Prevailing Twenty-Five

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The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story
1.  The Cat from Hue: A Vietnam War Story by John Laurence
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  "a journalists memoirs of vietnam"
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The L.A. Diaries
2.  The L.A. Diaries by James Brown
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  "paranoia is a man with all the facts"
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The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
3.  The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) by Albert Camus
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  "accessible existentialism, the obsurdities of life"
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Fathers and Sons
4.  Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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  "still retaining traces of . . . that air of superiority to the rest of the world which usually disappears once the twenties have been passed"
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Red Dragon
5.  Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
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  "a vulnerable victim morphs into killer"
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The White Hotel
6.  The White Hotel by D M Thomas
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  "happiness was so possible, so close"
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Stalingrad
7.  Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
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  "the sixth army trapped in der kessel with lice & ameobic dysentry"
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The Quiet American: Centenary Celebration 2004
8.  The Quiet American: Centenary Celebration 2004 by Graham Greene
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  "perhaps it's simply that i'm five years older - at the end of life when five years becomes a high proportion of what's left"
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A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics)
9.  A Hero of Our Time (Penguin Classics) by Mikhail Lermontov
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  "i'm like a sailor born & bred . . . storm & battle are part of his life & if he's cast ashore he pines in boredom, indifferent to the pleasures of shady woods & peaceful sunshine"
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The Complete Short Novels (Everyman's Library Classics)
10.  The Complete Short Novels (Everyman's Library Classics) by Anton Chekov
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  ". . . reading through my life with loathing, i tremble, curse and bitterly complain, bitter tears pour from my eyes, but the sad lines are not washed away"
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All Quiet on the Western Front
11.  All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
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  "the horrors of trench warfare . . . the gas & all the rest of it"
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Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics)
12.  Anna Karenina (Wordsworth Classics) by L.N. Tolstoy
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  "happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way"
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War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics)
13.  War and Peace (Wordsworth Classics) by Leo Tolstoy
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  "everyone must know me, so that my life may not be lived for myself alone while others live so apart from it"
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The Kindly Ones
14.  The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell
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  "please, mein herr, shoot the children cleanly"
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Oblomov (Penguin Classics)
15.  Oblomov (Penguin Classics) by Ivan Goncharov
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  "your happiness will be like a mirror in which i shall see my bitter & wasted life"
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The Things They Carried (Flamingo)
16.  The Things They Carried (Flamingo) by Tim O'Brien
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  "i can see him turning . . . then he laughed & took that curious half step from shade into sunlight"
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Girl by the Road at Night: A Novel of Vietnam
17.  Girl by the Road at Night: A Novel of Vietnam by David Rabe
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  "toi khong biet"
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The Tartar Steppe
18.  The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati
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  "all of us, more or less, persist in hoping. but it is absurd"
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For Whom The Bell Tolls
19.  For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
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  "it is a vast wheel . . . you ride it each time & make the turn with no intention ever to have mounted"
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The Wisdom of Life
20.  The Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer
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  "the happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings"
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The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics)
21.  The Last Days of Socrates (Penguin Classics) by Plato
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  "socratic wisdom in the backdrop of his trial & execution for corrupting the youth of athens"
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics)
22.  One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Penguin Modern Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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  "a single day from S-854's ten year sentence in a gulag"
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First Love (Penguin Great Loves)
23.  First Love (Penguin Great Loves) by Ivan Turgenev
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  "then I caught the words: ‘vous devez vous séparer de cette. . .’ zinaïda sat up, and stretched out her arm"
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The Last Day of a Condemned Man (Hesperus Classics)
24.  The Last Day of a Condemned Man (Hesperus Classics) by Victor Hugo
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  "to appeal is to be suspended by a rope above a shear drop and hear it fraying minute by minute until it breaks. as through the guillotine blade took six weeks to fall"
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River Of Time
25.  River Of Time by Jon Swain
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  "a journalists memoirs of the conflicts in indochina"
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