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1984
Nineteen Eighty-Four (sometimes abbreviated to 1984) is a classic dystopian novel by English author George Orwell. Published in 1949, it is set in the eponymous year and focuses on a ...
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Pros: dystopian tales, my favorite genre. so many of our important cultural references come from 1984 - 'newspeak', 'big brother', 'perpetual war'. ...a must read! -
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The Old Man and the Sea
The Old Man and the Sea is a novella by Ernest Hemingway, written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to ...
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To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Harper Lee published in 1960. It was instantly successful and has become a classic of modern American fiction. The novel ...
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Pros: You can't go wrong with this one. Poignant and funny. A masterpiece. -
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The cover of the first novel in the Hitchhiker's series, from a late 1990s printing. The cover features the 42 Puzzle devised by Douglas Adams.
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Pros: Featuring one of the coolest books-inside-a-book ever, and enough geek in-jokes to rival Monty Python. Cons: The series tapers off in quality, an effect of Adams's ... -
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On the Road
On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was ...
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Bible
The Bible is the central religious text of Judaism and Christianity.
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Pros: The all-time best seller in the entire book world. A timeless classic. Cons: Sometimes can be depressing as it leads you to feel ... -
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Animal Farm
Animal Farm is a dystopian novel by George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World ...
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Pros: Like many George Orwell novels, Animal Farm addresses government involvement. The method of storytelling is excellent. There is also a movie if you like to compare. -
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Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer is the protagonist and title character of the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry ...
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Pros: Every guy dreams of being Tom or Huck Cons: not really for adults. you have to read this earlier -
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Catch-22
There was a time when reading Joseph Heller's classic satire on the murderous insanity of war was nothing less than a rite of passage. Echoes of Yossarian, the wise-ass ...
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Pros: So very, very relevant. Coined the term to express absurdity of modern contradictions. Gallows humor and just plain Gallows. -
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Grimm's Fairy Tales
Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The ...
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Pros: well it got to be a must-read for every kid Cons: being an adult you might be less amused. the innocence ...
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