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Best Books of 1000-1999 A.D.
A list with a broad scope. Anything published from 1000 to 1999 A.D.
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1984
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4.20 avg rating — 5,279,749 ratings
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Animal Farm
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4.01 avg rating — 4,399,825 ratings
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Hamlet
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4.03 avg rating — 1,026,123 ratings
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Brave New World
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3.88 avg rating — 1,260,043 ratings
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Pride and Prejudice
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4.29 avg rating — 4,672,301 ratings
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To Kill a Mockingbird
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4.26 avg rating — 6,730,818 ratings
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The Lord of the Rings
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4.54 avg rating — 719,779 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
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4.08 avg rating — 168,369 ratings
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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4.10 avg rating — 508,587 ratings
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Macbeth
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3.89 avg rating — 998,154 ratings
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The Little Prince
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4.33 avg rating — 2,397,125 ratings
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Frankenstein
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3.89 avg rating — 1,786,512 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,037,009 ratings
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The Great Gatsby
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3.93 avg rating — 5,771,735 ratings
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Romeo and Juliet
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3.74 avg rating — 2,780,321 ratings
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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3.83 avg rating — 1,323,197 ratings
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The Metamorphosis
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3.90 avg rating — 1,358,044 ratings
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Jane Eyre
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4.16 avg rating — 2,273,943 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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4.13 avg rating — 1,803,633 ratings
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Of Mice and Men
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3.89 avg rating — 2,769,606 ratings
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The Grapes of Wrath
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4.02 avg rating — 976,545 ratings
score: 827,
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Slaughterhouse-Five
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4.10 avg rating — 1,458,560 ratings
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Don Quixote
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3.91 avg rating — 299,048 ratings
score: 782,
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The Communist Manifesto
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3.68 avg rating — 191,059 ratings
score: 735,
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,078,451 ratings
score: 695,
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War and Peace
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4.17 avg rating — 358,926 ratings
score: 683,
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Great Expectations
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3.80 avg rating — 861,191 ratings
score: 649,
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Dracula
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4.02 avg rating — 1,425,790 ratings
score: 624,
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Catch-22
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3.99 avg rating — 876,503 ratings
score: 623,
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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4.11 avg rating — 529,492 ratings
score: 599,
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
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4.09 avg rating — 499,640 ratings
score: 596,
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The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
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4.30 avg rating — 4,370,508 ratings
score: 568,
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Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection (4 Novels, 44 Short Stories, and Exclusive Bonus Features)
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4.51 avg rating — 214,970 ratings
score: 563,
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6 people voted
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
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4.06 avg rating — 600,407 ratings
score: 523,
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6 people voted
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The Call of the Wild / White Fang
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4.05 avg rating — 281,650 ratings
score: 498,
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6 people voted
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Les Misérables
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4.21 avg rating — 833,624 ratings
score: 497,
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6 people voted
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The Wind in the Willows
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4.02 avg rating — 236,498 ratings
score: 483,
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6 people voted
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Siddhartha
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4.08 avg rating — 853,837 ratings
score: 478,
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6 people voted
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,340,584 ratings
score: 471,
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5 people voted
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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4.09 avg rating — 98,378 ratings
score: 463,
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5 people voted
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The Brothers Karamazov
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4.39 avg rating — 373,532 ratings
score: 457,
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6 people voted
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The Left Hand of Darkness
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4.10 avg rating — 212,130 ratings
score: 454,
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5 people voted
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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4.32 avg rating — 999,252 ratings
score: 451,
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5 people voted
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Dr. Faustus
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3.80 avg rating — 71,279 ratings
score: 435,
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5 people voted
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The Crucible
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3.61 avg rating — 454,443 ratings
score: 433,
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The Remains of the Day
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 347,756 ratings
score: 429,
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5 people voted
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,170,455 ratings
score: 424,
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The Canterbury Tales
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3.52 avg rating — 235,367 ratings
score: 399,
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 925,159 ratings
score: 399,
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The Tempest
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3.78 avg rating — 223,468 ratings
score: 376,
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4 people voted
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Lord of the Flies
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3.70 avg rating — 3,135,759 ratings
score: 375,
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The Social Contract
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3.78 avg rating — 56,169 ratings
score: 370,
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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3.74 avg rating — 405,162 ratings
score: 364,
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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3.76 avg rating — 47,436 ratings
score: 363,
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4 people voted
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Beowulf
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3.41 avg rating — 7,987 ratings
score: 359,
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4 people voted
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Post Office
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3.93 avg rating — 136,561 ratings
score: 355,
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Leaves of Grass
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4.11 avg rating — 115,151 ratings
score: 355,
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Of Human Bondage
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4.15 avg rating — 60,665 ratings
score: 351,
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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3.92 avg rating — 26,437 ratings
score: 351,
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Fahrenheit 451
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3.97 avg rating — 2,744,926 ratings
score: 349,
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4 people voted
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 571,897 ratings
score: 344,
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The Idiot
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4.21 avg rating — 209,972 ratings
score: 344,
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Richard III
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3.91 avg rating — 57,494 ratings
score: 342,
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Faust
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3.90 avg rating — 48,849 ratings
score: 329,
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 770,598 ratings
score: 324,
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Ubik
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4.11 avg rating — 119,745 ratings
score: 322,
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Ham on Rye
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4.14 avg rating — 116,423 ratings
score: 321,
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Candide
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3.76 avg rating — 296,166 ratings
score: 321,
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Midnight’s Children
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3.98 avg rating — 131,216 ratings
score: 315,
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The Forever War (The Forever War, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 177,820 ratings
score: 306,
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The Master and Margarita
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4.28 avg rating — 405,657 ratings
score: 303,
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
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3.99 avg rating — 313,018 ratings
score: 300,
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The Stranger
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4.03 avg rating — 1,334,419 ratings
score: 289,
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The Complete Maus
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4.58 avg rating — 247,559 ratings
score: 283,
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Mere Christianity
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4.36 avg rating — 449,055 ratings
score: 281,
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The Scarlet Letter
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3.44 avg rating — 904,885 ratings
score: 279,
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Confessions
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3.99 avg rating — 71,963 ratings
score: 276,
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 366,475 ratings
score: 276,
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On the Incarnation
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4.35 avg rating — 14,693 ratings
score: 273,
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In Search of Lost Time
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4.34 avg rating — 13,780 ratings
score: 268,
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Gone with the Wind
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4.31 avg rating — 1,247,602 ratings
score: 266,
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East of Eden
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4.43 avg rating — 610,452 ratings
score: 266,
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King Lear
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3.91 avg rating — 233,748 ratings
score: 262,
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Ask the Dust (The Saga of Arturo Bandini, #3)
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4.10 avg rating — 38,556 ratings
score: 259,
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The Lathe of Heaven
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4.13 avg rating — 85,216 ratings
score: 254,
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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4.30 avg rating — 121,073 ratings
score: 252,
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A Separate Peace
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3.60 avg rating — 230,096 ratings
score: 252,
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
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3.94 avg rating — 38,719 ratings
score: 251,
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Mockingbird
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4.16 avg rating — 11,840 ratings
score: 248,
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The Complete Tales and Poems of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-4)
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4.38 avg rating — 390,715 ratings
score: 248,
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Cry, the Beloved Country
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3.93 avg rating — 78,807 ratings
score: 244,
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Paradise Lost
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3.85 avg rating — 178,829 ratings
score: 243,
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Girl with a Pearl Earring
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3.93 avg rating — 771,707 ratings
score: 243,
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A Modest Proposal
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4.02 avg rating — 48,587 ratings
score: 242,
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The Tale of Genji
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3.72 avg rating — 14,447 ratings
score: 241,
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Journey to the End of the Night
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4.18 avg rating — 46,657 ratings
score: 240,
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The Lover
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3.71 avg rating — 69,369 ratings
score: 236,
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Mildred Pierce
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3.93 avg rating — 10,598 ratings
score: 235,
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The Death of Ivan Ilych
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4.14 avg rating — 209,084 ratings
score: 229,
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Sir Orfeo
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J.R.R. Tolkien (Translator)
3.98 avg rating — 14,481 ratings
score: 226,
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Mbuye wrote: "More than 50% of the titles listed are from the Twentieth Century, while the rest are distributed mainly between the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment.Any special reason for the bias? Want..."
There weren't all that many books released in the 11th century. The sheer number of books published per year has skyrocketed as the millennia progressed.
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Any special reason for the bias? Want-to-read basis, maybe?
Thanks.