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Todd's 100 Best Books (NYT, the Atlantic; Why Not Me?)

I like these. Hope you do to. I agreed with a lot of the NYT and the Atlantic list, but thought it would be fun to make my own. Happy reading!
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100 Love Sonnets (Pablo Neruda)
100 Love Sonnets
1
Pablo Neruda
95 Poems (E.E. Cummings)
95 Poems
2
E.E. Cummings
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom!
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William Faulkner
Against Interpretation (Susan Sontag)
Against Interpretation
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Susan Sontag
The Age of Innocense (Edith Wharton)
The Age of Innocense
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Edith Wharton
Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems (Billy Collins)
Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems
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Billy Collins
All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
All Quiet on the Western Front
7
Erich Maria Remarque
Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
Anne of Green Gables
8
L.M. Montgomery
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina
9
Leo Tolstoy
Ararat (Louise Glück)
Ararat
10
Louise Glück
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
As I Lay Dying
11
William Faulkner
The Awakening (Kate Chopin)
The Awakening
12
Kate Chopin
The Beautiful and Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Beautiful and Damned
13
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Becoming Fluent (Roger J. Kreuz)
Becoming Fluent
14
Roger J. Kreuz
Bernini (Howard Hibbard)
Bernini
15
Howard Hibbard
The Book of Tea (Kakuzo Okakura)
The Book of Tea
16
Kakuzo Okakura
Brideshead Revisited (Evelyn Waugh)
Brideshead Revisited
17
Evelyn Waugh
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Brown)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
18
Dee Brown
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Catch-22
19
Joseph Heller
The Checklist Manifesto (Atul Gawande)
The Checklist Manifesto
20
Atul Gawande
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (Lord Byron)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
21
Lord Byron
The Classical Style (Charles Rosen)
The Classical Style
22
Charles Rosen
Cold Comfort Farm (Stella Gibbons)
Cold Comfort Farm
23
Stella Gibbons
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (Wilfred Owen)
The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
24
Wilfred Owen
The Complete Haiku (Matsuo Basho)
The Complete Haiku
25
Matsuo Basho
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Emily Dickinson)
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
26
Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane (Hart Crane)
The Complete Poems of Hart Crane
27
Hart Crane
A Coney Island of the Mind (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
A Coney Island of the Mind
28
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Daisy Miller (Henry James)
Daisy Miller
29
Henry James
Desolation Island (Patrick O'Brian)
Desolation Island
30
Patrick O'Brian
A Distant Mirror (Barbara Tuchman)
A Distant Mirror
31
Barbara Tuchman
Don Quijote De La Mancha (Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra)
Don Quijote De La Mancha
32
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Dune (Frank Herbert)
Dune
33
Frank Herbert
East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
East of Eden
34
John Steinbeck
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Hannah Arendt)
Eichmann in Jerusalem
35
Hannah Arendt
Emma (Jane Austen)
Emma
36
Jane Austen
Ethan Frome (Edith Wharton)
Ethan Frome
37
Edith Wharton
Eugene Onegin (Aleksandr Pushkin)
Eugene Onegin
38
Aleksandr Pushkin
Ever Since Darwin (Stephen Jay Gould)
Ever Since Darwin
39
Stephen Jay Gould
Excellent Women (Barbara Pym)
Excellent Women
40
Barbara Pym
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