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There are lists for classics but they contain books I will never read like Lady Chatterley's Lover and Ullysses. Please don't put those on here. Please add the ones that regular people actually read. Thanks
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Romeo & Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,787,866 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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The Painted Veil
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3.97 avg rating — 50,933 ratings
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A Fortunate Life
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Treasure Island
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A Month in the Country
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Pride and Prejudice
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Wuthering Heights
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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The Forsyte Saga (The Forsyte Chronicles, #1-3)
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The Call of the Wild/White Fang/To Build a Fire
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Tirra Lirra by the River
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Vanity Fair
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War and Peace
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The Ante-room
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Middlemarch
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol & Other Writings
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4.20 avg rating — 750 ratings
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The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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4.01 avg rating — 258,946 ratings
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Requiem for a Wren
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Tom Jones
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Lincoln: A Photobiography
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The Merchant of Venice
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Haxby's Circus
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Hamlet
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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King Lear
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3.91 avg rating — 234,400 ratings
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The Sea, the Sea
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3.96 avg rating — 24,904 ratings
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White Fang
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4.05 avg rating — 282,359 ratings
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J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
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4.61 avg rating — 142,524 ratings
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 863,560 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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Little Women (Little Women, #1)
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4.17 avg rating — 2,417,178 ratings
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Light in August
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3.94 avg rating — 65,959 ratings
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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4.14 avg rating — 380,735 ratings
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Murder on the Orient Express (Hercule Poirot, #10)
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4.20 avg rating — 713,294 ratings
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
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4.45 avg rating — 164,094 ratings
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
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4.09 avg rating — 94,966 ratings
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Mila 18
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4.32 avg rating — 26,431 ratings
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Shōgun (Asian Saga, #1)
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4.41 avg rating — 209,218 ratings
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Forever Amber
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,761,468 ratings
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Dune (Dune #1)
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4.29 avg rating — 1,592,401 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,045,282 ratings
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 858,156 ratings
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I, Claudius (Claudius, #1)
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4.24 avg rating — 72,288 ratings
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