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Infinite Jest
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War and Peace
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In Search of Lost Time
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The Man Without Qualities
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Ulysses
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Rising Up And Rising Down (7 Volumes)
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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The Recognitions
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Doctor Faustus
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Allen Lane History, 3 Volume Set)
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The Gormenghast Novels (Gormenghast, #1-3)
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The Tale of Genji
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Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, #1)
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Ethics
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The Restored Finnegans Wake
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The Complete Works
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The Pale King
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Middlemarch
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Mason & Dixon
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4.14 avg rating — 12,451 ratings
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The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
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Miss MacIntosh, My Darling, 2 Vols
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Gargantua and Pantagruel
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Crime and Punishment
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Underworld
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Possession
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Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Dream of the Red Chamber
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,825 ratings
score: 286,
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Being and Time
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The Name of the Rose
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4.14 avg rating — 392,978 ratings
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The Golden Notebook
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The Faerie Queene
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The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
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2666
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4.22 avg rating — 48,133 ratings
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Joseph and His Brothers
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4.44 avg rating — 2,179 ratings
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
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4.29 avg rating — 52,242 ratings
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Pilgrimage 1 (Pilgrimage, #1-3)
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3.58 avg rating — 518 ratings
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Fear and Trembling
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
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4.12 avg rating — 9,560 ratings
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Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
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4.18 avg rating — 8,601 ratings
score: 245,
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Vanity Fair
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3.81 avg rating — 132,809 ratings
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Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professorial Power
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3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Critique of Pure Reason
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3.96 avg rating — 41,928 ratings
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Pan Wołodyjowski (Trylogia, #3)
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3.99 avg rating — 3,180 ratings
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The Anatomy of Melancholy
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Life: A User's Manual
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4.18 avg rating — 10,048 ratings
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A Suitable Boy (A Bridge of Leaves, #1)
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 936,850 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.04 avg rating — 256,899 ratings
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The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 92,966 ratings
score: 189,
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Against the Day
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4.05 avg rating — 10,171 ratings
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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4.04 avg rating — 10,378 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 841,330 ratings
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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American Pastoral
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3.95 avg rating — 87,658 ratings
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The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos (European Women Writers
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3.65 avg rating — 71 ratings
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The Sleepwalkers (The Sleepwalkers, #1-3)
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4.09 avg rating — 1,608 ratings
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Auto-da-Fé
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Annals of the Former World
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4.37 avg rating — 4,331 ratings
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The Complete Aubrey/Maturin Novels (5 Volumes)
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4.76 avg rating — 2,330 ratings
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Find Your Purpose Using Science
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Gleb Tsipursky (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Canopus in Argos: Archives
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4.19 avg rating — 313 ratings
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The Egyptian Cinderella
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3.93 avg rating — 2,103 ratings
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The Country of the Blind and Other Science-Fiction Stories
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3.92 avg rating — 1,321 ratings
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Euclid's Elements
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4.32 avg rating — 3,357 ratings
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Paradise Lost
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3.85 avg rating — 180,947 ratings
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Language and Symbolic Power
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4.19 avg rating — 986 ratings
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Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning (Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, #1)
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3.94 avg rating — 19,553 ratings
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Saint Francis of Assisi: A Life of Joy
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4.19 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Sleeping Preacher
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4.18 avg rating — 110 ratings
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Virginia Woolf
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The Great Fire of London: A Story with Interpolations and Bifurcations
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4.06 avg rating — 212 ratings
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That Was Then, This Is Now
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 40,236 ratings
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The Call of Earth (Homecoming, #2)
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The Memory of Earth (Homecoming, #1)
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King Lear
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Gareth Hinds (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 2,952 ratings
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Walden or, Life in the Woods
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Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65
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At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68
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The Origin of Species
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The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
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Theodore Rex
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Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
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Colonel Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt #3)
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A Glastonbury Romance
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Edith Wharton
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Mudflap: The Gloves Come Off (Mudflap #2)
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Mudflap
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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Sironia, Texas (Volume I)
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Utopia
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Forty-Ninth
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Boris Pronsky (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 131 ratings
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A Christmas Carol
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The Iliad / The Odyssey
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Pride and Prejudice
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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The Alchemist
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Paulo Coelho (Goodreads Author)
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Baudolino
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Half of a Yellow Sun
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Siddhartha
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Nice list, sir! But I think there are many more books that could be added, so if I come across some, I will suggest them (or add them) if that's okay with you.
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