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1984
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George Orwell
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 934,247 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Harper Lee
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 1,437,035 ratings
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Animal Farm
by
George Orwell
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 1,009,421 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
by
Emily Brontë
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 441,147 ratings
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How to Make A Winning College Application Video Essay: Everything You Need to Know, From Idea to Upload
by
Max Kiefer
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 1,196,782 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
by
Umberto Eco
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 106,367 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 196,913 ratings
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Albion Imperilled
by
Ruth Thomas (Goodreads Author)
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Giver
by
Lois Lowry
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 546,819 ratings
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We Wove a Web in Childhood: The Brontes at Home
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Ruth Thomas (Goodreads Author)
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Bell Jar: A Novel
by
Sylvia Plath
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 204,842 ratings
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Jane Eyre
by
Charlotte Brontë
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 660,813 ratings
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And Then There Were None
by
Agatha Christie
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 140,119 ratings
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The Importance of Being Earnest
by
Oscar Wilde
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 98,507 ratings
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The Secret History
by
Donna Tartt
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 55,681 ratings
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
by
Anne Brontë
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 24,780 ratings
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Life of Pi
by
Yann Martel
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 501,026 ratings
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Anna Karenina
by
Leo Tolstoy
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 188,045 ratings
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Emma
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Jane Austen
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 237,529 ratings
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 197,766 ratings
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Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
by
George Eliot
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 48,558 ratings
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The Hobbit
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J.R.R. Tolkien
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 1,081,606 ratings
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Our Town
by
Thornton Wilder
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 17,977 ratings
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Emma
by
Jane Austen
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 237,529 ratings
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Corelli's Mandolin
by
Louis de Bernières
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 34,307 ratings
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Brave New World
by
Aldous Huxley
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 559,877 ratings
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Arthur & George
by
Julian Barnes
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 6,403 ratings
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The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
by
Carson McCullers
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 38,393 ratings
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Empire of the Sun
by
J.G. Ballard
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 6,071 ratings
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
by
Jung Chang
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 29,804 ratings
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The Balkan Trilogy
by
Olivia Manning
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 453 ratings
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Nostromo
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Joseph Conrad
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 5,326 ratings
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The Trial
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Franz Kafka
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 66,779 ratings
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Steppenwolf
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Hermann Hesse
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 42,107 ratings
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The Mill on the Floss
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George Eliot
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 16,727 ratings
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The Glass Bead Game
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Hermann Hesse
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 10,844 ratings
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 313,882 ratings
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The Beach
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Alex Garland
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 29,779 ratings
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The Sense of an Ending
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Julian Barnes
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 52,338 ratings
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Hard Wired: A Crash Course in Small College Football
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Jebb A. Rebal (Goodreads Author)
4.7 of 5 stars 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Skin and Other Stories
by
Roald Dahl
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 2,692 ratings
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The Handmaid's Tale
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 258,116 ratings
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The Stranger's Child
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Alan Hollinghurst
3.27 of 5 stars 3.27 avg rating — 4,420 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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Ray Bradbury
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 525,495 ratings
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We
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Yevgeny Zamyatin
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 19,206 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
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Mikhail Bulgakov
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 62,300 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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John Steinbeck
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 273,725 ratings
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The Children's Book
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A.S. Byatt
3.61 of 5 stars 3.61 avg rating — 7,421 ratings
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Wives and Daughters
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Elizabeth Gaskell
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 15,834 ratings
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Candide
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Voltaire
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 79,866 ratings
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Le Grand Meaulnes
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Alain-Fournier
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 2,604 ratings
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A Separate Peace
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John Knowles
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 90,306 ratings
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The Westing Game
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Ellen Raskin
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 58,538 ratings
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Control Switch On: The Untold Story Of The Most Powerful Man In The World-Ryan Moran-Who Shaped The Planet For Peace
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Ira Teller (Goodreads Author)
3.29 of 5 stars 3.29 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Hikers - Part One: Power
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Lauren Algeo (Goodreads Author)
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Wasp Factory
by
Iain Banks
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 22,664 ratings
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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
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Richard Buckminster Fuller
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships
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Tristan Taormino (Goodreads Author)
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 786 ratings
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Prep
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Curtis Sittenfeld
3.3 of 5 stars 3.30 avg rating — 36,382 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Kurt Vonnegut
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 482,504 ratings
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The Social Contract
by
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 12,829 ratings
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
by
Zora Neale Hurston
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 101,721 ratings
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Dance Dance Dance (The Rat, #4)
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Haruki Murakami
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 22,662 ratings
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Beloved
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Toni Morrison
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 138,362 ratings
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Ham on Rye
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Charles Bukowski
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 26,453 ratings
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The Terrorist
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Caroline B. Cooney
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 915 ratings
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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Dave Eggers
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 101,316 ratings
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The Best Night of Your (Pathetic) Life
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Tara Altebrando (Goodreads Author)
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 711 ratings
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The Hiding Place
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Corrie ten Boom
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 86,960 ratings
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Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, #1)
by
Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 64,452 ratings
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The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
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Sherman Alexie
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 11,155 ratings
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The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm
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Nancy Farmer (Goodreads Author)
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 6,443 ratings
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Dominion
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C.J. Sansom
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 828 ratings
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by
Walter Isaacson
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 25,803 ratings
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Sweet Tooth
by
Ian McEwan
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 13,882 ratings
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Main Street
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Sinclair Lewis
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 9,884 ratings
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A Farewell to Arms
by
Ernest Hemingway
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 104,722 ratings
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Under the Volcano
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Malcolm Lowry
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 8,271 ratings
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Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by
Jamie Ford (Goodreads Author)
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 99,834 ratings
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Flaubert's Parrot
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Julian Barnes
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 4,558 ratings
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De Profundis
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Oscar Wilde
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 2,195 ratings
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Midnight's Children
by
Salman Rushdie
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 44,753 ratings
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The Secret Life of Bees
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Sue Monk Kidd
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 586,980 ratings
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