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Books You'll Never Want to End

Long, readable novels you'll go back to again and again.
1.
The Paying Guests

The Paying Guests

By Sarah Waters
2.
The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing

By Mira Jacob
3.
The Goldfinch

The Goldfinch

By Donna Tartt
4.
The Luminaries

The Luminaries

By Eleanor Catton
5.
The Bone Clocks

The Bone Clocks

By David Mitchell
6.
We Are Not Ourselves

We Are Not Ourselves

By Matthew Thomas
7.
Quiet Dell

Quiet Dell

By Jayne Anne Phillips
8.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

By Haruki Murakami
9.
Middlesex

Middlesex

By Jeffrey Eugenides
10.
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

The Woman Who Lost Her Soul

By Bob Shacochis
11.
Mercy of a Rude Stream

Mercy of a Rude Stream

By Henry Roth
12.
A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities

By Charles Dickens
13.
The Bright River

The Bright River

By Patrick Somerville
14.
One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

By Gabriel García Márquez
15.
The World According to Garp

The World According to Garp

By John Irving
16.
Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina

By Leo Tolstoy
17.
Song of Solomon

Song of Solomon

By Toni Morrison
18.
East of Eden

East of Eden

By John Steinbeck
19.
The Colossus of Maroussi

The Colossus of Maroussi

By Henry Miller
20.
The Iliad

The Iliad

By Homer
21.
Night

Night

By Elie Wiesel
22.
Moby-Dick

Moby-Dick

By Herman Melville
23.
Catch-22

Catch-22

By Joseph Heller
24.
One Hundred Years of Solitude

One Hundred Years of Solitude

By Gabriel García Márquez
25.
Persuasion

Persuasion

By Jane Austen
26.
The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

By J. D. Salinger
27.
Light in August

Light in August

By William Faulkner
28.
The Leopard

The Leopard

By Giuseppe di Lampedusa
29.
The Good Earth

The Good Earth

By Pearl S. Buck
30.
The Good Soldiers

The Good Soldiers

By David Finkel
31.
Cry, The Beloved Country

Cry, The Beloved Country

By Alan Paton
32.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

By Carson McCullers

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