1001 books you should read before you die in random order (274-312)

Discover books 274-312 from the ultimate '1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die' list in random order. Explore must-read classics and hidden gems to enrich your literary journey.

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The Trial Cover
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The Trial

by Franz Kafka

From one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis: Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year …
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A Prayer for Owen Meany

by John Irving

A story of friendship through adversity, faith and destiny, and the search for God.
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A Home at the End of the World

by Michael Cunningham

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of …
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The mysteries of Udolpho

 

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Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable

by Samuel Beckett

The first novel of Samuel Beckett's mordant and exhilarating midcentury trilogy introduces us to Molloy, who has been mysteriously incarcerated, and who subsequently escapes to …
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Kafka on the Shore

by Haruki Murakami

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The …
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2001: a Space Odyssey

by Arthur C. Clarke

The classic science fiction novel that captures and expands on the vision of Stanley Kubrick’s immortal film—and changed the way we look at the stars …
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The blind assassin

 

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The Scarlet Letter

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country," Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches to our …
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How It Is

 

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Neuromancer

by William Gibson

Case, a nerve-damaged data thief, is recruited by a new employer for a last-chance run against a powerful artificial intelligence.
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Unless

by Carol Shields

Forty-four-year-old Reta Winters, wife, mother, writer, and translator, is living a happy life until one of her three daughters drops out of university to sit …
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Perfume

by Patrick Suskind

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest …
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Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

The account of a young writer and his friends in free-wheeling Paris.
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Fools of fortune

 

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Northanger Abbey

 

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Marius the Epicurean

by Walter Pater

About the Book Historical Fiction books set their characters and plot at some time in the past, providing adequate background on the customes and mores …
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The Heather Blazing

 

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The Virgin in the Garden

by A. S. Byatt

The Virgin in the Garden is a wonderfully erudite entertainment in which enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy, intersect richly and unpredictably.
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The Drowned World

 

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The Count of Monte Cristo

by Alexandre Dumas

Translated with an Introduction by Robin Buss
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Oliver Twist

by Charles Dickens

A gripping portrayal of London's dark criminal underbelly, published in Penguin Classics with an introduction by Philip Horne. The story of Oliver Twist - orphaned, …
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Casino Royale

by Ian Fleming

For incredible suspense, unexpected thrills and extraordinary danger, nothing can beat James Bond in his inaugural adventure. "Die Another Day, " starring Pierce Brosnan and …
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