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Books Everyone Should Read Before 30

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Not the 'canon'. Just the books that taught me the most about being a person among other people, while I still had time to use the lessons.
  1. 1

    Middlemarch

    George Eliot · 1800
    On ambition, marriage, and the 'unhistoric acts' that make the world better.
  2. 2

    Anna Karenina

    Лев Толстой · 1876
    Two marriages, one happy and one not, and what the difference is made of.
  3. 3

    Jane Eyre

    Charlotte Brontë · 1847
    Self-respect as a radical act.
  4. 4

    The Great Gatsby

    F. Scott Fitzgerald · 1920
    The danger of building your life around a single image of the future.
  5. 5

    The Remains of the Day

    Kazuo Ishiguro · 1989
    Read this before you give your best years to a job.
  6. 6

    Crime and Punishment

    Fiódor Dostoievski · 1866
    Conscience is not optional.
  7. 7

    Nineteen Eighty-Four

    Unknown author
    Because you'll need it.
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