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We all read. Whether it's one of the Harry Potter novels or one of those Bubbles kiddy books. We read. All of us but the following 10 books are books that you should read at least once in your life before you die.

10. Middlemarch by George Eliot

"This is a story which is one of the most important stories

published in the Victorian Era, as believed by many scholars.

It is sent in Middlemarch, a fictional town in England."

9. The Stories of Anton Chekhov by

Anton Chekhov

"His originality consists in an early use of the

stream-of-consciousness technique, later

employed by Virginia Woolf and other modernists, combined with a

disavowal of the moral finality of traditional story structure.

8. In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust

"This is Proust’s most prominent work, it is popularly

known for its extended length and the notion of

involuntary memory, the most famous example

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being the “episode of the madeleine” in which he describes in great (boring)

detail, eating a madeleine dipped in tea."

7. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Set in the brilliant Jazz age - this story is about a

mysterious, rich man named Jay Gatsby. Fitzgerald surely

has a way with words that thrills you." 

6. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

"With this book, the question is definitely not 'to read or

not to read'. Mr. Shakespeare was bound to get on this

list and the tragedy Hamlet made the cut."

5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

"Being one of the greatest American Novels, there was no

way that this book for both the younger generation and

older generation wasn't going to get on this list."

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4. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov

"Now this book may have a few disagreements for being on

this list but having read the book and fully understanding

the concept of the book, I think it's a very good book and it's

definitely worth reading. Famous for its innovative style and

infamous for its controversial subject; this book deserves to

be on this list."

3. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

"It's one of the greatest novels about the story of Russian

society during the Napoleon era."

2. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

"The novel focuses on a doctor’s wife, Emma Bovary, who

has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to

escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life. Though

the basic plot is rather simple, even archetypal, the novel’s

true art lies in its details and hidden patterns."

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1. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

"Another one of Tolstoy's masterpieces and actually his first

true novel. It forms a beautiful bridge between the realist and

modernist novel."