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1984
by
George Orwell
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 915,920 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
by
J.D. Salinger
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 1,098,950 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
by
Ray Bradbury
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 515,911 ratings
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Animal Farm
by
George Orwell
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 991,655 ratings
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Brave New World
by
Aldous Huxley
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 550,379 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
by
Anthony Burgess
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 216,118 ratings
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On the Road
by
Jack Kerouac
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 140,791 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
by
Harper Lee
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 1,407,314 ratings
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Fight Club
by
Chuck Palahniuk
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 172,316 ratings
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Catch-22
by
Joseph Heller
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 273,685 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by
Kurt Vonnegut
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 472,259 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 1,162,788 ratings
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by
Hunter S. Thompson
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 118,192 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by
Ken Kesey
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 246,867 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
by
Franz Kafka
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 163,023 ratings
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Lolita
by
Vladimir Nabokov
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 285,489 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by
Oscar Wilde
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 254,663 ratings
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The Little Prince
by
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Author/Illustrator)
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 305,190 ratings
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Dracula
by
Bram Stoker
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 282,119 ratings
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Frankenstein
by
Mary Shelley
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 467,115 ratings
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Siddhartha
by
Hermann Hesse
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 178,057 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by
Milan Kundera
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 121,628 ratings
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Watchmen
by
Alan Moore
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 194,965 ratings
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The Stranger
by
Albert Camus
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 193,888 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 192,727 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
by
Joseph Conrad
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 143,455 ratings
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A Confederacy of Dunces
by
John Kennedy Toole
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 97,201 ratings
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
by
Truman Capote
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 63,490 ratings
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Lord of the Flies
by
William Golding
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 912,606 ratings
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The Hobbit
by
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 1,055,017 ratings
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The Bell Jar
by
Sylvia Plath
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 200,210 ratings
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American Psycho
by
Bret Easton Ellis
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 79,953 ratings
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by
Stephen King
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 382,849 ratings
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Trainspotting
by
Irvine Welsh
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 56,008 ratings
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In Cold Blood
by
Truman Capote
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 232,182 ratings
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V for Vendetta
by
Alan Moore
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 86,041 ratings
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Ender's Game (Ender's Saga, #1)
by
Orson Scott Card
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 407,010 ratings
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by
Philip K. Dick
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 97,599 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by
Mark Twain
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 702,368 ratings
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Naked Lunch
by
William S. Burroughs
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 32,558 ratings
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Notes from Underground
by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 39,995 ratings
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Valley of the Dolls
by
Jacqueline Susann
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 19,108 ratings
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Waiting for Godot
by
Samuel Beckett
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 51,402 ratings
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The Time Machine
by
H.G. Wells
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 115,777 ratings
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Post Office
by
Charles Bukowski
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 28,530 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 78,693 ratings
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Stranger in a Strange Land
by
Robert A. Heinlein
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 140,889 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
by
Alexandre Dumas
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 352,734 ratings
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The Dharma Bums
by
Jack Kerouac
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 38,523 ratings
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The Trial
by
Franz Kafka
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 65,193 ratings
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The Raven
by
Edgar Allan Poe
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 11,182 ratings
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Tropic of Cancer
by
Henry Miller
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 23,645 ratings
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The Zombie Room
by
R.D. Ronald
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 2,451 ratings
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Junky
by
William S. Burroughs
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 21,156 ratings
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Cat's Cradle
by
Kurt Vonnegut
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 129,622 ratings
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The Elephant Tree
by
R.D. Ronald
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 2,318 ratings
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A Wrinkle in Time (Time, #1)
by
Madeleine L'Engle
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 316,285 ratings
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The Iliad & The Odyssey
by
Homer
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 18,741 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
by
Charles Dickens
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 167,564 ratings
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Breakfast of Champions
by
Kurt Vonnegut
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 101,852 ratings
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The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
by
C.S. Lewis
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 131,084 ratings
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Where the Wild Things Are
by
Maurice Sendak
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 275,584 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
by
J.R.R. Tolkien
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 208,688 ratings
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Battle Royale
by
Koushun Takami
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 17,050 ratings
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by
Unknown
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 97,959 ratings
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Howl and Other Poems
by
Allen Ginsberg
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 34,157 ratings
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Into the Wild
by
Jon Krakauer
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 310,410 ratings
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The Communist Manifesto
by
Karl Marx
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 30,370 ratings
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
by
Lewis Carroll
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 133,602 ratings
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Less Than Zero
by
Bret Easton Ellis
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 26,313 ratings
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The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
by
Tom Wolfe
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 32,292 ratings
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Women
by
Charles Bukowski
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 18,779 ratings
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Watership Down
by
Richard Adams
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 150,485 ratings
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A Brief History of Time
by
Stephen Hawking
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 65,553 ratings
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The Interpretation of Dreams
by
Sigmund Freud
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 17,671 ratings
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The Stepford Wives
by
Ira Levin
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 8,616 ratings
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Another Roadside Attraction
by
Tom Robbins
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 17,986 ratings
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The God Delusion
by
Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 72,508 ratings
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
by
D.H. Lawrence
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 37,914 ratings
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower
by
Stephen Chbosky
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 271,573 ratings
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Journey to the End of the Night
by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 8,973 ratings
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Complete Stories and Poems
by
Edgar Allan Poe
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 103,432 ratings
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Romeo and Juliet
by
William Shakespeare
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 916,682 ratings
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Last Exit To Brooklyn
by
Hubert Selby Jr.
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 8,192 ratings
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The Rum Diary
by
Hunter S. Thompson
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 23,757 ratings
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The Pit and the Pendulum
by
Edgar Allan Poe
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 18,249 ratings
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Story of the Eye
by
Georges Bataille
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 5,423 ratings
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Oliver Twist
by
Charles Dickens
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 102,363 ratings
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Hell's Angels
by
Hunter S. Thompson
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 17,993 ratings
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The Origin of Species
by
Charles Darwin
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 27,033 ratings
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The Collector
by
John Fowles
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 14,397 ratings
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I Capture the Castle
by
Dodie Smith
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 31,372 ratings
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And Then There Were None
by
Agatha Christie
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 134,582 ratings
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Democracy in America
by
Alexis de Tocqueville
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 8,394 ratings
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Cities of the Red Night
by
William S. Burroughs
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 2,322 ratings
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The Sun Also Rises
by
Ernest Hemingway
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 160,387 ratings
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Walden & Civil Disobedience
by
Henry David Thoreau
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 15,506 ratings
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The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan
by
Robert Shea
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 8,418 ratings
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You Can't Win
by
Jack Black
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 1,198 ratings
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Wisconsin Death Trip
by
Michael Lesy
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 752 ratings
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