100 Books by 100 Authors You Should Know (Part 1 of 4)
Discover 100 must-read books by 100 influential authors in Part 1 of our 4-part series. Expand your literary horizons with these essential reads!
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The Woman in the Dunes
by Kobo Abe
The Woman in the Dunes, by celebrated writer and thinker Kobo Abe, combines the essence of myth, suspense and the existential novel. After missing the …
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
“A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” …
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
by Sherman Alexie
In his darkly comic short story collection, the author brilliantly weaves memory, fantasy, and stark realism to paint a complex, grimly ironic portrait of life …
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Time's Arrow
by Martin Amis
Story of Tod T. Friendly living in a peaceful American Suburb but once worked in the medical section of Auschwitz.
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Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
For the first time in English, all the fiction by the writer who has been called “the greatest Spanish-language writer of our century” collected in …
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Bronte
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Wuthering Heights, first published in 1847, the year before the author's death …
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The Master and Margarita
by Mikhail Bulgakov
A masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th century Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. …
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino's classic, multifaceted novel about writing and readers.
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an …
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The Land of Laughs
by Jonathan Carroll
Have you ever loved a magical book above all others? Have you ever wished the magic were real? Welcome to The Land of Laughs. A …
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by Lewis Carroll
First published in 1865, these endearing tales of an imaginative child's dream world by Lewis Carroll, pen name for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, are written with …
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Don Quixote
by Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Don Quixote has become so entranced reading tales of chivalry that he …
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The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English A Penguin Classic In The …
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The Man who was Thursday
by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Supreme Anarchists Council is dedicated to overthrowing the world order. To keep their identities a secret, each of the members has been named after …
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The Deptford Trilogy
by Robertson Davies
The complete volume of Robertson Davies's acclaimed trilogy, featuring Fifth Business, The Manticore, and World of Wonders, with a new foreword by Kelly Link Fifth …
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
The National Book Award-winning classic from the author of Underworld and Libra—an “eerie, brilliant, and touching” (New York Times) family drama about mass culture and …
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Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
"Great Expectations" is at once a superbly constructed novel of spellbinding mastery and a profound examination of moral values. Here, some of Dickens's most memorable …
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The Alexandria Quartet Boxed Set
by Lawrence Durrell
Includes Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, and Clea. "People are always saying--inaccurately--that something or another is like a dream, but Durrell's Alexandria is actually like the landscape …
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Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In this deeply compelling novel and epic milestone of American literature, a nameless narrator tells his story …