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    – [ ] Of mice and men
    – [ ] The great gatsby
    – [ ] The idiot
    – [ ] Meditations
    – [ ] Brothers Karamazov
    – [ ] The myth of sisyphus
    – [ ] The odyssey
    – [ ] Hamlet
    – [ ] The catcher and the rye
    – [ ] Catch 22
    – [ ] beyond good and evil
    – [ ] King leer
    – [ ] A clock work orange
    – [ ] No longer human
    – [ ] Metamorphosis
    – [ ] Moby dick
    – [ ] To kill a mocking bird
    – [ ] 100 years of solitude
    – [ ] Lolita
    – [ ] The grapes of wrath
    – [ ] The strangers
    – [ ] Frankenstein
    – [ ] The sun also rises
    – [ ] The dairy of Anne frank
    – [ ] The old man and the sea
    – [ ] The picture of Dorian gray
    – [ ] The book of negros
    – [ ] Things fall apart
    – [ ] The art of war
    – [ ] The communist manifesto
    – [ ] Industrial society and its future (unibombers manifesto )
    – [ ] Mein kampf
    – [ ] The laws of human nature
    – [ ] Dante’s inferno (the Devine comedy)
    – [ ] War in peace
    – [ ] In search of lost time
    – [ ] The second sex
    – [ ] As I lay dying
    – [ ] Alice and wonderland
    – [ ] The sound of furry
    – [ ] Thirteen reasons why
    – [ ] Les miserables
    – [x] Crime and punishment
    – [x] The little prince
    – [x] Romeo and Juliet
    – [x] The outsiders
    – [x] Great expectations
    – [x] Lord of the flies
    – [x] The anarchist cook book
    – [x] Pride and prejudice
    – [x] Animal farm
    – [x] Oliver Twist
    – [x] A handmaiden tail
    – [x] The epic or Gilgamesh
    – [x] 1984
    – [x] Don Quixote
    – [x] Fahrenheit, 451
    – [x] The time travellers wife
    – [x] The perks of being a wallflower

    For some context about me, my mom got me into reading helping me buy or borrow books from my local library. When I buy books I buy from used book story anyways! I like philosophy and classic books but I’m just looking for what you all think are the greatest books of all time?

    by Psyduck-on-reddit

    11 Comments

    1. anxiousanimosity on

      Wuthering Heights, House of Leaves and also Spook by Mary Roach. Spook is nonfiction but it is a great read, excellent think piece plus she’s funny. House of Leaves was one of the most fucked up books I’ve read. It’s a bit, but put it on the list.

    2. FraughtOverwrought on

      Beloved by Toni Morrison

      Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

      Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

      House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

      Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

    3. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

      The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

      The Alchemist by Paolo Coehlo

      East of Eden by John Steinbeck

      When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin D. Yalom

      Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

      To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    4. I enjoy classical books too, but they exclude large groups of different types of people and experiences so I hope you’ll consider some of my picks
      Watership Down by Richard Adams
      The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
      The Silence That Binds Us by Joanna Ho
      The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
      The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
      Dreamland Burning by Jennifer Latham
      The Field Guide To The North American Teenager by Ben Philippe
      Like A Love Story by Abdi Nazemian
      The Sign For Home by Blair Fell
      Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
      The Giver by Lois Lowry
      On The Subject Of Unmentionable Things by Julia Walton
      and 1 of my favorite classics… The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

    5. Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery

      Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen (P&P is my favourite Austen novel but I think NA is more accessible for a young person)

      Beloved by Toni Morrison

      North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell

    6. Eugene Onegin by Pushkin

      Dead Souls by Gogol

      Lost Illusions by Balzac

      Journey through the end of the night by Louis-Ferdinand Céline

      Post Office by Bukowski

      A hero of our time by Lermontov

      The sailor who fail from grace with the sea by Mishima

      The Count Of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

      Memoirs from Beyond the Grave by Chateaubriand

      Ubik by Philip K. Dick

      A scanner darkly by Philip K. Dick

      The cancer ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

      The first circle by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

      Letters from a Stoic by Seneca

      The Golden Lotus by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng

      Three Kingdoms by Luo Guanzhong

      Dream of the red chamber by Cao Xueqin

    7. This is a good list. I’d read and cross off maybe z10 of these titles before you add to the list. The possible titles are endless in number, so see how your thinking changes after you’ve read some of these.

      Also I think “The Sound of Furry” should be “The Sound and the Fury.”

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