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All Quiet on the Western Front
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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Alice in Wonderland
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
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The Good Earth (House of Earth, #1)
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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The War of the Worlds
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
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My Ántonia
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The Time Machine
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Wuthering Heights
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Frankenstein
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The Brothers Karamazov
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The Call of the Wild
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Ivanhoe
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On the Road
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The Wind in the Willows
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Dracula
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Jane Eyre
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The Grapes of Wrath
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The Color Purple
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Anne of Green Gables (Anne of Green Gables, #1)
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Far From the Madding Crowd
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The Little Prince
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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The Flowers of Evil
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Peter Pan
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The Story of the Constitution
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
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Les Misérables
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
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The Invisible Man
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Silas Marner
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5)
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Cold Comfort Farm
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Quiet American
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A Farewell to Arms
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The Jungle Book (Jungle Book, #1)
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Burmese Days
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The Painted Veil
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The Water Babies
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The Secret Garden
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Generals Die in Bed
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The Old Man and the Sea
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (Captain Nemo, #2)
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A Town Like Alice
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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Gulliver’s Travels
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The Borrowers (The Borrowers, #1)
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The Bluest Eye
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The Complete Fairy Tales
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Lost Horizon
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Stranger in a Strange Land
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
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Black Beauty
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Main Street
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Heidi (Heidi, #1-2)
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Death on the Nile (Hercule Poirot, #18)
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The Trial
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On the Beach
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The Stranger
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Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1)
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Cannery Row (Cannery Row, #1)
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Death in Venice
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Crime and Punishment
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The Odyssey
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A Christmas Carol
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The Red Badge of Courage
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Sons and Lovers
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Germinal
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Germinal? What are the parameters of this list?
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I didn't know I had started one. My books are books I've read that I thought others can read to increase their knowledge of classic world literature. I enjoyed all of them especially Germinal.
Do you mind if I change the title then? To something like "books that will increase your knowledge of world literature." Because the title "Germinal" will make people think it's only a list about one book.
Sounds good to me, how about "Significant classics of world literature"
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