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The Odyssey
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The Aeneid
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The Histories
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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Jane Eyre
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Don Quixote
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Frankenstein
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Of Mice and Men
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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Metamorphoses
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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories
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Pride and Prejudice
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Anna Karenina
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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The Prince
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual
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4.25 avg rating — 1,292 ratings
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 858,684 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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The Tale of Genji
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Candide
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The Communist Manifesto
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Hamlet
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Treasure Island
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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Twelve Years a Slave
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4.23 avg rating — 123,934 ratings
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On the Road
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The Pillow Book
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Dubliners
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3.84 avg rating — 172,313 ratings
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The Quiet American
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The Aleph and Other Stories
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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The Art of War
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Democracy in America
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Dracula
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Utopia
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Robinson Crusoe
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Lysistrata and Other Plays
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3.87 avg rating — 52,773 ratings
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Middlemarch
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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Gulliver’s Travels
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The Last Days of Socrates
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The Crucible
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3.61 avg rating — 456,485 ratings
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Herzog
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My Ántonia
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3.84 avg rating — 145,992 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.52 avg rating — 235,920 ratings
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Pygmalion
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3.89 avg rating — 108,897 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Great Expectations
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Madame Bovary
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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The River Between
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3.79 avg rating — 5,261 ratings
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The Souls of Black Folk
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Les Misérables
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The Poetics of Space
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A Room with a View
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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My Inventions and Other Writings
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White Noise
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3.86 avg rating — 125,107 ratings
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North and South
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Revolutionary Suicide
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The Jungle
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The Age of Innocence
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The Snow Leopard
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Walden & Civil Disobedience
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The Analects
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Under the Sea-Wind
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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Ceremony
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The Haunting of Hill House
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The Last of the Mohicans (The Leatherstocking Tales, #2)
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Gravity’s Rainbow
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Confessions
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Twelve Angry Men
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
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Leaves of Grass
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Thérèse Raquin
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The Song of Roland
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Beowulf
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Storm of Steel
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Sixty Stories
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
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The Bhagavad Gita
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Passing
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Personal Memoirs
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How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York
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The Three Theban Plays: Sophocles
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Notes from Underground & The Double
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches
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Medea and Other Plays
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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