Books you'll still want to read when you're 90...

A Listmania! list by Doll Common (Cambridge, UK)
 
Bleak House
1.  Bleak House by Charles Dickens
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  "Dickens' best novel."
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics)
2.  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin Classics) by Laurence Sterne
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  "The greatest anti-novel ever."
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Lolita (Penguin Classics)
3.  Lolita (Penguin Classics) by Craig Raine
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  "Inescapably compelling."
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Catch-22 (Vintage Classics)
4.  Catch-22 (Vintage Classics) by Joseph Heller
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  "Hilariously disturbing.  Or disturbingly hilarious."
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Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics)
5.  Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jorge Luis Borges
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  "A masterclass in the short story."
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
6.  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera
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  "Magic realism par excellence."
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The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics)
7.  The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics) by Walt Whitman
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  "The Shakespeare of American poetry."
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Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics)
8.  Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
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  "Obviously..."
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Swann's Way (Penguin Classics)
9.  Swann's Way (Penguin Classics) by Marcel Proust
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  "Possibly the most beautiful prose ever written."
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