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r/truelit defines itself as the premier place on reddit for discussing books and literature, both fictional and non-fictional alike. If you're interested in "written works, especially those considered of superior or lasting artistic merit," then you're in the right place.
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · 0 lists
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Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy · 1985 · 14 lists
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Ulysses
James Joyce · 1920 · 39 lists
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1880 · 22 lists
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez · 1967 · 33 lists
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In Search of Lost Time
Marcel Proust · 1913 · 29 lists
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Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon · 1973 · 12 lists
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Stoner
John Williams · 1965 · 3 lists
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Fictions
Jorge Luis Borges · 1973 · 0 lists
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Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy · 1876 · 24 lists
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare · 1623 · 8 lists
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2666
Roberto Bolaño · 2004 · 12 lists
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Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace · 1996 · 11 lists
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To The Lighthouse
Virginia Woolf · 1927 · 25 lists
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The Trial
Franz Kafka · 1925 · 21 lists
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Beloved
Toni Morrison · 1987 · 31 lists
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Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1955 · 38 lists
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East of Eden
John Steinbeck · 1952 · 7 lists
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Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen · 1813 · 28 lists
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The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner · 1929 · 26 lists
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The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov · 1967 · 18 lists
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Catch-22
Joseph Heller · 1961 · 0 lists
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The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989 · 0 lists
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The Recognitions
William Gaddis · 1955 · 6 lists
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Molloy
Samuel Beckett · 1951 · 4 lists
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Middlemarch
George Eliot · 1871 · 26 lists
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Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino · 1972 · 7 lists
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 · 29 lists
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra · 1615 · 27 lists
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Frankenstein
Mary Shelley · 1818 · 20 lists
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The Lord of the Rings
J.R.R. Tolkien · 1954 · 23 lists
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The Stranger
Albert Camus · 1942 · 15 lists
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Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison · 1952 · 29 lists
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Les Misérables
Victor Hugo · 1862 · 16 lists
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The Melancholy of Resistance
László Krasznahorkai · 1998 · 3 lists
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Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut · 1969 · 0 lists
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde · 1891 · 11 lists
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Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808 · 0 lists
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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856 · 26 lists
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The Passion According to G.H.
Clarice Lispector · 1964 · 2 lists
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Austerlitz
W.G. Sebald · 2001 · 11 lists
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Journey to the End of the Night
Louis-Ferdinand Céline · 1932 · 12 lists
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The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 1959 · 4 lists
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My Struggle
Karl Ove Knausgard · 2012 · 0 lists
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The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1321 · 0 lists
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The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann · 1924 · 18 lists
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1969 · 0 lists
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas · 1844 · 0 lists
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No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai · 1948 · 0 lists
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Life: A User's Manual
Georges Perec · 2009 · 0 lists
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Nightwood
Djuna Barnes · 1936 · 3 lists
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A Month in the Country
J.L. Carr · 1980 · 0 lists
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1925 · 0 lists
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White Noise
Don DeLillo · 1984 · 13 lists
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell · 1948 · 0 lists
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Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin · 1956 · 0 lists
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad · 1899 · 29 lists
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The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa · 1982 · 6 lists
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Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse · 1922 · 5 lists
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The Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemingway · 1952 · 15 lists
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The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger · 1951 · 32 lists
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The Neapolitan Novels
Elena Ferrante · 2016 · 0 lists
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera · 2006 · 7 lists
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Solenoid
Mircea Cartarescu · 2015 · 0 lists
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The Woman in the Dunes
Kobo Abe · 1966 · 0 lists
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The Sea of Fertility
Yukio Mishima · 1971 · 2 lists
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Gormenghast
Mervyn Peake · 1950 · 4 lists
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston · 1937 · 22 lists
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The Cairo Trilogy
Naguib Mahfouz · 2001 · 0 lists
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Raymond Carver · 1981 · 0 lists
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Life and Fate
unknown author · 1986 · 0 lists
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The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James · 1881 · 13 lists
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Paradise Lost
John Milton · 1667 · 0 lists
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë · 1847 · 26 lists
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee · 1960 · 33 lists
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Pedro Paramo
Juan Rulfo · 1955 · 0 lists
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Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · 1855 · 0 lists
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The Aeneid
Virgil · 19 · 0 lists
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Dune
Frank Herbert · 1965 · 14 lists
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain · 1885 · 25 lists
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Dead Souls
Nikolai Gogol · 1842 · 12 lists
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Laurence Sterne · 1759 · 0 lists
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Poems of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson · 1890 · 0 lists
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Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushdie · 1981 · 25 lists
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Blindness
Henry Green · 1926 · 3 lists
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The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien · 1967 · 5 lists
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The Book of the New Sun
Gene Wolfe · 1983 · 0 lists
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Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry · 1985 · 7 lists
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Hopscotch
Julio Cortazar · 1987 · 0 lists
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Disgrace
J.M. Coetzee · 1999 · 0 lists
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Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders · 2017 · 0 lists
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers · 1940 · 0 lists
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Woodcutters
Thomas Bernhard · 2010 · 0 lists
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Ariel
Sylvia Plath · 1965 · 0 lists
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Confessions of Zeno
Italo Svevo · 1969 · 0 lists
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The Goldfinch
Donna Tartt · 2013 · 9 lists
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The Sellout
Paul Beatty · 2015 · 0 lists
