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Five Books Everyone Should Read At Least Once

By Vince Passaro
'Lolita' by Vladimir Nabokov

The wisest poetry, the most extraordinary prose: five top-shelf books that will blow open your understanding of the world.

Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

It blows open a new understanding of the world, its gorgeousness, its corruption and pain, all embedded in the 20th century's most extraordinary English prose.