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Twenty Books That Changed Literature

by Pamela Poston

These were complied by audible.com:

  • Time Machine by H. G. Wells
  • Fear of Flying by Erica Jong
  • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain
  • On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac
  • Bleak House by Charles Dickens
  • White Teeth by Zadie Smith
  • Ulysses: Vol. 1, Episodes 1-3 by James Joyce
  • The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
  • The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • In cold Blood by Truman Capote
  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
  • Emma by Jane Austin
  • Beowulf translated by Robert K Gordan Kafka
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov, Vol. 1 by Anton Chekhov
  • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
  • Metamorphosis by Frank
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Posted in Books, Education, Life on November 9th, 2007

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  1. Stephanie Says:
    November 29th, 2007 at 9:37 pm

    The English teacher in my LOVES this list! What a great 20 that EVERYONE should read!

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