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The Stranger
by
Albert Camus
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 193,750 ratings
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Siddhartha
by
Hermann Hesse
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 177,910 ratings
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1984
by
George Orwell
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 915,593 ratings
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The Little Prince
by
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Author/Illustrator)
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 304,924 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 192,578 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 78,627 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by
Oscar Wilde
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 254,437 ratings
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
by
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 33,002 ratings
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| 9 |
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Lord of the Flies
by
William Golding
3.59 of 5 stars 3.59 avg rating — 912,121 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
by
J.D. Salinger
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 1,098,372 ratings
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| 11 |
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Fahrenheit 451
by
Ray Bradbury
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 515,187 ratings
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| 12 |
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The Trial
by
Franz Kafka
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 65,142 ratings
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| 13 |
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Sophie's World
by
Jostein Gaarder
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 69,086 ratings
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| 14 |
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The Alchemist
by
Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 590,217 ratings
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| 15 |
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The Metamorphosis
by
Franz Kafka
3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 162,862 ratings
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Brave New World
by
Aldous Huxley
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 550,065 ratings
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The Plague
by
Albert Camus
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 52,893 ratings
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
by
Milan Kundera
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 121,548 ratings
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Notes from Underground
by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 39,963 ratings
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Animal Farm & 1984
by
George Orwell
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 28,496 ratings
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| 21 |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by
Robert M. Pirsig
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 75,369 ratings
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| 22 |
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Steppenwolf
by
Hermann Hesse
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 41,223 ratings
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| 23 |
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by
Kurt Vonnegut
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 472,050 ratings
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| 24 |
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Nausea
by
Jean-Paul Sartre
3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 26,897 ratings
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The Prophet
by
Kahlil Gibran
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 77,628 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
by
Ayn Rand
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 149,311 ratings
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| 27 |
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The Fountainhead
by
Ayn Rand
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 145,348 ratings
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| 28 |
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The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by
Lois Lowry
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 533,423 ratings
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| 29 |
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Candide
by
Voltaire
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 78,176 ratings
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| 30 |
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Demian
by
Hermann Hesse
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 22,522 ratings
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| 31 |
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Frankenstein
by
Mary Shelley
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 466,901 ratings
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| 32 |
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The Republic
by
Plato
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 52,868 ratings
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| 33 |
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Tao Te Ching
by
Lao Tzu
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 37,857 ratings
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| 34 |
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The Screwtape Letters
by
C.S. Lewis
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 108,677 ratings
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| 35 |
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Heart of Darkness
by
Joseph Conrad
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 143,323 ratings
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
by
Richard Bach
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 73,140 ratings
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| 37 |
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
by
Jean-Paul Sartre
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 12,873 ratings
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| 38 |
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Hamlet
by
William Shakespeare
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 276,231 ratings
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| 39 |
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Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet Boxed Set
by
Benjamin Hoff
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 6,670 ratings
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| 40 |
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The Secret Magdalene
by
Ki Longfellow (Goodreads Author)
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 1,611 ratings
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| 41 |
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Faust: First Part
by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 30,623 ratings
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| 42 |
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Waiting for Godot
by
Samuel Beckett
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 51,371 ratings
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| 43 |
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The Grapes of Wrath
by
John Steinbeck
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 268,891 ratings
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| 44 |
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In Search of Lost Time
by
Marcel Proust
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 3,494 ratings
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| 45 |
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Cat's Cradle
by
Kurt Vonnegut
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 129,559 ratings
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| 46 |
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The Magic Mountain
by
Thomas Mann
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 11,459 ratings
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| 47 |
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A Clockwork Orange
by
Anthony Burgess
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 215,944 ratings
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| 48 |
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Meditations
by
Marcus Aurelius
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 12,794 ratings
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| 49 |
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by
Mark Haddon
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 426,216 ratings
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Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)
by
Elie Wiesel
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 322,540 ratings
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| 51 |
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Franny and Zooey
by
J.D. Salinger
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 91,069 ratings
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Fear and Trembling/Repetition (Kierkegaard's Writings, Volume 6)
by
Søren Kierkegaard
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 2,179 ratings
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East of Eden
by
John Steinbeck
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 165,544 ratings
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| 54 |
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Beyond Good and Evil
by
Friedrich Nietzsche
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 20,617 ratings
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| 55 |
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Invisible Man
by
Ralph Ellison
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 62,499 ratings
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| 56 |
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On the Road
by
Jack Kerouac
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 140,684 ratings
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| 57 |
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Blindness (Blindness, #1)
by
José Saramago
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 62,011 ratings
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| 58 |
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Macbeth
by
William Shakespeare
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 249,504 ratings
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| 59 |
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Les Fleurs du Mal
by
Charles Baudelaire
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 15,762 ratings
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| 60 |
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Life of Pi
by
Yann Martel
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 483,409 ratings
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| 61 |
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Aesop's Fables (Barnes & Noble Classics)
by
Aesop
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 45,910 ratings
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| 62 |
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Franz Kafka's The Castle
by
David Fishelson (Adapter)
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 12,096 ratings
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| 63 |
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by
Edwin A. Abbott
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 16,941 ratings
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| 64 |
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Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
by
Richard Bach
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 22,524 ratings
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| 65 |
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Great Expectations
by
Charles Dickens
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 228,698 ratings
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| 66 |
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The Anti-Christ
by
Friedrich Nietzsche
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 6,062 ratings
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| 67 |
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Tuesdays With Morrie
by
Mitch Albom (Goodreads Author)
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 262,190 ratings
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| 68 |
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The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
by
Albert Camus
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 15,422 ratings
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Narcissus and Goldmund
by
Hermann Hesse
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 15,891 ratings
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The Phantom Tollbooth
by
Norton Juster
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 98,072 ratings
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The Dispossessed
by
Ursula K. Le Guin
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 22,543 ratings
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The Complete Stories
by
Franz Kafka
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 11,685 ratings
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I Am That: Talks with Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
by
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
4.53 of 5 stars 4.53 avg rating — 1,028 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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Critique of Pure Reason
by
Immanuel Kant
3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 8,755 ratings
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The First Death
by
Dimitris Lyacos
4.95 of 5 stars 4.95 avg rating — 22 ratings
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Life... Love... Kumbh...
by
Aporva Kala (Goodreads Author)
4.89 of 5 stars 4.89 avg rating — 44 ratings
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| 78 |
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The Wall
by
Jean-Paul Sartre
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 5,971 ratings
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The Man Without Qualities, Vol. 1
by
Robert Musil
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 993 ratings
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Einstein's Dreams
by
Alan Lightman
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 13,233 ratings
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The Good Earth
by
Pearl S. Buck
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 107,006 ratings
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The Trial and Death of Socrates
by
Plato
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 11,917 ratings
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Autobiography of a Yogi
by
Paramahansa Yogananda
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 11,449 ratings
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Till We Have Faces
by
C.S. Lewis
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 20,869 ratings
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Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
by
René Descartes
3.56 of 5 stars 3.56 avg rating — 10,697 ratings
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| 86 |
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To the Lighthouse
by
Virginia Woolf
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 44,091 ratings
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| 87 |
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Foucault's Pendulum
by
Umberto Eco
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 27,258 ratings
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The Road
by
Cormac McCarthy
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 275,044 ratings
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
by
Michel Foucault
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 9,209 ratings
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Z213: EXIT
by
Dimitris Lyacos
4.76 of 5 stars 4.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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| 91 |
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
by
Muriel Barbery
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 59,490 ratings
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| 92 |
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The Portable Nietzsche
by
Friedrich Nietzsche
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 4,573 ratings
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Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria
by
Ki Longfellow (Goodreads Author)
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 751 ratings
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| 94 |
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The God Delusion
by
Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 72,424 ratings
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| 95 |
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We
by
Yevgeny Zamyatin
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 18,774 ratings
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
by
Leo Tolstoy
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 21,504 ratings
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The Fall
by
Albert Camus
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 21,298 ratings
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| 98 |
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Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West
by
Cormac McCarthy
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 33,978 ratings
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Ütopya
by
Thomas More
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 20,100 ratings
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Solaris
by
Stanisław Lem
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 18,602 ratings
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