25 Books to be stored in the head

Discover the 25 must-read books to store in your head—essential reads for knowledge, inspiration, and lifelong learning. Explore this curated list now!

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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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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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Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • Family drama and the legacy of slavery haunt this epic tale of an enigmatic stranger in Jefferson, Mississippi—from one of the …
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

by James Joyce

James Joyce's coming-of-age story, a tour de force of style and technique The first, shortest, and most approachable of James Joyce’s novels, A Portrait of …
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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Revealing Dostoevsky's acute artistic sense and penetrating psychological insight, this new translation is meticulously faithful to the original.
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Sometimes a Great Notion

by Ken Kesey

Story of the Stamper family and their struggles in the Oregon timber country.
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The Colossus of Maroussi

by Henry Miller

The author's quest for spiritual renewal is illuminated in descriptions of his impressions of Greece and its people.
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V.

by Thomas Pynchon

The wild, macabre tale of the twentieth century and of two men -- one looking for something he has lost, the other with nothing much …
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Three Novels

by Samuel Beckett

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The Ticket that Exploded

by William S. Burroughs

Inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet. Scientists and combat troops, ad men and con …
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Amerika

by Franz Kafka

Depicts the tragicomic misadventures of a young immigrant in New York.
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The Castle

by Franz Kafka

From the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial—one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century—the haunting tale of K.’s relentless, unavailing struggle with …
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Tropic of Capricorn

by Henry Miller

A vicious social commentary of the times and culture of the 1920's New York City.
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The Crying of Lot 49

by Thomas Pynchon

Oedipa Maas finds herself enmeshed in a worldwide conspiracy.
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

by Robert Louis Stevenson

Classic literature of duality between good and evil.
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Hocus Pocus

by Kurt Vonnegut

Tarkington College, a small, exclusive college in upstate New York, is turned upside down when ten thousand prisoners from the maximum security prison across Lake …
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A Tale of Two Cities

by Charles Dickens

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