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The Man Without Qualities
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Harold and the Purple Crayon (Harold, #1)
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1)
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Breakfast of Champions
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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As I Lay Dying
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The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy, #1-3)
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The Trial
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Midnight’s Children
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Steppenwolf
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Orlando
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Invisible Cities
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Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters
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Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)
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Bloomsday: The Bostoniad
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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Wuthering Heights
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Duino Elegies
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Cloud Atlas
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The Glass Bead Game
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Hopscotch
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The Book Thief
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The Portrait of a Lady
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Dream Story
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Rabbit, Run (Rabbit Angstrom, #1)
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The Arabian Nights
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Flowers for Algernon
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Possession
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
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The Third Policeman
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The Scarlet Letter
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The Complete Stories
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Pale Fire
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The Magic Mountain
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The Best Short Stories of Edgar Allan Poe
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The Secret History
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At Swim-Two-Birds
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The Unfortunates
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The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
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The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
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The Blind Assassin
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The Name of the Rose
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Pedro Páramo
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The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories
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The Complete Maus
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Chess Story
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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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A Son of the Circus
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The Monster at the End of this Book
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The History of Love
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The Remains of the Day
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Light Boxes
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Best of All Possible Worlds: A Novel
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
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The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
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Spring Water
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How about poetry? I'm thinking...Paradise Lost. yes?
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Ruby wrote: "How about poetry? I'm thinking...Paradise Lost. yes?"Well, Do what thou wilt, as Rabelais said, but wouldn't that let in ALL poetry ? I'll see your Milton and raise you Wallace Stevens.
The Raw Shark Texts. How is this not on here?! Also S. by JJ Abrams.
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