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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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The Age of Innocence
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The Awakening
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East of Eden
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A Farewell to Arms
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3.82 avg rating — 347,970 ratings
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The Aeneid
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3.87 avg rating — 141,203 ratings
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Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
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3.68 avg rating — 172,639 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.99 avg rating — 2,040,178 ratings
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The Chosen (Reuven Malter, #1)
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4.07 avg rating — 96,664 ratings
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David Copperfield
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4.04 avg rating — 255,429 ratings
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Atonement
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 556,851 ratings
score: 229,
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 300,384 ratings
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Emma
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The Blind Assassin
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3.96 avg rating — 162,209 ratings
score: 210,
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Dr. Faustus
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3.80 avg rating — 71,488 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 169,157 ratings
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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4.06 avg rating — 63,924 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 3,835,184 ratings
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Death of a Salesman
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3.59 avg rating — 255,518 ratings
score: 196,
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Absalom, Absalom!
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3.99 avg rating — 47,439 ratings
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The Crucible
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3.61 avg rating — 456,219 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,797,196 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,030,406 ratings
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,313,633 ratings
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A Separate Peace
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3.60 avg rating — 230,507 ratings
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Another Country
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4.30 avg rating — 33,203 ratings
score: 177,
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Ethan Frome
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3.46 avg rating — 135,984 ratings
score: 177,
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The Glass Menagerie
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3.74 avg rating — 141,936 ratings
score: 175,
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As You Like It
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3.81 avg rating — 87,992 ratings
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Adam Bede
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3.83 avg rating — 26,278 ratings
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Alias Grace
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 154,803 ratings
score: 165,
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,798,493 ratings
score: 165,
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 915,997 ratings
score: 159,
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Anthony and Cleopatra
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3.71 avg rating — 43,125 ratings
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
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3.73 avg rating — 9,255 ratings
score: 158,
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As I Lay Dying
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3.72 avg rating — 184,222 ratings
score: 157,
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Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
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3.97 avg rating — 481,993 ratings
score: 152,
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A Bend in the River
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3.77 avg rating — 18,577 ratings
score: 152,
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Bleak House
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4.02 avg rating — 113,025 ratings
score: 148,
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Candida
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3.68 avg rating — 3,048 ratings
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The Bluest Eye
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4.13 avg rating — 292,943 ratings
score: 146,
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 376,321 ratings
score: 143,
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Candide
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3.76 avg rating — 297,285 ratings
score: 142,
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.52 avg rating — 235,869 ratings
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 878,654 ratings
score: 141,
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Cat’s Eye
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 71,901 ratings
score: 139,
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The Cherry Orchard
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3.69 avg rating — 44,552 ratings
score: 137,
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Cold Mountain
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3.89 avg rating — 248,881 ratings
score: 136,
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The Color Purple
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4.28 avg rating — 743,293 ratings
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Dancing at Lughnasa
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3.73 avg rating — 4,943 ratings
score: 134,
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Delta Wedding
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3.61 avg rating — 3,803 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,045,289 ratings
score: 133,
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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
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Anne Tyler (Goodreads Author)
3.80 avg rating — 34,161 ratings
score: 128,
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Dutchman & The Slave: Two Plays by LeRoi Jones
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3.81 avg rating — 3,208 ratings
score: 123,
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The Diviners
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4.18 avg rating — 7,951 ratings
score: 122,
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A Doll's House
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3.77 avg rating — 160,789 ratings
score: 122,
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Fathers and Sons
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 99,145 ratings
score: 111,
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A Fine Balance
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4.38 avg rating — 158,157 ratings
score: 108,
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Fifth Business (The Deptford Trilogy, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 20,257 ratings
score: 108,
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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3.99 avg rating — 314,102 ratings
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The House of Mirth (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
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3.97 avg rating — 104,525 ratings
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A Tale of Two Cities
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3.88 avg rating — 1,002,471 ratings
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Agnes of God
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3.96 avg rating — 7,017 ratings
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The Merchant of Venice
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3.78 avg rating — 200,523 ratings
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All the King's Men
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4.09 avg rating — 66,146 ratings
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All My Sons
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3.91 avg rating — 30,010 ratings
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All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
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4.06 avg rating — 142,704 ratings
score: 91,
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America Is in the Heart: A Personal History
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3.92 avg rating — 3,760 ratings
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An American Tragedy
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3.97 avg rating — 38,476 ratings
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The American
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 368,275 ratings
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The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
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The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man
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3.93 avg rating — 11,172 ratings
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Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses / Old Man / The Bear
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3.82 avg rating — 1,928 ratings
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Benito Cereno
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3.53 avg rating — 9,810 ratings
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Billy Budd, Sailor
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3.19 avg rating — 19,332 ratings
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The Birthday Party
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3.71 avg rating — 12,946 ratings
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Black Boy
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Bless Me, Ultima
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3.82 avg rating — 36,918 ratings
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Bone
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3.58 avg rating — 2,950 ratings
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The Bonesetter's Daughter
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Brighton Rock
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3.69 avg rating — 35,289 ratings
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The Caretaker
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The Centaur
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Ceremony
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Walden & Civil Disobedience
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3.94 avg rating — 38,772 ratings
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Coming Through Slaughter
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3.87 avg rating — 6,905 ratings
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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The Crisis
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Daisy Miller
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The Dead
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Confession
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Desire Under the Elms
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The Dollmaker
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Dreaming in Cuban
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An Enemy of the People
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Equus
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Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
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The Fall
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The Father
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