The Complete 'You Must Read This' Recommendation List

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'You Must Read This' Recommended Books

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47, by Walter Mosley, Little, Brown and Company, paperback, 240 pages, List Price: $7.99, Recommended by Steven Barnes

The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991, by Eric Hobsbawm, Vintage, paperback, 672 pages, List Price: $17.95, Recommended by Michael Kazin

The Ambassadors, by Henry James, Barnes & Noble Classics, paperback, 496 pages, List Price: $6.95 Recommended by Ann Patchett

Amongst Women, by John McGahern, Penguin, paperback, 192 pages, Recommended by Colm Toibin

Animal Farm, by George Orwell, Signet Classics, paperback, 176 pages, List Price: $9.99, Recommended by David Maine

The Apprenticeship Of Duddy Kravitz, by Mordecai Richler, Pocket, paperback, 384 pages, List Price: $24.95, Recommended by David Sax

April Morning, by Howard Fast, Bantam, paperback, 208 pages, List Price: $7.99, Recommended by Sally Gunning

The Areas of My Expertise, by John Hodgman, Riverhead Trade, paperback, 256 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by Mary Roach

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Beat This!, by Ann Hodgman, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, paperback, 208 pages, List Price: $16, Recommended by Elizabeth Berg

The Believers, by Zoe Heller, Harper, hardcover, 352 pages, List Price: $25.99, Recommended by Meghan Daum

The Book of Disquiet, by Fernando Pessoa, Exact Change, paperback, 304 pages, List Price: $15.95, Recommended by Rabih Alemeddine

A Christmas Memory, by Truman Capote, Knopf, hardcover, 48 pages, List Price: $17.95, Recommended by Josh Kilmer-Purcell

The Burning Plain and Other Stories, by Juan Rulfo, University of Texas Press, paperback, 175 pages, List Price: $17.95, Recommended by Oscar Casares

Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell, Random House, paperback, 528 pages, List Price: $14.95, Recommended by Maile Meloy

The Collected Stories , by Grace Paley, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, paperback, 386 pages, List Price: $17, Recommended by Alix Kates Shulman

The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel, by Isaac Babel, W.W. Norton, paperback, 560 pages, List Price: $16.95, Recommended by George Saunders

Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays, by David Foster Wallace, Little, Brown and Company, hardcover, 352 pages, List Price: $25.95, Recommended by David Lipsky

Consider the Oyster, by M.F.K. Fisher, North Point Press, paperback, 96 pages, List Price: $11, Recommended by Kate Christensen

Cosmicomics, by Italo Calvino, Harvest Books, paperback, 153 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by Salman Rushdie

The Dain Curse, by Dashiell Hammett, Vintage, paperback, 240 pages, List Price: $13, Recommended by Jonathan Ames

Delirious New York, by Rem Koolhaas, Monacelli, paperback, 320 pages, List Price: $35, Recommended by Eric Kraft

Dirty Snow, by Georges Simenon, NYRB Classics, paperback, 272 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by James Hynes

Doctor Zhivago , by Boris Pasternak, Everyman's Library, hardcover, 544 pages, List Price: $21, Recommended by Ursula Le Guin

Dracula, by Bram Stoker, Signet Classics, paperback, 400 pages, List Price: $4.95, Recommended by John Marks

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Essays, by George Orwell, Everyman's Library, hardcover, 1424 pages, List Price: $35, Recommended by Lawrence Wright

The Essential Tales of Chekhov, by Anton Chekhov, Harper Perennial, paperback, 368 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by Diana Abu-Jaber

Exploits and Adventures of Brigadier Gerard, by Arthur Conan Doyle, NYRB Classics, paperback, 417 pages, List Price: $13.95, Recommended by Michael Chabon

Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury, Ballantine Books, paperback, 208 pages, List Price: $6.99, Recommended by Alice Hoffman

Fathers and Sons, by Ivan Turgenev, Oxford University Press, paperback, 296 pages, List Price: $10.95, Recommended by Gary Shteyngart

The Fire Next Time, by James Baldwin, Vintage, paperback, 128 pages, List Price: $10.95, Recommended by Eboo Patel

The Four-Story Mistake, by Elizabeth Enright, Square Fish, paperback, 208 pages, List Price: $6.99, Recommended by Marisa de los Santos

From here to Eternity, by James Jones, Delta, paperback, 864 pages, List Price: $17, Recommended by James Ellroy

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, by Giorgio Bassani, Everyman's Library, hardcover, 280 pages, List Price: $23, Recommended by Dalia Sofer

George, Being George: George Plimpton's Life as Told, Admired, Deplored and Envied by 200 Friends, Relatives, Lovers, Acquaintances, Rivals — and a Few Unappreciative Observers, by Nelson W. Aldrich, Random House Trade, paperback, 432 pages, List Price: $8, Recommended by Simon Van Booy

Go With Me, by Castle Freeman Jr., Harper Perennial List, paperback, 192 pages, List Price: $12.99, Recommended by Charles Bock

A Good Man in Africa, by William Boyd, Vintage, paperback, 352 pages, List Price: $15.95, Recommended by Susan Coll

The Groucho Letters, by Groucho Marx, Simon & Schuster, paperback, 320 pages, List Price: $16, Recommended by Shalom Auslander

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Heat, by Bill Buford, Knopf, hardcover, 336 pages, List Price: $25.96, Recommended by Oscar Villalon

Herzog, by Saul Bellow, Penguin Classics, hardcover, 400 pages, List Price: $19.95, Recommended by Jeffrey Eugenides

A High Wind in Jamaica, by Richard Hughes, NYRB Classics, paperback, 296 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by Andrew Sean Greer

His Dark Materials Trilogy, by Philip Pullman, Laurel Leaf, paperback, List Price: $22.50, Recommended by Julie Powell

A Hope in the Unseen, by Ron Suskind, Broadway, paperback, 400 pages, List Price: $15.95 Recommended by Susan Jane Gilman

The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton, Signet Classics, paperback, 350 pages, List Price: $4.95, Recommended by Mireille Guiliano

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature, by Loren Eiseley, Vintage, paperback, 224 pages, List Price: $10, Recommended by Michael Lind

Independent People, by Hallidor Laxness, Vintage, paperback, 512 pages, List Price: $15.95, Recommended by Christina Sunley

In the Skin of a Lion, by Michael Ondaatje, Vintage, paperback, 544 pages, List Price: $13.95, Recommended by Kamila Shamsie

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, by Jack Finney, Touchstone, paperback, 224 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by James Rollins

Jesus' Son, by Denis Johnson, Harper Perennial, paperback, 176 pages, List Price: $12, Recommended by Nathan Englander

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Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman, Dover, paperback, 128 pages, List Price: $3, Recommended by Diane Ackerman

The Living End, by Stanley Elkin, Dalkey Archive Press, paperback, 144 pages, List Price: $11.95, Recommended by Sam Lipsyte

Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov, Vintage, paperback, 336 pages, List Price: $13.95, Recommended by Bret Anthony Johnston

A Long Long Way, by Sebastian Barry, Penguin, paperback, 304 pages, List price: $14 Recommended by R.L. Stine

The Loser, by Thomas Bernhard, Vintage, paperback, 208 pages, List Price: $12.95, Recommended by Claire Messud

Love & War in the Apennines, by Eric Newby, Lonely Planet, paperback, 288 pages, List Price: $14.99, Recommended by Simon Mawer

Love Warps the Mind a Little, by John Dufresne, W.W. Norton & Co., paperback, 320 pages, List Price: $13.95, Recommended by Julia Glass

Maud Martha, by Gwendolyn Brooks, Third World Press, paperback, 180 pages, List Price: $9.95, Recommended by Asali Solomon

McKay's Bees, by Thomas McMahon, University of Chicago Press, paperback, 288 pages, List Price: $16, Recommended by Sue Miller

The Member of the Wedding, by Carson McCullers, Mariner, paperback, 176 pages, List Price: $7.95, Recommended by Augusten Burroughs

Middlemarch, by George Eliot, Penguin Classics, paperback, 800 pages, List Price: $10, Recommended by Francine Prose

Moby Dick, by Herman Melville, Bantam, paperback, 704 pages, List Price: $4.95, Recommended by Rebecca Stott

Movie Love In The Fifties, by James Harvey, Da Capo Press, paperback, 464 pages, List Price: $18.95, Recommended by Anthony Giardina

Mr. Ives' Christmas, by Oscar Hijuelos, Harper Perennial, paperback, 256 pages, List Price: $13.95, Recommended by Ray Suarez

Mrs. Bridge: A Novel, by Evan S. Connell, Counterpoint, paperback, 256 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by James Patterson

The Mysterious Secret of Valuable Treasure, by Jack Pendarvis, MacAdam/Cage, hardcover, 250 pages, List Price: $21.00, Recommended by Laura Lippman

Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, by Flannery O'Connor, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, paperback, 256 pages, List Price: $15, Recommended by Aimee Bender

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The Necklace and Other Tales, by Guy de Maupassant, Modern Library, paperback, 224 pages, List Price: $10.95, Recommended by Mirta Ojito

Neighbors, by Thomas Berger, Simon & Schuster, paperback, 288 pages, List Price: $13, Recommended by Tom Perrotta

The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L. Sayers, Harvest, paperback, 420 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by Jonathan Hayes

Night Soldiers, by Alan Furst, Random House, paperback, 462 pages, List Price: $15, Recommended by Jake Halpern

Nightwood, by Djuna Barnes, Little, Brown and Company, paperback, 240 pages, List Price: $7.99, Recommended by Siri Hustvedt

Oh the Glory of It All, by Sean Wilsey, Penguin, paperback, 496 pages, List Price: $15, Recommended by Curtis Sittenfeld

No Sweetness Here and Other Stories, by Ama Ata Aidoo, The Feminist Press at CUNY, paperback, 170 pages, List Price: $13.95, Recommended by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Old Glory: A Voyage Down the Mississippi, by Jonathan Raban, Vintage, paperback, 416 pages, List Price: $15, Recommended by Tony Horwitz

Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout, Little, Random House, hardcover, 270 pages, List Price: $25 Recommended by Melissa Bank

On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, by Harold McGee, Scribner, hardcover, 896 pages, List Price: $40, Recommended by Bill Buford

Pale Horse, Pale Rider, by Katherine Anne Porter, Harcourt, hardcover, 216 pages, List Price: $17, Recommended by Alice McDermott

Passing, by Nella Larsen, Wilder Publications, paperback, 84 pages, List Price: $6.99, Recommended by Heidi W. Durrow

Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry, by Alan Dugan, Seven Stories Press, paperback, 422 pages, List Price: $18.95, Recommended by Robert Pinksy

The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James, Penguin Classics, paperback, 656 pages, List Price: $12, Recommended by Rhoda Janzen

Put Out More Flags, by Evelyn Waugh, Back Bay Books, paperback, 304 pages, List Price: $13.95, Recommended by Jonathan Raban

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Quarantine, by Jim Crace, Picador, paperback, 256 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by Bret Anthony Johnston

The Quiet American, by Graham Greene, Penguin Classics, paperback, 208 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by Pico Iyer

The Radetzky March, by Joseph Roth, Overlook, paperback, 352 pages, List Price: $16.95, Recommended by Zoe Heller

Replay, by Ken Grimwood, Harper, paperback, 320 pages, List Price: $13.95, Recommended by Brad Meltzer

The Republican Roosevelt, by John Morton Blum, Harvard University Press, paperback, 192 pages, List Price: $22, Recommended by Lewis Gould

The Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates, Vintage, paperback, 368 pages, List Price: $14.95. Recommended by Anthony Giardina

Riddley Walker, by Russell Hoban, Indiana University Press, paperback, 254 pages, List Price: $16.95, Recommended by John Wray

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Sacred Hunger, by Barry Unsworth, W.W. Norton, paperback, 629 pages, List Price: $14.95, Recommended by Ethan Canin

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett, HarperTrophy, paperback, 384 pages, List Price: $6.99, Recommended by Sloane Crosley

The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake, by Breece D'J Pancake, Back Bay Books, paperback, 192 pages, List Price: $13.99, Recommended by Susan Straight

The Stories of John Cheever, by John Cheever, Vintage, paperback, 704 pages, List Price: $17.95, Recommended by T.C. Boyle

The Street, by Ann Petry, Mariner, paperback, 448 pages, List Price: $12.95, Recommended by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Suite Française, by Irène Némirovsky, Knopf, hardcover, 416 pages, List Price: $25.00, Recommended by Elizabeth Strout

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments, by David Foster Wallace, Back Bay Books, paperback, 368 pages, List Price: $14.99, Recommended by David Lipsky

Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu, Barnes & Noble Classics, paperback, 208 pages, List Price: $5.95, Recommended by Henry Alford

Teach Us To Outgrow Our Madness, by Kenzaburo Oe, Grove Press, paperback, 261 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by Victor Lavalle

Tell Me a Riddle, by Tillie Olsen, Rutgers University Press, paperback, 310 pages, List Price: $23.95, Recommended by Scott Turow

That Night, by Alice McDermott, Dial Press, paperback, 208 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by Alice Leccese Powers

The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien, Dalkey Archive Press, paperback, 200 pages, List Price: $12.95, Recommended by Charles Baxter

To the Finland Station, by Edmund Wilson, NYRB Classics, paperback, 544 pages, List Price: $19.95, Recommended by Aravind Adiga

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Peggy Smith, Harper Perennial, paperback, 528 pages, List Price: $16.95, Recommended by Peggy Orenstein

True Grit, by Charles Portis, Overlook, paperback, 256 pages, List Price: $14.95, Recommended by George Pelecanos

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An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness, by Kay Redfield Jamison, Vintage, paperback, 240 pages, List Price: $14.95, Recommended by Melody Moezzi

The Very Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric Carle, Philomel, hardcover, 32 pages, List Price: $21.99, Recommended by Marina Lewycka

View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems, by Wislawa Szymborska, Harvest, paperback, 224 pages, List Price: $14, Recommended by Adam Gopnick

The Virginian, by Owen Wister, Signet Classics, paperback, 400 pages, List Price: $6.95, Recommended by Benjamin Percy

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Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories: And Other Disasters, by Jean Shepherd, Broadway, paperback, 352 pages, List Price: $14.95, Recommended by Jen Lancaster

West with the Night, by Beryl Markham, North Point Press, paperback, 320 pages, List Price: $16, Recommended by Anne Cherian

Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys, W.W. Norton & Co., paperback, 192 pages, List Price: $13.95, Recommended by Sara Paretsky

Winesburg, Ohio, by Sherwood Anderson, Penguin Classics, paperback, 256 pages, List Price: $8.95, Recommended by Tom Perrotta

The Woman in White, by Wilkie Collins, Bantam, paperback, 800 pages, List Price: $5.95, Recommended by Jennifer Egan

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston, Vintage, paperback, 224 pages, List Price: $12.95, Recommended by Diana Abu-Jaber

The Yearling, by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Collier MacMillan, paperback, 428 pages, List Price: $6.99, Recommended by Lois Lowry