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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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All That I Am
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Year of Wonders
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The Martian
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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A Doll's House
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The Boat
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Deadly, Unna?
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Maestro
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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The Joy Luck Club
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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The Bluest Eye
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Selected Poems of Robert Frost
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| 119 |
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The Virgin Suicides
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The Stranger
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Hidden Figures
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
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| 122 |
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The Poisonwood Bible
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A Christmas Carol
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
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Blackrock: the play
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The Story of Tom Brennan
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The Harp in the South
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12 Angry Men (1957 Film)
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Romulus, My Father
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The Chosen (Reuven Malther, #1)
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Mullumbimby
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
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Max Brooks (Goodreads Author)
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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
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The Tempest
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| 136 |
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Author)
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Riding the Black Cockatoo
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| 138 |
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Empire of the Sun
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| 139 |
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The War of the Worlds
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The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
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| 142 |
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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves
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Treasure Island
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,341,531 ratings
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My Place
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The Little Prince
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The Reader
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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Hag-Seed
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The Day of the Triffids
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| 152 |
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That Deadman Dance
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3.61 avg rating — 1,554 ratings
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Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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My Sister's Keeper
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4.11 avg rating — 1,267,241 ratings
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The Iliad
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Eucalyptus
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The Kite Runner: Graphic Novel
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4.45 avg rating — 23,464 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
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The Girl on the Train
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3.96 avg rating — 3,226,153 ratings
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In the Winter Dark
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3.46 avg rating — 1,849 ratings
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
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This is My Song
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3.55 avg rating — 193 ratings
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The Best of Banjo Patterson: An Illustrated Collection
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4.07 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Antigone
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The Running Man
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3.58 avg rating — 1,310 ratings
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Mister Pip
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Hidden Figures
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Margot Lee Shetterly (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 18,771 ratings
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Truth (Broken Shore, #2)
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3.77 avg rating — 3,742 ratings
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Wasted: A Story of Alcohol, Grief and a Death in Brisbane
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3.92 avg rating — 383 ratings
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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Tracy Chevalier (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 772,264 ratings
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Collected Poems
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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Beowulf (Graphic novel)
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True Grit
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Utopia
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My Cousin Rachel
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Strange Objects
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The Sound of One Hand Clapping
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William Shakespeare's Richard III
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Blue Light Clear Atoms - Poetry for Senior Students
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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Johnno
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That Eye, the Sky
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Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
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Brooklyn (Eilis Lacey, #1)
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Outliers: The Story of Success
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The Circle (The Circle, #1)
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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A Farewell to Arms
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
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An Imaginary Life
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White Teeth
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So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
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Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mahhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Catch 22 (Joseph Heller) novelThe Good Earth (Pearl S. Buck) novel
Henry IV, part I
Lainie wrote: "Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Daughter, by Adeline Yen Mahhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5..."
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Also what about House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, or Daughter of Fortune.
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
The Bride's Farewell by Meg RosoffTrash by Andy Mulligan
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Collected Poems by Langston Hughes
In my view the sexual violence in Breath by Tim Winton would make it an unsuitable choice for a school text
Joan wrote: "In my view the sexual violence in Breath by Tim Winton would make it an unsuitable choice for a school text"I agree.
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