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8.1

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Points: 2
Voters: m08221196, thenoah

Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)

6.2

Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) - Malcolm Lowry

Points: 1
Voters: m08221196

This is Stephen Fry's favorite book.

The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)

9.6

The Karamazov Brothers (Oxford World's Classics)... - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Points: 1
Voters: m08221196

Demons: A Novel in Three Parts (Vintage Classics)

8.5

Demons: A Novel in Three Parts (Vintage Classics)... - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Points: 1
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409

8.4

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Points: 1
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8.1

White Nights - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Points: 1
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7.8

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

Points: 1
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167

7.8

Ulysses - James Joyce

Points: 1
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Note: Stephen Fry called this the retelling of Homer's Odyssey, so I'll read that first.

815

7.8

The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Points: 1
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8.1

The Trial - Franz Kafka

Points: 1
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478

8.2

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Points: 1
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139

7.2

The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway

Points: 1
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729

8.1

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Points: 1
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8.6

Infinite Jest: A Novel - David Foster Wallace

Points: 1
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137

7.9

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

Points: 1
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7.2

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

Points: 1
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8.3

Molloy - Samuel Beckett

Points: 1
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7.4

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

Points: 1
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7.6

Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

Points: 1
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8.3

Kokoro - Natsume Soseki

Points: 1
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7.1

No Longer Human - Osamu Dazai

Points: 1
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8.3

Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler

Points: 1
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8.4

Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller

Points: 1
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Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain - Oliver Sacks

Points: 1
Voters: Mackenzi (recommended here)

8.7

When You Are Engulfed in Flames - David Sedaris

Points: 1
Voters: Mackenzi

136

8.3

The Idiot - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

8.9

Monster (Manga) - Naoki Urasawa

Film Theory and Criticism - Leo Braudy,Marshall Cohen

¿Que Es El Cine? AKA What Is Cinema? - Andre Bazin

Hitchcock (Revised Edition) - Francois Truffaut

The Films In My Life - Francois Truffaut

Walt Disney's Fantasia - John Culhane

8.9

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

385

8.2

Dracula - Bram Stoker

299

7.9

The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka

115

8.1

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

7.5

Fear and Trembling (Penguin Classics) - Soren Kierkegaard

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

238

8.2

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream... - Hunter S. Thompson

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)

330

8.4

A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 1)... - George R.R. Martin

8.1

Naked Lunch: The Restored Text - William S. Burroughs

7.2

Queer - William S. Burroughs

415

8.2

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

114

7.9

King Lear - William Shakespeare

374

American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis

Less Than Zero - Bret Easton Ellis

619

8.4

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

8.4

Symposium (Oxford World's Classics) - Plato

Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)

Homage to Catalonia (Penguin Modern Classics)... - George Orwell

7.4

The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins

How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science)

8.4

How the Mind Works (Penguin Press Science) - Steven Pinker

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