10 Great, Diverse Reads

A Listmania! list by "city_guy"
 
Ariel: The Restored Text
1.  Ariel: The Restored Text by Sylvia Plath
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  "A beautiful set of poems, composed just prior to Plath's suicide, they are highly emotive and linguistically experimental."
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The Aeneid: A New Prose Translation (Wonders of the World)
2.  The Aeneid: A New Prose Translation (Wonders of the World) by Virgil
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  "The epic poem mythologising the foundation of Rome, it is a cornerstone of literature as we know it."
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The Bell Jar
3.  The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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  "A haunting novel about depression, it is a valuable insight into the condition and at the same time is expertly crafted."
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
4.  The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot
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  "These are Eliot's best poems, they are very hard to penetrate but once you do, it is worthwhile."
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Memoirs Of A Geisha
5.  Memoirs Of A Geisha by Arthur Golden
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  "Really well researched, a fascinating look at war-time japanese culture."
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"King Lear" (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series)
6.  "King Lear" (Arden Shakespeare.Third Series) by William Shakespeare
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  "Easily his best play, this edition is useful as it comes with critical approaches in a very lengthy introduction."
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Candide (Penguin Popular Classics)
7.  Candide (Penguin Popular Classics) by Voltaire
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  "A hilarious little novel satirising french common french philosophy of his era."
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings (Penguin Classics)
8.  The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Edgar Allan Poe
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  "This edition is great because it features his poetry and critical writings as well as his short stories."
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Haunted
9.  Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
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  "A great new novel, hilarious in a kind of dark way."
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The Shining
10.  The Shining by Stephen King
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  "A terrifying horror novel, probably the best horror novel of the 1900s."
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