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Works of Pure Genius
Have you ever read something that completely overwhelmed you with the writer's pure genius? Vote on your favorites or even books that you hate but seemed to start a new wave of literature with their ideas.
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The Lord of the Rings
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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1984
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,405,732 ratings
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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The Complete Works
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4.48 avg rating — 57,610 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,038,818 ratings
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The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7)
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4.28 avg rating — 697,715 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,165,447 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,138,161 ratings
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1-5)
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4.38 avg rating — 335,662 ratings
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,585,779 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,824,830 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,806,645 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,323,805 ratings
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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4.09 avg rating — 500,937 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,975,187 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,262,168 ratings
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,427,443 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,777,256 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,677,448 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 834,068 ratings
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Life of Pi
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3.94 avg rating — 1,734,883 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,103,286 ratings
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 498,646 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 374,156 ratings
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Flowers for Algernon
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4.23 avg rating — 771,611 ratings
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The Complete Stories and Poems
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4.40 avg rating — 292,632 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,000,682 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
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4.58 avg rating — 4,717,936 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,026,975 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 876,944 ratings
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Eragon (The Inheritance Cycle #1)
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Christopher Paolini (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,911,554 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,459,581 ratings
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 359,197 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,334 ratings
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
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4.35 avg rating — 1,489,433 ratings
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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4.17 avg rating — 399,663 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,748,609 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,248,038 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 913,079 ratings
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Aesop’s Fables
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4.05 avg rating — 128,879 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,576,990 ratings
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 1,662,331 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 900,932 ratings
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The War of the Worlds
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3.83 avg rating — 343,145 ratings
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The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings
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4.61 avg rating — 142,191 ratings
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Ulysses
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3.77 avg rating — 139,071 ratings
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The Raven
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4.29 avg rating — 164,862 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
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4.62 avg rating — 4,035,281 ratings
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
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3.92 avg rating — 1,002,667 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,425,673 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.52 avg rating — 235,473 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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4.20 avg rating — 710,003 ratings
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The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 1,599,940 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,000,207 ratings
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
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4.23 avg rating — 219,749 ratings
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Black Beauty
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,089,991 ratings
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The Stand
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 819,560 ratings
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L'étranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,337,033 ratings
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 925,989 ratings
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A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 1,267,916 ratings
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The Three Musketeers
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4.10 avg rating — 346,381 ratings
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Harry Potter Series Box Set (Harry Potter, #1-7)
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4.73 avg rating — 300,488 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 389,662 ratings
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 632,642 ratings
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,981,628 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.10 avg rating — 212,531 ratings
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Outlander (Outlander, #1)
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Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 1,137,254 ratings
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
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4.39 avg rating — 368,111 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 168,569 ratings
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 584,966 ratings
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The Complete Tales
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4.36 avg rating — 65,815 ratings
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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3.83 avg rating — 647,154 ratings
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The Man Without Qualities: Volume I
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4.28 avg rating — 3,355 ratings
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The Phantom Tollbooth
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4.20 avg rating — 303,215 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,788,764 ratings
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-4)
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4.38 avg rating — 390,927 ratings
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Romeo and Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,781,894 ratings
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Dragonflight (Dragonriders of Pern, #1)
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4.08 avg rating — 142,626 ratings
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 998,981 ratings
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The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials, #2)
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4.15 avg rating — 454,854 ratings
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The Gift of the Magi
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4.11 avg rating — 99,935 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
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4.50 avg rating — 3,717,965 ratings
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The Night Before Christmas
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4.40 avg rating — 126,704 ratings
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The Last Unicorn (The Last Unicorn, #1)
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Peter S. Beagle (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 120,317 ratings
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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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4.04 avg rating — 209,493 ratings
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 366,867 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 555,960 ratings
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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2)
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The Old Man and the Sea
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3.81 avg rating — 1,278,000 ratings
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The Complete Fairy Tales
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4.29 avg rating — 108,285 ratings
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Cat’s Cradle
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4.15 avg rating — 430,722 ratings
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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
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4.16 avg rating — 66,841 ratings
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Notes from the Underground
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4.17 avg rating — 214,313 ratings
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Being and Time
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4.05 avg rating — 27,264 ratings
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,349,378 ratings
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