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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 877,158 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Dracula
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The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
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The Grapes of Wrath
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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The Go-Between
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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3.84 avg rating — 299,182 ratings
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The Call of the Wild
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3.91 avg rating — 464,096 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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The Great Gatsby
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Pride and Prejudice
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 861,985 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 720,477 ratings
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 480,648 ratings
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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4.20 avg rating — 34,577 ratings
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1984
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 406,713 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,790,015 ratings
score: 84,
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The Death of the Heart
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3.64 avg rating — 8,986 ratings
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,084,292 ratings
score: 81,
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 606,558 ratings
score: 80,
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To the Lighthouse
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3.81 avg rating — 209,500 ratings
score: 79,
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Persuasion
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4.15 avg rating — 758,761 ratings
score: 78,
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The Chrysalids
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3.93 avg rating — 61,144 ratings
score: 77,
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The Secret History
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4.16 avg rating — 970,119 ratings
score: 75,
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,039,710 ratings
score: 74,
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I Capture the Castle
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3.99 avg rating — 113,812 ratings
score: 72,
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,263,271 ratings
score: 71,
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 715,412 ratings
score: 69,
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,080,158 ratings
score: 68,
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The Age of Innocence
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3.97 avg rating — 191,692 ratings
score: 67,
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 405,627 ratings
score: 66,
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Middlemarch
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4.03 avg rating — 176,256 ratings
score: 65,
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Midnight’s Children
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3.98 avg rating — 131,335 ratings
score: 64,
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The Iliad
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3.85 avg rating — 4,318 ratings
score: 63,
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 132,350 ratings
score: 62,
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Brideshead Revisited
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,826,267 ratings
score: 60,
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
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3.99 avg rating — 426,818 ratings
score: 59,
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The Mill on the Floss
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3.83 avg rating — 58,367 ratings
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Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)
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4.05 avg rating — 17,491 ratings
score: 57,
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Another Country
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4.30 avg rating — 32,980 ratings
score: 56,
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Les Miserables
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4.21 avg rating — 834,278 ratings
score: 55,
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 917,394 ratings
score: 54,
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The Outsiders
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4.14 avg rating — 1,554,931 ratings
score: 53,
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,000,732 ratings
score: 52,
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Ulysses
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3.77 avg rating — 139,112 ratings
score: 51,
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East of Eden
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4.43 avg rating — 612,251 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 374,469 ratings
score: 49,
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 926,431 ratings
score: 48,
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,272,277 ratings
score: 47,
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Scoop
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3.79 avg rating — 22,178 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,000,909 ratings
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The Diary of a Nobody
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3.69 avg rating — 17,804 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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The Betrothed
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3.88 avg rating — 17,261 ratings
score: 42,
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Orlando
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3.87 avg rating — 111,227 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
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3.69 avg rating — 404,006 ratings
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 556,214 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 556,286 ratings
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The Forsythe Saga
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4.18 avg rating — 20,563 ratings
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 77,023 ratings
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Women in Love
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3.66 avg rating — 33,251 ratings
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Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5)
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3.89 avg rating — 4,165 ratings
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The Wind in the Willows
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My Ántonia
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Wuthering Heights
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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War and Peace
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Of Human Bondage
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Bleak House
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Lost Illusions
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Breakfast of Champions
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A Christmas Carol
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Silas Marner
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Mrs. Dalloway
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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The Sea, the Sea
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 242,612 ratings
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The Castle
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3.92 avg rating — 73,053 ratings
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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Peter Pan
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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The Razor’s Edge
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Lark Rise to Candleford
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The Return of the Native
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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Heart of Darkness
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North and South
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,350,984 ratings
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What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy, #1)
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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Suite Française
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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White Nights
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Hard Times
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