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Best books of all time
318 books ranked according to critics' lists
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The IliadHomer750BCE
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The OdysseyHomer800BCE
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The Great GatsbyF. Scott Fitzgerald1925
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Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes1605
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UlyssesJames Joyce1922
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One Hundred Years of SolitudeGabriel García Márquez1967
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To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee1960
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In Search of Lost TimeMarcel Proust1913
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Pride and PrejudiceJane Austen1813
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War and PeaceLeo Tolstoy1869
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Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë1847
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Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky1866
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Nineteen Eighty FourGeorge Orwell1949
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Moby-DickHerman Melville1851
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The Bible
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Jane EyreCharlotte Brontë1847
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Invisible ManRalph Ellison1953
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Anna KareninaLeo Tolstoy1877
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BelovedToni Morrison1987
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The Catcher in the RyeJ. D. Salinger1951
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The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri1320
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Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert1857
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MiddlemarchGeorge Eliot1871
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Adventures of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain1884
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The Grapes of WrathJohn Steinbeck1939
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Mrs. DallowayVirginia Woolf1925
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The TrialFranz Kafka1925
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The Brothers KaramazovFyodor Dostoevsky1880
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LolitaVladimir Nabokov1955
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Heart of DarknessJoseph Conrad1899
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The Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner1929
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Catch-22Joseph Heller1961
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The Master and MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov1967
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Absalom, Absalom!William Faulkner1936
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Things Fall ApartChinua Achebe1958
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FrankensteinMary Shelley1818
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Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll1865
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The Portrait of a LadyHenry James1881
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The Red and the BlackStendhal1830
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Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston1937
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EssaysMichel de Montaigne1580
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The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne1850
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One Thousand and One Nights850
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To the LighthouseVirginia Woolf1927
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The Magic MountainThomas Mann1924
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Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys1966
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The Golden NotebookDoris Lessing1962
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HamletWilliam Shakespeare1603
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The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood1985
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The LeopardGiuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa1958
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The StrangerAlbert Camus1942
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AtonementIan McEwan2001
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The IdiotFyodor Dostoevsky1869
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The Old Man and the SeaErnest Hemingway1952
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Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut1969
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Harry Potter And The Philosopher's StoneJ. K. Rowling1997
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Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe1853
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The RoadCormac McCarthy2006
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The CorrectionsJonathan Franzen2001
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Les MisérablesVictor Hugo1862
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EmmaJane Austen1815
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Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe1719
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Little WomenLouisa May Alcott1861
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Gone With the WindMargaret Mitchell1936
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The Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMuriel Spark1961
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AusterlitzW. G. Sebald2001
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Midnight's ChildrenSalman Rushdie1981
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FictionsJorge Luis Borges1944
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Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman1855
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The Three MusketeersAlexandre Dumas1844
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Wolf HallHilary Mantel2009
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The Sun Also RisesErnest Hemingway1926
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Rabbit, RunJohn Updike1960
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On the RoadJack Kerouac1957
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The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford1915
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FaustJohann Wolfgang von Goethe1832
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and ClayMichael Chabon
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Native SonRichard Wright1940
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The Tale of GenjiMurasaki Shikibu1010
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The Bell JarSylvia Plath1963
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot Diaz2007
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Never Let Me GoKazuo Ishiguro2005
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BuddenbrooksThomas Mann1901
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White TeethZadie Smith2001
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The Known WorldEdward P. Jones2003
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Tom JonesHenry Fielding1749
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DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio1353
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Gulliver's TravelsJonathan Swift1726
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The Count of Monte CristoAlexandre Dumas1844
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The House of the SpiritsIsabel Allende1982
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The Color PurpleAlice Walker1982
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CandideVoltaire1759
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The Life And Opinions Of Tristram ShandyLaurence Sterne1759
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The Charterhouse of ParmaStendhal1839
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The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka1915
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The Lord of the RingsJ. R. R. Tolkien1954
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The Little PrinceAntoine de Saint-Exupéry1943
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Franz KafkaFranz Kafka1971
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A Passage to IndiaE. M. Forster1924
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The Year of Magical ThinkingJoan Didion2005
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Poems of Emily DickinsonEmily Dickinson1890
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Great ExpectationsCharles Dickens1861
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The Autobiography of Malcolm XAlex Haley1965
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2666Roberto Bolaño2004
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Under the VolcanoMalcolm Lowry1947
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DemonsFyodor Dostoevsky1872
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The Tin DrumGünter Grass1959
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The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer1392
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My AntoniaWilla Cather1918
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As I Lay DyingWilliam Faulkner1930
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Silent SpringRachel Carson1962
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King LearWilliam Shakespeare1608
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A Good Man Is Hard to FindFlannery O'Connor1953
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David CopperfieldCharles Dickens1850
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Journey to the End of The NightLouis-Ferdinand Céline1932
116.
ConfessionsAugustine397
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The Secret HistoryDonna Tartt1992
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Dead SoulsNikolai Gogol1842
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OrlandoVirginia Woolf1928
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All the King's MenRobert Penn Warren1946
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Fairy Tales and StoriesHans Christian Andersen1835
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The Stories of Anton ChekhovAnton Chekhov1899
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Charlotte's WebE. B. White1952
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The Hound of the BaskervillesArthur Conan Doyle1902
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Oedipus the KingSophocles429BCE
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MacbethWilliam Shakespeare1623
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My Brilliant FriendElena Ferrante2011
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First FolioWilliam Shakespeare1623
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Pale FireVladimir Nabokov1962
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Blood MeridianCormac McCarthy1985
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For Whom the Bell TollsErnest Hemingway1940
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Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak1957
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In Cold BloodTruman Capote1966
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GileadMarilynne Robinson2004
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All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque1928
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Waiting for GodotSamuel Beckett1952
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DisgraceJ. M. Coetzee1999
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DuneFrank Herbert1965
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The Double HelixJames D. Watson1968
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A Confederacy of DuncesJohn Kennedy Toole1980
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The Power and the GloryGraham Greene1940
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Pedro PáramoJuan Rulfo1955
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Giovanni's RoomJames Baldwin1956
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The Wind-Up Bird ChronicleHaruki Murakami1994
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The AeneidVirgil19BCE
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Communist ManifestoFriedrich Engels1848
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Love in the Time of CholeraGabriel García Márquez1985
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The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank1947
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Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy1891
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MiddlesexJeffrey Eugenides2002
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Brighton RockGraham Greene1938
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestKen Kesey1962
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The Unbearable Lightness of BeingMilan Kundera1984
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Gravity's RainbowThomas Pynchon1973
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The Waste LandT. S. Eliot1922
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The Flowers of EvilCharles Baudelaire1857
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MetamorphosesOvid8
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WaldenHenry David Thoreau1854
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The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy1997
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A Sentimental EducationGustave Flaubert1869
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The Interpretation of DreamsSigmund Freud1900
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AmericanahChimamanda Ngozi Adichie2013
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Gargantua and PantagruelFrancois Rabelais1532
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The PrinceNiccolo Machiavelli1532
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The Talented Mr. RipleyPatricia Highsmith1955
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Lucky JimKingsley Amis1954
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The CastleFranz Kafka1926
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The Name of the RoseUmberto Eco1980
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American PastoralPhilip Roth1997
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I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou1969
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe1845
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DraculaBram Stoker1897
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The PlagueAlbert Camus1947
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The Age of InnocenceEdith Wharton1920
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An American TragedyTheodore Dreiser1925
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LabyrinthsJorge Luis Borges1962
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The JungleUpton Sinclair1906
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The Good EarthPearl S. Buck1931
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Tender Is the NightF. Scott Fitzgerald1934
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The Adventures of Tom SawyerMark Twain1876
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The Sorrows of Young WertherJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
182.
Animal FarmGeorge Orwell1945
183.
Bleak HouseCharles Dickens1853
184.
The Long GoodbyeRaymond Chandler1954
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One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichAleksandr Solzhenitsyn1962
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Winesburg, OhioSherwood Anderson1919
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Rabbit Is RichJohn Updike1981
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So Long, See You TomorrowWilliam Maxwell1979
189.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManJames Joyce1916
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HousekeepingMarilynne Robinson1980
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Independent PeopleHalldor Laxness1934
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A Christmas CarolCharles Dickens1843
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The Collected Stories of Eudora WeltyEudora Welty1980
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Selected Stories of Alice MunroAlice Munro
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The Complete Stories of Flannery O'ConnorFlannery O'Connor1971
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A Visit From The Goon SquadJennifer Egan2010
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ExperienceMartin Amis
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Life, a User's ManualGeorges Perec1978
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My StruggleKarl Ove Knausgård2009
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PersepolisMarjane Satrapi