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Les Misérables
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Lolita
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1984
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Dracula
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The Great Gatsby
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Anna Karenina
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Gone with the Wind
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Ulysses
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A Tale of Two Cities
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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Catch-22
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Fahrenheit 451
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Oliver Twist
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The Odyssey
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War and Peace
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The Book Thief
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The Color Purple
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Crime and Punishment
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 389,879 ratings
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On the Road
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3.61 avg rating — 441,695 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 374,681 ratings
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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4.35 avg rating — 9,681,542 ratings
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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3.94 avg rating — 539,236 ratings
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 367,220 ratings
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,587,234 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,559 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
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3.78 avg rating — 346,631 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.44 avg rating — 905,927 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,790,772 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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Khaled Hosseini (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 3,428,009 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,277,554 ratings
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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3.92 avg rating — 240,462 ratings
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The Harry Potter Collection 1-4 (Harry Potter, #1-4)
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4.69 avg rating — 68,960 ratings
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The Phantom of the Opera
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3.96 avg rating — 269,951 ratings
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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
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3.51 avg rating — 673,132 ratings
score: 741,
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
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score: 676,
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East of Eden
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4.43 avg rating — 612,607 ratings
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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4.16 avg rating — 2,090,745 ratings
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
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Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 2,753,304 ratings
score: 661,
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 379,561 ratings
score: 657,
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The Remains of the Day
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 348,686 ratings
score: 657,
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Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)
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4.38 avg rating — 391,094 ratings
score: 650,
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 715,600 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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4.11 avg rating — 530,714 ratings
score: 646,
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,774,012 ratings
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Leaves of Grass
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4.11 avg rating — 115,263 ratings
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The Poisonwood Bible
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4.11 avg rating — 784,232 ratings
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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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4.21 avg rating — 372,539 ratings
score: 545,
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The House of the Spirits
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Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 309,264 ratings
score: 543,
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The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,488,841 ratings
score: 486,
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The Satanic Verses
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3.71 avg rating — 70,783 ratings
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The Red and the Black
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3.86 avg rating — 81,843 ratings
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Water for Elephants
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Sara Gruen (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 1,686,540 ratings
score: 466,
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 432,758 ratings
score: 453,
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,577,695 ratings
score: 442,
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A Brief History of Time
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4.21 avg rating — 470,525 ratings
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1)
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A Room with a View
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3.89 avg rating — 198,940 ratings
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Ivanhoe
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3.76 avg rating — 98,304 ratings
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The Cider House Rules
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 193,574 ratings
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Finnegans Wake
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3.68 avg rating — 13,498 ratings
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Holes (Holes, #1)
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Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,342,991 ratings
score: 370,
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 166,332 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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3.92 avg rating — 324,341 ratings
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A Raisin in the Sun
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3.85 avg rating — 108,343 ratings
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The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
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Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.35 avg rating — 815,503 ratings
score: 361,
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 825,896 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio and the Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 168,705 ratings
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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3.92 avg rating — 291,114 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 — 1,982,806 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,001,024 ratings
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Carrie
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 821,637 ratings
score: 284,
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Midnight’s Children
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3.98 avg rating — 131,357 ratings
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Un mundo feliz
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3.99 avg rating — 2,034,545 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,156,560 ratings
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The Invisible Man
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3.63 avg rating — 212,915 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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John Boyne (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 944,844 ratings
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Possession
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3.90 avg rating — 83,511 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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4.24 avg rating — 1,963,150 ratings
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 258,679 ratings
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 499,061 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 549,357 ratings
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The Things They Carried
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4.14 avg rating — 339,520 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,460,424 ratings
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Faust
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3.90 avg rating — 48,968 ratings
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Spoon River Anthology
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4.04 avg rating — 13,555 ratings
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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4.30 avg rating — 503,341 ratings
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 572,679 ratings
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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My Family and Other Animals (Corfu Trilogy, #1)
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To the Lighthouse
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Infinite Jest
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
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The Way We Live Now
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4.09 avg rating — 13,947 ratings
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Everything is Illuminated
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 183,166 ratings
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Waverley
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3.44 avg rating — 5,998 ratings
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,174,523 ratings
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