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From a list posted in the Reading 1001 group. This list contains books that are on BOTH the Boxall's 1001 Books to Read Before You Die and Guardian's 1000 list.
You can see list compile by Leni here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
PLEASE DO NOT ADD BOOKS THAT DON'T APPEAR ON THAT LIST.
You can see list compile by Leni here:https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
PLEASE DO NOT ADD BOOKS THAT DON'T APPEAR ON THAT LIST.
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The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 2,357,868 ratings
score: 292,
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,280,911 ratings
score: 278,
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,001,972 ratings
score: 233,
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,983,434 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,791,972 ratings
score: 224,
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,692,705 ratings
score: 190,
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Sense and Sensibility
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4.09 avg rating — 1,277,146 ratings
score: 189,
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Persuasion
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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score: 180,
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,415,219 ratings
score: 175,
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Possession
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score: 175,
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Emma
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The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 166,131 ratings
score: 167,
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Northanger Abbey
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3.85 avg rating — 444,081 ratings
score: 166,
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The Blind Assassin
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 162,133 ratings
score: 163,
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Smilla's Sense of Snow
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3.73 avg rating — 51,553 ratings
score: 155,
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 742,760 ratings
score: 154,
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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4.09 avg rating — 502,484 ratings
score: 153,
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Middlemarch
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4.03 avg rating — 176,571 ratings
score: 151,
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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4.06 avg rating — 601,816 ratings
score: 149,
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 406,310 ratings
score: 141,
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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot, #4)
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4.26 avg rating — 334,183 ratings
score: 140,
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The Little Prince
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4.33 avg rating — 2,408,881 ratings
score: 135,
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,579,198 ratings
score: 129,
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,343,999 ratings
score: 127,
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Breakfast at Tiffany's: A Short Novel and Three Stories
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3.85 avg rating — 248,895 ratings
score: 126,
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 863,017 ratings
score: 126,
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Brave New World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,038,213 ratings
score: 123,
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Cat’s Eye
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 71,871 ratings
score: 122,
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2 people voted
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 380,370 ratings
score: 121,
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2 people voted
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,306,646 ratings
score: 121,
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 772,187 ratings
score: 109,
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Robinson Crusoe
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3.68 avg rating — 327,382 ratings
score: 107,
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Tender Is the Night
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3.77 avg rating — 147,901 ratings
score: 107,
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 1,985,574 ratings
score: 99,
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Foundation (Foundation, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 586,404 ratings
score: 97,
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Villette
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3.78 avg rating — 79,210 ratings
score: 94,
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Bleak House
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4.02 avg rating — 112,974 ratings
score: 93,
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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 319,828 ratings
score: 92,
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 481,593 ratings
score: 91,
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The Mill on the Floss
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3.83 avg rating — 58,435 ratings
score: 90,
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Bonjour tristesse
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3.74 avg rating — 69,648 ratings
score: 89,
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Giovanni’s Room
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4.34 avg rating — 236,048 ratings
score: 88,
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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4.05 avg rating — 79,488 ratings
score: 87,
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Suite Française
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3.86 avg rating — 77,439 ratings
score: 87,
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Regeneration (Regeneration, #1)
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4.02 avg rating — 33,282 ratings
score: 86,
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Murder Must Advertise (Lord Peter Wimsey, #10)
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4.17 avg rating — 24,534 ratings
score: 86,
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Oroonoko
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3.01 avg rating — 16,543 ratings
score: 85,
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The Reader
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3.79 avg rating — 228,246 ratings
score: 85,
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Herzog
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3.76 avg rating — 22,661 ratings
score: 84,
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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4.14 avg rating — 309,789 ratings
score: 84,
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A Dry White Season
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4.07 avg rating — 4,397 ratings
score: 83,
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
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3.69 avg rating — 151,215 ratings
score: 82,
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The Line of Beauty
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3.77 avg rating — 31,084 ratings
score: 82,
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 408,121 ratings
score: 81,
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 390,414 ratings
score: 81,
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On Beauty
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3.78 avg rating — 89,800 ratings
score: 80,
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Invisible Cities
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4.10 avg rating — 94,952 ratings
score: 79,
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Daniel Deronda
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3.86 avg rating — 26,694 ratings
score: 79,
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The Plague
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4.02 avg rating — 305,479 ratings
score: 77,
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 915,217 ratings
score: 75,
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Wise Children
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3.90 avg rating — 9,487 ratings
score: 74,
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Nights at the Circus
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3.88 avg rating — 14,475 ratings
score: 73,
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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4.19 avg rating — 210,905 ratings
score: 72,
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North and South
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4.15 avg rating — 180,946 ratings
score: 72,
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The Awakening
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3.69 avg rating — 224,203 ratings
score: 70,
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Waiting for the Barbarians
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3.93 avg rating — 35,105 ratings
score: 68,
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,043,603 ratings
score: 68,
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Disgrace
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3.86 avg rating — 115,251 ratings
score: 67,
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The Woman in White
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4.01 avg rating — 163,829 ratings
score: 66,
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The Lover
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3.71 avg rating — 69,985 ratings
score: 66,
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 550,176 ratings
score: 65,
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 1,002,945 ratings
score: 65,
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House of Leaves
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4.09 avg rating — 194,455 ratings
score: 64,
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The Three Musketeers
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4.10 avg rating — 346,837 ratings
score: 64,
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The Princesse de Cleves
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3.35 avg rating — 18,372 ratings
score: 63,
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Foucault’s Pendulum
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3.91 avg rating — 74,158 ratings
score: 63,
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Moll Flanders
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3.52 avg rating — 48,301 ratings
score: 61,
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Doctor Zhivago
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4.01 avg rating — 101,798 ratings
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Orlando
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3.87 avg rating — 111,638 ratings
score: 60,
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Oliver Twist
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Ivanhoe
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3.76 avg rating — 98,386 ratings
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White Teeth
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3.79 avg rating — 172,341 ratings
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Play It As It Lays
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3.91 avg rating — 87,706 ratings
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The Golden Notebook
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 132,443 ratings
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Rebecca
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4.25 avg rating — 707,552 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings
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Castle Rackrent
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3.16 avg rating — 4,313 ratings
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Fathers and Sons
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American Psycho
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3.80 avg rating — 353,425 ratings
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The Gathering
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3.14 avg rating — 25,929 ratings
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Middlesex
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4.04 avg rating — 659,538 ratings
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The Virgin Suicides
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3.78 avg rating — 402,061 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
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3.86 avg rating — 193,603 ratings
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Dead Souls
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3.98 avg rating — 94,303 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,778,845 ratings
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 367,939 ratings
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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Everything is Illuminated
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Jonathan Safran Foer (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 183,216 ratings
score: 42,
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