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A Listmania! list by Carlos A. Palavicini Cham (Mexico)
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The Grapes of Wrath
1.  The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
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  "Steinbeck's masterpiece (even if almost all of his novels are as good as this one). No other writer, besides him and Haruki Murakami,  has depicted caracters so human."
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The Moon is Down (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
2.  The Moon is Down (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century) by John Steinbeck
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  "A great tale about courage and freedom. Steinbeck really explodes when dealing with real persons in real situations."
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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
3.  1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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  "Do I need to say something about this book? Everything about it can be defined in terms of strength."
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Down and Out in Paris and London (Essential Penguin)
4.  Down and Out in Paris and London (Essential Penguin) by George Orwell
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  "To begin with drink-getlaid-and-let-live literature, this is the way. Before Bukowsky and Easton Ellis, read this."
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Factotum
5.  Factotum by Charles Bukowski
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  "Just a tale of a great loser, a genius inside a world of worms and deceptions (yet courageous)."
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The Rules of Attraction (Vintage Contemporaries)
6.  The Rules of Attraction (Vintage Contemporaries) by Bret Easton Ellis
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  "Not as powerful as Bukowski, but BEE still manages to stick some kind of madness and teenager's delirium in our mind."
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Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death
7.  Slaughterhouse 5, or The Children's Crusade - A Duty-dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut
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  "A funny book about a not-that-funny subject. Supposedly, a tale of anti-war influence. Better to read it as a tale of childish destruction."
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Catch-22
8.  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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  "The true anti-war book and one of the funniest readings I had."
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The Catcher in the Rye
9.  The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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  "Everybody, I mean everybody identifies in one way or another with the main caracter in this book. A pure wonder!"
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On the Road
10.  On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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  "Want to travel? Take this book and forget all you pretended to know till now about easy-riding."
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Selected Poems (Penguin Poets)
11.  Selected Poems (Penguin Poets) by John Ashbery
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  "The greatest living english poet (by far)... I tried each thing, only some were immortal and free"
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Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
12.  Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs by Leonard Cohen
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  "Just a decent poet, but extremely powerful as a songwriter (and as a singer, by the way)."
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