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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 301,612 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Paradise Lost
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3.85 avg rating — 180,191 ratings
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
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4.24 avg rating — 49,149 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,291,975 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,777,566 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 880,643 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 1,999,014 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,847,933 ratings
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The Symposium
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4.09 avg rating — 88,089 ratings
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The Nicomachean Ethics
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The Republic
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3.97 avg rating — 223,337 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 561,158 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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4.20 avg rating — 4,132,981 ratings
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,189,989 ratings
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The Old Curiosity Shop
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3.79 avg rating — 23,639 ratings
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Faust, First Part
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3.83 avg rating — 85,215 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,053,974 ratings
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Faust, Part Two
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3.66 avg rating — 8,548 ratings
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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3.76 avg rating — 3,464 ratings
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The Glass Bead Game
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4.10 avg rating — 41,931 ratings
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The Wild Ass's Skin
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3.68 avg rating — 11,577 ratings
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Storm of Steel
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4.15 avg rating — 21,131 ratings
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The Pilgrim's Progress
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4.07 avg rating — 156,643 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 609,917 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,721,828 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago
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4.35 avg rating — 13,441 ratings
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,346,428 ratings
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
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3.46 avg rating — 6,793 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,821,418 ratings
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The Moon and Sixpence
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4.12 avg rating — 26,825 ratings
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Ulysses
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3.76 avg rating — 136,747 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 391,902 ratings
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The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry
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Arthur Waley (Translator)
3.97 avg rating — 293 ratings
score: 85,
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.98 avg rating — 484,065 ratings
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Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems
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4.10 avg rating — 588 ratings
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Hyperion oder Der Eremit in Griechenland
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3.98 avg rating — 2,671 ratings
score: 83,
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 933,300 ratings
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The Water Margin
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4.12 avg rating — 3,062 ratings
score: 82,
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,792,743 ratings
score: 82,
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Père Goriot
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3.85 avg rating — 66,070 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,048,451 ratings
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The Scholars
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4.11 avg rating — 320 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 378,968 ratings
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 of 2 (chapter 1-60)
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4.30 avg rating — 2,264 ratings
score: 77,
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 386,585 ratings
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 2 of 2 (chapter 61-120)
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4.38 avg rating — 1,172 ratings
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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4.17 avg rating — 401,946 ratings
score: 76,
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Metamorphoses
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4.10 avg rating — 77,409 ratings
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Mansfield Park
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3.86 avg rating — 376,334 ratings
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Sense and Sensibility
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4.09 avg rating — 1,282,192 ratings
score: 74,
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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3.92 avg rating — 26,637 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
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4.22 avg rating — 253,988 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 919,480 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,174,568 ratings
score: 70,
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,832,966 ratings
score: 69,
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Julius Caesar
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3.71 avg rating — 217,424 ratings
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