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from the book "The Torchlight List: around the world in 200 books" by Jim Flynn (of the Flynn effect)
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Animal Farm
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
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Anna Karenina
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Great Expectations
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
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The Seagull
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The Brothers Karamazov
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A Doll's House
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War and Peace
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Hedda Gabler
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The Queen of Spades
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Madame Bovary
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Midnight’s Children
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Miss Julie
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Brideshead Revisited
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Kim
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Les Misérables
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Dead Souls
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Germinal
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Three Comrades
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Death in Venice
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
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The Plague
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Idiot
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Atlas Shrugged
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Gone with the Wind
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Birdsong
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The Black Obelisk
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The Seventh Seal
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On Chesil Beach
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Norwegian Wood
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David Copperfield
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Goodbye to Berlin
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Scoop
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Lucky Jim
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Our Man in Havana
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The Sound and the Fury
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
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Ragtime
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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The Joke
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The Chosen (Reuven Malther, #1)
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Bel Canto
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The History of the Siege of Lisbon
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The House of the Spirits
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Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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Confessions of a Mask
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
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A Fine Balance
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
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The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
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The Day of the Jackal
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Stars In The Morning Sky
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Fall of Giants (The Century Trilogy, #1)
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Mystic River
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One Shot (Jack Reacher, #9)
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The Devil's Star (Harry Hole, #5)
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Jo Nesbø Collection: The Redbreast, The Snowman, The Devil's Star
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Owls Do Cry
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Dreaming the Eagle (Boudica, #1)
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Genghis: Birth of an Empire (Conqueror, #1)
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The Heaven Tree Trilogy: The Heaven Tree / The Green Branch / The Scarlet Seed
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Wild Strawberries: A Film
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Dover Beach and Other Poems
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Confessions of Felix Krull, Confidence Man: The Early Years
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Is there an online link somewhere to the complete list?
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Themis-Athena wrote: "Is there an online link somewhere to the complete list?"I had a look for you and found it here:
http://theprintaddict.wordpress.com/t...
It is worth reading the original book though, as it has a brief discussion on the reason for the books' inclusion, and comments on the books.
Thanks! I asked (in part) because this is the kind of GR list where you may well get some additions down the road that aren't actually on Mr. Flyn's original list -- so if there's an online reference to check against, that just makes it easier to help keeping this list in synch with the original that inspired its creation in the first place ...ETA: In the online list, there's an entry entitled "Sentimental Journey by Gustave Flaubert." That's a conflation of two books -- is it Flaubert's Sentimental Education or Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey that's on the original list? (I'm betting on Flaubert but am of course willing to be proven wrong! :) )
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