I kept most of the books from last year's list that were not selected and the one I did not complete. Then I filled in with some more easily accessible classics, books I've collected since last year, and a few that I hope will be easily available as ebook loans from the library.
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1. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
2. The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
3. The Iron Heel by Jack London
4. Woman at Point Zero by Nawal El-Saadawi
5. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald
6. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
7. Candide by Voltaire
8. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
9. Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
10. All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
11. The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
12. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
13. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
14. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
15. Watchmen by Alan Moore
16. The Charwoman's Daughter by James Stephens
17. Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel García Márquez
18. Atonement by Ian McEwan
19. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
20. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself by Olaudah Equiano
21. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
22. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
23. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
24. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
I kept most of the books from last year's list that were not selected and the one I did not complete. Then I filled in with some more easily accessible classics, books I've collected since last year, and a few that I hope will be easily available as ebook loans from the library.