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Recommended Reading/Literature by Type

The document recommends literature grouped by type, including aphoristic works, doorstopper novels, and novellas. In the aphoristic section, essential works mentioned are the Tao Te Ching, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and Pensees by Pascal. For doorstoppers, it lists long classics such as The Tale of Genji, The Story of the Stone, and In Search of Lost Time. Example novellas highlighted are Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West.

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Recommended Reading/Literature by Type

The document recommends literature grouped by type, including aphoristic works, doorstopper novels, and novellas. In the aphoristic section, essential works mentioned are the Tao Te Ching, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, and Pensees by Pascal. For doorstoppers, it lists long classics such as The Tale of Genji, The Story of the Stone, and In Search of Lost Time. Example novellas highlighted are Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, Animal Farm by George Orwell, and Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West.

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Aphoristic
Essential Aphoristic Literature

Tao Te Ching

Meditations

Pensees

(2nd century)

(1669)

(1799)

by Marcus Aurelius

by Pascal

by Georg Lichtenberg

The Book of Ecclesiastes

(4th century BCE)

(3rd century BCE)

by Laozi

The Waste Books

Additional Aphoristic Literature


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Doorstoppers
Doorstopper Literature Download

Essential doorstoppers

The Tale of Genji

The Story of the Stone

The Count of Monte Cristo

(11th century)

(18th century)

(1844)

by Murasaki Shikibu

by Cao Xueqin

by Alexander Dumas

In Remembrance of
Things Past
(1927)

The Man Without Qualities


(1942)
by Robert Musil

by Marcel Proust

Additional Doorstoppers
Outlaws of the Marsh (14th century) by Shi Naian
Three Kingdoms (14th century) by Luo Guanzhong
The Decameron (14th century) by Giovanni Boccaccio
Gargantua and Pantagruel (16th century) by Francois Rabelais
Journey to the West (16th century) by Wu Chengen
The Faerie Queene (1596) by Edmund Spenser
Don Quixote (1615) by Miguel Cervantes
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) by Robert Burton
Nicholas Nickleby (1839) by Charles Dickens

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David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens


Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens
Les Miserables (1862) by Victor Hugo
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
Middlemarch (1874) by George Eliot
The Way We Live Now (1875) by Anthony Trollope
Kristin Lavransdatter (19201922) by Sigrid Undset
Before the Dawn (1929) by Toson Shimazaki
Musashi (1935) by Eiji Yoshikawa
The Arcades Project (1940) by Walter Benjamin
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1941) by Rebecca West
The Recognitions (1955) by William Gaddis
Life and Fate (1959) by Vasily Grossman
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling (1965) by Marguerite Young
Women and Men (1987) by Joseph McElroy
Infinite Jest (1996) by David Foster Wallace
Rising Up and Rising Down (2003) by William T. Vollmann
2666 (2004) by Roberto Bolano
Parallel Stories (2005) by Peter Nadas
Against the Day (2006) by Thomas Pynchon

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Novellas
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Novellas and Contemporary Novellas Download

Heart of a Dog

Dream Story

Miss Lonelyhearts

(1899)

(1925)

(1926)

(1933)

by Joseph Conrad

by Mikhail Bulgakov

by Arthur Schnitzler

by Nathanael West

Heart of Darkness

Animal Farm
(1945)
by George Orwell

Candide (1759) by Voltaire


The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774) by Johann Woflgang von Goethe
Mathilda (1820) by Mary Shelley
The Girl With the Golden Eyes (1833) by Honore de Balzac
Taras Bulba (1835) by Nikolai Gogol
Diary of a Madman (1835) by Nikolai Gogol
A Hero of Our Time (1839) by Mikhail Lermontov
The Murders of the Rue Morgue (1841) by Edgar Allen Poe
A Christmas Carol (1843) by Charles Dickens
The Double (1846) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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