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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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Suite Française
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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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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Northanger Abbey
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
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The Master and Margarita
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Maurice
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I'll Be Gone in the Dark
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The Good Soldier Švejk
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When Breath Becomes Air
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Wives and Daughters
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A Moveable Feast
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Ariel
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The Prince
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The Aeneid
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The Buccaneers
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The Third Policeman
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The Man With the Golden Gun (James Bond, #13)
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The Love of the Last Tycoon
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Octopussy and the Living Daylights (James Bond, #14)
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3.58 avg rating — 9,993 ratings
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Unfinished Tales
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4.02 avg rating — 44,091 ratings
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La casa de Bernarda Alba
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3.89 avg rating — 48,997 ratings
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The Children of Húrin
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2666
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Every Man Dies Alone
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The Collected Poems
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Woyzeck
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Pericles
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The Will to Power
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Blind Love
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I Will Bear Witness 1933-41: A Diary of the Nazi Years
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I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years
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Verse for Ages
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Rent: The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Musical―Complete Libretto and Oral History
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The First Folio of Shakespeare: 1623
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Dream of the Red Chamber
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The Castle
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Time Regained
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The Canterbury Tales
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Confessions
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The Mysterious Stranger
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The Cats of Copenhagen
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Billy Budd, Sailor
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Ethics
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
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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 Autobiography of Malcolm X
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I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia
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The Garden of Eden
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Micro
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Ticket To Hollywood (Asphalt Warrior, #2)
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The Largesse of the Sea Maiden
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Dragon Teeth
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The Metamorphosis
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On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
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While Mortals Sleep
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Bouvard and Pécuchet
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Love and Freindship
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An Academic Question
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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 (Fredrik Welin #2)
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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 Complete Stories
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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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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 Caregiver
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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.