- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel by Milan Kundera
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Steppenwolf: A Novel by Hermann Hesse
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Anthem by Ayn Rand
- The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
- Jacques the Fatalist and His Master by Denis Diderot
- Watt by Samuel Beckett
- Death on the Installment Plan by Louis-Ferdinand C?line
- The Castle by Franz Kafka
- The Sirens of Titan: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Sorrows of Young Werther (Dover Thrift Editions) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- God’s Debris: A Thought Experiment by Scott Adams
- The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Fable About Fulfilling Your Dreams & Reaching Your Destiny by Robin Sharma
- Pontypool Changes Everything by Tony Burgess
- The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
- The Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa
- White Noise by Don DeLillo
- Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse
- To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick
- Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman
- Ubik by Philip K. Dick
- Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis
- Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
- Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Blindsight by Peter Watts
- Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
- When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obsession by Irvin D. Yalom
- Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
- Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit by Daniel Quinn
- Thomas the Obscure by Maurice Blanchot
- The Giver (Giver Quartet) by Lois Lowry
- Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand C?line
- Anathem by Neal Stephenson
- Life of Pi by Yann Martel
- The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Animal farm by George Orwell
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch
- The Awakening by Kate Chopin
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- The Last Puritan by George Santayana
- Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
- Cat’s Cradle: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Utopia by Thomas More
- The Little Prince by Richard Howard
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
- The Age of Reason: A Novel by Jean-Paul Sartre
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
- Under the Net by Iris Murdoch
- Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Fall by Albert Camus
- The Republic by Plato
- Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
- The Plague by Albert Camus
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig
- Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
- Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoyevsky
- The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Isle Of Woman: Geodyssey: by Piers ANTHONY
- Candide by Voltaire
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
- Essays in Love by Alain De Botton
- Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
- The Dream Weaver: One Boy’s Journey through the Landscape of Reality by Jack Bowen
- A Happy Death by Albert Camus
- VALIS (Valis Trilogy) by Philip K. Dick
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini by Khaled Hosseini
- The Journey to the East by Hermann Hesse
- The Secret Magdalene: A Novel by Ki Longfellow
- Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
- The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
- Towing Jehovah by James Morrow
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Disturbances in the Field: A Novel by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
- The Black Prince by Iris Murdoch
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- The Sacred Band by Janet Morris
- Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
- The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K. Dick
- Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
- The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
- After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley
- Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
- The Note of Malte Laurids Brigge by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- Solaris by Stanislaw Lem
- The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- Demian (Dover Thrift Editions) by Hermann Hesse
- The Man without Qualities by Robert Musil
- The Glass Bead Game (Magister Ludi) A Novel by Hermann Hesse
- The Trial by Franz Kafka
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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