20 Best Books Ever

Discover the 20 best books ever written! Explore timeless classics, must-read masterpieces, and life-changing literature in this ultimate reading list for book lovers.

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On the Road

by Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac’s classic American novel of freedom and the search for originality that defined a generation “An authentic work of art.”—The New York Times Inspired …
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The Aeneid

by Virgil

Recounts the adventures of the Trojan prince Aeneas, who helped found Rome, after the fall of Troy.
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Everything is Illuminated

by Jonathan Safran Foer

A young man arrives in the Ukraine with a tattered photograph, a bad translator, a man haunted by memories and an undersexed guide dog - …
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The Little Prince

 

An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who relates his adventures in seeking …
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Ulysses

by James Joyce

This revised volume of the acclaimed novel follows the complete unabridged text as corrected in 1961. Set entirely on one day, 16 June 1904, Ulysses …
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The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

J.D. Salinger's classic of adolescent angst is now available for the first time in trade paperback. Holden Caulfield, knowing he is to be expelled from …
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The Soft Machine

by William S. Burroughs

Science fiction-roman.
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Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood's Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, …
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Bell Jar

by Sylvia Plath

A Special Paperback Edition to Commemorate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Publication of Sylvia Plath's Remarkable Novel Sylvia Plath's shocking, realistic, and intensely emotional novel …
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Tropic of Cancer

by Henry Miller

The account of a young writer and his friends in free-wheeling Paris.
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Death of Virgil

by Hermann Broch

It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the …
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Howl, and Other Poems

by Allen Ginsberg

This collection of poems by Ginsberg created a sensation when it was first published in 1956, becoming the subject of an obscenity trial and changing …