The Not-even-close Replacement for actual Life
Experience:
My Wasted Childhood
This is a work in progress. If you
can think of any that you thought I'd read or talked about that aren't on here,
please, let me know. This is probably an impossible task. I'm sure I won't
remember half of it.
Including books of poetry would make it that much more impossible, and add
about a humdred more to this list, so I didn't bother with that nonsense, but
here you are:
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1.
Agamemnon |
Aeschylus |
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2. Things Fall Apart(Yams!!) |
Chinua Achebe |
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3. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy |
Douglas Adams |
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4. Little Women |
Louisa May Alcott |
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5. The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso) |
Dante Alighieri |
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6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
Maya Angelou |
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7. The Handmaid’s Tale |
Margaret Atwood |
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8. Foundation (only 1st book, so far) |
Isaac Asimov |
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9. The Prolific and The Devourer |
W.H. Auden |
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10. Clan of the Cave Bear |
Jean M. Auel |
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11. Pride and Prejudice |
Jane Austen |
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12. Emma |
Jane Austen |
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13. Sense and Sensibility |
Jane Austen |
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14. The Fire Next Time |
James Baldwin |
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15. Notes of a Native Son |
James Baldwin |
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16. Crash |
J.G. Ballard |
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17. The Sot-Weed Factor |
John Barth |
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18. Waiting for Godot |
Samuel Beckett |
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19. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil |
John Berendt |
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20. Fahrenheit 451 |
Ray Bradbury |
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21. The Postman |
David Brin |
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22. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee |
Dee Brown |
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23. The Pilgrim’s Progress |
John Bunyan |
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24. A Clockwork Orange |
Anthony Burgess |
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25. The Stranger |
Albert Camus |
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26. The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays |
Albert Camus |
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27. The Buddha |
Michael Carrithers |
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28. Alice in Wonderland |
Lewis Carroll |
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29. Through the Looking Glass |
Lewis Carroll |
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30. The Cherry Orchard |
Anton Chekov |
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31. The Cantebury Tales |
Geoffrey Chaucer |
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32. 2001: A Space Odyssey |
Arthur C. Clark |
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33. Childhood’s End |
Arthur C. Clark |
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34. Heart of Darkness & the Secret Sharer |
Joseph Conrad |
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35. Victory |
Joseph Conrad |
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36. The Secret Agent |
Joseph Conrad |
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37. The Red Badge of Courage |
Stephen Crane |
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38. Team First, Team Last
(I know, it’s kinda biased) |
Mark Craver |
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39. James and the Giant Peach |
Roald Dahl |
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40. Robinson Crusoe |
Daniel Dafoe |
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40. Fifth Business |
Robertson Davies |
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40. The Manticore |
Robertson Davies |
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41. Bleak House |
Charles Dickens |
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42. Oliver Twist |
Charles Dickens |
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43. A Tale of Two Cities |
Charles Dickens |
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44. Crime and Punishment |
Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
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45. The Immense Journey |
Loren Eisley |
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46. Star Thrower |
Loren Eisley |
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47. Invisible Man |
Ralph Ellison |
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48. In Praise of Folly |
Erasmus |
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49. The Tibetan Book of the Dead |
W.Y. Evans-Wentz |
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50. The Sound and the Fury |
William Faulkner |
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51. A Light in August |
William Faulkner |
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52. Absalom, Absalom |
William Faulkner |
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53. The Great Gatsby |
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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54. Madame Bovary |
Gustav Flaubert |
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55. Johnny Tremaine |
Esther Forbes |
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56. Howard’s End |
E.M. Forster |
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57. A Room with a View |
E.M. Forster |
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58. Where Angels Fear to Tread |
E.M. Forster |
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59. Passage to India |
E.M. Forster |
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60. The Diary of Anne Frank |
Anne Frank |
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61. Faust |
Goethe |
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62. Dakrness Visible |
William Golding |
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63. The Inheritors |
William Golding |
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64. Lord of the Flies |
William Golding |
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65. The Tin Drum |
Gunter Grass |
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66. The Flounder |
Gunter Grass |
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67. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time |
Mark Haddon |
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68. Wild Ivy |
Zen Master Hakuin |
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69. The Scarlet Letter |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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70. The Complete Short Stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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71. Raisin in the Sun |
Lorraine Hansberry |
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72. Beowulf |
Seamus Heaney |
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73. For Whom The Bell Tolls |
Ernest Hemingway |
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74. Stranger in a Strange Land |
Robert Heinlein |
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75. Dune |
Frank Herbert |
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76. Dune Messiah |
Frank Herbert |
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77. Children of Dune |
Frank Herbert |
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78. God Emporer of Dune |
Frank Herbert |
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79. Peter Camenzind |
Hermann Hesse |
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80. Steppenwolf |
Hermann Hesse |
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81. Siddhartha |
Hermann Hesse |
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82. Narcissus and Goldmund |
Hermann Hesse |
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83. Demian |
Hermann Hesse |
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84. Journey to the East |
Hermann Hesse |
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85. Glass Bead Game |
Hermann Hesse |
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86. Odyssey |
Homer |
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87. Iliad |
Homer |
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88. Les Misérables |
Victor Hugo |
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89. The Perennial Philosophy |
Aldous Huxley |
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90. The Genius and the Goddess |
Aldous Huxley |
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91. Jacob’s Hands |
Aldous Huxley |
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92. Point Counter Point |
Aldous Huxley |
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93. Antic Hay |
Aldous Huxley |
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94. Eyeless in Gaza |
Aldous Huxley |
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95. Those Barren Leaves |
Aldous Huxley |
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96. Time Must Have a Stop |
Aldous Huxley |
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97. Science, Liberty, and Peace |
Aldous Huxley |
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98. The Devils of Loudon |
Aldous Huxley |
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99. Chrome Yellow |
Aldous Huxley |
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100. The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell |
Aldous Huxley |
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101. Brave New World Revisited |
Aldous Huxley |
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102. Brave New World |
Aldous Huxley |
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103.
La Bas |
Huysmans |
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104.
Against Nature |
Huysmans |
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105.
A Doll’s House |
Henrik Ibsen |
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106.
A prayer for Owen Meany |
John Irving |
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107.
The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow and Other Stories by Washington Irving |
Washington Irving |
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108.
Redwall |
Brian Jacques |
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109.
The Golden Bowl |
Henry James |
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110.
Turn Of the Screw |
Henry James |
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111.
Portrait of the Artist
as a Young Man |
James Joyce |
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112.
Metamorphosis and Other
Stories (yes, and the other stories) |
Franz Kafka |
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113.
The Trial |
Franz Kafka |
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114.
One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest |
Ken Kesey |
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115.
Flowers for Algernon |
Daniel Keyes |
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116.
Into Thin Air |
John Krakauer |
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117.
Angela’s Ashes |
Frank McCourt |
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118.
Valmont |
Choderlos
De Laclos |
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119.
To Kill a Mocking Bird |
Harper Lee |
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120.
A Wrinkle in Time |
Madeline L’Engle |
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121.
A Ring of Endless Light |
Madeline L’Engle |
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122.
A Wind in the Door |
Madeline L’Engle |
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123.
A Swiftly Tilting Planet |
Madeline L’Engle |
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124.
Chronicles of Narnia |
C.S. Lewis |
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125.
Dymer (and the complete
narrative poems of: C.S Lewis) |
C.S. Lewis |
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126.
Out of the Silent Planet |
C.S. Lewis |
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127.
Peralandra |
C.S. Lewis |
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128.
That Hideous Strength |
C.S. Lewis |
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129.
The Call of the Wild |
Jack London |
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130.
White Fang |
Jack London |
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131.
The Giver |
Lois Lowry |
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132.
Wandering on the Way: Early Toaist Tales |
Victor H. Mair |
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133.
100 Years of Solitude |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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134.
A Very Old Man With
Enormous Wings |
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
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135.
The Communist Manifesto |
Karl Marx |
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136.
Capital |
Karl Marx |
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137.
Of Human Bondage |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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138.
The Razor's Edge |
W. Somerset Maugham |
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139.
Billy Budd |
Herman Melville |
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140.
Bartleby The Scrivener (yes, I actually buy the Jesus arguments…darn you, Dr.
Craver) |
Herman Melville |
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141.
Moby Dick |
Herman Melville |
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142.
On Liberty |
John Stuart Mill |
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143.
The Death of a Salesman |
Arthur Miller |
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144.
The Crucible |
Arthur Miller |
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145.
The Bhagavad-gita |
Barbara Miller |
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146.
A Canticle for Lebowitz |
Walter Miller |
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147.
Paradise Lost |
John Milton |
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148.
Anne of Green Gables |
Lucy Montgomery |
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149.
Utopia |
Sir Thomas More |
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150.
Song of Solomon |
Toni Morrison |
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151.
The Gay Science |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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152.
Thus Spake Zarathustra |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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153.
Beyond Good and Evil |
Friedrich Nietzsche |
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154.
The Upanisads (NF) |
Patrick Olivelle |
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155.
Homage to Catalonia (NF) |
George Orwell |
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156.
Burmese Days |
George Orwell |
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157.
Down and Out in Paris
and London |
George Orwell |
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158.
A Clergyman’s Daughter |
George Orwell |
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159.
Keep the Aspidistra
Flying |
George Orwell |
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160.
The Road to Wigan Pier (NF) |
George Orwell |
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161.
Coming up for Air |
George Orwell |
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162.
The Complete Essays of
George Orwell |
George Orwell |
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163.
Animal Farm |
George Orwell |
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164.
1984 |
George Orwell |
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165.
Choke |
Chuck Palahniuk |
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166.
Fight Club |
Chuck Palahniuk |
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167.
Invisible Monsters |
Chuck Palahniuk |
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168.
Survivor |
Chuck Palahniuk |
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169.
Lullaby |
Chuck Palahniuk |
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170.
Doctor Zhivago |
Boris Pasternak |
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171.
The Bell Jar |
Sylvia Plath |
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172.
The Republic |
Plato |
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173.
The Crying of Lot 49 |
Thomas Pynchon |
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174.
Atlas Shrugged |
Ayn Rand |
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175.
Where the Red Fern Grows |
Wilson Rawls |
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176.
Cyrano
de Bergerac |
Edmond Rostand |
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177.
On the Social Contract |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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178.
Catcher in the Rye |
J.D. Salinger |
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179.
The Bodhicaryavatara |
Santideva |
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180.
Frankenstein |
Mary Shelley |
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181.
Pygmalion |
George Bernard Shaw |
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182.
The Jungle |
Upton Sinclair |
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183.
The All-True Travels and
Adventures of Lidie Newton |
Jane Smiley (AHHHHHHHHHH) |
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184.
Antigone and Oedipus Rex |
Sophocles |
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185.
The Grapes of Wrath |
John Steinbeck |
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186.
Of Mice and Men |
John Steinbeck |
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187.
Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
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188.
Treasure Island |
Robert Louis Stevenson |
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189.
Dracula |
Bram Stoker |
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190.
Gulliver’s Travells |
Jonathan Swift |
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191.
The Joy Luck Club |
Amy Tan |
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192.
Down These Mean Streets (autographed) |
Piri Thomas (cool guy) |
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193.
Walden |
Henry David Thoreau |
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194.
Civil Disobedience |
Henry David Thoreau |
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195.
The Hobbit |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
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196.
The Fellowship of the
Ring |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
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197.
The Two Towers |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
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198.
The Return of the King |
J.R.R. Tolkien |
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199.
The Adventures of Tom
Sawyer |
Mark Twain |
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200.
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn |
Mark Twain |
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201.
The Complete Short
Stories of Mark Twain |
Mark Twain |
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202.
A Connecticut Yankee In
King Arthur’s Court |
Mark Twain |
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203.
Pudd’nhead Wilson |
Mark Twain |
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204.
The Prince and the
Pauper |
Mark Twain |
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205.
Worlds in Collision (What!? It’s entertaining) |
Immanuel Velikovsky (hehe) |
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206.
Breakfast of Champions |
Kurt Vonnegut |
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207.
Slaughterhouse 5 |
Kurt Vonnegut |
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208.
Candide |
Voltaire |
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209.
The Invisible Man |
H.G. Wells |
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210.
The Time Machine |
H.G. Wells |
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211.
The Island of Dr. Moreau |
H.G. Wells |
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212.
Ethan Frome |
Edith Wharton |
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213.
The Glass Menagerie |
Tennessee Williams |
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214.
Our Town |
Thorton Wilder |
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215.
Native Son |
Richard Wright |
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216.
Black Boy |
Richard Wright |
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217.
Gilgamesh |
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218.
Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight |
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NF |
NF |
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219.
Necessary Illusions |
Noam Chomsky |
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220.
Guns Germs and Steel |
Jared Diamond |
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221.
Homo Hierarchicus: the
Caste System and Its Implications |
Louis Dumont |
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222.
Aldous Huxley
Recollected: An Oral History |
David King Dunaway |
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223.
Captains of
Consciousness |
Stuart Ewen |
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224.
The Feynman Lectures
(Vol I-III) |
Richard Feynman |
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225.
Hermann Hesse: Pilgrim
of Crisis |
Ralph Freedman |
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226.
The Foucault Reader |
Michel Foucault |
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227.
Schizophrenia Genesis:
The Origins of Madness |
Irving Gottesman |
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228.
A Brief History of Time |
Stephen Hawking |
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229.
Elemental Mind |
Nick Herbert |
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230.
Godel, Escher, Bach: an
Eternal Golden Braid |
Douglas Hofstadter |
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231.
The Age of Reform |
Richard Hofstadter |
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232.
Vector Calculus, Linear
Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unifed Approach (2nd ed.) |
John H. Hubbard |
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233.
The Structure of
Scientific Revolutions |
Thomas Kuhn |
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234.
The Metaphors We Live By |
George Lakoff & Mark Johnson |
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235.
The God Particle |
Leon Lederman |
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236.
Structural Anthropology |
Claude Levi-Strauss |
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237.
Surfaces and Interfaces
of Solid Materials,3rd Ed. |
Hans Luth. |
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238.
Transitions of
Collective Flow at Intermediate Energies (I
think 200 dissertations count) |
Daniel Joseph Magestro |
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239.
The First Frontier |
John C. Miller |
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240.
Godel's Proof |
Nagel & Newmann |
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241.
Visual Complex Analysis |
Tristam Needham |
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242.
Collective Flow in
Intermediate Energy Collisions |
Robert Pak (Really, they count!) |
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243.
The Psychology of
Intelligence |
Jean Piaget |
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244.
Cosmos |
Carl Sagan |
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245.
Integral Measure and
Derivative |
Shilov & Gurevich |
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246.
Calculus On Manifolds |
Michael Spivak |
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247.
Chemistry In Two
Dimensions: Surfaces |
Gabor A. Somorjai |
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248.
Churchill’s Black Dog,
Kafka’s Mice, & Other Phenomena of the Human Mind |
Anthony Storr |
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249.
The Confederacy as a
Revolutionary Experience |
Emory M. Thomas |
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250.
The Quantum Dot |
Richard Turton |
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251.
Sociological Writings (Vol. 60) |
Max Weber |
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252.
Elementary Particles and
the Laws of Physics |
Weinberg and Feynman |
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253.
The First Three Minutes |
Steven Weinberg |
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