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Take a trip through literature - try this “Best ” fiction and non-fiction recommended by the Modern Library and the New York Times.

Top 10 Modern Library Recommendations:

Ulysses - James Joyce

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Darkness at Noon - Arthur Koestler

Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence

The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

New York Times Editors’ Choices:
(From Books of the Century edited by Charles McGrath)

The Children of Pride - Robert Manson Myers

Watership Down - Richard Adams

To Jerusalem and Back - Saul Bellow

In Patagonia - Bruce Chatwin

Falling in Place - Ann Beattie

Waiting for the Barbarians - J. M. Coetzee

Brothers and Keepers - John Edgar Wideman

Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape - Barry Lopez

Battle Cry of Freedom - James M. McPherson

Friend of My Youth - Alice Munro

The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje

Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes, and the Fall of Old Mexico - Hugh Thomas

After Rain - William Trevor

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