I tried to choose a variety of works that were not required reading in my education.
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Love In The Time Of Cholera or
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The Grapes of Wrath or
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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The Man in the Iron Mask or
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
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And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
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Watership Down by Richard Adams
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The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkein
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
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Shogun: A Novel of Japan by James Clavell
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The Crystal Cave or
Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart
[The following author's works were required reading from lower grades through upper grades and I have left them out of my list: Shakespeare, Doyle, Dickens, Austen, and Orwell]