30 Books You Should Read Before You're 30
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30 Books You Should Read Before You're 30
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Americanah, Chimemanda Ngozi Adichie (2013)
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Rich and Pretty, Rumaan Alam (2016)
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Courtesy of Ecco
Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin (1956)
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Courtesy of Vintage
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Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (1847)
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Courtesy of Penguin Classics
Kindred, Octavia E. Butler (1979)
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Courtesy of Beacon Press
Open City, Teju Cole (2011)
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Courtesy of Random House
You Shall Know Our Velocity, Dave Eggers (2002)
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Courtesy of Vintage
The Veins of the Ocean, Patricia Engel (2016)
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Courtesy of Grove Atlantic
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay, Elena Ferrante (2014 U.S.)
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Courtesy of Europa Editions
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Fates and Furies, Lauren Groff (2015)
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Mohsin Hamid (2007)
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Courtesy of Harvest Books
Far From the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy (1874)
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Courtesy of Penguin Classics
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Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)
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The Best of Everything, Rona Jaffe (1958)
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Courtesy of Penguin Books
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, James Weldon Johnson (1912)
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Fear of Flying, Erica Jong (1973)
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You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine, Alexandra Kleeman (2015)
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Courtesy of Harper
The Flamethrowers, Rachel Kushner (2013)
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The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri (2003)
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Courtesy of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Quicksand, Nella Larsen (1928)
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Courtesy of Rutgers University Press
10:04, Ben Lerner (2014)
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The Group, Mary McCarthy (1963)
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On Chesil Beach, Ian McEwan (2007)
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Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan (1992)
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The Emperor’s Children, Claire Messud (2006)
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Courtesy of Vintage
Jasmine, Bharati Mukherjee (1989)
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Courtesy of Grove Atlantic
Ceremony, Leslie Marmon Silko (1977)
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Courtesy of Penguin Classics
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NW, Zadie Smith (2012)
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Courtesy of Penguin Books
The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton (1905)
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Courtesy of Vintage
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara (2015)
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