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1 We Need to Talk About Kevin. - Lionel Shriver
5 A Thousand Splendid Suns. - Khaled Hosseini
11 The Book Thief. - Markus Zusak
13 A Bell for Adano. - John Hersey
14 East of Eden. - John Steinbeck
15 Of Mice and Men. - John Steinbeck
17 The Art of Racing in the Rain - Garth Stein
20 Crime and Punishment. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
21 The Alchemist. - Paulo Coelho
22 The Shining. - Steven King
23 The Shack - W Young
27 Persuasion. - Jane Austin
30 Fahrenheit 451. - Ray Bradbury
31 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
32 Watership Down - Richard Adams
33 Night - Elie Wiesel
35 The Stand - Stephen King
36 A Tale of Two Cities. - Charles Dickens
39 The Old Man and the Sea. - Ernest Hemingway
42 Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
44 The Time Traveler's Wife. - Audrey Niffeneger
51 The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
53 The Kite Runner. - Khaled Hosseini
53 The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers
67 Pet Semetary - Stephen King
75 My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult
76 Emma. - Jane Austin
87. Middlesex. - Jeffrey Eugenides
91 Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
2 A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. - Betty Smith
3 Mossflower. - Brian Jacques
4 The New Jim Crowe Laws. - Michelle Alexander
6 Little Women. - Louisa May Alcott
7 Middlemarch. - George Elliot
8 The Discworld Series. - Terry Pratchett
9 The Collected Works. - e.e Cummings
10 The Thirteenth Tale. - Dianne Setterfield
12 I am the Messenger. - Markus Zusak
16 A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
18 Tess of the D'urbavilles - Thomas Hardy
19 The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. - Jonas Jonasson
24 The Last Man - Mary Shelly
25 Foundation Trilogy - Isaac Asimov
26 My First White Friend - Patricia Raybon
28 The Fault in Our Stars. - John Green
29 Very Bad Men - Harry Dolan
34 Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
37 Great Expectations. - Charles Dickens
38 Fight Club. - Chuck Palahniuk
40 For Whom the Bell Tolls - Ernest Hemingway
41 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
43 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - Anne Bronte
45 Invasion of the Body Snatchers - Jack Finney
46 The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K le Guin
47 The Hyperion Series - Dan Simmons
48 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - Robert A Heinlein
49 Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A Heinlein
50 Ender's Game. - Orson Scott Card
52 Descartes Bones - Russell Shorto
55 A Separate Peace - John Knowles
56 The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
57 Looking for Alaska. - John Green
58 12 Years A Slave. - Solomon Northup
59 Dove - Robin Lee Graham
60 Revolutionary Road. - Richard Yates
61 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. - Muriel Spark
62 Tender is the Night - F Scott Fitzgerald
63 The Power of One - Bryce Courtney
64 A Testament of Youth - Vera Britain
65 Burr - Gore Vidal
66 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Faddiman
68 Jurassic Park - Michael Crichton
69 American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis
70 Human Comedy - William Saroyan
71 Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson
72 The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway
73 The discovery of heaven - Harry Mulisch
74 The Silence of Bonaventure Arrow - Rita Leganski
77 Of Human Bondage - W Somerset Maugham
78 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
79 The Forgotten Seamstress - Liz Trenow
80 Freedom from the Known - J Krishnamurti
81 Foam of the Daze, also published under the title of Mood Indigo - Boris Vian
82 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
83 The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
84 The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson
85 Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance- Pirsig
86 Moon and Sixpence - W Somerset Maugham
88 Johnny got his gun - Dalton Trumbo
89 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. - Patrick Suskind
90 How Green was My Valley - Richard LLewellyn
92 The Jungle - Upton Sinclair
93 Scaramouche - Rafael Sabatini
94 The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
95 The Faiths of the Founding Fathers - David L Holmes
96 The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
97 The Prisoner of Zenda - Anthony Hope
98 Dhalgren - Samuel R Delany
99 The Marid Audran Sequence - George Alec Effinger
100 When The Sacred Gin Mill Closes - Lawrence Block