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the BBC's Big Read, top 21
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- 01The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien
- 02Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
- 03His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
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🖋️Hemingway's reading list for a young writer (1934)
What he told Arnold Samuelson to read in Key West, reproduced in With Hemingway. Start here if you want the syllabus version of literary fiction.
01
"The Blue Hotel" - Stephen Crane
start here, it's a short story not a commitment
02
"The Open Boat" - Stephen Crane
03
Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
04
Dubliners - James Joyce
no lore exam required, these stand alone
05
The Red and the Black - Stendhal
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Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
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Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
eats a whole month of your reading life, budget for it
08
War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
09
Buddenbrooks - Thomas Mann
10
Hail and Farewell - George Moore
nobody's read this one, hardest to find a decent edition of
11
The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky
12
The Oxford Book of English Verse
the anthology, not a single poet. dip in and out
13
The Enormous Room - E.E. Cummings
14
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
15
Far Away and Long Ago - W.H. Hudson
his memoir, not fiction. easy to skip and I get why people do
16
The American - Henry James
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