Literature to Read
This is a list of literature I wish to read. It ranges from fiction to poetry to non-fiction, totaling 85 titles.
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Ada
– Vladimir Nabokov
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Adam Bede
– George Eliot
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The Alchemist
– Paolo Coelho
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​Atlas Shrugged
– Ayn Rand
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The Beautiful and the Damned
– F. Scott Fitzgerald​​
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The Body Snatcher
– Robert Louis Stevenson
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Caligula
– Albert Camus
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The Colonel's Lady
– William Somerset Maugham
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Coming Up for Air
– George Orwell
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Daisy Miller
– Henry James
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Daniel Deronda
– George Eliot
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Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
– Rene Girard
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Demian
– Herman Hesse
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Doctor Faustus
– Thomas Mann
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Doctor Faustus and Other Plays: Parts 1-2
– Christopher Marlowe
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Evelina
– Frances Burney
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Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
– John Cleland
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A Farewell to Arms
– Ernest Hemingway
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Fight Club
– Chuck Palahniuk
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Les Fleurs du Mal
– Charles Baudelaire
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
– Ernest Hemingway
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
– Stieg Larsson
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The Good Soldier
– Ford Maddox Ford
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The Hand of Ethelberta
– Thomas Hardy
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The Hunger
– Whitley Strieber
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I See Satan Fall Like Lightning
– Rene Girard
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The Invisible Girl and The Dream
– Mary Shelley
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The Italian
– Ann Radcliffe
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King Lear
– William Shakespeare
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King Solomon's Mines
– H. Rider Haggard
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Lady Susan
– Jane Austen
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The Lifted Veil
– George Eliot
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The Magic Mountain
– Thomas Mann
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The Magician
– W. Somerset Maugham
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Maid in Waiting
– John Galsworthy
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Manfred
– George Gordon Byron
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The Mortal Immortal and the Evil Eye
– Mary Shelley
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Mother Night
– Kurt Vonnegut
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A Moveable Feast
– Ernest Hemingway
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Nana
– Emile Zola
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The Nazis and the Occult
– Dusty Sklar
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Nostromo
– Joseph Conrad
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Of Human Bondage
– W. Somerset Maugham
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An Old Man's Love
– Anthony Trollope
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A Pair of Blue Eyes
– Thomas Hardy
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Pale Fire
– Vladimir Nabokov
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The Pilgrims
– Mary Shelley
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The Plumed Serpent
– D.H. Lawrence
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Pnin
– Vladimir Nabokov
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The Poor Clare
– Elizabeth Gaskell
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The Professor
– Charlotte Bronte
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Quartet
– Jean Rhys
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The Queen's Necklace
– Alexandre Dumas
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Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky
– Rene Girard
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The Rider on the White Horse
– Theodor Storm
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A Rogue's Life
– Wilkie Collins
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Salome
– Oscar Wilde
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The Scapegoat
– Rene Girard
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The Screwtape Letters
– C.S. Lewis
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The Secret Agent
– Joseph Conrad
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Shirley
– Charlotte Bronte
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Shutter Island
– Dennis Lehane
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Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography
– Jean Rhys
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A Son at the Front
– Edith Wharton
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The Sound and the Fury
– William Faulkner
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The Talisman
– Sir Walter Scott
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Tender is the Night
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare
– Rene Girard
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Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
– Rene Girard
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The Thirteenth Tale
– Diane Setterfield
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‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
– John Ford
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
– Douglas Adams
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
– Milan Kundera
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Violence and the Sacred
– Rene Girard
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The Violent Bear It Away
– Flannery O’Connor
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The Warden
– Anthony Trollope
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Welcome to the Monkey House
– Kurt Vonnegut
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The White Monkey
– John Galsworthy