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Possession
by
A.S. Byatt
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 34,254 ratings
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The Secret History
by
Donna Tartt
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 54,354 ratings
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Gabriel's Inferno (Gabriel's Inferno, #1)
by
Sylvain Reynard (Goodreads Author)
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 52,904 ratings
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Lucky Jim
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Kingsley Amis
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 8,908 ratings
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The Historian
by
Elizabeth Kostova
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 121,273 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
by
Evelyn Waugh
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 32,832 ratings
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Straight Man
by
Richard Russo
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 11,725 ratings
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Pnin
by
Vladimir Nabokov
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 6,960 ratings
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Faust: First Part
by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 30,625 ratings
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Pygmalion
by
George Bernard Shaw
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 36,565 ratings
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by
Muriel Spark
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 12,511 ratings
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Villette
by
Charlotte Brontë
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 21,700 ratings
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
by
Edward Albee
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 23,464 ratings
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Gabriel's Rapture (Gabriel's Inferno, #2)
by
Sylvain Reynard (Goodreads Author)
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 36,870 ratings
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Stoner
by
John Edward Williams
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 3,759 ratings
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White Noise
by
Don DeLillo
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 36,740 ratings
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
by
James Hilton
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 3,205 ratings
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
by
George Eliot
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 47,251 ratings
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Herzog
by
Saul Bellow
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 7,493 ratings
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The Human Stain
by
Philip Roth
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 14,357 ratings
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Gaudy Night (Lord Peter Wimsey, #12)
by
Dorothy L. Sayers
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 7,656 ratings
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Wonder Boys
by
Michael Chabon
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 17,651 ratings
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Crossing to Safety
by
Wallace Stegner
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 13,362 ratings
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Pale Fire
by
Vladimir Nabokov
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 15,896 ratings
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Dead Poets Society
by
N.H. Kleinbaum
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 12,490 ratings
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Changing Places
by
David Lodge
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 2,840 ratings
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The Dante Club
by
Matthew Pearl (Goodreads Author)
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 21,200 ratings
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On Beauty
by
Zadie Smith
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 27,636 ratings
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The Professor's House
by
Willa Cather
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 2,761 ratings
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The Rebel Angels (Cornish Trilogy, #1)
by
Robertson Davies
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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The Magus
by
John Fowles
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 18,639 ratings
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Small World
by
David Lodge
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 2,217 ratings
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Moo
by
Jane Smiley
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 4,169 ratings
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The Corrections
by
Jonathan Franzen
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 69,149 ratings
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The Archivist
by
Martha Cooley
3.41 of 5 stars 3.41 avg rating — 1,224 ratings
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The Professor
by
Charlotte Brontë
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 5,162 ratings
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To Sir, With Love
by
E.R. Braithwaite
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 3,316 ratings
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Matilda
by
Roald Dahl
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 196,224 ratings
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An Instance of the Fingerpost
by
Iain Pears
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 10,253 ratings
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The Lake of Dead Languages
by
Carol Goodman (Goodreads Author)
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 5,242 ratings
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Graven Images
by
Ray Norris (Goodreads Author)
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Fifth Business
by
Robertson Davies
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 6,467 ratings
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The Housekeeper and the Professor
by
Yoko Ogawa
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 8,080 ratings
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A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy, #1)
by
Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Author)
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 98,280 ratings
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
by
Marisha Pessl
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 20,486 ratings
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Old School
by
Tobias Wolff
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 5,377 ratings
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The History Man
by
Malcolm Bradbury
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 396 ratings
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The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)
by
Robert Cormier
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 19,455 ratings
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The Wire In The Blood (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #2)
by
Val McDermid
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 3,990 ratings
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The Chosen
by
Chaim Potok
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 42,411 ratings
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One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School
by
Scott Turow
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 3,258 ratings
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The Rule of Four
by
Ian Caldwell
3.15 of 5 stars 3.15 avg rating — 18,756 ratings
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Well-Schooled in Murder (Inspector Lynley #3)
by
Elizabeth George
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 8,477 ratings
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Asterios Polyp
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David Mazzucchelli
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 8,968 ratings
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The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
by
Dan Brown
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 189,378 ratings
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Disgrace
by
J.M. Coetzee
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 30,167 ratings
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The Dying Animal
by
Philip Roth
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 3,301 ratings
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The Paper Chase
by
John Jay Osborn Jr.
3.38 of 5 stars 3.38 avg rating — 177 ratings
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Miss Pym Disposes
by
Josephine Tey
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 2,379 ratings
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Nice Work
by
David Lodge
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 2,086 ratings
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Ravelstein
by
Saul Bellow
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 1,450 ratings
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Unseen Academicals (Discworld, #37)
by
Terry Pratchett
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 16,289 ratings
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Foreign Affairs
by
Alison Lurie
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 2,495 ratings
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A Single Man
by
Christopher Isherwood
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 7,051 ratings
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A Scholar of Magics (A College of Magics, #2)
by
Caroline Stevermer
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 667 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
by
Umberto Eco
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 103,744 ratings
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Lolita
by
Vladimir Nabokov
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 285,398 ratings
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As She Climbed Across the Table
by
Jonathan Lethem
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 2,772 ratings
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The Beekeeper's Apprentice (Mary Russell, #1)
by
Laurie R. King (Goodreads Author)
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 23,885 ratings
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The Mummy
by
Anne Rice
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 24,952 ratings
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The Translator
by
John Crowley
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 417 ratings
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The End of Mr. Y
by
Scarlett Thomas
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 6,220 ratings
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
by
Robert Graves
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 20,138 ratings
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Beasts
by
Joyce Carol Oates
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 1,575 ratings
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The Robber Bride
by
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 18,078 ratings
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The Dream of Scipio
by
Iain Pears
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 1,966 ratings
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W;t
by
Margaret Edson
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 5,095 ratings
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A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
by
Ursula K. Le Guin
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 68,758 ratings
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Dead Poets Society
by
Tom Schulman
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 120 ratings
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The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Inspector Morse, #3)
by
Colin Dexter
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 982 ratings
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The Pelican Brief
by
John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 154,564 ratings
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The Mermaids Singing (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #1)
by
Val McDermid
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 4,967 ratings
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The Chaneysville Incident
by
David Bradley
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 252 ratings
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Hannelore Takes Note
by
Margit Amundsen (Goodreads Author)
4.71 of 5 stars 4.71 avg rating — 14 ratings
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To the Lighthouse
by
Virginia Woolf
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 44,098 ratings
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Blue Angel
by
Francine Prose
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 1,975 ratings
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Arcadia
by
Tom Stoppard
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 7,972 ratings
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Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
by
Neal Stephenson
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 17,228 ratings
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The Glass Bead Game
by
Hermann Hesse
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 10,654 ratings
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Professor Unrat
by
Heinrich Mann
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 598 ratings
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The Professor's Daughter: A Novel
by
Emily Raboteau (Goodreads Author)
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 127 ratings
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| 92 |
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Purple Hibiscus
by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 8,169 ratings
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2666
by
Roberto Bolaño
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 10,889 ratings
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The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye
by
A.S. Byatt
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 1,567 ratings
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Equal Rites (Discworld, #3)
by
Terry Pratchett
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 41,682 ratings
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| 96 |
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Wilt
by
Tom Sharpe
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 3,145 ratings
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| 97 |
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Bimbos of the Death Sun (Jay Omega, #1)
by
Sharyn McCrumb
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 1,271 ratings
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Enchantment
by
Orson Scott Card
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 15,450 ratings
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Obedience
by
Will Lavender (Goodreads Author)
3.07 of 5 stars 3.07 avg rating — 1,165 ratings
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Masks
by
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3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 581 ratings
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