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What book do you think of as the most essential- not necessarily your favorite, or the one you think is the best written, but the one that everyone should read?

For my part I'd say Paradise Lost.

>> No.2123604

i've actually ordered that days ago and it should be here tomorrow.

I vouch The Count Of Monte Cristo.

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This is the edition I have coming in the post.

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The Thousand and One Nights.

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Desert of the Tartars

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Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

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up for debate, but this one gets into some theories about our origins as a species.

also, One Hundred Years of Solitude is beautiful.

>> No.2123711

paradise lost is shit. anyway, plato

>> No.2123713

Either The Republic, Paradise Lost, or some Shakespeare shit.

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This.

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I would say "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo

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If you live in America.

>> No.2123848

The Master and Margarita