Author John Irving's Ideal Library | What books would you include in your "Ideal Library"?

Author John Irving's Ideal Library | What books would you include in your "Ideal Library"?

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//TIME STAMPS//
00:00 Intro
00:52 John Irving's Post
02:30 Canadian Books
04:51 Classic Authors I’ve Read
09:13 Books I Want to Read The Most
10:45 Authors on my TBR Shelves
12:52 New Authors to Me
14:15 The Black Sheep of the List
15:05 Outro

//BOOKS MENTIONED//
The Last Chairlift by John Irving
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood
The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Measure For Measure by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare.
Middlemarch by George Eliot
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
Great expectations by Charles Dickens
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family by Thomas Mann
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodo Dostoevsky
Moby Dick by Hermann Melville
Tess of the D’Urburvilles by Thomas Hardy
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Germinal by Emile Zola – 13 book in a series
Pere Goriot by Honore de Balzac
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
Dog Years by Gunter Grass
Fairy Tale by Stephen King

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