For Jack Benny,
who gave us all pause
Table of Contents
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Chapter One: The Catcher in the Rye
Chapter Five: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Chapter Six: The New Testament
Chapter Seven: Slaughterhouse-Five
Chapter Nine: The Rings of Saturn
Chapter Eleven: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Chapter Twelve: The Metamorphosis
Chapter Thirteen: The Scarlet Letter
Chapter Fourteen: Roget's Thesaurus
Chapter Fifteen: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Chapter Sixteen: Madame Bovary
Chapter Seventeen: The Communist Manifesto
Chapter Nineteen: How to Win Friends and Influence People
Chapter Twenty: I am JoaquÍn / Yo soy Joaquín
Chapter Twenty-One: The Anarchist Cookbook
Chapter Twenty-Two: A Brief History of Time
Chapter Twenty-Three: Brave New World
Chapter Twenty-Four: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Chapter Twenty-Five: One Hundred Years of Solitude
Chapter Twenty-Six: Understanding Media
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Heart of Darkness
Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Romeo and Juliet
Chapter Thirty-One: Harry Potter
Chapter Thirty-Two: Anna Karenina
Chapter Thirty-Three: Invisible Man
Chapter Thirty-Four: A People's History of the United States
Chapter Thirty-Five: The Stranger
Chapter Thirty-Six: A Boy's Own Story
Chapter Thirty-Seven: A Confederacy of Dunces
Chapter Thirty-Eight: Animal Farm
Chapter Thirty-Nine: Paradise Lost
Chapter Forty-One: Metamorphoses (Pygmalion)
Chapter Forty-Two: The Man Who Died
Chapter Forty-Three: Tales of Ordinary Madness
Chapter Forty-Four: Oedipus Rex
Chapter Forty-Five: Fahrenheit 451
Chapter Forty-Seven: Civilization and its Discontents
Chapter Forty-Nine: Infinite Jest
Chapter Fifty: The Old Man and the Sea