Not how I became, but what I am. (Literature)

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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
1.  Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics) by Emily Bronte
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  "I think Heathcliff is perfectly justified in his behaviour. Oh too love like this."
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
2.  Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
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  "A book for everyone and no one. Nietzsche excessive poetic masterpiece. He essentially invented the modern age yet still people dismiss it. Greatest man who ever existed in my world."
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The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
3.  The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
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  "To those people who want to help me when I don't need it or want it, read this then get lost."
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Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics)
4.  Nausea (Penguin Modern Classics) by Jean-Paul Sartre
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  "To be painfully aware that existence is completely absurd and probably not even possible."
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Hunger
5.  Hunger by Knut Hamsun
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  "Humiliation, loneliness, despair, shame, lust, hunger. What, you haven't read this?"
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The Bandini Quartet
6.  The Bandini Quartet by John Fante
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  "I recommend this above all the other masterpieces on this page simply for it's ability to speak directly to the reader. Arturo Bandini is genius."
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Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics)
7.  Under the Volcano (Penguin Modern Classics) by Malcolm Lowry
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  "It's amazing when you come to think of it how the human spirit seems to blossom in the shadow of the abbattoir - Malcolm Lowry - Under the Volcano. Alchoholism and Insanity....brilliant."
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Journey to the End of the Night
8.  Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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  "One night while they're all asleep, all happy people, believe me, ought to be put to sleep for real, that'll be the end of them and their happiness once and for all.-Celine. Will we survive this night"
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics)
9.  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Penguin Classics) by James Joyce
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  "In my opinion far more enjoyable than Ulysses."
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Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court (Penguin Modern Classics)
10.  Hangover Square: A Story of Darkest Earl's Court (Penguin Modern Classics) by Patrick Hamilton
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  "SLAYS TWO. FOUND GASSED. Thinks of Cat.- Hamilton. George Bone's loneliness and unrequited love for Netta. How can you not sympathise."
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On the Road (Penguin Classics)
11.  On the Road (Penguin Classics) by Kerouac
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  "Go Go Go ... run away my son see the world. Sex Drugs and Jazz. Energetic Beat Masterpiece."
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Steppenwolf (Penguin Modern Classics)
12.  Steppenwolf (Penguin Modern Classics) by Hermann Hesse
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Post Office: A Novel
13.  Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
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  "Honest, funny and sometimes brutal and a crap job. Beat cool."
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Sombrero Fallout ("Rebel Inc." Classics)
14.  Sombrero Fallout ("Rebel Inc." Classics) by Richard Brautigan
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  "Funny, sad and apocalyptic all at the same time. We create the mess we're in."
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The Catcher in the Rye
15.  The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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  "I could tell you about it but I don't feel like it. Boredom as an excuse. Excellent."
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A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics)
16.  A Confederacy of Dunces (Penguin Modern Classics) by John Kennedy Toole
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  "The funniest book I've ever read."
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Lanark: Life in Four Books: A Life in 4 Books (Canongate Classics)
17.  Lanark: Life in Four Books: A Life in 4 Books (Canongate Classics) by Alasdair Gray
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Junky (Penguin Modern Classics)
18.  Junky (Penguin Modern Classics) by William S Burroughs
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  "Another Existential Beat Classic. Interesting to see how much drug slang has crept into modern language."
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Death And The Penguin (Panther)
19.  Death And The Penguin (Panther) by Andrey Kurkov
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Invitation to a Beheading (Penguin Modern Classics)
20.  Invitation to a Beheading (Penguin Modern Classics) by Vladimir Nabokov
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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is (Penguin Classics)
21.  Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche
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  "If you think it's arrogant you're missing the point."
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Complete Poems (Poetry pl§eiade)
22.  Complete Poems (Poetry pl§eiade) by Charles Baudelaire
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  "Ah Baudelaire.....The only poet I truly love."
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The Blind Owl
23.  The Blind Owl by Sadiq Hidayat
The list author says:
  "Sadegh Hedayat studied with Sartre  in the 1940s then killed himself in 1951. Great persian book. Like witnessing a mind crumble."
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Youth
24.  Youth by J M Coetzee
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  "An honest Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man"
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