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Classic books I want to read before I die.
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Much Ado About Nothing
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4.06 avg rating — 259,924 ratings
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Hamlet
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Richard III
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12 Years a Slave
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
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Othello
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Julius Caesar
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
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Gulliver’s Travels
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David Copperfield
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.53 avg rating — 238,970 ratings
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Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories, Volume I
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Aesop’s Fables
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Wuthering Heights, Agnès Grey & Villette
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The Iliad
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3.93 avg rating — 515,017 ratings
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Treasure Island
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.57 avg rating — 620,445 ratings
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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Of Mice and Men
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3.90 avg rating — 2,864,887 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 307,956 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 940,945 ratings
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The Odyssey
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3.84 avg rating — 1,206,320 ratings
score: 75,
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 891,224 ratings
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,260,667 ratings
score: 73,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,876,761 ratings
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 1,030,146 ratings
score: 71,
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Emma
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4.05 avg rating — 993,669 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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4.09 avg rating — 946,603 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.44 avg rating — 925,815 ratings
score: 68,
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Persuasion
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4.15 avg rating — 785,947 ratings
score: 67,
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 848,463 ratings
score: 66,
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,018,335 ratings
score: 65,
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,493,918 ratings
score: 64,
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 879,696 ratings
score: 63,
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Crime and Punishment
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4.29 avg rating — 1,100,057 ratings
score: 62,
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Frankenstein
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3.91 avg rating — 1,924,003 ratings
score: 61,
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,228,532 ratings
score: 60,
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,923,050 ratings
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Sense and Sensibility
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4.09 avg rating — 1,306,829 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.14 avg rating — 1,910,629 ratings
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Wuthering Heights
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3.90 avg rating — 2,176,191 ratings
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.33 avg rating — 1,036,667 ratings
score: 54,
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,542,626 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,346,897 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.30 avg rating — 4,860,450 ratings
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