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A Listmania! list by M. Badrock "sarahbia" (wigan, england)
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1.  The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
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  "Life altering and philosophical."
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Post Office: A Novel
2.  Post Office: A Novel by Charles Bukowski
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  "Funny, brilliant, completely different to everything else you've ever read. Reading Bukowski isn't like reading at all."
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Valley of the Dolls (Virago Modern Classics)
3.  Valley of the Dolls (Virago Modern Classics) by Jacqueline Susann
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  "This hasn't really aged whatsoever. Kind of trashy. Unputdownable."
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The Catcher in the Rye
4.  The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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  "I love Holden Caulfield. Everyone should read this book."
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1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four
5.  1984 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
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  "Chilling but essential reading."
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Junky (Essential Penguin)
6.  Junky (Essential Penguin) by William S Burroughs
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  "This amuses me. Like Bukowski but a bit more downtrodden."
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The Bell Jar
7.  The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
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  "Makes me feel not alone. It's really sad she died so young."
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The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women
8.  The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf
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  "This is really empowering (not to sound all Oprah or anything). Makes you want to throw away your make up."
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Cat's Cradle (Essential Penguin)
9.  Cat's Cradle (Essential Penguin) by Kurt Vonnegut
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  "This is just brilliant. Vonnegut is hilariously funny and odd and this should be read by everyone with a sense of humour or a brain."
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Factotum
10.  Factotum by Charles Bukowski
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  "Just good and Bukowski-esque."
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Ham on Rye
11.  Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski
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  "Makes you feel bad for Bukowski. Bukowski is king though."
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Catch-22
12.  Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
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  "Funny."
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Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir
13.  Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America - A Memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel
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  "The Bell Jar for the nineties."
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
14.  Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World by Sarah Vowell
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  "The hot chocolate of the book world."
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Zazie in the Metro (Penguin Modern Classics)
15.  Zazie in the Metro (Penguin Modern Classics) by Raymond Queneau
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  "Brill. Like you're watching a film."
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Steppenwolf (Essential Penguin)
16.  Steppenwolf (Essential Penguin) by Hermann Hesse
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The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills
17.  The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills by Charles Bukowski
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  "Beautiful book."
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Atomised
18.  Atomised by Michel Houellebecq
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Girlfriend in a Coma
19.  Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
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Life is Elsewhere
20.  Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera
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