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Introduction
They're in no particular order.
Some of the items listed are plays.
They're all wonderful, wonderful pieces of literature.
On Suicide - David Hume
Miracles and Idolatry - Voltaire
On the Pleasure of Hating - William Hazlitt
On Love and Death - Patrick Suskind
Hints on Etiquette and the usages of society
The Night Watch - Sarah Waters
The Affected Provincial's Companion Volume One - Lord Breaulove Swells Whimsy
Eleutheria - Samuel Beckett
Talking Heads - Alan Bennett
Life Among the Pirates - David Cordingly
Philosophical Dictionary - Voltaire
Small is Beautiful - E.F. Schumacher
The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith - Peter Carey
Success - Martin Amis
Troublesome Words - Bill Bryson
The Book of the Courtier - Castiglione
On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
A Woman's Life - Guy de Maupassant
Metamorphosis - Ovid
Three Men In A Boat - Jerome K. Jerome
The Meaning of Things - A.C. Grayling
Cider With Rosie - Laurie Lee
Les Pensees - Pascal
The Misfortunes of Virtue and other tales - Marquis de Sade
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
Thus Spake Zarathustra - Neitzsche
Tender Is the Night - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Le Grand Meaulnes - Alain Fournier
Lonely Planet's Guide to Micronations
Lonely Planet's Guide to Experimental Travel
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Old Goriot - Honore de Balzac
On Love - Stendhal
Gormenghast Trilogy - Mervyn Peake
Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Notes from a small island - Bill Bryson
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
Babette's Feast - Isak Dinesen
Freakonomics - Stephen Levitt
Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan
Will Storr vs. The Supernatural - Will Storr
A Certain Age - Rebecca Ray
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell - Susanna Clarke
Candide - Voltaire
The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
Fast Food Nation - Eric Schlosser
Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins
Consolations of Philosophy - Alain de Botton
Illusions - Richard Bach
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar... - Cathcart & Klein
The Little Prince - Antoine de St.-Exupery
Little Tales of Misogyny - Patricia Highsmith
Coraline - Neil Gaiman
The Thief of Always - Clive Barker
Perfume - Patrick Suskind
The Pigeon - Patrick Suskind
The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen
Bodas de Sangre (Eng: Blood Wedding) - Federico Garcia Lorca
The Abarat Trilogy - Clive Barker
The last book of the trilogy hasn't been published yet.

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