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The Procrastinator's Library
This is a list of books you probably should have read, maybe in high school or college, but if you're a procrastinator like me, you just never got around to it. I might read these... eventually...
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 833,795 ratings
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 861,413 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.02 avg rating — 976,836 ratings
score: 878,
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 912,574 ratings
score: 774,
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 373,783 ratings
score: 745,
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,323,420 ratings
score: 683,
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,162 ratings
score: 670,
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The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy #1-5)
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4.38 avg rating — 335,585 ratings
score: 589,
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,973,646 ratings
score: 578,
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 359,028 ratings
score: 564,
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Ulysses
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3.77 avg rating — 139,020 ratings
score: 462,
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Procrasdemon - The Artist's Guide to Liberation from Procrastination
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Neeraj Agnihotri (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,260,772 ratings
score: 393,
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Life of Pi
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3.94 avg rating — 1,734,351 ratings
score: 392,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,746,259 ratings
score: 385,
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,282,481 ratings
score: 384,
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The Sound and the Fury
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3.86 avg rating — 193,203 ratings
score: 364,
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4 people voted
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 72,062 ratings
score: 362,
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Diary of a Freedom Writer: The Experience
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Darrius Garrett (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 173 ratings
score: 296,
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3 people voted
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,426,438 ratings
score: 294,
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.10 avg rating — 508,776 ratings
score: 282,
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My Ántonia
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3.84 avg rating — 145,516 ratings
score: 274,
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3 people voted
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,274,731 ratings
score: 274,
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The Freedom Writers Diary
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4.15 avg rating — 18,582 ratings
score: 193,
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 876,650 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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Ivanhoe
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3.76 avg rating — 98,229 ratings
score: 192,
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Look Homeward, Angel
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3.92 avg rating — 15,584 ratings
score: 191,
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2 people voted
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,402,031 ratings
score: 191,
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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 101,598 ratings
score: 184,
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 166,172 ratings
score: 183,
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,078,883 ratings
score: 181,
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,164,749 ratings
score: 180,
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Invisible Man
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3.92 avg rating — 199,542 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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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)
4.26 avg rating — 117 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Secret of Getting Started: Strategies to Triumph over Procrastination
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Stephen Richards (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings
score: 100,
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Christian Warrior Women: A Guide to Taking Back Your Faith, Family & Future (Christian Warrior Women Series Book 1)
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Lisa Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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How to Stop Procrastinating: Powerful Strategies to Overcome Laziness and Multiply Your Time
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Daniel Walter (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 314 ratings
score: 100,
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Beowulf
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3.50 avg rating — 339,766 ratings
score: 100,
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 405,273 ratings
score: 99,
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1 person voted
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The Power of Discipline: How to Use Self Control and Mental Toughness to Achieve Your Goals by Daniel Walter
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Daniel Walter (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 7,392 ratings
score: 99,
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Paradise Lost
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3.85 avg rating — 178,899 ratings
score: 99,
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The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life
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3.60 avg rating — 3,449 ratings
score: 98,
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Finnegans Wake
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3.68 avg rating — 13,485 ratings
score: 97,
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Possession
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3.90 avg rating — 83,448 ratings
score: 96,
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Infinite Jest
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4.25 avg rating — 99,354 ratings
score: 95,
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Mrs. Dalloway
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3.78 avg rating — 345,938 ratings
score: 94,
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1 person voted
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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3.46 avg rating — 97,302 ratings
score: 94,
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,822,978 ratings
score: 92,
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 606,044 ratings
score: 92,
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1 person voted
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,037,751 ratings
score: 87,
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.52 avg rating — 235,401 ratings
score: 86,
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 168,444 ratings
score: 85,
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1 person voted
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The Maltese Falcon
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3.87 avg rating — 113,744 ratings
score: 84,
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 374,300 ratings
score: 84,
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All the King's Men
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4.09 avg rating — 65,985 ratings
score: 80,
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40 voters ·
list created June 4th, 2011
by Jason Lilly (votes) .
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