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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 301,430 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 — 180,094 ratings
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
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4.24 avg rating — 49,136 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,290,627 ratings
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,775,050 ratings
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A Clockwork Orange
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 880,335 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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The Catcher in the Rye
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The Symposium
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The Nicomachean Ethics
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The Republic
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3.97 avg rating — 223,195 ratings
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The Art of War
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3.95 avg rating — 560,702 ratings
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,188,592 ratings
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The Old Curiosity Shop
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3.79 avg rating — 23,627 ratings
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Faust, First Part
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3.83 avg rating — 85,146 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,052,624 ratings
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Faust, Part Two
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3.66 avg rating — 8,542 ratings
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Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship
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The Glass Bead Game
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The Wild Ass's Skin
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Storm of Steel
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4.15 avg rating — 21,106 ratings
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The Pilgrim's Progress
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4.07 avg rating — 156,540 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.56 avg rating — 609,429 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,718,415 ratings
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The Gulag Archipelago
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4.35 avg rating — 13,416 ratings
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,341,479 ratings
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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia
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3.46 avg rating — 6,790 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,817,627 ratings
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The Moon and Sixpence
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4.12 avg rating — 26,806 ratings
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Ulysses
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3.76 avg rating — 136,699 ratings
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 391,734 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 — 483,758 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 — 2,668 ratings
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 932,689 ratings
score: 83,
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The Water Margin
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4.13 avg rating — 3,060 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,790,969 ratings
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Père Goriot
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3.85 avg rating — 66,015 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,047,180 ratings
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The Scholars
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4.11 avg rating — 319 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 378,595 ratings
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Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1 of 2 (chapter 1-60)
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4.29 avg rating — 2,264 ratings
score: 77,
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 386,130 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 — 401,754 ratings
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Metamorphoses
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4.10 avg rating — 77,363 ratings
score: 75,
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Mansfield Park
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3.86 avg rating — 376,152 ratings
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Sense and Sensibility
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4.09 avg rating — 1,281,618 ratings
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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3.92 avg rating — 26,620 ratings
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A Room of One’s Own
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4.22 avg rating — 253,686 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 919,039 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.83 avg rating — 1,173,748 ratings
score: 70,
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,830,907 ratings
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Julius Caesar
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3.71 avg rating — 217,321 ratings
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