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Anna Karenina
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Pride and Prejudice
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Rebecca
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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A Christmas Carol
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Animal Farm
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Dracula
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Gulliver’s Travels
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Wuthering Heights
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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3.84 avg rating — 299,244 ratings
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Frankenstein
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,277,652 ratings
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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War and Peace
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 834,431 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,324,338 ratings
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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4.32 avg rating — 1,089,152 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,827,277 ratings
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Northanger Abbey
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3.85 avg rating — 443,244 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,001,096 ratings
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Oliver Twist
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3.88 avg rating — 421,959 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,781,845 ratings
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Nineteen Eighty-Four
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4.20 avg rating — 5,293,343 ratings
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The Three Musketeers
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Sense and Sensibility
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4.09 avg rating — 1,275,217 ratings
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Emma
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,248,384 ratings
score: 504,
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Of Human Bondage
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4.15 avg rating — 60,761 ratings
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 862,146 ratings
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Mansfield Park
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3.86 avg rating — 374,289 ratings
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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4.03 avg rating — 127,653 ratings
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Little Women
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4.17 avg rating — 2,411,443 ratings
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The Mayor of Casterbridge
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3.86 avg rating — 65,379 ratings
score: 365,
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The Razor’s Edge
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4.19 avg rating — 52,946 ratings
score: 362,
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Love and Freindship: and Other Youthful Writings
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3.59 avg rating — 1,256 ratings
score: 349,
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,577 ratings
score: 317,
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Bleak House
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4.02 avg rating — 112,865 ratings
score: 311,
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Hard Times
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3.55 avg rating — 73,388 ratings
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Persuasion
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4.15 avg rating — 759,040 ratings
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Lysistrata
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3.87 avg rating — 52,646 ratings
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Lonesome Dove (Lonesome Dove, #1)
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4.57 avg rating — 227,206 ratings
score: 290,
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Steppenwolf
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4.13 avg rating — 209,293 ratings
score: 263,
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Villette
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3.78 avg rating — 79,064 ratings
score: 259,
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Jude the Obscure
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3.83 avg rating — 75,175 ratings
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Medea
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3.95 avg rating — 85,164 ratings
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A Town Like Alice
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4.16 avg rating — 61,156 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
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3.69 avg rating — 404,050 ratings
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Look Homeward, Angel
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3.92 avg rating — 15,602 ratings
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The Mill on the Floss
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3.83 avg rating — 58,375 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,809,232 ratings
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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3.83 avg rating — 647,704 ratings
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Lost Horizon
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3.95 avg rating — 24,455 ratings
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A Room with a View
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3.89 avg rating — 198,947 ratings
score: 162,
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Robinson Crusoe
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3.68 avg rating — 327,005 ratings
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Seventeen
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3.85 avg rating — 757 ratings
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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3.66 avg rating — 29,657 ratings
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Black Beauty
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score: 156,
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 379,646 ratings
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On the Beach
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3.98 avg rating — 48,622 ratings
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The Call of the Wild and White Fang
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4.05 avg rating — 281,956 ratings
score: 145,
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,040,318 ratings
score: 128,
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 877,317 ratings
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 132,366 ratings
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Tom Jones
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3.75 avg rating — 34,136 ratings
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The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy
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3.73 avg rating — 22,817 ratings
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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3.94 avg rating — 539,258 ratings
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Middlemarch
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4.03 avg rating — 176,302 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 771,418 ratings
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
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3.42 avg rating — 16,738 ratings
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,272,647 ratings
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A Passage to India
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Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,751,644 ratings
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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York
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Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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To Build a Fire
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The Star Rover: The Great Reincarnation Novel
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4.18 avg rating — 10,441 ratings
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White Fang
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Holy Bible: The New King James Version
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Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded
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An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
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Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto; Vathek; Frankenstein
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3.81 avg rating — 460 ratings
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Moll Flanders: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
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North and South
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Oliver Twist
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The Woman in White
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The Scarlet Letter and Selected Tales
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The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War
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Sister Carrie
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The Sound and the Fury
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The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
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The Color Purple
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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On the Road
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Seize the Day
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The Essential Hemingway
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Tropic of Capricorn
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Wake in Fright
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The Rape of Tamar
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