'''General Literature (part of the Wiki BookList)'''

'''Fiction of Interest...'''
	* RemembranceOfThingsPast, by MarcelProust
	* ClockworkOrange, by AnthonyBurgess
	* LePetitPrince (aka TheLittlePrince), AntoineDeSaintExupery
	* OneHundredYearsOfSolitude, by GabrielGarciaMarquez
	* TheCultureSeries by IanBanks
	* TheTrial by FranzKafka
	* MissLonelyhearts by NathanielWest
	* TheBeach by AlexGarland
	* HiFidelity by NickHornby
	* TheCaineMutiny by HermanWouk (a PointyHairedBoss in a setting of almost unendurable stress)
	* LordOfTheRings by JrrTolkien
	* LesMiserables by VictorHugo (Just skip the boring bits. ''What boring bits?'')
	* SnowCrash by NealStephenson
	* CryptoNomicon by NealStephenson (an absolute must read!!!)
	* The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren
	* Sneaky People by Thomas Berger
	* Valis by Philip K. Dick (PhilDick)
	* GravitysRainbow by Thomas Pynchon
	* Lolita by VladimirNabokov (NabokovsLolita)
	* InfiniteJest by David Foster Wallace
	* A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man by James Joyce
	* Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
	* Ishmael (IshmaelBook) by DanielQuinn
	* Everything by Jim Harrison
* Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
        
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'''Poetry'''
	* ArchyAndMehitabel, Don Marquis

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'''None of the Above''' ''(but recommended)''
	* TheHistoryOfTheDelineAndFallOfTheRomanEmpire by Edward Gibbon
	* TheSacredDepthsOfNature, UrsulaGoodEnough
	* ShakerBuilt, PaulRocheleau and JuneSprigg
	* Solve Your Child's SleepProblems, RichardFerber
	* TheMoralAnimal, RobertWright: an examination of human behavior as it may have been influenced by natural selection
	* ZenAndTheArtOfMotorcycleMaintenance by RobertPirsig 
	* WindSandAndStars, by AntoineDeSaintExupery
	* The BraveWildCoast by JudsonCrews ''Before there was Duke & Gonzo, before there were Beatniks, there was Crews & HenryMiller''
	* InColdBlood, by TrumanCapote
	* HowToWinFriendsAndInfluencePeople by DaleCarnegie
	* MythicalManMonth by FredBrooks
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'''For children (and grownups)'''
	* AlicesAdventuresInWonderland
	* WinnieThePooh
	* TheCatInTheHat
	* And the next time your 13-year-old starts whining about how difficult life is, hand her TheDiaryOfAnneFrank.
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