BOOK LIST
Peace Corps has renewed my hope in finishing most of list in the next year.
From http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/
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In Progress as of 12/3/2017
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11. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
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39. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN by James Baldwin
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45. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway
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3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce
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5. BRAVE NEW WORLDby Aldous Huxley
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6. THE SOUND AND THE FURYby William Faulkner
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7. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller
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8. DARKNESS AT NOON by Arthur Koestler
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9. SONS AND LOVERS by D.H. Lawrence
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10. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck
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12. THE WAY OF ALL FLESH by Samuel Butler
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13. 1984 by George Orwell
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14. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves
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16. AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY by Theodore Dreiser
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17. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers
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18. SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE by Kurt Vonnegut
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19. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison
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20. NATIVE SON by Richard Wright
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21. HENDERSON THE RAIN KING by Saul Bellow
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22. APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRAby John O’Hara
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24. WINESBURG, OHIOby Sherwood Anderson
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25. A PASSAGE TO INDIA by E.M. Forster
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26. THE WINGS OF THE DOVE by Henry James
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27. THE AMBASSADORS by Henry James
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28. TENDER IS THE NIGHT by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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29. THE STUDS LONIGAN TRILOGY by James T. Farrell
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30. THE GOOD SOLDIER by Ford Madox Ford
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32. THE GOLDEN BOWLby Henry James
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33. SISTER CARRIEby Theodore Dreiser
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34. A HANDFUL OF DUSTby Evelyn Waugh
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36. ALL THE KING’S MEN by Robert Penn Warren
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37. THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY by Thornton Wilder
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38. HOWARDS END by E.M. Forster
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40. THE HEART OF THE MATTER by Graham Greene
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42. DELIVERANCEby James Dickey
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44. POINT COUNTER POINT by Aldous Huxley
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46. THE SECRET AGENT by Joseph Conrad
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47. NOSTROMO by Joseph Conrad
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48. THE RAINBOW by D.H. Lawrence
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49. WOMEN IN LOVE by D.H. Lawrence
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50. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller
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51. THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer
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52. PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT by Philip Roth
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53. PALE FIRE by Vladimir Nabokov
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54. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner
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56. THE MALTESE FALCON by Dashiell Hammett
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57. PARADE’S END by Ford Madox Ford
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58. THE AGE OF INNOCENCE by Edith Wharton
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59. ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm
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60. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy
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61. DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather
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62. FROM HERE TO ETERNITY by James Jones
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64. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger
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65. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess
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66. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham
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67. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad
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68. MAIN STREET by Sinclair Lewis
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69. THE HOUSE OF MIRTHby Edith Wharton
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70. THE ALEXANDRIA QUARTETby Lawrence Durell
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71. A HIGH WIND IN JAMAICAby Richard Hughes
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72. A HOUSE FOR MR BISWASby V.S. Naipaul
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73. THE DAY OF THE LOCUSTby Nathanael West
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74. A FAREWELL TO ARMSby Ernest Hemingway
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75. SCOOPby Evelyn Waugh
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76. THE PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIEby Muriel Spark
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77. FINNEGANS WAKEby James Joyce
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79. A ROOM WITH A VIEWby E.M. Forster
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80. BRIDESHEAD REVISITEDby Evelyn Waugh
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81. THE ADVENTURES OF AUGIE MARCHby Saul Bellow
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82. ANGLE OF REPOSEby Wallace Stegner
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83. A BEND IN THE RIVERby V.S. Naipaul
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85. LORD JIMby Joseph Conrad
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86. RAGTIMEby E.L. Doctorow
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87. THE OLD WIVES’ TALEby Arnold Bennett
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88. THE CALL OF THE WILDby Jack London
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89. LOVING by Henry Green
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90. MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN by Salman Rushdie
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92. IRONWEED by William Kennedy
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93. THE MAGUS by John Fowles
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94. WIDE SARGASSO SEA by Jean Rhys
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95. UNDER THE NET by Iris Murdoch
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97. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles
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98. THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE by James M. Cain
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99. THE GINGER MAN by J.P. Donleavy
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100. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS by Booth Tarkington
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Probably won’t read because they are massive or I tried and did not like it
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1. ULYSSESby James Joyce
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15. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf
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23. U.S.A.(trilogy)by John Dos Passos
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43. A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME (series)by Anthony Powell
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63. THE WAPSHOT CHRONICLES by John Cheever
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4. LOLITAby Vladimir Nabokov
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31. ANIMAL FARMby George Orwell
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35. AS I LAY DYINGby William Faulkner
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41. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding
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55. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
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78. KIM by Rudyard Kipling
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84. THE DEATH OF THE HEART by Elizabeth Bowen
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2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald
91. TOBACCO ROAD by Erskine Caldwell
96. SOPHIE’S CHOICE by William Styron
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Megan's Mischief Managed 