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Classics that everyone should read at least once 🖤

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those are books that shake your soul and leave you with a whole range of different emotions.
 
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hunger portrays the irrationality of the human mind in an intriguing and sometimes humorous manner. it's a short novel but very effective!
Hunger a book by Knut Hamsun and Sverre Lyngstad
 
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my all time favorite!
Germinal a book by Emile Zola and Roger Pearson
 
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the book with one of the most famous first sentances ever written.
The Stranger a book by Albert Camus
 
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the novel is dark, and the main themes are conflicts and loneliness, division, elitism versus mediocrity, self-mutilation, and suicide
Steppenwolf a book by Hermann Hesse and Basil Creighton
 
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the greatest novel about obsession
The Tunnel (Revised) a book by Ernesto Sabato, Margaret Sayers Peden, and Colm Toibin
 
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one of the greatest of all time
Crime and Punishment a book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear, and Larissa Volokhonsky
 
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a complex analysis of good and evil in society
East of Eden: John Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002) a book by John Steinbeck
 
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for all sensitive souls 🖤
Death and the Dervish a book by Mesa Selimovic, Bogdan Rakic, and Stephen M. Dickey
 
The Bridge on the Drina a book by Ivo Andric
 
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for all my introverts out there 🖤
Oblomov a book by Ivan Goncharov, David Magarshack, and Milton Ehre
 
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a book about the meaninglessness of war
All Quiet on the Western Front (Turtleback School & Library) a book by Erich Maria Remarque and A W Wheen
 
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another book about war... about what war does to a young man...
Journey to the End of the Night a book by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, William T Vollmann, and Ralph Manheim
 
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this one leaves a bitter taste and has strong message.
The Plague a book by Albert Camus and Laura Marris
 
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all recommendations for both the book and the publication.
The Catcher in the Rye. a book by J. D. Salinger
 
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such an important book!
Madame Bovary a book by Gustave Flaubert
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a book that points to the cruelty of the world, extremely instructive, extremely "tough", it won't leave you indifferent for sure.
Last Exit to Brooklyn a book by Hubert Selby
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this one will break your heart 💔
Of Mice and Men (School & Library) a book by John Steinbeck
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painful and beautiful like all Mesha's works. if you've never read anything by him before, i highly recommend it
The Fortress a book by Mesa Selimovic, Jasna Levinger-Goy, and Edward Dennis Goy
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you have my recommendation for both the book and the movie!
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: (Penguin Orange Collection) a book by Ken Kesey
 
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a book full of melancholy and warmth 🍂
November a book by Gustave Flaubert and Hollybooks
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Silvia Plath is one of the most important women in the history of world literature. this book is important not only because of its content but also because this is the only novel she left behind.
The Bell Jar a book by Sylvia Plath
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Notes from Underground a book by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, et al.
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my favorite Faulkner book. also an extremely layered work.
Light in August a book by William Faulkner
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a simply written book about the misfortune of a family
The Grapes of Wrath a book by John Steinbeck and Robert Demott
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if you haven't read anything by him, I recommend you to start with this book
A Love Affair a book by Dino Buzzati and Joseph Green
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a story about how low a man can fall and how entangled he can become in his own filth.
Scum a book by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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another important book by Singer!
The Slave a book by Isaac Bashevis Singer and Cecil Hemley
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this is one of those books that should be read throughout life at all ages. masterpiece!!!
The Master and Margarita a book by Mikhail Bulgakov, Christopher Conn Askew, Larissa Volokhonsky, et al.
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a simple and warm book.
Great Expectations a book by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Mitchell, Coralie Bickford-Smith, et al.
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my favorite one by Virginia Woolf
To the Lighthouse (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) a book by Virginia Woolf
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I simply love his soul.
The Diaries of Franz Kafka a book by Franz Kafka and Ross Benjamin
 
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another one from Kafka. Painful and emotional. 🖤
Letters to Milena a book by Franz Kafka and Philip Boehm
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