• 1984
• the great gatsby
• for whom the bell tolls
• catch 22
• the black dahlia
• the things they carried
• cider house rules
• franny and zooey
• they shoot horses don't they?
• Labyrinths
• Native Son
• The Dharma Bums
• The Crack-Up
• The Adventures of Augie March
• This Boy's Life
• Slaughter House 5
• Revolutionary Road
• The Naked and the Dead
• Rabbit, Run
• A Sport and A Pastime
• A Good Man Is Hard To Find
• American Pastoral
• Point Omega -Don DeLillo
• The Stranger -Albert Camus
• The unbearable lightness of being
• The Autobiography of My Body
• Steven King short stories
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
• Old School by Tobias Wolff
• Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
• Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• The Winter Of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
• Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham
• The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

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