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Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)
1.  Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
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  "It'll be translated into English one day."
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Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics)
2.  Anna Karenina (Penguin Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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  "The longest example of Chick Lit ever."
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The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Classics)
3.  The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel (Classics) by Francois Rabelais
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  "Classic filth!"
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The Iliad (Oxford World's Classics)
4.  The Iliad (Oxford World's Classics) by Homer
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  "I can't consider myself to be well read without having tackled this baby..."
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The Aeneid (Oxford World's Classics)
5.  The Aeneid (Oxford World's Classics) by Virgil
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  "...and this one."
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The Sleepwalkers: a Trilogy
6.  The Sleepwalkers: a Trilogy by Hermann Broch
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  "Milan Kundera told me to buy it."
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Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology
7.  Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre
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  "Pretentious, moi?"
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Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Classics)
8.  Discourse on Method and the Meditations (Classics) by Rene Descartes
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  "OK, yes, I am pretentious..."
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The Republic (Penguin Classics)
9.  The Republic (Penguin Classics) by Plato
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  "...but not enough to have actually read this stuff."
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The Ethics of Aristotle (Classics)
10.  The Ethics of Aristotle (Classics) by Aristotle
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  "Ethics? I prefer Thuththex."
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The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics)
11.  The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) by Anonymous
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  "The best English translation, apparently."
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The Upanishads (Classics)
12.  The Upanishads (Classics) by Juan Mascaro
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  "Ditto."
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Mason & Dixon
13.  Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
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  "Thomas Pynchon doesn't do minimalism."
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Underworld
14.  Underworld by Don DeLillo
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  "Don Delillo doesn't do minimalism either."
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Earthly Powers (Penguin Modern Classics)
15.  Earthly Powers (Penguin Modern Classics) by Anthony Burgess
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  "I hope this one isn't all written in Nadsat."
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Great Apes
16.  Great Apes by Will Self
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  "Hey, hey, we're the monkeys!"
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Critique Of Pure Reason (Everyman)
17.  Critique Of Pure Reason (Everyman) by Immanuel Kant
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  "More pretentious stuff that looks good on the bookshelf..."
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Capital: An Abridged Edition (Oxford World's Classics)
18.  Capital: An Abridged Edition (Oxford World's Classics) by Karl Marx
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  "...which is supposed to make me seem like an interesting person..."
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Leviathan (English Library)
19.  Leviathan (English Library) by Thomas Hobbes
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  "...but signally fails."
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The Social Contract (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature)
20.  The Social Contract (Wordsworth Classics of World Literature) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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  "Oh dear, this really is basic stuff..."
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Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
21.  Rights of Man, Common Sense, and Other Political Writings (Oxford World's Classics) by Thomas Paine
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  "...that I ought to have read many years ago."
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Love in the Time of Cholera
22.  Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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  "I love Marquez, but I just haven't got around to this one somehow."
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The Idiot
23.  The Idiot by F.M. Dostoyevsky
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  "Ditto for old Laughing Fyodor."
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England's Dreaming: The "Sex Pistols" and Punk Rock
24.  England's Dreaming: The "Sex Pistols" and Punk Rock by Jon Savage
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  "The past of the "no future" brigade."
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Remembrance of Things Past: v.1: Vol 1 (Penguin Classics)
25.  Remembrance of Things Past: v.1: Vol 1 (Penguin Classics) by Marcel Proust
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  "The Big One. I need to regain quite a bit of lost time to read this."
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