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The Sound and the Fury
by
William Faulkner
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 75,660 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by
Kurt Vonnegut
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 470,354 ratings
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Absalom, Absalom!
by
William Faulkner
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 17,315 ratings
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Ulysses
by
James Joyce
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 44,015 ratings
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Harold and the Purple Crayon
by
Crockett Johnson
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 55,005 ratings
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To the Lighthouse
by
Virginia Woolf
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 43,920 ratings
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House of Leaves
by
Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 38,385 ratings
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Ella Minnow Pea
by
Mark Dunn
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 11,287 ratings
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Bloomsday: The Bostoniad
by
David B. Lentz (Goodreads Author)
4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by
Laurence Sterne
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 7,125 ratings
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by
Italo Calvino
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 25,235 ratings
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As I Lay Dying
by
William Faulkner
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 53,274 ratings
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The New York Trilogy
by
Paul Auster
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 20,449 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
by
Virginia Woolf
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 74,175 ratings
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Ficciones
by
Jorge Luis Borges
4.49 of 5 stars 4.49 avg rating — 14,437 ratings
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The Portrait of a Lady
by
Henry James
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 29,225 ratings
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Moby-Dick
by
Herman Melville
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 257,700 ratings
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Swann's Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
by
Marcel Proust
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 13,071 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
by
J.D. Salinger
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 1,093,865 ratings
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Finnegans Wake
by
James Joyce
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 5,679 ratings
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Gravity's Rainbow
by
Thomas Pynchon
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 14,739 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
by
Emily Brontë
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 428,327 ratings
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| 23 |
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by
Gabriel García Márquez
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 323,996 ratings
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| 24 |
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Midnight's Children
by
Salman Rushdie
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 43,801 ratings
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| 25 |
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Flowers for Algernon
by
Daniel Keyes
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 140,771 ratings
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Breakfast of Champions
by
Kurt Vonnegut
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 101,461 ratings
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| 27 |
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Waiting for Godot
by
Samuel Beckett
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 51,102 ratings
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| 28 |
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Winnie-the-Pooh
by
A.A. Milne
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 103,587 ratings
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| 29 |
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The Scarlet Letter
by
Nathaniel Hawthorne
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 272,525 ratings
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| 30 |
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Naked Lunch
by
William S. Burroughs
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 32,430 ratings
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| 31 |
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The Metamorphosis
by
Franz Kafka
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 161,974 ratings
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| 32 |
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Infinite Jest
by
David Foster Wallace
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 23,375 ratings
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| 33 |
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Rabbit, Run
by
John Updike
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 21,668 ratings
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| 34 |
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The Third Policeman
by
Flann O'Brien
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 5,676 ratings
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| 35 |
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next #1)
by
Jasper Fforde
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 55,026 ratings
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| 36 |
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Hopscotch
by
Julio Cortázar
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 7,873 ratings
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| 37 |
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The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights
by
Anonymous
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 27,210 ratings
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| 38 |
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The Best Short Stories
by
Edgar Allan Poe
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 1,947 ratings
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| 39 |
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Orlando
by
Virginia Woolf
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 17,703 ratings
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| 40 |
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The Complete Stories
by
Franz Kafka
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 11,646 ratings
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| 41 |
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A Child's Christmas in Wales
by
Dylan Thomas
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 1,541 ratings
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| 42 |
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The Blind Assassin
by
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 60,240 ratings
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| 43 |
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At Swim-Two-Birds
by
Flann O'Brien
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 4,347 ratings
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| 44 |
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by
Milan Kundera
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 17,208 ratings
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| 45 |
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Pale Fire
by
Vladimir Nabokov
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 15,822 ratings
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| 46 |
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Maus, Vol. 1: My Father Bleeds History
by
Art Spiegelman
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 80,991 ratings
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| 47 |
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The Unfortunates
by
B.S. Johnson
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 265 ratings
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| 48 |
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Maus, Vol. 2: And Here My Troubles Began
by
Art Spiegelman
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 41,270 ratings
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| 49 |
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Maus
by
Art Spiegelman
4.49 of 5 stars 4.49 avg rating — 29,505 ratings
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The Magic Mountain
by
Thomas Mann
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 11,389 ratings
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The History of Love
by
Nicole Krauss
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 60,403 ratings
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| 52 |
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Light Boxes
by
Shane Jones (Goodreads Author)
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 1,618 ratings
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| 53 |
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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
by
Reif Larsen
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 4,079 ratings
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| 54 |
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by
Mark Twain
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 698,968 ratings
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| 55 |
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The Voyeur
by
Alain Robbe-Grillet
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 456 ratings
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| 56 |
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Cloud Atlas
by
David Mitchell
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 68,792 ratings
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| 57 |
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 22,521 ratings
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| 58 |
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Chess Story
by
Stefan Zweig
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 5,492 ratings
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| 59 |
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Cosmicomics
by
Italo Calvino
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6,016 ratings
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Invisible Cities
by
Italo Calvino
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 16,383 ratings
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| 61 |
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Lizard World
by
Terry Richard Bazes (Goodreads Author)
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 27 ratings
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| 62 |
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Animal Magnet
by
Gary Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.53 of 5 stars 4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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| 63 |
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
by
Thomas Mann
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 8,061 ratings
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| 64 |
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The Monster at the End of this Book
by
Jon Stone
4.48 of 5 stars 4.48 avg rating — 55,712 ratings
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| 65 |
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The Book Thief
by
Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 302,963 ratings
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| 66 |
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Winesburg, Ohio
by
Sherwood Anderson
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 11,818 ratings
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| 66 |
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
by
Jonathan Safran Foer
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 159,324 ratings
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| 68 |
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The Lover's Dictionary
by
David Levithan (Goodreads Author)
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 13,426 ratings
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| 68 |
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JR
by
William Gaddis
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 904 ratings
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The Centaur
by
John Updike
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 1,835 ratings
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The Man Who Loved Children
by
Christina Stead
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 1,406 ratings
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| 71 |
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The Trial
by
Franz Kafka
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 64,721 ratings
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| 73 |
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Nightwood
by
Djuna Barnes
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 3,032 ratings
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
by
Thomas Mann
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 5,709 ratings
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| 74 |
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Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
by
Jasper Fforde
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 25,583 ratings
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| 76 |
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A Void
by
Georges Perec
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 936 ratings
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The Last Samurai
by
Helen DeWitt
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 1,850 ratings
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| 78 |
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Blindness (Blindness, #1)
by
José Saramago
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 61,791 ratings
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| 79 |
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The Glass Bead Game
by
Hermann Hesse
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 10,602 ratings
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| 80 |
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Lolita
by
Vladimir Nabokov
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 284,545 ratings
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Dream Story
by
Arthur Schnitzler
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 2,206 ratings
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| 81 |
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The Remains of the Day
by
Kazuo Ishiguro
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 53,552 ratings
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
by
Gabriel García Márquez
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 30,369 ratings
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Possession
by
A.S. Byatt
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 34,136 ratings
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| 85 |
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The Lorax
by
Dr. Seuss
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 115,487 ratings
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| 86 |
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The Wasp Factory
by
Iain Banks
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 21,230 ratings
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| 87 |
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The Stone Raft
by
José Saramago
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 2,355 ratings
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| 88 |
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Raise the Red Lantern: Three Novellas
by
Su Tong
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 655 ratings
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| 89 |
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by
Haruki Murakami
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 71,942 ratings
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| 90 |
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Love in the Time of Cholera
by
Gabriel García Márquez
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 180,279 ratings
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| 91 |
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The Moor's Last Sigh
by
Salman Rushdie
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 6,241 ratings
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| 92 |
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Shame
by
Salman Rushdie
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 4,726 ratings
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| 92 |
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Group Portrait With Lady
by
Heinrich Böll
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 993 ratings
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| 94 |
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Haroun And The Sea Of Stories
by
Salman Rushdie
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 12,730 ratings
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| 94 |
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Voices
by
Kyle Muntz (Goodreads Author)
4.85 of 5 stars 4.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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| 94 |
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To Love, or Not to Love, That is Art
by
Ali Murtaza (Goodreads Author)
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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| 94 |
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The Sky Conducting
by
Michael J. Seidlinger (Goodreads Author)
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 31 ratings
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| 98 |
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Sunshine in the Valley
by
Kyle Muntz (Goodreads Author)
4.92 of 5 stars 4.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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| 98 |
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The Collected Poems
by
W.B. Yeats
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 15,628 ratings
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| 100 |
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My Name is Red
by
Orhan Pamuk
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 14,696 ratings
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