I.  LITERATURE CLASSICS

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1.  Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, 1847 

2.  Moby Dick, Herman Melville, 1851 

3.  Great Expectations, Charles Dickens, 1861 

4.  Hunger, Knut Hamsun, 1890 

5.  Ulysses, James Joyce, 1920

6.  Mrs Dalloway, Virigina Woolf, 1925 

7.  The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway, 1926 

8.  As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner, 1929 

9.  All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque, 1929

10.  The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck, 1939 

11.  Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov, 1955

12.  Catch-22, Joseph Heller, 1961

13.  One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967

14.  Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick, 1968

15.  A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole, 1980

16.  Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie, 1981

17.  The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera, 1984

18.  Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy, 1985

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II. SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY

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1.  The Once and Future King, T.H. White, 1958

2.  Dune, Frank Herbert, 1965 

3.  The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Robert Heinlein, 1966

4.  The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin, 1969

5.  The Forever War, Joe Halderman, 1974

6.  The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams, 1978

7.  Neuromancer, William Gibson, 1984

8.  Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, Tad Williams, 1988

9.  Hyperion, Dan Simmons, 1989

10.  The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe, 1994

11.  The Farseer Trilogy, Robin Hobb, 1996

12.  Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson, 2002

13.  Old Man's War, John Scalzi, 2005

14.  The First Law Trilogy, Joe Abercrombie, 2006

15.  Kingkiller Chronicle, Patrick Rothfuss, 2007

16.  The Stormlight Archive, Brandon Sanderson, 2010

17.  The Martian, Andy Weir, 2014

18.  Red Rising Saga, Pierce Brown, 2014