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1984
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The Origin of Species
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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Meditations
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Cosmos
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The Prince
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Crime and Punishment
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The Republic
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The Principia : Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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The Alchemist
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Gulliver's Travels
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The Divine Comedy
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Fahrenheit 451
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The Art of War
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Hobbit
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The Trial
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Paradise Lost
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The Catcher in the Rye
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Great Expectations
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Catch-22
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Brave New World
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A Clockwork Orange
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The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Bleak House
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Naked Lunch
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The Master and Margarita
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