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Benito Cereno
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City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
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Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 2,138,821 ratings
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| 903 |
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The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
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Trinity
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
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The Girl on the Train
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Paula Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 3,225,898 ratings
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Gilgamesh: A New English Version
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
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Shosha
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Life on the Mississippi
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The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes
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The Pickwick Papers
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| 915 |
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The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
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The Third Man
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Jacques the Fatalist
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The Satyricon
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La Celestina
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| 920 |
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The Black Tulip
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| 921 |
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East of the Sun West of the Moon: Old Tales From the North
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The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, #1)
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The Bluest Eye
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| 924 |
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The Runaway Jury
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4.03 avg rating — 312,972 ratings
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| 925 |
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Kidnapped (David Balfour, #1)
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3.79 avg rating — 67,359 ratings
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| 925 |
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This Lullaby
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Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 180,593 ratings
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| 927 |
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The Nun
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| 927 |
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Diary of a Madman and Other Stories
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| 927 |
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Up from Slavery
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| 930 |
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Bartholomew and the Oobleck
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| 930 |
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Beyond Good and Evil
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4.03 avg rating — 110,602 ratings
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| 930 |
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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,616,908 ratings
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| 933 |
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The Snow Goose
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4.15 avg rating — 5,496 ratings
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| 933 |
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The Sheltering Sky
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3.89 avg rating — 30,263 ratings
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| 933 |
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Dark Places
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 823,297 ratings
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| 936 |
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Papéis Avulsos
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| 936 |
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Solaris
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The Agricola and The Germania
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Alanna: The First Adventure (Song of the Lioness, #1)
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Tamora Pierce (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 135,841 ratings
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| 936 |
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Watchers
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Dean Koontz (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 170,635 ratings
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| 941 |
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Dances with Wolves
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4.23 avg rating — 28,727 ratings
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| 941 |
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Because of Winn-Dixie
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Kate DiCamillo (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 275,487 ratings
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| 943 |
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Stargirl (Stargirl, #1)
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3.77 avg rating — 334,799 ratings
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| 943 |
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In the Woods
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Tana French (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 432,308 ratings
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| 945 |
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The Call of Cthulhu
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4.02 avg rating — 116,537 ratings
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Corduroy
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4.33 avg rating — 227,956 ratings
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| 947 |
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Paradise
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3.86 avg rating — 28,673 ratings
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| 947 |
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The Hotel New Hampshire
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 68,225 ratings
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Holy Bible: New International Version
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4.63 avg rating — 95,009 ratings
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The Cost of Discipleship
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4.29 avg rating — 49,204 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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4.31 avg rating — 44,449 ratings
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The Lathe of Heaven
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4.13 avg rating — 85,377 ratings
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| 953 |
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Clarissa, or, The History of a Young Lady
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3.39 avg rating — 8,506 ratings
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The Betrothed
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3.88 avg rating — 17,248 ratings
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Pelle the Conqueror
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| 953 |
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Dimensional Adventures With Arabella: A 5th Dimension Butterfly Fairy from The Land of Rom (A Journey to the 4th Dimension Rad Bad Beetle Jamboree) (Volume 1)
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Karen Dowers (Goodreads Author)
4.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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| 957 |
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The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
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4.02 avg rating — 3,313 ratings
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| 957 |
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The Hunt for Red October (Jack Ryan, #3)
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4.12 avg rating — 386,102 ratings
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Lost Horizon
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3.95 avg rating — 24,434 ratings
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| 960 |
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Fortunata and Jacinta
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4.26 avg rating — 2,820 ratings
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| 960 |
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Goya
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4.32 avg rating — 1,662 ratings
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| 960 |
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Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose
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4.24 avg rating — 15,270 ratings
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| 963 |
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Bödeln
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3.52 avg rating — 1,210 ratings
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| 963 |
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Uncle Vanya
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3.86 avg rating — 30,331 ratings
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Misty of Chincoteague (Misty, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 47,257 ratings
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| 966 |
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Twelve Angry Men
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| 966 |
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Perrault's Fairy Tales
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| 968 |
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Oliver Wiswell
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4.27 avg rating — 499 ratings
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| 968 |
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Primeiras Estórias
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Catherine, Called Birdy
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3.74 avg rating — 43,120 ratings
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Jaws (Jaws, #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 176,307 ratings
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The Second Sex
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Goblin Market and Other Poems
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| 974 |
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Poirot investiga (Hercule Poirot, #3)
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3.89 avg rating — 72,901 ratings
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| 975 |
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The Egg and I (Betty MacDonald Memoirs, #1)
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| 975 |
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Sarah's Key
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Tatiana de Rosnay (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 491,402 ratings
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| 977 |
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Through the Looking-Glass
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| 977 |
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 555,349 ratings
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| 979 |
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The Thief and the Dogs
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3.65 avg rating — 12,100 ratings
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| 979 |
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The Cherry Orchard
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Survival in Auschwitz
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Shantaram
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Gregory David Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 234,951 ratings
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| 983 |
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We Were Soldiers Once... and Young: Ia Drang - The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam
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4.34 avg rating — 32,595 ratings
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Hawaii
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| 984 |
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Bonjour tristesse
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| 984 |
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Paper Towns
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3.70 avg rating — 1,471,698 ratings
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| 987 |
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Proud Knight, Fair Lady: The Twelve Lais of Marie de France
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| 988 |
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (C. Auguste Dupin, #1)
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| 989 |
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Marathon Man
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Deliverance
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The Princess and the Goblin
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The Comedy of Errors
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| 993 |
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Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
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Cryptonomicon
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 116,038 ratings
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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The Quiet Game (Penn Cage #1)
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4.23 avg rating — 40,975 ratings
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The Way West (The Big Sky, #2)
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The Winds of War (The Henry Family, #1)
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The Yacoubian Building
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The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)
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there are two "to kill a mockingbird". how to delete one?
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Silvana wrote: "there are two "to kill a mockingbird". how to delete one?"there are three wuthering heights - i voted for 'em all
You've a bit of Russian lit on here. If you enjoy it, and you've not read these already, you might try: Mikhail Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita"
Nikolai Gogol's "Dead Souls"
The team of Pevear and Volokhonsky is my current favorite for Russian to English translation whenever I can find them. They do very well capturing the "flavor" and sensibilities of the original Russian.
I give it a week before the Bible or Book of Mormon supplants Camus as number one.
This is a great list! Eventually I'll work my way through it...lol
It's nice to know someone else is enjoying these books besides me! If only I could find someone in High School who enjoys them this much! Love your list and will hopefully be able to make it through all 456 books!!!
Emily, I love these books. Some strange ones slipped in this list but I really like them on the whole.
Some of these are not classics yet.
Great list! I'm a lover of classics myself, and if you haven't read them already, I highly recommend "La dame aux camelias" by Alexandre Dumas fils and "Manon Lescaut" by L'Abbe Prevost. They are some really great books that have been much neglected by readers. These two stories are similar but not alike.
Anne wrote: "Great list! I'm a lover of classics myself, and if you haven't read them already, I highly recommend "La dame aux camelias" by Alexandre Dumas fils and "Manon Lescaut" by L'Abbe Prevost. They are ..."
Anne, I just downloaded Manon Lescaut from Project Gutenberg. I could not find Dumas' La Dame aux Camelias. Thank you for the suggestions. I will find it somewhere else.
Anne, I just downloaded Manon Lescaut from Project Gutenberg. I could not find Dumas' La Dame aux Camelias. Thank you for the suggestions. I will find it somewhere else.
And diary of a wimpy kid dog days! What on earth?
Charlotte's web should be on that list. Its a true classic.
There are several repeats, I noticed The Bible, "To Kill a Mockingbird," "I capture the Castle," and "Metamorphosis." They are the different formats of the same book on here twice.... Can it be fixed?
Librarians' can change it, I think.
I removed diary of a wimpy kid from the list, but I am not sure if I should remove Harry Potter or not since I don't know how old a book can be before it is deemed a "classic."
I tried to do a check for duplicates but some of the books are wierd. For example, there is a 7 in one book for the Chronicles of Narnia, but there is also the first two in separate places on the list. Unfortunately, those can't be combined and if I delete one than votes will be lost, also being on the delete book page scares me, because if I delete something I shouldn't than my librarian privileges could be revoked. I value my librarian status too much to risk that.
Danielle wrote: "I removed diary of a wimpy kid from the list, but I am not sure if I should remove Harry Potter or not since I don't know how old a book can be before it is deemed a "classic.""I know that it has been a while but I agree with your decision to keep Harry Potter. It may not be a classic now, exactly, but I believe that one day it will be.
Can anyone recommend a publisher of hard cover classics? Or a book club where I can purchase them? I'd like to begin a library to pass on to my family's future generations. Thank you.
Classics are just phenomenal! They are basis of books today and a reason why I keep reading!
Anne wrote: "Great list! I'm a lover of classics myself, and if you haven't read them already, I highly recommend "La dame aux camelias" by Alexandre Dumas fils and "Manon Lescaut" by L'Abbe Prevost. They are ..."It is impossible I have finally got somenone who loves La dame aux camelias, this story is one of the best love stories EVER>
It's pretty easy to add books to lists; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes."
Susanna wrote: "It's pretty easy to add books to lists; at the top of the list, at the tab next to "all votes.""How does #181 Isn't It Pretty To Think So? qualify for this list?
Because those same 12 people have spammed it on 27 pages of Listopias! (Was 28, but I removed it from a few, like "Time's Top 10 Novels of 2012," which it wasn't.)
Removed, because a book published in 2012 is not a classic in the terms of this list:Isn't It Pretty To Think So?
some books are not classics and so should be removed
Dorothy wrote: "Can anyone recommend a publisher of hard cover classics? Or a book club where I can purchase them? I'd like to begin a library to pass on to my family's future generations. Thank you."Great idea - building a library to pass on to future generations. Thanks for the idea!
The Godfather is a classic? I liked it but a classic?
The movie is a classic. Haven't read the book.
I read the book and the part about the horse was much too graphic. I would not call it a classic yet but I am not sure how that is determined.
Is there a list for classic movies? (will search)
thanks
Is there a list for classic movies? (will search)
thanks
There are several for movies, don't know if there's a list for that or not, though. (There's at least one of all of these, though: book and movie both good, book better than movie, movie better than book.)
My definition of "classic" is about as liberal as you're going to find. In going through this list, I found and removed some titles published within the last ten-fifteen years:The Fault In Our Stars
The Book Thief
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
Dear John
Sense & Sensibility by Joanna Trollope (this is a YA modernization of the classic Austen novel)
Code Name Verity
Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... And It's All Small Stuff
Looking For Alaska
I Know This Much Is True
Angela's Ashes
Many of these books are good, but it's too soon to say whether they'll become classics for future readers.
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia-Marques is the greatest novel of the twentieth century IMHO.Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis is a great cycle of poetry.
The Illustrated Man by the late Ray Bradbury is excellent as are ANY OF HIS WRITINGS!
Other good reads:
The Devil's Storybook by Natalie Babbitt
Hawaii by James Mitchener
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned by John A. Farrell
A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul
i have just retired an want a place to start reading,i have read a lot but want to read classics at this point, why? because i want to see what the great thinkers and writes had to draw on to get where they got with the knowledge they saw before them
I am very surprised to see The Scarlet Pimpernel on the list. Although Baroness Orczy should be credited for creating the disguised-hero-alter-ego oeuvre, I don't think that she had any talent!
One of the best non-fiction short stories I ever read was Jack London's People of the Abyss. It is a harrowing sociological study of the East End of London around the time of Jack the Ripper. This is a great classic and one that most people should read if for no other reason than to put that time frame in context. You will be thanking God that you live in this time as opposed to that time after reading this book. It is available to download on gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1688
Bruce wrote: "i have just retired an want a place to start reading,i have read a lot but want to read classics at this point, why? because i want to see what the great thinkers and writes had to draw on to get w..."Hi Bruce, I retired from "corporate America" recently but am doing lots of different things now. I too am catching up on my reading. I think this list is a pretty good place to start. I've read seven of the top ten and Jane Eyre is next!
This list is way too long. A lot of these aren't classics, especially the books on the latter pages.
Greg wrote: "Bruce wrote: "i have just retired an want a place to start reading,i have read a lot but want to read classics at this point, why? because i want to see what the great thinkers and writes had to dr..."Bruce, I read Jane Eyre. Worst book I've ever read. IF you dare read it, don't say I didn't warn you.
what definition is being used for "classic" ? i'd say some are too recent to be included.
I checked for duplicates and removed 17.
I went and typed this out on a spreadsheet & removed duplicates. The Harry Potter series is in there at least three times, still.
From the 1046 I have 956 non-duplicated books.
I love the classics for sure, but I just don't get the fascination with Gatsby or Catcher in the Rye... just because it's old doesn't make it a classic.
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