The George Saunders’s Bookshelf

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1. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
2. A Collection of Essays by George Orwell
3. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
4. A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Lermontov
5. Airships by Barry Hannah
6. All the King's Men (Restored Edition) by Robert Penn Warren
7. Bright Lights, Big City by Jay McInerney
8. Cannery Row (Steinbeck Centennial Edition (1902-2002)) by John Steinbeck
9. Cathedral: Stories by Raymond Carver
10. Children of Light by Robert Stone
11. Dead Souls (Wordsworth Classics) by Nikolai Gogol
12. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
13. Dos Passos: U.S.A. : The 42nd Parallel; 1919; The Big Money by John Dos Passos
14. Dubliners by James Joyce
15. Edie: American Girl by Jean Stein
16. Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century by Patrik Ourednik
17. Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor
18. Hadji Murat by Leo Tolstoy
19. I Served the King of England by Bohumil Hrabal
20. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
21. Ironweed by William Kennedy
22. Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects by Joel Sternfeld
23. Johnny Tremain by Esther Hoskins Forbes
24. Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
25. Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life by Thomas Wolfe
26. Omon Ra by Victor Pelevin
27. One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko by Mike Royko
28. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow
29. Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy
30. Senselessness by Horacio Castellanos Moya
31. Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
32. The Age of Wire and String by Ben Marcus
33. The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro
34. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
35. The Bushwhacked Piano by Thomas McGuane
36. The Coast of Chicago by Stuart Dybek
37. The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel by Isaac Babel
38. The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
39. The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx by Groucho Marx
40. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
41. Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writing of Daniil Kharms by Daniil Kharms
42. Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg
43. Visions of Gerard: A Novel by Jack Kerouac