Amazingly Pretty and Somewhat Literary

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The writers of the blog Amazingly Pretty and Somewhat Literary created a list of books "to find something that would rival [their] sharp wit and incredible eloquentness, not to mention [their] tragic beauty."

The List

 * 1) Adams, Richard: Watership Down
 * 2) Adichie, Chimamanda Ngogi: Half of a Yellow Sun
 * 3) Alexander,Robert: The Kitchen Boy
 * 4) Atwood, Margaret: Moral Disorder
 * 5) Auster, Paul: Oracle Night
 * 6) Balzac, Honore De: Cousin Bette
 * 7) Barbery, Muriel: The Elegance of the Hedgehog
 * 8) Boyne, John: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
 * 9) Bulgakov, Mikhail: The Master and Margarita
 * 10) Burgess, Anthony: A Clockwork Orange
 * 11) Capote, Truman: Breakfast at Tiffany's
 * 12) Carver, Raymond: What we talk about when we talk about love
 * 13) Chopin, Kate: The Awakening
 * 14) Coelho, Paolo: The Winner Stands Alone
 * 15) Cunningham, Michael: The Hours 
 * 16) Dreiser, Theodore: An American Tragedy
 * 17) Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
 * 18) Dunn,Mark: Ella Minnow Pea
 * Eco, Umberto: The Name of the Rose
 * 1) Eugenides, Jeffrey: Virgin Suicides
 * 2) Faulkner, William: The Sound and The Fury
 * 3) Finney, Jack: Time and Again
 * 4) Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Great Gatsby
 * 5) Flaubert, Gustave: Madame Bovary
 * 6) Forster, E.M.: A Room with a View
 * 7) Gaskell, Elizabeth: Wives and Daughters
 * 8) Goldberg, Myla: Bee Season
 * 9) Grealy, Lucy: Autobiography of a Face
 * 10) Gregory, Phillipa: The Other Boleyn Girl
 * 11) Haddon, Mark: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
 * 12) Harford, Tim: The Logic of Life
 * 13) Hawthorne, Nathaniel: The House of the Seven Gables 
 * 14) Hegi,Ursula: Sacred Time
 * 15) Heller, Joseph: Catch-22 
 * 16) Hesse, Hermann: Siddhartha
 * 17) Hillenbrand, Laura: Seabiscuit: An American Legend
 * 18) Hornby, Nick: The Polysyllabic Spree
 * 19) Hosseini, Khaleid: Thousand Splendid Suns
 * 20) Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
 * 21) Irving, Washington: Legend of Sleepy Hollow
 * 22) Jackson, Shirley: The Lottery: And Other Stories
 * 23) James, Henry: The Europeans
 * 24) Jensen, Jan Lars: Nervous System
 * Jin, Ha: A Free Life
 * 1) Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 
 * 2) Kafka, Franz: The Metamorphosis
 * 3) Keller, Helen: The Story of My Life
 * 4) Kerouac, Jack: On The Road
 * 5) Kesey, Ken: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
 * 6) Keyes, Daniel: Flowers for Algernon
 * 7) Kidd, Sue Monk: The Secret Life of Bees
 * 8) Laclos, Choderlos de: Les Liaisons dangereuses
 * 9) Lahiri, Jhumpa: Unaccustomed Earth
 * 10) Lerner, Alan Jay: My Fair Lady 
 * 11) Levin, Ira: The Stepford Wives
 * 12) Maguire, Gregory: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
 * 13) Márquez, Gabriel Carcía: Love in the Time of Cholera 
 * 14) Maugham, W. Somerset: The Razor’s Edge
 * 15) Maurier, Daphne du: Rebecca 
 * 16) McEwan, Ian: Atonement
 * 17) Melville, Herman: Moby Dick
 * 18) Milton, John: Paradise Lost 
 * 19) Morrison,Toni: Beloved 
 * 20) Nabokov, Vladimir: Lolita 
 * 21) Nabokov, Vladimir: Speak, Memory
 * 22) Nafisi, Azar: Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
 * 23) Némirovsky, Iréne: Suite Francaise
 * 24) Oates, Joyce Carol: A Garden of Earthly Delights
 * 25) Obama, Barack: The Audacity of Hope
 * 26) Ogawa, Yoko: The Diving Pool
 * 27) Olsson, Linda: Astrid & Veronika
 * 28) Orringer, Julie: How to Breathe Underwater
 * 29) Parker, Dorothy: The Portable Dorothy Parker
 * 30) Pasternak, Boris: Doctor Zhivago 
 * 31) Patchett, Ann: Truth & Beauty
 * 32) Pessl, Marisha: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
 * 33) Picoult, Jodi: My Sister’s Keeper
 * 34) Rand, Ayn: The Fountainhead
 * 35) Roach, Mary: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
 * 36) Robinson, Elisabeth: The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters
 * Roy, Arundhati: The God of Small Things
 * 1) Russo, Richard: Empire Falls
 * 2) Sedaris, David: Holidays on Ice
 * 3) Shakespeare, William: Midsummer Night's Dream
 * 4) Shakespeare, William: Othello
 * 5) Shakespeare, William: Taming of the Shrew 
 * 6) Shaw, George Bernard: Pygmalion
 * 7) Stowe, Harriet Beecher: Uncle Tom’s Cabin
 * 8) Thackeray, William Makepeace: Vanity Fair
 * 9) Toole, John Kennedy: A Confederacy of Dunces
 * 10) Tucker, Lisa: The Song Reader
 * 11) Updike, John: The Witches of Eastwick 
 * 12) Welsh, Irwine: Trainspotting
 * 13) Wharton, Edith: Ethan Frome
 * 14) Wodehouse, P. G.: The Code of the Woosters
 * 15) Woolf, Virginia: Mrs. Dalloway 
 * 16) Yates, Richard: Revolutionary Road
 * 17) Zafon, Carlos Ruiz: The Shadow of the Wind

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