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1 Pride and Prejudice  Jane Austen 

2 1984  George Orwell 

3 The Great Gatsby  F. Scott Fitzgerald 

4  Jane Eyre  Charlotte Bronte

5 Crime and Punishment  Fyodor Dostoyevsky  

6 The Adventures of Huc!eberry "inn by Mark Twain

7 #o!ita  Vladiir !a"okov  

8 $utherin% Hei%hts  #ily Bronte

9 &f 'ice and 'en  John Stein"eck 

10 The Count of 'onte Cristo  Ale$andre Duas 

11 Anna (arenina %eo &olstoy  

12 )rave *e+ $or!d  Aldous 'u$ley  

13 Catch,-- .Catch,--/ 01  Jose(h 'eller  

14 The )rothers (arama2ov Fyodor Dostoyevsky  

15 The Gra3es of $rath  John Stein"eck  

16 &ne Hundred ears of 5o!itude Ga"riel Garcia )ar*uez  

17 5!au%hterhouse,"ive +urt Vonnegut  

18 A Ta!e of T+o Cities Charles Dickens

19 $ar and Peace %eo &olstoy  

20 The 'etamor3hosis and &ther 5tories Franz +a,ka 

21 'oby,6ic  'eran )elville

22 6on 7uiote )iguel de Cervantes Saavedra 

23 The &!d 'an and the 5ea #rnest 'eingway  

24 The 5ound and the "ury -illia Faulkner 

25 !ysses  Jaes Joyce 

26 East of Eden  John Stein"eck  

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27 The 5car!et #etter  !athaniel 'awthorne 

28 A!! 7uiet on the $estern "ront #rich )aria ear*ue

29 Candide Voltaire

30 "or $hom the )e!! To!!s #rnest 'eingway  

31 6avid Co33er:e!d Charles Dickens 

32 The *ame of the ;ose /"erto #co 

33 The 'aster and 'ar%arita )ikhail Bulgakov  

34 The P!a%ue  Al"ert Caus 

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53 Pa!e "ire Vladiir !a"okov  

54 #i%ht in Au%ust -illia Faulkner 

55 The 'a%ic 'ountain &hoas )ann 

56 My Antonia -illa Cather  

57 Geor%e E!iot? 'idd!emarch , 5i!as 'arner , Amos )arton George #liot  

58 The House of 'irth #dith -harton 

59 "icciones Jorge %uis Borges 

60 The 'a!tese "a!con/ The Thin 'an/ ;ed Harvest Dashiell 'aett  

61 6ead 5ou!s !ikolai Gogol 

62 The #ife and &3inions of Tristram 5handy/ Gent!eman %aurence Sterne 

63 An American Tra%edy &heodore Dreiser  

64 'o!!oy/ 'a!one 6ies/ The nnamab!e? A Tri!o%y Sauel Beckett  

65 Gi!ead )arilynne o"inson 

66 The History of Tom Jones/ a "ound!in% 'enry Fielding 

67 >@ &hoas 1ynchon 

68 Cat=s Eye )argaret Atwood

69 Cancer $ard  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

70 Tro3ic of Cancer 'enry )iller  

71 #ost

75 The "orsyte 5a%a  John Galsworthy  

76 ;abbit An%strom? The "our *ove!s  John /(dike 

77 A House for 'r )is+as V.S. !ai(aul 

78 Therese ;auin #ile 0ola 

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79 6eath Comes for the Archbisho3 -illa Cather  

80 "inne%ans $ae Jaes Joyce

81 )rid%e of 5i%hs ichard usso 

82 The 5ot,$eed "actor  John Barth 

83 The >icar of $ae:e!d Oliver Goldsith 

84 Adam )ede George #liot

85 The Ta!e of Genji )urasaki Shiki"u 

86 The ;eco%nitions -illia Gaddis 

87 #ife and "ate Vasily Grossan 

88 'ason and 6ion &hoas 1ynchon 

89  Ja22 &oni )orrison 

90 The Tenth 'an Graha Greene

91 Humbo!dt=s Gift Saul Bellow 

91 1919  John Dos 1assos

93  J; -illia Gaddis 

94 6arconvi!!eBs Cat  Ale$ander &herou$  

95 The 6eath of >ir%i! 'erann Broch 

96 The 6iviners )argaret %aurence 

97 #es 'israb!es Victor 'ugo 

98 The Catcher in the ;ye  J.D. Salinger  

99 A 5treetcar *amed 6esire &ennessee -illias 

100 The Tunne! -illia '. Gass