwin
6
Cousin Bette (Honoré De Balzac)
Cousin Bette
7
Honoré De Balzac
Sixty Stories
Sixty Stories
8
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
Stories in an Almost Classical Mode
9
Samuel Beckett (Deirdre Bair)
Samuel Beckett
10
Deirdre Bair
Elizabeth Bowen: The House in Paris
Elizabeth Bowen: The House in Paris
11
Two Serious Ladies
Two Serious Ladies
12
Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky
Paul Bowles: The Sheltering Sky
13
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights
14
Emily Brontë
Cosmicomics (Calvino)
Cosmicomics
15
Calvino
Where I'm Calling From
Where I'm Calling From
16
Cathedral (Raymond Carver)
Cathedral
17
Raymond Carver
Don Quixote (Miguel De Cervantes)
Don Quixote
18
Miguel De Cervantes
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
The Big Sleep
19
Raymond Chandler
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
20
Stories: Anton Chekhov (Anton Chekhov)
Stories: Anton Chekhov
21
Anton Chekhov
Drown, Junot Diaz
Drown, Junot Diaz
22
Bleak House (Charles Dickens)
Bleak House
23
Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son (Charles Dickens)
Dombey and Son
24
Charles Dickens
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
25
Middlemarch (George Eliot)
Middlemarch
26
George Eliot
Searches and Seizures (Stanley Elkin)
Searches and Seizures
27
Stanley Elkin
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby
28
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tender Is the Night (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Tender Is the Night
29
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
Madame Bovary
30
Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education (Gustave Flaubert)
Sentimental Education
31
Gustave Flaubert
Desperate Characters
Desperate Characters
32
The Corrections (Jonathan Franzen)
The Corrections
33
Jonathan Franzen
The Recognitions (William Gaddis)
The Recognitions
34
William Gaddis
The Wonders of the Invisible World (David Gates)
The Wonders of the Invisible World
35
David Gates
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
36
Dead Souls (Nikolai Gogol)
Dead Souls
37
Nikolai Gogol
Henry Green: Loving
Henry Green: Loving
38
The Go Between (L.P. Hartley)
The Go Between
39
L.P. Hartley
A Moveable Feast (Ernest Hemingway)
A Moveable Feast
40
Ernest Hemingway
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