I think 'Dick and Jane' should be first on the list.

>>One Lonely Night (Mickey Spillane)
>>Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
>>We The Living (Ayn Rand)
>>Fountainhead (Ayn Rand)
>>The Man Who Laughs (Victor Hugo)
>>Breakfast of Champions (Vonnegut)
>>Good Times/Bad Times (James Kirkwood...I'll be very happy if anyone else has read this)
>>Peer Gynt (Ibsen)
>>Complete Book of Short Stories (O. Henry)
>>No Comebacks (Forsythe)
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>>Honorable mention: Think Twice (unpublished Ayn Rand play), Cat's Cradle (Vonnegut)
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>Books must be personal to me because I am finding this list much harder to complete than the movie list. Here are some favorites.
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>The Brothers Karazamov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
>The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene. Add any number of GG novels to that one.
>The World According to Garp, John Irving
>The Stories of John Cheever
>Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Mario Vargas Llosa
>Anything in Ian Rankin's series featuring John Rebus, an Edinburgh detective with a drinking problem and a moral code. I can relate. You will feel like you are in Edinburgh.
>The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
>London Fields, Martin Amis. I met him once.
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>I could easily add a hundred more....