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1.
To Kill a Mockingbird
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May 9 2008 15:14
60
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Dec 18 2003 14:02
2.
The Hitch-Hikers-GUide to the galaxy Quintology by Douglas Noel Adams
39
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May 9 2008 15:15
49
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Nov 2 2004 9:13
3.
Slaughterhouse Five
39
-7
May 9 2008 15:17
by Kurt Vonnegut
85
-1
Dec 6 2002 22:06
4.
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
39
-11
May 9 2008 15:15
89
-1
Mar 27 2002 18:23
5.
The BIBLE
36
21
Apr 30 2008 22:53
the Good Book
352
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Nov 3 2001 5:15
6.
Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
35
8
Apr 1 2008 20:13
The most influential book I ever read
49
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Feb 4 2004 0:25
7.
Crime & Punishment: Fjodor M. Dostojevskij
34
4
Apr 28 2008 16:04
38
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Mar 27 2003 14:00
8.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
30
2
Mar 6 2008 10:46
http://www.livingtodo.com
32
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Dec 22 2002 22:03
9.
Cannery Row
30
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Dec 22 2007 13:18
John Steinbeck
34
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Oct 9 2002 16:46
10.
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
29
13
Apr 30 2008 22:53
75
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Jan 22 2003 15:58
11.
The Iliad
28
8
Apr 30 2008 22:53
Homer
28
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Mar 26 2005 9:20
12.
One Hundred Years of Solitude
26
4
Apr 9 2008 16:12
32
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Mar 21 2004 23:01
13.
Hamlet
26
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Dec 23 2007 1:35
30
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Oct 16 2002 13:08
14.
1984
25
13
May 7 2008 17:35
by George Orwell
25
1
Feb 19 2006 8:13
15.
Animal Farm
24
14
Apr 27 2008 22:05
by George Orwell
26
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Feb 19 2006 8:14
16.
Lord Of The Flies
24
11
Apr 30 2008 22:53
William Golding
32
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Oct 21 2005 16:54
17.
Watership Down by Richard Adams
24
14
Apr 19 2008 1:28
28
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Mar 5 2004 14:51
18.
A Tale of Two Cities - Dickens
19
3
Feb 4 2008 18:54
21
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Sep 20 2003 1:19
19.
The Count of Monte Cristo
17
2
Mar 13 2008 11:37
17
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Mar 20 2003 14:01
20.
High Fidelity
16
1
Apr 7 2008 19:09
Nick Hornby
16
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Mar 6 2005 0:01
21.
Brave New World-Huxley
16
2
Apr 22 2008 1:39
20
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Feb 5 2004 7:05
22.
The Shanarra Series by Terry Brooks
16
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Dec 22 2007 4:05
18
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Mar 27 2002 18:23
23.
Soldier in the Mist by Gene Wolfe
15
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Aug 1 2005 14:47
15
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Jul 19 2005 20:24
24.
Lonesome Dove
14
2
Mar 29 2008 16:16
The best epic western ever.
14
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May 7 2005 0:06
25.
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
14
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Dec 22 2007 10:53
14
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Aug 12 2003 19:29
26.
Catch-22
12
5
Apr 9 2008 16:10
Joseph Heller
12
-
May 14 2005 14:18
27.
Green Eggs and Ham - Dr Seuss
12
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Dec 22 2007 5:26
16
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Nov 10 2003 22:19
28.
The Unique and hios property-Max Stirner
11
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Nov 10 2004 11:47
11
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Jan 22 2004 9:38
29.
By Reason of Insanity-Shane Stevens
10
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Nov 23 2007 20:23
10
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Oct 21 2007 19:58
30.
East of Eden
10
-1
Mar 21 2008 21:48
John Steinbeck
12
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Aug 2 2006 9:54
31.
Breakfast of Champions
10
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Dec 22 2007 18:31
Kurt Vonnegut
10
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Jan 31 2005 16:41
32.
The Little Prince
9
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Dec 22 2007 12:05
9
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Mar 5 2004 14:52
33.
Gravity's Rainbow
9
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Apr 25 2005 23:35
Thomas Pynchon
9
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Nov 20 2003 3:10
34.
maniac magee
9
-1
May 7 2008 17:35
11
-1
Sep 5 2003 23:23
35.
The Prophet
9
1
Jan 11 2008 18:39
Frank Peretti
11
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Mar 10 2002 16:42
36.
Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance
8
1
Mar 18 2008 14:00
8
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Apr 11 2005 9:07
37.
middle passage-charles johnson
8
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Feb 7 2007 22:51
8
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Sep 5 2003 23:23
38.
count of monte cristo
8
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Dec 22 2007 10:18
8
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Dec 13 2001 14:58
39.
He Came To Set The Captives Free
8
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Feb 27 2004 1:53
Rebecca Brown
34
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Nov 3 2001 5:17
40.
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
7
1
Apr 28 2008 16:05
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_S
7
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Jul 27 2007 18:01
41.
Tristram Shandy
7
2
Mar 28 2008 20:20
7
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Feb 16 2004 0:57
42.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
6
5
Apr 7 2008 21:38
by Ken Kesey
6
-
Feb 27 2007 2:17
43.
The Litle Prince by Antoine Saint Exypery
6
-
Nov 10 2007 4:01
6
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Jan 7 2006 11:49
44.
The Tunnel
6
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Jul 2 2007 9:05
by Ernesto Sabato
6
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Sep 13 2005 22:56
45.
To the Lighthouse
6
1
Mar 28 2008 20:20
Virginia Wolff
10
-
Mar 26 2005 9:17
46.
The Visitation
6
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Nov 13 2003 23:46
Frank Peretti
8
-
Mar 10 2002 16:42
47.
His Dark Materials
5
5
Jan 17 2008 7:03
Phillip Pullman
5
-
Jan 16 2008 19:26
48.
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
5
1
Feb 25 2008 1:41
5
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Dec 22 2007 19:20
49.
The unbearable lightness of being
5
1
Apr 7 2008 19:10
Milan Kundera
5
-
Dec 2 2005 15:58
50.
A Clockwork Orange
5
1
Apr 7 2008 21:33
7
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Oct 18 2005 21:59
51.
Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
5
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Sep 15 2006 5:32
5
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Sep 22 2005 5:02
52.
Middlemarch
5
-
Sep 15 2005 22:58
George Eliot
5
-
Sep 15 2005 22:57
53.
Le Grand Meaulnes
5
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Apr 12 2005 6:54
by Alain Fournier
5
-
Apr 12 2005 6:54
54.
Moby Dick
5
1
Mar 28 2008 20:20
11
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Aug 1 2004 15:55
55.
A Civil Action
5
1
Mar 28 2008 20:20
Jonathan Harr
5
-
Feb 16 2004 0:58
56.
Franny and Zooey
5
-
Dec 22 2007 13:30
7
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Nov 28 2003 14:12
57.
The Anarchist's Cookbook
5
-
Dec 22 2007 7:41
9
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Nov 15 2001 13:57
58.
This Present Darkness
5
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Nov 13 2003 23:45
Frank Peretti
49
-
Nov 3 2001 5:16
59.
The Master and Margarita
4
2
Apr 28 2008 16:07
by Mikhail Bulgakov
4
-
Feb 27 2007 2:25
60.
War and Peace
4
-1
Mar 13 2008 14:25
6
-
Feb 13 2006 13:49
61.
The Da Vinci Code
4
-3
Mar 18 2008 14:01
34
-
Sep 5 2004 5:20
62.
Piercing The Darkness
4
-
May 19 2006 19:36
Frank Peretti
38
-
Nov 3 2001 5:17
63.
Gone with the Wind
3
1
Mar 13 2008 14:26
3
-
Dec 23 2007 13:36
64.
Jane Eyre
3
1
Apr 14 2008 10:59
Charlotte Bronte
3
-
Apr 1 2006 10:39
65.
IT - Stephen King
3
-
Dec 22 2007 3:45
3
-
Jan 9 2006 12:29
66.
Jonathon Livingston Seagull
3
-
Aug 4 2007 9:21
3
-
Oct 27 2005 18:33
67.
Emma
3
-
Dec 22 2007 10:18
3
-
Jul 20 2005 19:15
68.
The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
3
1
Feb 12 2008 14:11
3
-
Jun 29 2005 17:58
69.
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
3
-
Dec 22 2007 13:42
5
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Mar 5 2004 14:52
70.
The Tao of Pooh
3
-
May 19 2006 19:37
3
-
Jan 12 2004 17:40
71.
hop on pop
3
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Aug 6 2005 10:47
its so sad how they hopped on pop
3
-
Nov 26 2003 17:55
72.
The Once and Future King
2
2
May 7 2008 17:36
TH White
2
1
Mar 29 2008 16:20
73.
Harry Potter an the Deathly Hallows
2
2
May 7 2008 17:36
4
-1
Jan 27 2008 17:40
74.
The ''John Carter On Mars'' series
2
-
Dec 21 2007 13:19
Edgar Rice Burroughs
2
-
Dec 21 2007 13:17
75.
''The Fountainhead'' Ayn Rand
2
2
Mar 18 2008 14:00
2
-
Nov 21 2007 18:24
76.
The God Delusion
2
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Dec 23 2007 1:37
2
-
Nov 3 2007 17:58
77.
The Cronicles of Narnia
2
2
Jan 11 2008 18:40
2
-
Jan 16 2007 23:49
78.
The Kiterunner
2
1
Feb 20 2008 11:55
2
-
Jan 7 2007 0:00
79.
Ulysses by James Joyce
2
-
Dec 26 2006 7:30
2
-
Dec 26 2006 7:28
80.
The Grapes of Wrath
2
1
Feb 19 2008 12:03
John Steinbeck
4
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Sep 5 2006 9:00
81.
Pride and Prejudice
2
-
Aug 17 2007 22:48
4
-
Jul 17 2006 10:53
82.
Flowers for Algernon
2
-
Jun 2 2007 1:28
Daniel Keyes
2
-
Jan 15 2006 16:03
83.
The Sirens of Titan
2
-
Dec 22 2007 10:14
Kurt Vonnegut
2
-
Jan 13 2006 13:39
84.
Odyssey
2
-
Nov 21 2007 18:15
2
-
Jan 7 2006 11:45
85.
Macbeth
2
-
Dec 16 2005 14:47
2
-
May 7 2005 0:15
86.
Naked Lunch-William S. burroughs
2
1
Apr 7 2008 19:08
2
-
Jan 31 2005 16:36
87.
The Razor's Edge
2
-
Dec 22 2007 13:31
2
-
Apr 19 2004 20:23
88.
Beloved
2
-
Dec 2 2005 17:01
2
-
Feb 16 2004 0:56
89.
The Purple Clod-Philip Shiel
2
-
Aug 14 2004 13:57
2
-
Jan 22 2004 9:42
90.
Mrs. Dalloway
2
-
Jun 8 2006 2:33
Virginia Woolf
4
-
Jan 12 2004 17:47
91.
the cat in the hat
2
-
Apr 19 2004 21:43
by doctor seus
2
-
Nov 26 2003 17:54
92.
Letters to a Young Poet
2
-
Jan 6 2006 13:11
Rainer Maria Rilke
2
-
Nov 5 2001 1:57
93.
Gifts From The Sea
2
-
Jan 6 2006 13:11
Anne Morrow Lindberg
2
-
Nov 5 2001 1:56
94.
The Shipping News
1
1
Mar 29 2008 16:23
Annie Proulx
1
-
Mar 29 2008 16:22
95.
Beyond Good an Evil: Friedrich Nietzsche
1
1
May 7 2008 17:36
1
1
Mar 13 2008 11:42
96.
Siddhartha
1
1
Mar 13 2008 11:39
1
-
Jan 30 2008 22:38
97.
Little Women
1
-
Dec 23 2007 10:04
1
-
Dec 23 2007 9:58
98.
Tanglewood Tales
1
-
Dec 21 2007 13:19
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1
-
Dec 21 2007 13:19
99.
The ''Conan'' series
1
-
Dec 22 2007 12:52
Robert E. Howard
1
-
Dec 21 2007 13:18
100.
''How to Win Friends and Influence People'' Dale Carnegie
1
-
Dec 23 2007 13:28
1
-
Nov 21 2007 18:20
101.
''Night'' Elie Wiesel
1
-
Dec 22 2007 12:52
1
-
Nov 21 2007 18:19
102.
''The Good Earth'' Pearl S. Buck
1
-
Dec 23 2007 9:56
1
-
Nov 21 2007 18:17
103.
The Sword of Truth
1
-
Nov 11 2007 19:30
1
-
Nov 6 2007 23:59
104.
The Hunt for the Red October
1
-
Dec 22 2007 4:13
1
-
Dec 22 2007 4:12
105.
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
1
-
Nov 21 2007 18:14
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_
1
-
Jul 27 2007 18:09
106.
Misery ~ Stephen King
1
-1
Mar 18 2008 14:01
3
-
Jun 12 2007 1:42
107.
The Sandman Series
1
-
Jun 2 2007 1:34
by Neil Gaiman
1
-
Jun 2 2007 1:33
108.
American Gods
1
-
Jun 2 2007 1:32
by Neil Gaiman
1
-
Jun 2 2007 1:30
109.
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
1
1
Feb 25 2008 1:42
www.chuckpalahniuk.net/ (life changing, THE Gen X Bible)
1
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