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The Diary of a Young Girl
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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Persuasion
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Suite Française
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The Silmarillion
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The Trial
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2)
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Millennium, #3)
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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Northanger Abbey
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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The Master and Margarita
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4.30 avg rating — 310,676 ratings
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
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The Good Soldier Švejk
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Maurice
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Wives and Daughters
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A Moveable Feast
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4.03 avg rating — 139,583 ratings
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Ariel
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When Breath Becomes Air
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The Prince
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The Aeneid
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The Love of the Last Tycoon
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Woyzeck
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The Third Policeman
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I Will Bear Witness 1933-41: A Diary of the Nazi Years
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The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13)
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I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years
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Octopussy & the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14)
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The Buccaneers
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Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-Earth
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La casa de Bernarda Alba
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The Children of Húrin
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Billy Budd, Sailor
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2666
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Every Man Dies Alone
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The Mysterious Stranger
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The Collected Poems
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Pericles
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
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Blind Love
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Verse for Ages
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Rent
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The First Folio of Shakespeare: 1623
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The Castle
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Time Regained
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Confessions
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The Cats of Copenhagen
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Ethics
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The Complete Stories
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The Way of All Flesh
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Agatha Christie: An Autobiography
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The Eternal Wonder
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Judith
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Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie
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To the End of the War: Unpublished Fiction
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HERmione
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The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories
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The Rag and Bone Shop
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The Garden of Eden
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Ticket To Hollywood (Asphalt Warrior, #2)
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On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
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A Theresienstadt Diary: Letters to Veruska
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Dream of the Red Chamber
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While Mortals Sleep
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Bouvard and Pecuchet
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The Canterbury Tales
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Pirate Latitudes
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The Dangerous Summer
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Old Bugs
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La Prisonnière
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Long Day's Journey into Night
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After the Fire
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Personal Memoirs
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The Captive & The Fugitive (In Search of Lost Time, #5)
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La fugitiva
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Paris Spleen
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Islands in the Stream
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Rywka's Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto
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Hadji Murat
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The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography
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Rutka's Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust
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Thrones, Dominations (Lord Peter Wimsey/Harriet Vane #1)
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The Diary of Petr Ginz
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Dalai Lama, My Son: A Mother's Autobiography
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The Frogs and Toads All Sang
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Anne Boleyn: A New Life of England's Tragic Queen
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A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto
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Ghetto Diary
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The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: Prelude to Doom
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All Our Worldly Goods
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The Journal of Hélène Berr
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The Will to Power
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Journal 1935 - 1944: The Fascist Years
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
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4.35 avg rating — 251,149 ratings
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The Secret Holocaust Diaries: The Untold Story of Nonna Bannister
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3.91 avg rating — 8,457 ratings
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Hannah Senesh, Her Life and Diary
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The Diary of Nina Kosterina
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I Want To Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia
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There was also a book buried in one of the crematoria at Auschwitz. It was written by unnamed sonderkommando, and was published under the authors' suggested title Amidst A Nightmare of Crime. I've read it, but can't find a citation for it.
On a lighter note, H Beam Piper's Fuzzies And Other People was found in his attic, or cellar, or something, many years after his suicide, and was published as quickly as it could be brought to press.