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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 — 5,792,746 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 408,226 ratings
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In Cold Blood
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4.09 avg rating — 716,737 ratings
score: 396,
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Brideshead Revisited
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 124,872 ratings
score: 392,
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,693,496 ratings
score: 390,
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,753,329 ratings
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 3,091,020 ratings
score: 356,
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,432,323 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 721,583 ratings
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Wide Sargasso Sea
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3.59 avg rating — 104,648 ratings
score: 329,
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 915,341 ratings
score: 327,
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Charlie Bucket, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 918,831 ratings
score: 325,
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,003,084 ratings
score: 322,
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,983,887 ratings
score: 294,
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,281,220 ratings
score: 287,
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3 people voted
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Persuasion
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4.15 avg rating — 760,790 ratings
score: 277,
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 902,450 ratings
score: 277,
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I Capture the Castle
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3.99 avg rating — 113,991 ratings
score: 272,
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3 people voted
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Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
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3.89 avg rating — 1,796,017 ratings
score: 271,
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Middlemarch
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4.03 avg rating — 176,596 ratings
score: 265,
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.02 avg rating — 979,470 ratings
score: 258,
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Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family
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4.20 avg rating — 34,717 ratings
score: 248,
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 878,279 ratings
score: 248,
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The Go-Between
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14,196 ratings
score: 247,
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The Mill on the Floss
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3.83 avg rating — 58,442 ratings
score: 246,
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3 people voted
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Alice in Wonderland
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4.03 avg rating — 396,220 ratings
score: 238,
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3 people voted
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 928,586 ratings
score: 237,
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3 people voted
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,002,058 ratings
score: 230,
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3 people voted
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,307,658 ratings
score: 227,
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East of Eden
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4.43 avg rating — 615,133 ratings
score: 226,
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The Age of Innocence
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3.97 avg rating — 192,225 ratings
score: 225,
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 406,349 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 — 3,832,909 ratings
score: 218,
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3 people voted
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The Secret Garden
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4.17 avg rating — 1,274,721 ratings
score: 218,
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3 people voted
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 835,287 ratings
score: 217,
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3 people voted
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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4.40 avg rating — 456,936 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 — 375,844 ratings
score: 206,
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3 people voted
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The Wind in the Willows
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4.02 avg rating — 237,210 ratings
score: 201,
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3 people voted
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Suite Française
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3.86 avg rating — 77,445 ratings
score: 200,
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3 people voted
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North and South
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4.15 avg rating — 180,963 ratings
score: 194,
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3 people voted
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 359,988 ratings
score: 193,
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3 people voted
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Of Human Bondage
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4.15 avg rating — 60,838 ratings
score: 193,
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3 people voted
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 72,242 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 — 2,038,540 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 — 538,081 ratings
score: 186,
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The Death of the Heart
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3.64 avg rating — 9,022 ratings
score: 180,
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Peter Pan
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4.03 avg rating — 370,702 ratings
score: 178,
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The Call of the Wild
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3.91 avg rating — 465,107 ratings
score: 175,
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,082,665 ratings
score: 174,
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2 people voted
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,043,859 ratings
score: 174,
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 481,650 ratings
score: 173,
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 557,730 ratings
score: 172,
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3 people voted
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 772,246 ratings
score: 169,
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The Code of the Woosters (Jeeves, #7)
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4.32 avg rating — 31,002 ratings
score: 156,
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2 people voted
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 863,089 ratings
score: 155,
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,325,506 ratings
score: 151,
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 132,448 ratings
score: 147,
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To the Lighthouse
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3.81 avg rating — 210,103 ratings
score: 141,
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Midnight’s Children
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3.98 avg rating — 131,531 ratings
score: 135,
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 500,192 ratings
score: 131,
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The Outsiders
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4.14 avg rating — 1,559,238 ratings
score: 130,
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The Diary of a Nobody
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3.69 avg rating — 17,837 ratings
score: 125,
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Orlando
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3.87 avg rating — 111,674 ratings
score: 122,
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Bleak House
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4.02 avg rating — 112,980 ratings
score: 121,
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Atlas Shrugged
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3.69 avg rating — 404,321 ratings
score: 115,
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Ulysses
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3.77 avg rating — 139,299 ratings
score: 114,
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Travels with Charley: In Search of America
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4.08 avg rating — 104,472 ratings
score: 109,
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,415,512 ratings
score: 109,
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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3.89 avg rating — 294,031 ratings
score: 109,
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Women in Love
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3.66 avg rating — 33,285 ratings
score: 104,
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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3.64 avg rating — 162,182 ratings
score: 104,
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My Ántonia
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3.84 avg rating — 145,853 ratings
score: 103,
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The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)
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4.18 avg rating — 20,581 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 — 242,916 ratings
score: 100,
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Romeo et Juliette
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3.74 avg rating — 2,786,516 ratings
score: 96,
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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4.15 avg rating — 2,358,307 ratings
score: 95,
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The Secret History
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4.16 avg rating — 976,063 ratings
score: 90,
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Mrs. Dalloway
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3.78 avg rating — 347,508 ratings
score: 90,
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Silas Marner
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3.69 avg rating — 92,553 ratings
score: 89,
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The Chrysalids
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3.93 avg rating — 61,261 ratings
score: 88,
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 607,541 ratings
score: 86,
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 123,334 ratings
score: 84,
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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3.84 avg rating — 299,564 ratings
score: 82,
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The Razor’s Edge
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4.19 avg rating — 53,050 ratings
score: 80,
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Hard Times
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3.55 avg rating — 73,489 ratings
score: 77,
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Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #2)
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4.05 avg rating — 17,512 ratings
score: 57,
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Another Country
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4.30 avg rating — 33,142 ratings
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Scoop
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3.79 avg rating — 22,226 ratings
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The Betrothed
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3.88 avg rating — 17,318 ratings
score: 42,
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The Time Machine
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3.89 avg rating — 557,144 ratings
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Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
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3.66 avg rating — 77,134 ratings
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Staying On (The Raj Quartet, #5)
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3.89 avg rating — 4,175 ratings
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Lost Illusions
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4.16 avg rating — 12,282 ratings
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Breakfast of Champions
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4.06 avg rating — 276,846 ratings
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The Sea, the Sea
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3.96 avg rating — 24,871 ratings
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The Castle
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3.92 avg rating — 73,352 ratings
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Lark Rise to Candleford
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The Return of the Native
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3.88 avg rating — 40,110 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 550,252 ratings
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What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy, #1)
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Jonathan Coe (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 12,904 ratings
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