This is how proven aid in overcoming shyness, molestation, fatness, spinsterhood, grief, disease, lushery, decrepitude & more-- for young and old alike
Augusten Burroughs
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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
4
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Basil Creighton (Translator)
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
Jean-Paul Sartre
Stuart Gilbert (Translator)
Lionel Abel (Translator)
5
Le Petit Prince
Joann Sfar
5
The October Country
Ray Bradbury
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Magical Thinking: True Stories
Augusten Burroughs
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Dry
Augusten Burroughs
4
100 Selected Poems
E.E. Cummings
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Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg
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Cities of the Plain
Cormac McCarthy
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda
W.S. Merwin (Translator)
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The fountainhead
Ayn Rand
3
The Chronicles of Narnia
C. S. Lewis
Paulo Mendes Campos (Translator)
Silêda Steuernagel (Translator)
4
Letters to a Young Poet
Rainer Maria Rilke
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A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
David Foster Wallace
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The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
3
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Robert A. Heinlein
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Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
3
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Edward Morgan Forster
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Alanna: The First Adventure
Tamora Pierce
4
Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoevsky
5
White Fang
Jack London
4
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
Daniel J. Levitin
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Les Fleurs du Mal
Charles Baudelaire
James McGowan (Translator)
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The Fall of Hyperion
Dan Simmons
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Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
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Master and Commander
Patrick O'Brian
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Lioness Rampant
Tamora Pierce
3
The Two Towers
J.R.R. Tolkien
4
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
4
The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke
Galway Kinnell (Translator)
Hannah Liebmann (Translator)
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Running With Scissors
Augusten Burroughs
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Blindness
José Saramago
Giovanni Pontiero (Translator)
3
The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov
Tom Murphy (Translator)
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2666
Roberto Bolaño
Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
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The rum diary
Hunter S. Thompson
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Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
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High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
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E.E. Cummings
E.E. Cummings
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Physics of the Impossible
Michio Kaku
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You are not a gadget
Jaron Lanier
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The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Andrew H. MacAndrew (Translator)
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Scott O'Dell
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The Ruby in the Smoke
Philip Pullman
3
Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
Anton Chekhov
Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
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A Fine and Private Place
Peter S. Beagle
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Haroun and the Sea of Stories
Salman Rushdie
5
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
Karen Joy Fowler
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Norton Juster
4
Walden
Henry David Thoreau
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Zen in the Art of Writing
Ray Bradbury
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Redwall
Brian Jacques
4
The Rest Is Noise
Alex Ross
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Classic Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman
Ralph Leighton
5
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein
3
King Lear
William Shakespeare
2
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
David Foster Wallace
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Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare
3
Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
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Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
David Foster Wallace
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Ender's Shadow
Orson Scott Card
4
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Gregory Rabassa (Translator)
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The Darkness That Comes Before
R. Scott Bakker
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Othello
William Shakespeare
4
Sputnik Sweetheart
Haruki Murakami
Philip Gabriel (Translator)
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values
Sam Harris
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The Zinn Reader
Howard Zinn
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Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton
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Journey of Awakening: A Meditator's Guidebook
Ram Dass
Richard Alpert
Daniel Goleman
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Learned Optimism
Martin E.P. Seligman
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Be Here Now
Ram Dass
Richard Alpert
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Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
4
The Catcher in the Rye
J. D. Salinger
3
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
J. K. Rowling
5
Hyperion
Dan Simmons
5
The Bone People
Keri Hulme
5
Silent spring
Rachel Carson
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
4
The Lover
Marguerite Duras
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
C. S. Lewis
4
Life of Pi
Yann Martel
4
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
3
Memoirs of a Geisha
Arthur Golden
3
V for Vendetta
Alan Moore
4
Foundation
Isaac Asimov
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The Elegant Universe
Brian Greene
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference