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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.09 avg rating — 174,612 ratings
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On the Origin of Species
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4.01 avg rating — 122,731 ratings
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Meditations
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4.28 avg rating — 358,998 ratings
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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3.98 avg rating — 28,235 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 394,825 ratings
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The Problems of Philosophy
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3.90 avg rating — 18,823 ratings
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The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
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4.25 avg rating — 1,831 ratings
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The Republic
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3.97 avg rating — 228,231 ratings
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 369,366 ratings
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The Will to Power
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4.07 avg rating — 11,326 ratings
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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4.07 avg rating — 178,933 ratings
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Beyond Good and Evil
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4.03 avg rating — 115,990 ratings
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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3.97 avg rating — 63,094 ratings
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Faust, First Part
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3.83 avg rating — 86,798 ratings
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Euclid's Elements
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4.32 avg rating — 3,387 ratings
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The Trial
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3.94 avg rating — 403,242 ratings
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Being and Nothingness
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3.99 avg rating — 35,355 ratings
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Ulysses
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3.76 avg rating — 139,070 ratings
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The Meaning of Relativity
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4.28 avg rating — 945 ratings
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The Analysis of Mind
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3.80 avg rating — 770 ratings
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An Introduction to Mathematics (Galaxy Books)
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3.90 avg rating — 207 ratings
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Science and Method
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4.10 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Science and the Modern World
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3.99 avg rating — 606 ratings
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Science and Hypothesis
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3.95 avg rating — 324 ratings
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On the Genealogy of Morals
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4.12 avg rating — 36,428 ratings
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What Is Art?
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3.73 avg rating — 3,711 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.05 avg rating — 261,227 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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3.77 avg rating — 205,557 ratings
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Civil Disobedience, Solitude & Life Without Principle
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3.90 avg rating — 378 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
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3.83 avg rating — 1,343,278 ratings
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Enlightenment from the Sacred Precinct: A Manual on the Art of Reading
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4.42 avg rating — 19 ratings
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No Exit
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4.11 avg rating — 47,398 ratings
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On the Soul and On Memory and Recollection
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4.17 avg rating — 113 ratings
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The Histories
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4.01 avg rating — 56,073 ratings
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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain
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4.49 avg rating — 1,253 ratings
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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume III - The Captive, The Fugitive, & Time Regained
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4.54 avg rating — 981 ratings
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The Magic Mountain
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4.13 avg rating — 62,965 ratings
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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
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4.28 avg rating — 3,921 ratings
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The Castle
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3.91 avg rating — 76,942 ratings
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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3.64 avg rating — 165,488 ratings
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Dubliners
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3.83 avg rating — 179,284 ratings
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Adventures of Ideas
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4.12 avg rating — 281 ratings
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On The Method Of Theoretical Physics
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 942,541 ratings
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Creative Evolution
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4.10 avg rating — 1,488 ratings
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Paradise Lost
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3.86 avg rating — 184,265 ratings
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An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth
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3.94 avg rating — 178 ratings
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Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits
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4.06 avg rating — 241 ratings
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The Prince
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3.84 avg rating — 387,326 ratings
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The Mysterious Stranger
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4.12 avg rating — 11,812 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.53 avg rating — 239,139 ratings
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
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3.99 avg rating — 13,185 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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3.57 avg rating — 621,245 ratings
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How We Think
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3.86 avg rating — 1,020 ratings
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Pygmalion
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3.88 avg rating — 110,472 ratings
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A Doll's House
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3.77 avg rating — 166,205 ratings
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Major Barbara
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3.66 avg rating — 7,319 ratings
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Civilization and Its Discontents
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3.80 avg rating — 45,058 ratings
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Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
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4.01 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.44 avg rating — 926,832 ratings
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Hard Times
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3.55 avg rating — 75,177 ratings
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Twenty-Three Tales
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3.82 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Middlemarch
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4.04 avg rating — 181,146 ratings
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Billy Budd +
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3.19 avg rating — 19,802 ratings
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The Iliad / The Odyssey
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4.07 avg rating — 84,616 ratings
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The Frogs of Aristophanes: A Greek Comedy
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3.78 avg rating — 9,446 ratings
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
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Prometheus Bound and Other Plays
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Sophocles: The Complete Plays
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Hippolytus
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The Bacchae
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3.94 avg rating — 25,795 ratings
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Cancer Ward
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Medea
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The First Circle
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Nausea
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Six Great Dialogues: Apology/Crito/Phaedo/Phaedrus/Symposium/The Republic
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Protagoras and Meno
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Theaetetus/Sophist (Plato 7)
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Civilization on Trial
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Gorgias
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The Complete Aristotle
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Letters to Herodotus and to Menoeceus
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A Study of History, abridged
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The Works of Archimedes (Dover Books on Mathematics)
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The Degrees of Knowledge (The Collected Works of Jacques Maritain, Vol. 7)
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The Rights of Man and Natural Law
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Joseph and His Brothers
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The State and Revolution
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Persons and Places
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Scepticism and Animal Faith
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4.14 avg rating — 133 ratings
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The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
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The Aims of Education and Other Essays
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Democracy and Education
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Experience and Nature
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Logic: The Theory of Inquiry
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Time and Free Will
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Matter and Memory
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The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
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Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
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Essays in Radical Empiricism
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