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Originally Posted by David
Advice: Don't read "Ulysses" alone. Read it in tandem with Stuart Gilbert's study, which is available in an easy-to-flip-around-it paperback.
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Why not alone? I did it and it was a great experience.
About the list, I've read:
American Pastoral - Philip Roth
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
The French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
The Golden Notebook - Doris Lessing
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby . F. Scott Fitzgerald
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Naked Lunch - William Burroughs
On the Road- Jack Kerouac
A Passage to India- E.M. Forster
The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene
Red Harvest - Dashiell Hammett
The Sheltering Sky - Paul Bowles
The Spy Who Came in From the Cold - John LeCarre
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Under the Volcano - Malcolm Lowrey
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