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On the Origin of Species
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3.99 avg rating — 108,041 ratings
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Meditations
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4.24 avg rating — 174,095 ratings
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The Divine Comedy
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4.06 avg rating — 136,518 ratings
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How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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3.98 avg rating — 21,534 ratings
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.34 avg rating — 280,983 ratings
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The Problems of Philosophy
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3.92 avg rating — 14,514 ratings
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The Evolution of Physics: From Early Concepts to Relativity and Quanta
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4.25 avg rating — 1,618 ratings
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The Republic
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3.95 avg rating — 187,349 ratings
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War and Peace
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4.14 avg rating — 296,752 ratings
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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4.06 avg rating — 129,358 ratings
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Beyond Good and Evil
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4.01 avg rating — 80,534 ratings
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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3.95 avg rating — 55,644 ratings
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Faust, First Part
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3.89 avg rating — 67,318 ratings
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Euclid's Elements
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4.32 avg rating — 3,072 ratings
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The Trial
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3.96 avg rating — 272,559 ratings
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Being and Nothingness
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3.98 avg rating — 28,718 ratings
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Ulysses
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3.74 avg rating — 118,965 ratings
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The Meaning of Relativity
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4.33 avg rating — 863 ratings
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The Analysis of Mind
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3.79 avg rating — 658 ratings
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An Introduction to Mathematics
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3.92 avg rating — 166 ratings
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Science and Method
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4.04 avg rating — 109 ratings
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Science and the Modern World
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3.99 avg rating — 486 ratings
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Science and Hypothesis
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3.96 avg rating — 252 ratings
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On the Genealogy of Morals
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4.13 avg rating — 23,595 ratings
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The Will to Power
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4.05 avg rating — 9,552 ratings
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What Is Art?
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3.73 avg rating — 2,602 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.01 avg rating — 216,962 ratings
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Walden
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3.78 avg rating — 175,884 ratings
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Civil Disobedience, Solitude & Life Without Principle
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3.90 avg rating — 362 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.82 avg rating — 1,213,495 ratings
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Enlightenment from the Sacred Precinct: A Manual on the Art of Reading
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4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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No Exit
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4.12 avg rating — 33,010 ratings
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On the Soul and on Memory and Recollection
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4.11 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Histories
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3.98 avg rating — 47,719 ratings
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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume II - The Guermantes Way & Cities of the Plain
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4.51 avg rating — 1,090 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 — 867 ratings
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The Magic Mountain
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4.11 avg rating — 43,494 ratings
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Remembrance of Things Past: Volume I - Swann's Way & Within a Budding Grove
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4.31 avg rating — 3,730 ratings
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The Castle
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3.95 avg rating — 52,510 ratings
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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3.63 avg rating — 139,324 ratings
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Dubliners
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3.85 avg rating — 137,701 ratings
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Adventures of Ideas
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4.11 avg rating — 241 ratings
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On The Method Of Theoretical Physics
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Anna Karenina
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4.07 avg rating — 757,750 ratings
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Creative Evolution
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4.08 avg rating — 1,182 ratings
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Paradise Lost
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3.82 avg rating — 152,274 ratings
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An Inquiry Into Meaning and Truth
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Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value
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4.08 avg rating — 192 ratings
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The Prince
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3.83 avg rating — 298,165 ratings
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The Mysterious Stranger
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4.13 avg rating — 9,244 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.52 avg rating — 206,646 ratings
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The Varieties of Religious Experience
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3.98 avg rating — 11,816 ratings
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Moby-Dick or, the Whale
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3.53 avg rating — 516,787 ratings
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How We Think
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3.88 avg rating — 846 ratings
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Pygmalion
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3.89 avg rating — 95,876 ratings
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A Doll's House
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3.75 avg rating — 124,468 ratings
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Major Barbara
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3.63 avg rating — 7,055 ratings
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Civilization and Its Discontents
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3.79 avg rating — 36,676 ratings
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Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.43 avg rating — 787,255 ratings
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Hard Times
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3.53 avg rating — 62,686 ratings
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Twenty-Three Tales
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Middlemarch
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3.99 avg rating — 148,458 ratings
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Billy Budd +
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3.15 avg rating — 16,336 ratings
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The Iliad/The Odyssey
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4.06 avg rating — 69,568 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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3.97 avg rating — 7,646 ratings
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The Complete Plays
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Hippolytus
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The Bacchae
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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
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The Works of Archimedes
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The Degrees of Knowledge (The Collected Works of Jacques Maritain, Vol. 7)
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3.87 avg rating — 45 ratings
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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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The Life of Reason: Five Volumes in One
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The Aims of Education
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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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The Principles of Psychology: Volume 1
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