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Books to live by
In Search of Lost Time: 6 VolumesIn Search of Lost Time: 6 Volumes by Marcel Proust
my book of life
Middlemarch (Penguin Classics)Middlemarch (Penguin Classics) by George Eliot
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the things i need to remember about love
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your DreamThe Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
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to remind me that i don't want to do this job forever...
A Suitable BoyA Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
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the things i don't want to believe about love
The Fortress (Writings from an Unbound Europe)The Fortress (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Mesa Selimovic
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a beautiful book of love and corruption from the old Yugoslavia, if you'll excuse the term, which somehow slipped through the censor's net
The Bride Stripped BareThe Bride Stripped Bare by Anonymous
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subversive! men will never look at women in the same light again...
The Periodic Table (Essential Penguin)The Periodic Table (Essential Penguin) by Primo Levi
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because it's all just carbon... really.
Love in the Time of CholeraLove in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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hope for my dotage
Death and the Dervish (Writings from an Unbound Europe)Death and the Dervish (Writings from an Unbound Europe) by Mesa Selimovic
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demanding, but beautiful. Reminscant of crime and punnishment, but to my mind, better.
Love, EtcLove, Etc by Julian Barnes
Love etc,. Definatley.
Portnoy's ComplaintPortnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
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chortle...
The Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary EditionThe Unbearable Lightness of Being: Twentieth Anniversary Edition by Milan Kundera
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worthy of inclusion if only for a passage on religion
Herzog (Penguin Classics)Herzog (Penguin Classics) by Saul Bellow
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angst!
English PassengersEnglish Passengers by Matthew Kneale
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the vicar is one of the most amusing characters in lit!
Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics)Crime and Punishment: A Novel in Six Parts with Epilogue (Vintage Classics) by F.M. Dostoevsky
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to remind me that just because i don't earn a decent wage, i shouldn't kill the landlord...
Les Mots / Words (Methuen's Twentieth Century French Texts)Les Mots / Words (Methuen's Twentieth Century French Texts) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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I've included this because i couldn't find Nausea and this is my second fave from j-p s
All Said and Done: The Autobiography of Simone de BeauvoirAll Said and Done: The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir
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watch out for the mirrors!
Dictionary of the KhazarsDictionary of the Khazars by Milorad Pavic
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one to wrestle with - but worth the struggle!
Metroland (Picador Books)Metroland (Picador Books) by Julian Barnes
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epat!
The Catcher in the RyeThe Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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because i remember thinking just like that
The Bridge Over the DrinaThe Bridge Over the Drina by Ivo Andric
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Introducing Lotika...
Midnight's ChildrenMidnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
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the best opemng paragraph i can think of. And the rest is rather good too.
An Equal MusicAn Equal Music by Vikram Seth
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run off to join an orchestra?
Bosnian ChronicleBosnian Chronicle by Ivo Andric
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Again, Andric manages to weave a few hundred years of history into a great Bosnian read
Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)Confessions (Oxford World's Classics) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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this man's attempts at self-justification are just breath-takingly maddening. But an interesting read, nonetheless