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Listopia > Oshun's votes on the list Best Books of the 20th Century (46 Books)
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Steppenwolf
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Mrs. Dalloway
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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The Silmarillion
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"exceptional innov ative"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Doctor Zhivago
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 3 stars
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Native Son
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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A Room of One’s Own
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"important/influencial"
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rated it 5 stars
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The God of Small Things
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"beautiful"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Absalom, Absalom!
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 4 stars
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A Room with a View
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"important/influencial"
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rated it 4 stars
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Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 3 stars
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Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
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"important as mythmaking"
Oshun
rated it 3 stars
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Brideshead Revisited
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 4 stars
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 4 stars
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The Wind in the Willows
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"another mythmaker"
Oshun
rated it 4 stars
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The Alexandria Quartet (The Alexandria Quartet, #1-4)
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 3 stars
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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"best war book ever"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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A Passage to India
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
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"captured an era"
Oshun
rated it 4 stars
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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"genuinely different from others of its type"
Oshun
rated it 4 stars
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Angels in America
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 4 stars
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The Second Sex
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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The Satanic Verses
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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The Jewel in the Crown (The Raj Quartet, #1)
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"captured a time and place"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 3 stars
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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Pedro Páramo
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Homage to Catalonia
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"really important book about Spanish Civil War"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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"incredibkly gorgeous"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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The Grapes of Wrath
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 4 stars
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The Periodic Table
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"outstanding non-fiction"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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The Last Temptation of Christ
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"beautiful, innovative"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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The Confessions of Nat Turner
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Zorba the Greek
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"gorgeous on so many levels"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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The King Must Die (Theseus, #1)
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"molding myth for the modern reader brilliantly"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Lincoln
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"fabulous revisionist history"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Man's Fate
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"neglected history"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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The Cairo Trilogy: Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, Sugar Street (The Cairo Trilogy #1-3)
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"wonderful recreation of a world"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Being and Nothingness
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"important/influencial"
Oshun
rated it 3 stars
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The Labyrinth of Solitude and Other Writings
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"excellent application of psychology to a people"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Smiley's People (George Smiley, #7; Karla Trilogy, #3)
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"classic in a genre"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
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"classic in a genre"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
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"classic of magical realism, not from a Spanish-language source"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold (George Smiley, #3)
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"classic"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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The Joy of Cooking
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"taught me to cook"
Oshun
rated it 4 stars
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Baghdad without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia
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"a classic travel log, diary of free lance journalism, and culture shock"
Oshun
rated it 5 stars
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History of the Russian Revolution
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