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50 Modern Penguin
1.
Of Dogs and Walls
by:
Yūko Tsushima
3.69 avg rating — 2,609 ratings
2.
Notes on ‘Camp’
by:
Susan Sontag
3.97 avg rating — 8,885 ratings
3.
Leaving the Yellow House
by:
Saul Bellow
3.24 avg rating — 564 ratings
4.
The Distance of the Moon
by:
Italo Calvino
3.86 avg rating — 2,166 ratings
5.
Lance
by:
Vladimir Nabokov
3.35 avg rating — 1,279 ratings
6.
Madame du Deffand and the Idiots
by:
Javier Marías
3.70 avg rating — 429 ratings
7.
The Dialogue of Two Snails
by:
Federico García Lorca
3.31 avg rating — 790 ratings
8.
Death the Barber
by:
William Carlos Williams
3.37 avg rating — 607 ratings
9.
The Survivor
by:
Primo Levi
3.75 avg rating — 596 ratings
10.
The End
by:
Samuel Beckett
3.19 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
11.
The Finger
by:
William S. Burroughs
3.30 avg rating — 1,137 ratings
12.
Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer
by:
Wendell Berry
3.70 avg rating — 1,963 ratings
13.
I Have More Souls Than One
by:
Fernando Pessoa
3.97 avg rating — 2,848 ratings
14.
Glittering City
by:
Cyprian Ekwensi
3.15 avg rating — 515 ratings
15.
The Legend of the Sleepers
by:
Danilo Kiš
2.91 avg rating — 562 ratings
16.
Television Was a Baby Crawling Toward That Death Chamber
by:
Allen Ginsberg
2.80 avg rating — 1,818 ratings
17.
The Garden of Forking Paths
by:
Jorge Luis Borges
4.18 avg rating — 6,023 ratings
18.
The Haunted Boy
by:
Carson McCullers
3.91 avg rating — 1,018 ratings
19.
The Duke in His Domain
by:
Truman Capote
3.79 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
20.
The Cracked Looking-Glass
by:
Katherine Anne Porter
3.05 avg rating — 437 ratings
21.
Piers of the Homeless Night
by:
Jack Kerouac
3.20 avg rating — 1,064 ratings
22.
An Advertisement for Toothpaste
by:
Ryszard Kapuściński
3.61 avg rating — 711 ratings
23.
The Three Electroknights
by:
Stanisław Lem
3.32 avg rating — 1,047 ratings
24.
Letter from Birmingham Jail
by:
Martin Luther King Jr.
4.54 avg rating — 4,437 ratings
25.
Notes on Nationalism
by:
George Orwell
4.01 avg rating — 6,478 ratings
26.
The Missing Girl
by:
Shirley Jackson
3.54 avg rating — 4,846 ratings
27.
Three Japanese Short Stories
by:
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
3.27 avg rating — 2,568 ratings
28.
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House
by:
Audre Lorde
4.56 avg rating — 8,001 ratings
29.
The Veiled Woman
by:
Anaïs Nin
3.50 avg rating — 2,335 ratings
30.
The Breakthrough
by:
Daphne du Maurier
3.60 avg rating — 2,610 ratings
31.
Africa's Tarnished Name
by:
Chinua Achebe
4.41 avg rating — 2,279 ratings
32.
The Gigolo
by:
Françoise Sagan
3.60 avg rating — 750 ratings
33.
Why Do You Wear a Cheap Watch?
by:
Hans Fallada
3.50 avg rating — 890 ratings
34.
Create Dangerously
by:
Albert Camus
3.85 avg rating — 4,857 ratings
35.
The Skeleton’s Holiday
by:
Leonora Carrington
3.64 avg rating — 1,340 ratings
36.
The Vigilante
by:
John Steinbeck
3.51 avg rating — 2,107 ratings
37.
The Black Ball
by:
Ellison Ralph
3.78 avg rating — 786 ratings
38.
Four Russian Short Stories
by:
Gaito Gazdanov
3.38 avg rating — 557 ratings
39.
Till September Petronella
by:
Jean Rhys
3.39 avg rating — 900 ratings
40.
Investigations of a Dog
by:
Franz Kafka
3.07 avg rating — 5,266 ratings
41.
Fame
by:
Andy Warhol
3.55 avg rating — 2,541 ratings
42.
The Red Tenda of Bologna
by:
John Berger
4.05 avg rating — 1,975 ratings
43.
The Problem That Has No Name
by:
Betty Friedan
4.22 avg rating — 1,437 ratings
44.
New York City in 1979
by:
Kathy Acker
3.12 avg rating — 2,055 ratings
45.
The Great Hunger
by:
Patrick Kavanagh
3.48 avg rating — 756 ratings
46.
Daydream and Drunkenness of a Young Lady
by:
Clarice Lispector
3.55 avg rating — 2,423 ratings
47.
Food
by:
Gertrude Stein
1.93 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
48.
Dark Days
by:
James Baldwin
4.40 avg rating — 4,574 ratings
49.
The Custard Heart
by:
Dorothy Parker
3.67 avg rating — 1,845 ratings