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Mrs. Dalloway
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The Corrections
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On the Road
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The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Lolita
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Wuthering Heights
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Jane Eyre
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East of Eden
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Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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July, July
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The Age of Innocence
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Bleak House
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The Woman in White
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
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Life Is So Good: One Man's Extraordinary Journey through the 20th Century and How he Learned to Read at Age 98
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Sister Carrie
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Olive Kitteridge
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The Grapes of Wrath
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Tobacco Road
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of Four Sisters, Two Rabbits, and a Very Interesting Boy (The Penderwicks, #1)
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Catch-22
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The Shipping News
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The Finkler Question
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Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen: A Novel
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Susan Gregg Gilmore (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 14,950 ratings
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Her Fearful Symmetry
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Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author)
3.27 avg rating — 95,883 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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Ulysses
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If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home
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How to Be a Woman
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Anna Karenina
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The Optimist's Daughter
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Anthem
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The Elements of Style
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The Reading Promise: My Father and the Books We Shared
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
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Cold Sassy Tree
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Cimarron
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The Professor's House
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Tortilla Flat
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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The Time of the Uprooted
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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Scoop
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The Way We Live Now
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At Swim-Two-Birds
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Say You're One of Them
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Song of Solomon
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The Book of Ruth
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A Map of the World
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Breath, Eyes, Memory
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The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate (Calpurnia Tate, #1)
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Jacqueline Kelly (Goodreads Author)
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When You Reach Me
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The Notes: Ronald Reagan's Private Collection of Stories and Wisdom
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We Were the Mulvaneys
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Peace Like a River
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Moon Over Manifest
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Emily, Alone
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Stewart O'Nan (Goodreads Author)
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Of Human Bondage
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The Adventures of Augie March
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Lord of Misrule (National Book Award)
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Townie
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Say Her Name
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The Moon Is Down
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Bel Canto
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Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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No Country for Old Men
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The Jungle
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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
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The Last Picture Show
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Jewel: Jewel
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3.68 avg rating — 38,281 ratings
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Gods in Alabama
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Joshilyn Jackson (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 24,017 ratings
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The Class
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Acts of Faith
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Alice Bliss
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Girls of Tender Age: A Memoir
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The Stone Diaries
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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Doctors
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Songs in Ordinary Time
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Bird by Bird
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Lucy
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A Virtuous Woman
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The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
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The Zookeeper's Wife
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House of Sand and Fog
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The Winter of Our Discontent
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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Dubliners
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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So Big
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Show Boat
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Saratoga Trunk
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Peony
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