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As chosen by Penguin's readers, here's a list of 100 Must-Read Classics
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,828,815 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 412,516 ratings
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 125,566 ratings
score: 490,
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,728,776 ratings
score: 487,
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,110,293 ratings
score: 452,
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,450,708 ratings
score: 444,
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 724,766 ratings
score: 442,
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 923,078 ratings
score: 418,
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,009,737 ratings
score: 414,
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 721,394 ratings
score: 396,
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,002,807 ratings
score: 385,
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,294,772 ratings
score: 377,
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,791,689 ratings
score: 371,
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Persuasion
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4.15 avg rating — 766,506 ratings
score: 366,
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 906,598 ratings
score: 365,
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I Capture the Castle
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3.99 avg rating — 114,484 ratings
score: 359,
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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3.90 avg rating — 1,834,273 ratings
score: 357,
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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3.59 avg rating — 105,572 ratings
score: 329,
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4 people voted
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 920,417 ratings
score: 327,
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,356,216 ratings
score: 312,
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,281,683 ratings
score: 302,
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 838,297 ratings
score: 300,
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The Wind in the Willows
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4.02 avg rating — 238,349 ratings
score: 283,
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 361,936 ratings
score: 274,
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Middlemarch
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4.04 avg rating — 177,583 ratings
score: 265,
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3 people voted
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.02 avg rating — 984,537 ratings
score: 258,
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3 people voted
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,056,325 ratings
score: 254,
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3 people voted
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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4.20 avg rating — 35,088 ratings
score: 248,
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3 people voted
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 881,221 ratings
score: 248,
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3 people voted
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The Go-Between
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4.01 avg rating — 14,384 ratings
score: 247,
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3 people voted
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The Mill on the Floss
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3.83 avg rating — 58,719 ratings
score: 246,
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3 people voted
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Alice in Wonderland
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Jane Carruth (Adapted By)
4.03 avg rating — 396,454 ratings
score: 238,
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3 people voted
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 934,530 ratings
score: 237,
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3 people voted
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 866,712 ratings
score: 234,
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3 people voted
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,005,436 ratings
score: 230,
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3 people voted
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East of Eden
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4.43 avg rating — 622,833 ratings
score: 226,
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3 people voted
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The Age of Innocence
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3.97 avg rating — 193,587 ratings
score: 225,
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3 people voted
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 132,694 ratings
score: 225,
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3 people voted
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 408,563 ratings
score: 218,
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3 people voted
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,851,734 ratings
score: 218,
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3 people voted
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 503,571 ratings
score: 208,
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3 people voted
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 459,516 ratings
score: 208,
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3 people voted
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 379,833 ratings
score: 206,
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3 people voted
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Suite Française
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3.86 avg rating — 77,648 ratings
score: 200,
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3 people voted
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Orlando
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3.87 avg rating — 112,953 ratings
score: 198,
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Bleak House
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4.02 avg rating — 113,384 ratings
score: 196,
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North and South
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4.15 avg rating — 181,805 ratings
score: 194,
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Of Human Bondage
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4.15 avg rating — 61,125 ratings
score: 193,
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 72,578 ratings
score: 192,
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3 people voted
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Brave New World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,050,966 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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4.04 avg rating — 543,756 ratings
score: 186,
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3 people voted
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The Death of the Heart
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3.64 avg rating — 9,093 ratings
score: 180,
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Peter Pan (Peter Pan, #2)
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4.03 avg rating — 372,027 ratings
score: 178,
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3 people voted
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The Call of the Wild
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3.91 avg rating — 467,536 ratings
score: 175,
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2 people voted
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,090,008 ratings
score: 174,
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 484,731 ratings
score: 173,
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 562,063 ratings
score: 172,
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 775,030 ratings
score: 169,
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Mrs. Dalloway
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3.78 avg rating — 350,883 ratings
score: 164,
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The Chrysalids
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3.93 avg rating — 61,566 ratings
score: 161,
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 610,468 ratings
score: 158,
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The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
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4.32 avg rating — 31,168 ratings
score: 156,
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,330,860 ratings
score: 151,
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Hard Times
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3.55 avg rating — 73,846 ratings
score: 148,
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To the Lighthouse
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3.81 avg rating — 211,961 ratings
score: 141,
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Midnight’s Children
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3.97 avg rating — 132,016 ratings
score: 135,
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The Outsiders
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 1,571,973 ratings
score: 130,
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Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)
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4.05 avg rating — 17,585 ratings
score: 126,
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Another Country
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4.30 avg rating — 33,631 ratings
score: 126,
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The Diary of a Nobody
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3.68 avg rating — 17,936 ratings
score: 125,
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The Sea, the Sea
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3.96 avg rating — 25,137 ratings
score: 119,
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Atlas Shrugged
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3.69 avg rating — 405,275 ratings
score: 115,
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Ulysses
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3.76 avg rating — 136,861 ratings
score: 114,
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 105,723 ratings
score: 109,
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,427,337 ratings
score: 109,
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 295,433 ratings
score: 109,
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Women in Love
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3.66 avg rating — 33,359 ratings
score: 104,
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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3.64 avg rating — 162,899 ratings
score: 104,
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My Ántonia
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3.84 avg rating — 146,542 ratings
score: 103,
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The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)
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4.18 avg rating — 20,650 ratings
score: 102,
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 243,773 ratings
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Romeo et Juliette
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3.74 avg rating — 2,797,661 ratings
score: 96,
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 2,378,611 ratings
score: 95,
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Lost Illusions
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4.16 avg rating — 12,371 ratings
score: 93,
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The Secret History
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4.16 avg rating — 996,178 ratings
score: 90,
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Silas Marner
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3.69 avg rating — 92,962 ratings
score: 89,
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The Castle
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3.92 avg rating — 74,178 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 123,986 ratings
score: 84,
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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3.84 avg rating — 300,676 ratings
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The Razor’s Edge
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4.19 avg rating — 53,366 ratings
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The Return of the Native
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3.88 avg rating — 40,250 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 553,218 ratings
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White Nights
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4.08 avg rating — 314,225 ratings
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Scoop
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3.79 avg rating — 22,338 ratings
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The Betrothed
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3.88 avg rating — 17,472 ratings
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 559,882 ratings
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Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
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Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5)
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Breakfast of Champions
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Lark Rise to Candleford
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