Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes
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California History
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The Great Classics You Have Not Read Yet
745 books — 1,810 voters
Moby-Dick or, The Whale by Herman Melville
Best Books of the 19th Century
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Our Mutual Friend by Charles DickensDavid Copperfield by Charles DickensBleak House by Charles Dickens
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A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 171 voters