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1. God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens, 307 pg.
2. Great American Hypocrites, Glenn Greenwald, 290 pg.
3. The Monster of Florence, Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi, 322 pg.
4. Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age, editors Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan, 351 pg.
5. Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence, Mitch Earleywine, 328 pg.
6. Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins, 337 pg.
7. Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick, 352 pg.
8. PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story, Alexander and Ann Shulgin, 978 pg.
9. Desolation Angels, Jack Kerouac, 409 pg.
10. The Wheel of time, Carlos Castaneda, 209 pg.
11. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Daniel Pinchbeck, 411 pg.
12. Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind, 820 pg.
13. Buddhism: Plain and Simple, Steve Hagen, 159 pg.
14. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, 798 pg.
15. DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Rick Strassman, 358 pg.
16. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy, 309 pg.
17. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk, 293 pg.
18. Kingdom of Fear, Hunter S. Thompson, 351. pg.
19. The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut, 326 pg.
20. True Hallucinations, Terence McKenna, 237 pg.
21. Pawn of Prophecy, David Eddings, 290 pg.
22. I Was Carlos Castaneda, Martin Goodman, 220 pg.
23. All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy, 302 pg.
24. Haunted, Chuck Palahniuk, 404 pg.
25. How to Break a Terrorist, Matthew Alexander, 288 pg.
26. The Genesis Generation, Lorenzo Hagerty
27. Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, Rupert Sheldrake, 352 pg.
28. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll, 246 pg.
29. The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy, 426 pg.
30. Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World, Paul Stamets, 343 pg.
31. Beyond the Basin, Alexander Beiner, 358 pg.
32. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, 470 pg.
33. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 289 pg.

You can read my review of the book here.
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1. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart 197p.
2. Saul Bellow - The Adventures Of Augie March 536p.
3. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep 220p.
4. Joseph Heller - Catch-22 519p.
5. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen 436p.
6. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 282p.
7. J.D. Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye 192p.
8. Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird 281p.
9. John Le Carré - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 229p.
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby 115p.
11. Philip K. Dick - Ubik 224p.
12. William Burroughs - Naked Lunch 201p.
13. George Orwell - 1984 254p.
14. George Orwell - Animal Farm 128p.
15. Charles Hucker - China's Imperial Past 560p.
16. Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey 124p.
17. Thomas Pynchon - The Crying Of Lot 49 127p.
18. Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim 251p.
19. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children 446p.
20. Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest 187p.
21. Dashiell Hammett - The Dain Curse 193p.
22. Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian 337p.
23. Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon 200p.
24. Ernest Hemingway - Fiesta:The Sun Also Rises 216p.
25. E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime 320p.
26. Flann O'Brien - At-Swim-Two-Birds 218p.
27. Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 272p.
28. Muriel Spark - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie 128p.
29. Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited 326p.
30. Martin Amis - Night Train 149p.
31. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five 157p.
32. Philip K. Dick - The Penultimate Truth 191p.

Fantastic read. Very compelling story and interesting characters. All set in an apocalyptic futuristic scenario. Liked it better than Ubik. Gonna read more of Dick in the near future.
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1. God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens, 307 pg.
2. Great American Hypocrites, Glenn Greenwald, 290 pg.
3. The Monster of Florence, Douglas Preston with Mario Spezi, 322 pg.
4. Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age, editors Daniel Pinchbeck and Ken Jordan, 351 pg.
5. Understanding Marijuana: A New Look at the Scientific Evidence, Mitch Earleywine, 328 pg.
6. Another Roadside Attraction, Tom Robbins, 337 pg.
7. Chaos: Making a New Science, James Gleick, 352 pg.
8. PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story, Alexander and Ann Shulgin, 978 pg.
9. Desolation Angels, Jack Kerouac, 409 pg.
10. The Wheel of time, Carlos Castaneda, 209 pg.
11. 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, Daniel Pinchbeck, 411 pg.
12. Wizard's First Rule, Terry Goodkind, 820 pg.
13. Buddhism: Plain and Simple, Steve Hagen, 159 pg.
14. The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, 798 pg.
15. DMT: The Spirit Molecule, Rick Strassman, 358 pg.
16. No Country for Old Men, Cormac McCarthy, 309 pg.
17. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk, 293 pg.
18. Kingdom of Fear, Hunter S. Thompson, 351. pg.
19. The Sirens of Titan, Kurt Vonnegut, 326 pg.
20. True Hallucinations, Terence McKenna, 237 pg.
21. Pawn of Prophecy, David Eddings, 290 pg.
22. I Was Carlos Castaneda, Martin Goodman, 220 pg.
23. All The Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy, 302 pg.
24. Haunted, Chuck Palahniuk, 404 pg.
25. How to Break a Terrorist, Matthew Alexander, 288 pg.
26. The Genesis Generation, Lorenzo Hagerty
27. Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home, Rupert Sheldrake, 352 pg.
28. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll, 246 pg.
29. The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy, 426 pg.
30. Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World, Paul Stamets, 343 pg.
31. Beyond the Basin, Alexander Beiner, 358 pg.
32. Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson, 470 pg.
33. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce, 289 pg.
34. The Road, Cormac McCarthy, 287 pg.

Great book. You can read my review here.
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1. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart 197p.
2. Saul Bellow - The Adventures Of Augie March 536p.
3. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep 220p.
4. Joseph Heller - Catch-22 519p.
5. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen 436p.
6. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 282p.
7. J.D. Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye 192p.
8. Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird 281p.
9. John Le Carré - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 229p.
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby 115p.
11. Philip K. Dick - Ubik 224p.
12. William Burroughs - Naked Lunch 201p.
13. George Orwell - 1984 254p.
14. George Orwell - Animal Farm 128p.
15. Charles Hucker - China's Imperial Past 560p.
16. Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey 124p.
17. Thomas Pynchon - The Crying Of Lot 49 127p.
18. Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim 251p.
19. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children 446p.
20. Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest 187p.
21. Dashiell Hammett - The Dain Curse 193p.
22. Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian 337p.
23. Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon 200p.
24. Ernest Hemingway - Fiesta:The Sun Also Rises 216p.
25. E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime 320p.
26. Flann O'Brien - At-Swim-Two-Birds 218p.
27. Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 272p.
28. Muriel Spark - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie 128p.
29. Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited 326p.
30. Martin Amis - Night Train 149p.
31. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five 157p.
32. Philip K. Dick - The Penultimate Truth 191p.
33. Cormac McCarthy - Outer Dark 242p.

Great book by Mr McCarthy. Liked this one better than Blood Meridian. The setting is very sinister and haunting and for me personally, McCarthy's novels are like a bible for new English vocabulary :P
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1. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart 197p.
2. Saul Bellow - The Adventures Of Augie March 536p.
3. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep 220p.
4. Joseph Heller - Catch-22 519p.
5. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen 436p.
6. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 282p.
7. J.D. Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye 192p.
8. Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird 281p.
9. John Le Carré - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 229p.
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby 115p.
11. Philip K. Dick - Ubik 224p.
12. William Burroughs - Naked Lunch 201p.
13. George Orwell - 1984 254p.
14. George Orwell - Animal Farm 128p.
15. Charles Hucker - China's Imperial Past 560p.
16. Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey 124p.
17. Thomas Pynchon - The Crying Of Lot 49 127p.
18. Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim 251p.
19. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children 446p.
20. Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest 187p.
21. Dashiell Hammett - The Dain Curse 193p.
22. Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian 337p.
23. Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon 200p.
24. Ernest Hemingway - Fiesta:The Sun Also Rises 216p.
25. E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime 320p.
26. Flann O'Brien - At-Swim-Two-Birds 218p.
27. Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 272p.
28. Muriel Spark - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie 128p.
29. Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited 326p.
30. Martin Amis - Night Train 149p.
31. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five 157p.
32. Philip K. Dick - The Penultimate Truth 191p.
33. Cormac McCarthy - Outer Dark 242p.
34. Albert Camus - Der Fremde 143p.

First book in German!
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1. Earth: The Sequel by Fred Krupp
2. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
3. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
4. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
5. Rebel Giants by David R. Contosta
6. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
8. Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
9. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
10. A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen
11. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
12. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
14. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
15. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
16. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
17. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
18. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
19. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
21. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
22. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
23. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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what did you think? definitely a favorite of mine
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i loved it, i really like his writing style and humor. i bought the entire set at a library sale for $2.
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1. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells 140pg
2. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut 318pg
3. Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut 288pg
4. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 298pg
5. The Far Field: Last Poems by Theodore Roethke 104pg
6. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut 192pg
7. Naked by David Sedaris 224pg
8. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 394pg
9. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 275pg
10. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 471pg
11. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 127pg
12. Amerika by Frankz Kafka 300pg

Liked it, was kinda unfinished. Not at all what I expected from Kafka, (I haven't read anything else by him), but I definitely want to read his short stories.
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1. Earth: The Sequel by Fred Krupp
2. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
3. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
4. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
5. Rebel Giants by David R. Contosta
6. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
8. Mr. Vertigo by Paul Auster
9. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
10. A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen
11. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
12. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
13. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
14. The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe
15. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
16. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
17. Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger
18. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
19. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
20. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut
21. Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
22. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
23. Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
24. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
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1. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart 197p.
2. Saul Bellow - The Adventures Of Augie March 536p.
3. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep 220p.
4. Joseph Heller - Catch-22 519p.
5. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen 436p.
6. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 282p.
7. J.D. Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye 192p.
8. Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird 281p.
9. John Le Carré - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 229p.
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby 115p.
11. Philip K. Dick - Ubik 224p.
12. William Burroughs - Naked Lunch 201p.
13. George Orwell - 1984 254p.
14. George Orwell - Animal Farm 128p.
15. Charles Hucker - China's Imperial Past 560p.
16. Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey 124p.
17. Thomas Pynchon - The Crying Of Lot 49 127p.
18. Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim 251p.
19. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children 446p.
20. Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest 187p.
21. Dashiell Hammett - The Dain Curse 193p.
22. Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian 337p.
23. Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon 200p.
24. Ernest Hemingway - Fiesta:The Sun Also Rises 216p.
25. E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime 320p.
26. Flann O'Brien - At-Swim-Two-Birds 218p.
27. Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 272p.
28. Muriel Spark - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie 128p.
29. Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited 326p.
30. Martin Amis - Night Train 149p.
31. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five 157p.
32. Philip K. Dick - The Penultimate Truth 191p.
33. Cormac McCarthy - Outer Dark 242p.
34. Albert Camus - Der Fremde 143p.
35. James Dickey - Deliverance 243p.
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1. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells 140pg
2. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut 318pg
3. Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut 288pg
4. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 298pg
5. The Far Field: Last Poems by Theodore Roethke 104pg
6. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut 192pg
7. Naked by David Sedaris 224pg
8. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 394pg
9. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 275pg
10. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 471pg
11. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 127pg
12. Amerika by Frankz Kafka 300pg
13. The Aeneid by Virgil (translated by Allen Mandelbaum) 390pg

Been working on it for the last month and a half.
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1. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart 197p.
2. Saul Bellow - The Adventures Of Augie March 536p.
3. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep 220p.
4. Joseph Heller - Catch-22 519p.
5. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen 436p.
6. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 282p.
7. J.D. Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye 192p.
8. Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird 281p.
9. John Le Carré - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 229p.
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby 115p.
11. Philip K. Dick - Ubik 224p.
12. William Burroughs - Naked Lunch 201p.
13. George Orwell - 1984 254p.
14. George Orwell - Animal Farm 128p.
15. Charles Hucker - China's Imperial Past 560p.
16. Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey 124p.
17. Thomas Pynchon - The Crying Of Lot 49 127p.
18. Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim 251p.
19. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children 446p.
20. Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest 187p.
21. Dashiell Hammett - The Dain Curse 193p.
22. Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian 337p.
23. Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon 200p.
24. Ernest Hemingway - Fiesta:The Sun Also Rises 216p.
25. E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime 320p.
26. Flann O'Brien - At-Swim-Two-Birds 218p.
27. Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 272p.
28. Muriel Spark - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie 128p.
29. Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited 326p.
30. Martin Amis - Night Train 149p.
31. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five 157p.
32. Philip K. Dick - The Penultimate Truth 191p.
33. Cormac McCarthy - Outer Dark 242p.
34. Albert Camus - Der Fremde 143p.
35. James Dickey - Deliverance 243p.
36. Albert Camus - Collected Essays 252p.
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1. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells 140pg
2. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut 318pg
3. Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut 288pg
4. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 298pg
5. The Far Field: Last Poems by Theodore Roethke 104pg
6. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut 192pg
7. Naked by David Sedaris 224pg
8. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 394pg
9. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 275pg
10. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 471pg
11. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 127pg
12. Amerika by Frankz Kafka 300pg
13. The Aeneid by Virgil (translated by Allen Mandelbaum) 390pg
14. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 293pg
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1. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart 197p.
2. Saul Bellow - The Adventures Of Augie March 536p.
3. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep 220p.
4. Joseph Heller - Catch-22 519p.
5. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen 436p.
6. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 282p.
7. J.D. Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye 192p.
8. Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird 281p.
9. John Le Carré - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 229p.
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby 115p.
11. Philip K. Dick - Ubik 224p.
12. William Burroughs - Naked Lunch 201p.
13. George Orwell - 1984 254p.
14. George Orwell - Animal Farm 128p.
15. Charles Hucker - China's Imperial Past 560p.
16. Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey 124p.
17. Thomas Pynchon - The Crying Of Lot 49 127p.
18. Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim 251p.
19. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children 446p.
20. Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest 187p.
21. Dashiell Hammett - The Dain Curse 193p.
22. Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian 337p.
23. Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon 200p.
24. Ernest Hemingway - Fiesta:The Sun Also Rises 216p.
25. E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime 320p.
26. Flann O'Brien - At-Swim-Two-Birds 218p.
27. Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 272p.
28. Muriel Spark - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie 128p.
29. Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited 326p.
30. Martin Amis - Night Train 149p.
31. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five 157p.
32. Philip K. Dick - The Penultimate Truth 191p.
33. Cormac McCarthy - Outer Dark 242p.
34. Albert Camus - Der Fremde 143p.
35. James Dickey - Deliverance 243p.
36. Albert Camus - Collected Essays 252p.
37. Philip K. Dick - The Man In The High Castle 259p.
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I also just read 'The Man In The High Castle'. What if eh?
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1. The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells 140pg
2. Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut 318pg
3. Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons by Kurt Vonnegut 288pg
4. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut 298pg
5. The Far Field: Last Poems by Theodore Roethke 104pg
6. Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut 192pg
7. Naked by David Sedaris 224pg
8. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 394pg
9. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 275pg
10. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway 471pg
11. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 127pg
12. Amerika by Frankz Kafka 300pg
13. The Aeneid by Virgil (translated by Allen Mandelbaum) 390pg
14. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 293pg
15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 325pg
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SlashC wrote:I also just read 'The Man In The High Castle'. What if eh?
Yeah, it was a very interesting scenario. Indeed, I was surprised to see the publication date of the book. Only 17 years after the war. I'll definitely read more novels by Dick, just got to know his stories this year.
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1. "Oh, Romeo" by Merete Pryds Helle (126 pages)
2. "I sammenbrudets tjeneste" which means "In the service of the breakdown" by Das Beckwerk and Mikkel Bolt (237 pages)
3. "Mr. Vertigo" by Paul Auster (313 pages)
4. "After Dark" by Haruki Murakami (217 pages)
5. "Kunsterns Køtere" which means "Bastards of Art" by Ole Lindboe (97 pages)
6. "Monument - Contemporary Art in the Urban Space" by alot of people (154 pages)
7. "The Vasek Klouda Manual: How To Play Footbag" by Dan Ednie and Vasek Klouda (90something pages)
8. "The Mosquito Coast" by Paul Theroux (337 pages)
9. Man in the Dark by Paul Auster (180 pages)
10. The Yellow Jersey in the High Mountains - Jørgen Leth (330 pages)
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1. Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart 197p.
2. Saul Bellow - The Adventures Of Augie March 536p.
3. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep 220p.
4. Joseph Heller - Catch-22 519p.
5. Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons - Watchmen 436p.
6. Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go 282p.
7. J.D. Salinger - The Catcher In The Rye 192p.
8. Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird 281p.
9. John Le Carré - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold 229p.
10. F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby 115p.
11. Philip K. Dick - Ubik 224p.
12. William Burroughs - Naked Lunch 201p.
13. George Orwell - 1984 254p.
14. George Orwell - Animal Farm 128p.
15. Charles Hucker - China's Imperial Past 560p.
16. Thornton Wilder - The Bridge of San Luis Rey 124p.
17. Thomas Pynchon - The Crying Of Lot 49 127p.
18. Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim 251p.
19. Salman Rushdie - Midnight's Children 446p.
20. Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest 187p.
21. Dashiell Hammett - The Dain Curse 193p.
22. Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian 337p.
23. Dashiell Hammett - The Maltese Falcon 200p.
24. Ernest Hemingway - Fiesta:The Sun Also Rises 216p.
25. E.L. Doctorow - Ragtime 320p.
26. Flann O'Brien - At-Swim-Two-Birds 218p.
27. Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest 272p.
28. Muriel Spark - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie 128p.
29. Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited 326p.
30. Martin Amis - Night Train 149p.
31. Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five 157p.
32. Philip K. Dick - The Penultimate Truth 191p.
33. Cormac McCarthy - Outer Dark 242p.
34. Albert Camus - Der Fremde 143p.
35. James Dickey - Deliverance 243p.
36. Albert Camus - Collected Essays 252p.
37. Philip K. Dick - The Man In The High Castle 259p.
38. Martin Amis - Money 394p.
39. Kurt Vonnegut - A Man Without A Country 145p.

Money is perhaps one of the best books I've ever read. Recommend this work to everyone. Perfect read.
Simon Kittlaus aka 季士è
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