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Thirty Books Everyone Should Read Before They’re Thirty
By: Marc and Angel Hack Life (View Profile)


The Web is grand. With its fame for hosting informative, easy-to-skim textual snippets and collaborative written works, people are spending more and more time reading online. Nevertheless, the Web cannot replace the authoritative transmissions from certain classic books that have delivered (or will deliver) profound ideas around the globe for generations.

The thirty books listed here are of unparalleled prose, packed with wisdom capable of igniting a new understanding of the world. Everyone should read these books before their thirtieth birthday.

Librarian Edit: http://www.marcandangel.com/2008/08/1... - a link to the original list of 30 books belonging on this list.
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message 1: by ╟ ♫ Tima ♪ ╣ ♥ (last edited Jun 18, 2012 09:57PM) (new)

╟ ♫ Tima ♪ ╣ ♥ Hmm, there are 47 books on this '30 books before 30' list. I think I will find the source of the original list and preen it back down to size.. ;)

Removed for not being on the referenced list:

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Harry Potter Boxset by J.K. Rowling
Night by Elie Wiesel
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Choices 86,400 a Day by Lauren Alexander
The Chinaberry Tree by Lauren Alexander
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood

Added missing book:
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway


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